Welcome to the Home Page of The Association of World Federalists (UK)

Who Are We?

- We see ourselves as world citizens
- We regret that international relations currently occur in the absence of enforceable law
- We support the ideals of the United Nations, but it is an organisation in need of urgent reform
- We work to see more effective and more accountable forms of global governance

What Are Our Goals?

- We are working towards the eventual goal of an elected world federal government
- Our more immediate aims are to see large-scale reform of the United Nations and other international institutions
- Having played a role in the successful campaign for the International Criminal Court, our current goals include:

• A Parliamentary Assembly at the UN, leading to a Global Parliament
• The creation of standing UN Peacekeeping Forces, available for rapid deployment
• A system of international taxation to finance the UN and to provide funds for international development and environmental protection

Why Do We Pursue These Goals?

In an increasingly interdependent world threatened by escalating global problems arising from poverty, injustice, climate change, international inequalities, trade in arms and drugs, war, crime, religious fundamentalism and terrorism, we believe that our modern civilization is facing a collapse in which we will lose most of the benefits it has brought us unless we can change direction in such a way as to achieve global democracy and justice, and world peace through world law.

What Do We Do?

Working in collaboration with like-minded groups in the UK and as part of a wider international movement, our organisation campaigns in Parliament and in civil society to gain support for more effective and more accountable global governance.

Activities include:

• Lobbying the government in association with supportive parliamentarians
• Running local “issue-action” groups
• Organising seminars and public meetings
• Publishing a regular magazine

What Can You Do?

• Join us! Become a member of our organisation and play your part in the international movement for a world ruled under the force of democratic law.
• Write to your MP and the Foreign Secretary in support of one of our campaigns.
• Organise a local issue-action group to raise awareness and take political action on such goals as global democracy or the tobin tax
• Complete our petition (click to open a separate window)
• Participate in one or more of the events listed below:

Saturday, September 6th, 2008: AWF and FU Reunification EGMs
Over 40 years after AWF (as the British Association for World Government) split from the original Federal Union and just one year after Federal Union (www.federalunion.org.uk) became a member organisation of the World Federalist Movement, plans for AWF and Federal Union to reunite are due to come to fruition. All AWF members should receive their personal invitations to our EGM by the end of August. Please be there. The full day's schedule is as follows:

11.30 am

King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NN (nearest tube: Waterloo) - click here for a map

Programme

For information on the World Federalist Movement, please see our WFM page.