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We joined 120+ organizations from 60+ countries calling on the ICC's 125 member states to protect the Court. The US has now sanctioned it as an institution, not only its judges. Lawrence Wittner on what is at stake: globalsolutions.org/updates/…
In light of the sanctions against the @IntlCrimCourt, +150 NGOs and individuals call on States Parties to protect the ICC and those cooperating with it.
Failure to respond decisively risks weakening the int'l justice system States pledged to uphold.
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125 countries built a court so that no one, however powerful, stands above the law on genocide and war crimes. Now its judges face sanctions and prison sentences for doing their jobs. Lawrence Wittner on the attack on the ICC: globalsolutions.org/updates/…
The poorest half of the world receives 8 percent of its income. A UN panel on inequality is now on the table, backed by 1,500 economists. Read the story: globalsolutions.org/updates/…
Authoritarian populism has been rising for a decade. Historian Manu Bhagavan (Hunter College, CUNY) was among the first to name it, and now sees a way out.
Norman Cousins Lecture: The Way Out
📅 7 Oct, 12 PM ET, free on Zoom
Register: globalsolutions.org/event/th…
Independence let nations govern themselves. It was never going to stop a war, a pandemic, or a warming planet on its own.
A short case for a stronger UN, and the Article 109 review that gets us there.
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Our NV4GS Essay Contest Winner had the amazing opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation about European federalism on the historic island of Ventotene! Read his essay here: bit.ly/4r9z7Lk
Violence cost the world $21.81 trillion in 2025. Peacefulness has fallen twelve years running.
On 5 Oct, IEP's Michael Collins shows how the eight pillars of Positive Peace work at the scale of one neighborhood.
Free, online, two hours. globalsolutions.org/event/po…
Canada and the US spent 150 years building the friendliest border on earth.
It took months to crack it.
Relationships between countries should not rest on one person's mood. That is what international law is for.
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The World Food Program lost 40 percent of its funding in 2025.
In Nigeria, 150 clinics feeding 300,000 small children closed.
Historian Lawrence Wittner on why famine relief should not hang on one government's budget:
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Climate agreements get signed. Nothing compels anyone to keep them.
Dr. Arthur Lyon Dahl spent fifty years inside UN environmental diplomacy, from Stockholm in 1972 to Paris. He just joined the CGS National Advisory Council.
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Most coverage of the UN stops at what is broken.
The new issue of Mondial spends its pages on the fixes: veto rebalancing, citizen treaty ratification, ending statelessness.
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Eighty percent of world trade moves by sea. The 1982 law guaranteeing safe passage created nobody to enforce it.
Andrew Igdal won our New Voices 4 Global Solutions Essay Contest for taking that seriously.
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Citizens for Global Solutions retweeted
The #ICC strongly rejects new US sanctions designations ⤵️ icc-cpi.int/news/icc-strongl…
Two Trinity Washington undergrads keynoted at UN Headquarters this summer.
Samara Husain on housing as public health. Anastasia Tomlinson on the gap between Brazil's rural road data and the roads people can actually use.
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Nine countries. About 12,100 nuclear warheads. All nine building more.
The last US-Russia arms treaty expired in February.
The Doomsday Clock reads 85 seconds to midnight.
Public pressure slowed this before. It can again.
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The UN Security Council is choosing the next Secretary-General right now.
Whoever wins inherits a charter written in 1945 and never fundamentally updated.
Mondial wants your proposal on what a rewrite would unlock in your field.
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Inside a country, disputes go to a courtroom.
Between countries, the rules are voluntary, so power decides.
That gap is where war lives. The full case for closing it, and the UN Charter clause that opens the door: globalsolutions.org/updates/…
Candidates to lead the UN answered questions in public on July 23.
On July 30, fifteen countries vote behind closed doors, and any one of five can end a candidacy without saying why.
That veto has blocked the Council at least 320 times.
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American labor gets called hawkish. In 1893 Gompers wanted more schoolhouses and fewer arsenals.
By 1970, 22 unions demanded withdrawal from Vietnam. In 2003 they built a coalition against Iraq. Last month, 15 million members voted for peace again.
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The biggest threats we face cross every border. War. Nuclear risk. Climate. Mass displacement.
The institutions built to stop them have not kept up.
The new issue of Mondial is about closing that gap.
Read it: globalsolutions.org/updates/…
