Hear how a leading women’s rights campaigner and peace activist came to realise that a democratic world government with a world parliament and world constitution are needed to really ensure the rights of all women, minorities and stateless people. 0:00 Intro 1:08 Becoming a feminist 6:57 And a pacifist 9:27 Politics, not charity 10:37 The Peace Party 13:06 Women get the vote! 13:58 A refugee 15:16 Stateless in the USA 16:52 The key: a democratic world government 20:15 Developing a truly inclusive model 21:39 The Campaign for a World Government 27:21 The World Assembly movement 32:18 Summary * * * Help us translate this video also your language! Please write to videos@oneworld.network * * * Related lectures: - 18. The History of the World Federalist Movement | youtu.be/KM_m5t947dQ - 22. World Citizenship | youtu.be/NZmGYh4eZrU

Learn about Einstein’s views on international politics and his call for a world federation. Shocked by the use of atomic bomb in Hiroshima, he thought that a democratic world government was needed to oversee nuclear weapons and keep the peace. Related lectures: - 17. Hideki Yukawa: World Peace through World Federation | youtu.be/7u9m6ym8WOQ - 21. Domesticating the International System | youtu.be/pdf3UlOTtsE

Hear how India’s first Prime Minister sought to unite the post-colonial world into a democratic, socialist world federation, or ‘One World’, to bring about peace, equality and justice. * * * Help us translate this video also your language! Please write to videos@oneworld.network * * * Related lectures: - 16. Kwame Nkrumah: World Federalism instead of Neo-Colonialism | youtu.be/moZJypXrgf8 - 23. From Global Oligarchy to Global Democracy | youtu.be/lG6x7WysmVE

Learn how this Brazilian activist struggled to turn the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) into a global body that would end world hunger. And how, like his colleague John Boyd Orr, he realised that only a supra-national world government could achieve that. 0:00 Understanding poverty 5:11 International Career and global outlook 10:29 world hunger 14:26 The UN FAO and John Boyd Orr 23:01 WFM 27:13 The People’s Congress Related lectures: - 12. Rosika Schwimmer: A Feminist’s Struggle for World Citizenship | youtu.be/6opNcqwifBw - 22. World Citizenship | youtu.be/NZmGYh4eZrU

Hear how the first President of Ghana sought to unite Africa in a Pan-African Federation, while his colleague Komla Agbeli Gbedemah worked for world federation through the World Movement for Federal World Government and the nascent United Nations. Contents ---------- 0:00 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼 Inspiration of radical black American intellectuals like Marcus Garvey 2:50 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗺, 𝗡𝗬𝗖 While excelling in academic studies in the USA, absorbing anti-colonialism and Pan-Africanism 06:06 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 Realizing national independence would only 'balkanize' Africa and weaken it in a neocolonial world system. Instead, a democratic federation of Africa and the World is needed to protect the weak. 09:32 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗻-𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 With George Padmore and others denouncing the lack of African representation at the UN and calling for a world federation. 11:41 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Creating the 'Convention Peoples Party' (CPP), leading the Gold Coast to be the first African colony to gain independence, naming it Ghana 14:18 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Creating a federation with Guinea and Mali 15:38 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Disappointingly, only the loose 'Organization of African Unity' was formed 16:48 𝗚𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Ghana's finance minister involvement with the World Movement for Federal World Government 20:06 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 The 1963 expansion of the UN Security Council and ECOSOC 21:57 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆 * * * Help us translate this video to your language! Write to videos@oneworld.network * * * Related lectures: - 7. Global Apartheid | youtu.be/zV8QoVrXSJM - 14. Jawahlarlal Nehru: An Anti-Imperialist’s Quest for One World | youtu.be/dYYVEjhyimA

Learn about this leading Japanese scientist’s work through the Pugwash Conferences and the World Federalist Movement to persuade countries to renounce war, as Japan had done in its Article 9 of the Constitution. --- Contents --- 0:00 Personal background 3:34 A scientific breakthrough 6:14 World War II 8:42 How to stop wars? 11:49 Japanese voices for World Federation 17:08 Asian Congress for Federal World Government 19:14 Friendship With Einstein, A noble prize 21:21 The Anti-Nuclear movement 24:34 Einstein-Russel Manifesto and the Pugwash Conferences Related lectures: - 13. Albert Einstein: A Vision of a Unified World | youtu.be/26heeuKgWJM - 24. A World Parliament | youtu.be/hGFObAB0P7I

From the Montreux Congress to the Coalition for the International Criminal Court and beyond, learn about the ideas and campaigns of WFM, the leading international organisation working towards peace, justice and world unity. Related lectures: - 1. Federalism and World Federalism | youtu.be/jIxjm9hurEQ - 25. Pathways to World Federation | youtu.be/snbukGdLus4