May 2, 2024 Resolutions

Here are the resolutions for the May 2, 2024 General Assembly session. The schools attending are Christ Prince of Peace and Visitation Academy. The General Assembly will be at the Creve Coeur Drury Inn from 9:00 am until 12:00 pm. We will be posting resolutions as we receive them. Some of these might be rough drafts and will have changes before the session. Click here to see country rosters and information about the other Middle School General Assemblies.

Status:	Submitted by:	Topic:
GA-01	Japan Christ Prince of Peace	Technology Issues in Poor Countries
GA-02	Brazil Visitation Academy	Deforestation in Brazil
GA-03	Saudi Arabia Christ Prince of Peace	Israel and Palestine Conflict
GA-04	Norway Visitation Academy	Animal Testing in Japan
GA-05	Morocco Christ Prince of Peace	Education
GA-06	Monaco Visitation Academy	Infant Mortality in Afghanistan

Resolution GA-01 May 2

Re.:                             Technology Issues in Poor Countries
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Japan
Date:                           May 2, 2024

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #4 is Quality Education, and

Whereas Article 19 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”, and

Whereas Article 26, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.”, and

Whereas Article 27, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”, and

Alarmed that one-third of the world is offline, that means one-third of the world does not have access to modern technology and they are not getting the same learning advantages, and

Fully Aware that Japan is the most technologically advanced country in the world. They have many advantages in helping other countries, and

Deeply concerned, only 11% of the Central African Republic has internet access. This is a major problem because their GDP is approximately $800. This means most of their country can’t access technology because they don’t have enough money, and

Recognizing technology can make your life more enjoyable and efficient. Easier to contact and communicate with modern technology. Also, it is very important to help the countries with low literacy rates like Burkina Faso, Niger, and South Sudan,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

We want to name our program the JTP (Japanese Technology Program). JTP will partner with the US Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Our goal is to help under-advanced schools in Africa with more advanced technology. The three countries with the lowest literacy rate in the world are, Burkina Faso at 38%, Niger at 37% and South Sudan at 32%. That is very low, and Japan’s technology can improve that by helping students and teachers find key materials online. Representing Japan we will hopefully bring our advanced technology to the countries with the lowest literacy rate to help their education. (We will bring items like computer and projectors.) (These items will help them collaborate, and engage, in LMS, personalized learning, information, and communication, increase student fun, offer new learning techniques, and prepare students for the future.)
We would like a budget of $11.6 million USD if we want to complete our project before 2028. (We want to start this project early because this problem is a world-leading problem Education These problems are trailing right behind the biggest problem in Africa, which is hunger.) We want to pay 250 teachers to work at our school. To train their teachers to use technology. One teacher per school. They’re paid $40,000 a year. With that math

250*$40,000=10,000,000
so $10,000,000 to pay all the teachers for the one year there in Niger

We want 50 children for one school. So one teacher per school. We want to also pay for the Niger teachers’ Chromebooks as well as the Japanese teacher’s. There will be 12,500 kids in total over all of our schools. The average salary in Niger is USD $554. Each teacher will be making $40,000 USD for one year they will be there. The teachers will live in Niger while being paid their average salary. We want to buy each child one Chromebook and the teachers. For all of the Chromebooks included with the children and the teachers, it is $1,300,000. 250 Niger teachers and 250 Japanese teachers. So 500 plus 12,500 is 13,000. We also want projectors for all 250 schools. One projector costs $340 and we need at least one projector per school. There are 250 schools so the price would be $85,000 for all the projectors. The technology teachers can just project the display on their chalkboards. If they don’t have one they can just use a wall. Our time of paying out people comes out to be paying out Japanese teachers one year to educate the teachers as well as the students.
We will be using NTT to bring the internet to these classrooms. NTT is a Japanese-based satellite program that we could ask for a discount or have it for free. If we are not given a discount we will continuously pay $240 a year for 20 years. But one If needed we extend the contract. If all goes well it will be 4,800 for the satellites. Over time the number of teachers can increase by getting taught by other experienced teachers if the project is successful. We want to buy a translation device to communicate between the Japanese teachers and the Nigerian teachers. They speak Japanese in Japan and French, Arabic, and Hausa in Niger. We want to hire Japanese teachers that speak English so we will be buying a device to translate English to the Niger’s school’s language. The device is called the Fluentalk T1 mini handheld translator. We will use this to translate this language. If the T1 mini does not have the language the school is speaking, they are welcome to use their Chromebooks and use google translate. The price of one T1 mini handheld translator is $150 for one. We have 250 schools so 250*$150. That equals $37,500 for all of the translators for all of the schools. The device will need to be connected to the satellite internet to operate. We also need a way to charge our Chromebooks. We will use a solar-powered generation. One generator costs 76.49$. We need one per school so 300*250. That equals $75,000. The Chromebooks we are buying come with a cord. There is one laptop charging port. So some students may charge their Chromebooks one at a time. It only takes an hour to charge. Over everything combined the total price is 11,502,300. Any extra money will go to moving the satellites around Africa to our set locations.

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Resolution GA-02 May 2

Re.:                             Deforestation in Brazil
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Brazil
Date:                           May 2, 2024

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #13 is Climate Action, and

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #15 is Life on Land, and

Whereas Article 17, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.”, and

We are concerned that more than half of the Co2 being recycled by the Amazon Rainforest has declined, worsening air quality by just over 26%, and

We are aware that 22% of the Amazon Rainforest has fallen victim to deforestation, which has caused the fall of a section of the forest as large as the country of France, and

We recognize that 239 million square hectares (922,784 square mi) in Brazil are farmland and plantations, meaning the Amazon is being deforested for the creation of unneeded farmland, and

We are saddened that tribal native land is being destroyed and infiltrated by the Brazilian deforesters without consent or awareness of the tribes,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

Action plan: Our plan is to partner will the United Nations and in doing so, create a non-profit business we would give the acronym, R.A.I.N. (Reforestation of Amazon Indigenous Native land) set up HQ (see below) on the outskirts of the Amazon and ask the native tribes to partner with us. We would ask them to begin harvesting native tree seeds in return for the new land that will be the outcome of the plantings which we will ask them to participate in. We thought that land was more valuable to them than money, so 1/3 of our collection of money will be converted into some amount of land and will be given to the participating tribes.
HQ: Our idea for the setting up of our home base would be to purchase any cheaper buildings on the outskirts of the Jungle, perhaps ones affected by naturally occurring disasters, age, etc. We would prey on these types of buildings because of the fact that they would evidently cost less money than higher quality buildings that may be for sale with a higher price tag.
Funding: Our plan for the way in which we will receive monetary support is to expand R.A.I.N a story of photos, (a photography company we would start for the incremental gains) which we will sell each photo for $92. Art and photography sell quickly; as well as the fact that photography of the Amazon will raise awareness for donations to our website where we sell the photos. R.A.I.N. will also get help from Indonesia, Norway, and Ireland of whom we will each ask for $4.3 million dollars. This will help set a clear beginning for our funds. We chose those three countries because together they are the three most nature-aware countries, one of which has faced and overcame the very problem we are trying to solve; meaning, they are very helpful allies.
Timeline: In the plan that we had stated, it would hypothetically mean that the Euterpe percatoria, which takes only five years to grow, would have the first five years become slow in growth, but the waves after would continue to grow without stops between. We would like to have ten years before the reforesting process begins so that we could get on our feet, get our team of fourteen workers at each base used to their new surroundings, and reel in any leftover money. A time after which we would theoretically never stop growing new waves.
Evaluation: In order to be aware of the progress made by our cause, are idea for checking in on the increase or decrease of wildlife, tree growth, etc. would be to send workers into the grounds at the very least once every two months to document the well-being of the saplings as well as the tribes and native creatures. We would ask ourselves the following questions. Are there any growths in the amount of endangered animals that were affected by deforestation? Are the trees growing well in the conditions we use? Are the native people becoming comfortable in the new space they have? Are they cooperating still? If not, what can we do to engage them back into the cause? In conclusion, we as the people working to make R.A.I.N. will not stop brainstorming, will continue to fight against nature-based cruelty, will do most anything to peacefully restore one of the most jeopardized wonders of the world until we are satisfied with our progress at which point we would branch out to other countries affected by this problem. We need the help of the U.N. to spread awareness and take action to make deforestation a problem of the past.

Resolution GA-03 May 2

Re.:                             Israel and Palestine Conflict
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Saudi Arabia
Date:                           May 2, 2024

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #2 is Zero Hunger, and

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #3 is Good Health and Well-Being, and

Whereas Article 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.”, and

Whereas Article 25, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care, and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”, and

Concerned that one-fourth of the population of Gaza is on the brink of famine, and

Alarmed that every hour in Gaza, around 15 people are killed, about 35 people are injured, an average of 42 bombs are dropped, and about 12 buildings are destroyed, and

Aware thatGaza is not getting enough food because the war has ended food imports and destroyed agriculture, and

Alarmed that 95% of the Strip’s residents are currently facing high levels of food insecurity,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

The United Nations will begin a program called HASHTAG, (Humanitarian Aid Sends Help To Assist Gaza). HASHTAG will start by building 5 food stations around Gaza over 10 weeks. We will set up one station for every five miles out of the 25 miles that make up Gaza.
HASHTAG will partner with World Central Kitchen (WCK is an organization that takes donations to provide food for countries in need by delivering and preparing food in the countries) and offer $21,000,000 to supply our food stations and gather volunteers. In total, we will provide around 15,000,000 meals throughout the month. These meals will be distributed evenly throughout the five stations we will set up, and could be enough to feed most of the Gaza population for a month.
Each station will have five tents. These five tents will include two preparation tents and three with seating. Each food preparation tent will have five cooks who serve and cook the meals. Each camp will provide 100,000 meals a day. HASHTAG will provide money to support WCK in bringing in food and vans with equipment for food preparation. Each station will consist of 50 tables in each seating tent. Each table will have built-in chairs that can seat six people at each table.
Since Gaza is still a warzone, we will add minimal security. For our security, we will request peacekeepers from the UN.
HASHTAG will raise the dues of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, United Kingdom, USA, by one percent for a total of $23,881,784 (Giving HASHTAG extra money for extra expenses such as chairs, tables, tents, and peacekeepers.)
HASHTAG will be active for a month. If HASHTAG becomes successful and we see starvation death decreased by 5%, we will renew the program for another month. If HASHTAG continues to get renewed because of its success in decreasing deaths we will continue as needed monthly. If we don’t see a change in percentages by the end of the first month we will re-evaluate the HASHTAG program.

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Resolution GA-04 May 2

Re.:                             Animal Testing in Japan
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Norway
Date:                           May 2, 2024

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #3 is Good Health and Well-Being, and

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #12 is Responsible Consumption and Growth, and

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #15 is Life on Land, and

Whereas Article 27, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Every has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.”, and

Alarmed by the statistic thatmore than 50 million animals are hurt by animal testing in a year, and

Saddened that 110 million animals pass away from animal testing in a year, and

Concerned because there are many substitutes that you can use instead of animals but most companies still use guinea pigs, primates, dogs, rabbits, ect. to test in labs, and many of the experiments that companies conduct on animals have turned out to still harm humans, and

Confident that most countries should have a solution to stop animal testing, yet some of them still do it, and only 8% of animal tests are accurate,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

The United Nations will begin a program called PAT (Prevention of Animal Testing) to educate students in grades 6-12 about why you shouldn’t use animal testing when they are older. We will also start a social media page talking about why animal testing is bad for kids and adults.
PAT will start in Yokohama, Japan to educate all the kids in schools, specifically the ones who focus more on Yokohama City University. This program will teach the college students about how animal testing harms animals and humans because Japan is one of the countries that has the most animal testing.
After we educate more students at different schools, PAT will expand to Tokyo to visit more schools to educate grades 6 and up. PAT will keep expanding until we get more employees to spread to all parts of Japan.
After that, we will partner with Canada to help fund our project. Canada usually makes $2.14 trillion USD a year. We will also partner with Chile, and their usual salary per year is $344.134 billion. The money we will need to borrow from Chile, Canada, and Norway will be $18.5 million dollars in total. We’ll ask for donations from these countries to help fund the project. If they refuse then we’ll ask other countries that don’t test on animals such as Brazil, India, Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand, and Turkey. We will have an estimated 100 people helping out, with an estimated salary of 20 dollars per hour, which equals to 35,360 dollars per year. It would cost us $3,536,00 dollars per year to pay our employees.
5 months after P.A.T. launches, we will ship 15 bioprinters from Canada to Japan. It will cost an estimated amount of $982,830. We will loan these 15 bioprinters to different companies in Yokohama, Japan. After the companies are done with the bioprinters, we will loan them to 15 different companies to use them.
We will make a contract with the 15 companies that states they must make a $30,000 deposit and they must not test on animals, or else they must pay $100,000. They will have the bioprinters for 5 years.
If animal testing goes down by 15% in the next 2 years, P.A.T. will expand to Tokyo, Japan. After animal testing decreases by another 25%, we will expand to China and the United States.

Resolution GA-05 May 2

Re.:                             Education
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Morocco
Date:                           May 2, 2024

Whereas Article 26, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance, and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.”, and

Whereas Article 26, section 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.”, and

Alarmed that only about 53% of students enrolled in middle school go to high school and around less than 15% of first-grade students will graduate from high school in Morocco, and

Deeply concerned that only about 77.9% of people over the age of 15 know how to read and write in Morocco, and

Saddened that 64% of children at age 10 still can’t read a simple sentence, and

Observing that around 84.8% of males can read and write, but only 67.4% of women can read and write in Morocco,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

Our organization will be called Literacy Increasing Together (LIT).
LIT will begin in Morocco, Mali, and Chad. We are going to build 42 schools in total, 14 per country. LIT will find volunteer teachers in countries with the highest literacy rates (Andorra, Finland, Greenland, Liechtenstein, etc.) to train 336 new teachers in the poorest areas of Morocco, Chad, and Mali. If we don’t have enough volunteers, we will ask the countries to supply paid teachers.
For the construction process, we would like to hire construction workers from the areas of construction. Each worker will get paid $6 an hour.
After construction and training, which will take about one year, the schools will open to kids ages 5-9. The building cost of all the schools will be about $1.13 million in total, and the cost of school supplies will be about $16,800 per year. School Medical supplies will cost around $1,850 per year. We will pay our teachers each $2,500 per year for five years, which will cost $4.2 million. The cost of the whole project will be about $5.602 million for the five years.
We are asking for $250,000 from the top ten countries with the highest literacy rates (Andorra, Finland, Greenland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Belarus, and Estonia.) We will also raise dues in France, Germany, and Japan by 0.5% and host fundraising book fairs in schools to raise the other $2.5 million.
LIT will run for five years, and if the teen literacy rate increases by 5% or more, we will expand to three more countries with the lowest literacy rates (South Sudan, Botswana, and Afghanistan) every five years.

Resolution GA-06 May 2

Re.:                             Infant Mortality in Afghanistan
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:           Monaco
Date:                           May 2, 2024

Whereas Article 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.”, and

Saddened that Afghanistan has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. We are representatives from Monaco representing Afghanistan, because they do not have strong women’s rights or enough money. Monaco has one of the lowest infant mortality rates, and

Concerned that 103 infants per 1,000 live births pass away within the first year of life. This is a huge problem in Afghanistan and it needs to be fixed, and

Also concerned that 8 million people in Afghanistan lose access to medical care and hospitals, due to the lack of funding. This situation makes the infant mortality in Afghanistan even worse,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. We will partner with the NHSA, the National Healthy Start Association, to build pop-ups, stands or small buildings to educate young women and new mothers in Afghanistan. Our program will be called: CLAIM – Countries Linked Against Infant Mortality.

2. Young women will be able to enroll in programs that teach them how to care for themselves and their children. The reason we chose this name is because we want to help all uneducated women and bring countries together to end infant mortality in Afghanistan.

3. We plan to build 5 hospitals. We would need to place these hospitals in the busiest cities, which are Kabul, Herat, Kunduz, and Nangarhar. These hospitals will help mothers giving birth and significantly lower the chance of a baby dying at birth or in the first year of life. Mothers will be able to get free care if they are giving birth.

4. Mothers in Afghanistan do not have the right resources to care for their babies properly. The NHSA will help us by donating money and educating women, mothers, and fathers in Afghanistan.

5.This will take at least 5 years for all of the donations to add up to 360 million dollars. We think that many charities will be more than willing to donate a lot of money for this reason. All of this money will go to good nourishment, better housing, and better medicine for both the child and mother. It will take around 5 years to build all 5 hospitals and 10 years to educate enough doctors.

6.We will gather students out of high school in Monaco who are willing to become doctors in Afghanistan, and educate them from there. $60 million dollars of our $360 million dollar goal will go to educating these students.

7. In 5 years, we will see if the infant mortality rate has lowered by 5.5% in Afghanistan. This will be considered successful. If it is successful, we will expand our project to other countries such as Somalia, South Sudan, Chad, Niger, and Liberia, which are countries also affected by infant mortality.

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