2023 Honors Model UN Committee Work - CIVITAS-STL

2023 Honors Model UN Committee Work

For our 2023 Honors session, middle school delegates were tasked with looking over 1 of 4 different clauses of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and seeing if it needed updated. There was quite a bit of conversation, compromise, and of course, voting that morning. (Photos from the event can be found here) Here are what students decided:

Group A:
Article 19: Everyone has the right to access, view, interpret, and create art through any sources.
Final Vote: Defeated by a vote of 14 to 19

Group B:
Article 21: It is the right of individuals to record government activities and to share them with the public.
Final Vote: Defeated by a vote of 12 to 22

Group C:
Article 18: We do not believe the government should control your religion, who you marry, and a lot of other basic rights. We think that public schools should stick to having no official religion and that public meetings and countries should not target one religion.
Final Vote: Passed by a vote of 32-2

Group D:
Article 9: Everyone has the right to humane imprisonment, including a ban on total solitary confinement, arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.
Final Vote: Passed by a vote of 31 to 3


Honors General Assembly Priority Action Plan:

We want delegate input! According to you/your country, what should the UN focus their work on in the next 12 months?

YOU GET 2 VOTES

  1. Climate change/stopping greenhouse gasses (submitted by Bulgaria) 26
  2. Stopping food shortages (submitted by South Sudan) 3
  3.  Providing access to Education (submitted by India) 5
  4.  Muslim Genocide in China (submitted by South Korea) 8
  5. Poverty (submitted by Russia) 7
  6. Clean & unpolluted water (submitted by Cuba) 2
  7. Wars & conflicts (submitted by Canada) 14

Bobbi

Bobbi Kennedy is the middle school coordinator for Civitas. She also helps with high school activities and keeps the web site from imploding.

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