Global Citizen Campaign Programs
Peace and Security
WFUNA is launching in 2010 The Responsibility to Protect: Mobilizing Public and Political Will, which addresses the need to prevent and react to large-scale loss of life including genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, and will work towards its development, strengthening and proper application. Member UNAs will gain the knowledge, skills, and power to become effective R2P advocates in their countries.
WFUNA is implementing the Zero World program in the field of disarmament, which is a priority issue for the United Nations, and will have much international focus this year with the 2010 Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. WFUNA's aim is to find sustainable solutions to conflicts by guaranteeing that disarmament, including the elimination of nuclear weapons, is a political priority for governments, and that relevant UN treaties, protocols, resolutions, and decisions are implemented and adhered to.
Human Rights
The Civil Society in Action on Human Rights Program aims at strengthening the capacity of UNAs to interact with international human rights mechanisms and to carry out human rights education and human rights advocacy at their national levels. This program will strengthen the understanding of UNAs of how to work towards the achievement of human rights standards in their countries by providing the necessary tools to interact effectively with the UN human rights system. WFUNA will provide ongoing technical support to UNAs in their work throughout the project.
Sustainable Development
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WFUNA’s YOUth Impact Africa project will address the prediction that no African country will achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals in time. The project begins with a Model UN experience and, through WFUNA’s training and resources, grows into youth-led MDG community-service initiatives that impact hundreds of African citizens. Working with African UNAs, the aim is to provide skills, training, networks and guidance to young people to take action on the MDGs.
Go Beyond, WFUNA’s new climate change project will be launched in 2010. The project aims to educate about the interconnectedness of the climate problem as it relates to consumption and global issues. It will challenge consumers to go beyond viewing consumption as merely an individual act, and urge businesses to go beyond the bottom line. Go Beyond will promote innovative social solutions for combating climate change in the context of the relationship between developed and developing countries.
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