Editing Students' union (section)

== Global level ==
The earliest attempt at a students' union at the global level was likely the [[Confédération Internationale des Étudiants]] that existed from 1919 until 1939 when its Paris headquarters was destroyed by the Nazis.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Laqua |first=Daniel |date=2017 |title=Activism in the ‘Students’ League of Nations’: International Student Politics and the Confédération Internationale des Étudiants, 1919–1939* |url=https://journals.scholarsportal.info/details/00138266/v132i0556/605_aitlontcide1.xml |journal=[[The English Historical Review]] |volume=132 |issue=556 |pages=605–637 |via=Scholars Portal Journals}}</ref> Students' unions from around the world formed the [[International Union of Students]] after the Second World War.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Altbach |first=Philip G. |date=1970 |title=The International Student Movement |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/259987 |journal=[[Journal of Contemporary History]] |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=156–174 |jstor=259987}}</ref> In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War tensions prompted student unions from the United States and other allied countries to form a competing organization, the International Student Conference.<ref name=":5" /> After the Cold War, students' unions of the world appear to have reunited under the banner of the International Union of Students judging from the list of members on its Wikipedia page and from what can be deduced from a 2000 report issued by its leadership.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=2000 |title=Report of the Executive Secretariat to the Council and 17th Congress of the International Union of Students for the Period from February 1992 to March 2000 |url=http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/gruppen/ius/congress/pdf/report.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607031437/http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/gruppen/ius/congress/pdf/report.pdf |archive-date=2007-06-07 |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=International Union of Students}}</ref> However, a combination of membership, financial, and bureaucratic crises<ref name=":6" /> resulted in the International Union of Students collapsing sometime around the 2000s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Global Student Government |url=https://globalstudentgovernment.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319075639/https://globalstudentgovernment.org/ |archive-date=2022-03-19 |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=Global Student Government}}</ref> 

By the 2020s, two new attempts at a student government at the global level had emerged, the [[Global Student Forum]] led by a group of continental and supra-campus student unions<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Global Student Forum |url=https://www.globalstudentforum.org/ |url-status=live |access-date=March 6, 2025 |website=Global Student Forum}}</ref> and the Global Student Government that comprised an assortment of student unions and international subject-based student governments.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Member Directory – Global Student Government |url=https://globalstudentgovernment.org/membership/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226051844/https://globalstudentgovernment.org/membership/ |archive-date=February 26, 2024 |access-date=March 6, 2025 |website=Global Student Government}}</ref> In 2024, the [[Global Student Forum]] and the Global Student Government joined forces under the banner of the former.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 20, 2024 |title=Global Student Government Joins Forces with Global Student Forum |url=https://www.globalstudentforum.org/global-student-government-joins-forces-with-global-student-forum-2/#:~:text=The%20Global%20Student%20Government%20is,influence%20of%20student%20initiatives%20worldwide. |url-status=live |access-date=March 6, 2025 |website=Global Student Forum}}</ref>