Here are the resolutions for the April 11, 2025 General Assembly session. The schools attending are Christ Prince of Peace, John Burroughs, and Melanin Home School Group. The General Assembly will be Forest Park Drury Inn (2111 Sulphur Ave, St. Louis, MO 63139) from 9 am until noon. 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.
| Resolution Status: | Submitted By: | Topic: |
| GA-01 | Italy Christ Prince of Peace | Lack of Water in African Countries |
| GA-02 | Melanin Home School Group | Coming soon! |
| GA-03 | John Burroughs | |
| GA-04 | Peru Christ Prince of Peace | Ending Street Violence in Peru |
| GA-05 | Melanin Home School Group | |
| GA-06 | John Burroughs |
Resolution GA-01 April 11
Re.: Lack of Water in African Countries
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Italy
Date: April 11, 2025
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
Alarmed at the fact that currently 2.2 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water globally, and
Realize that lack of water and sanitation widely applies to countries like Sudan, Ethiopia, and Niger, and
Deeply concerned because the lack of water and sanitation causes 3.5 million deaths per year and most girls have to walk at least 3.7 miles to get water that is likely contaminated with life threatening diseases, and
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program called Pumping Out Water to African Cities (POWTAC), in which water pumps will pump underground water to filtration facilities.
- POWTAC will begin in Abalak, Niger. POWTAC will pump underground water to a filtration building. This will clean the water from any life-threatening diseases. Then it will be transported to a storage building with tanks to hold all the clean water. The storage building will be located in the middle of the city with the most need for water. Containers to hold the water will be supplied so people can bring the water home. Clean water will be available for free to all people.
- There will be 40 local workers between both buildings and we will pay them the estimated average yearly salary per year. Workers at the filtration buildings will monitor the water.
- To pay for POWTAC the United Nations will raise the dues of the 10 wealthiest countries by $1 million for one year raising $9 million for the first year. After the first year, dues will only rise by $100,000 for the 10 wealthiest countries each year.
Filtration building – $5 million x 1 = $5 million
Storage building – $3 million x 1 = $3 million
Salary for workers – $2,000 x 40 = $80,000
Water Containers – $30 x 15,000 = $450,000
Piping – Half mile of piping = $500,000
Water pumps $3000 x 6 = $20,000
Total for first year: $10 million
Cost for years after the first: $1 million
The rest of the funds will go to paying for any maintenance issues that may occur during the construction of the buildings.
- This program will run for 6 years. The buildings will have to be updated at the 10 year mark and every 5 years after that point.
- At that time the program will be evaluated by the General Assembly and, if found to be successful, can be renewed for another 6 years. The General Assembly will check the recirculation of water underground every 3 years. If the groundwater found to successfully recirculate the project may be expanded to other countries with high death by dehydration rates. Success is determined by lowering the death by dehydration rate by 8%. Possible expansion countries are: Sudan, Ethiopia, Chad.
Sources:
- https://sdgs.un.org/topics/water-and-sanitation
- https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/world-water-day-how-far-would-you-walk-water/#:~:text=On%20 average%2C%20women%20and%20 children,water%20home%20 to%20their%20 families.
Resolution GA-04 April 11
Re.: Ending Street Violence in Peru
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Peru
Date: April 11, 2025
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 22, of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.”, and
Alarmed that most people who live in the bigger cities of Peru, don’t feel comfortable going out in the cities at night, due to concerns of personal safety and violent crimes. According to Infobae, “11 crimes are recorded every hour in Peru, including robberies and aggravated assaults,” and
Realizing that Peru is one of the largest cocaine producers globally. According to World Population Review, because of this, organized crime is heavily influenced making Peru have one of the top crime rates in South America. Gangs such as Tren De Aregua are involved in extortion, drug trafficking, and contract killings, especially in urban areas like Lima. While we were under government corruption, violence was encouraged. Peru is trying to come back from this problem of violence, and
Also realizing that other South American countries around Peru face similar street crime problems. Countries like Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil are perfect examples of countries with high street crime rates. Statista says that Venezuela has the highest homicide rate, with 26.2 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants recorded in 2024. It also says that Colombia has a homicide rate of 25.4 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants recorded in 2024. US citizens are not advised to travel to these countries because of the high crime rate, and
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- We are going to reach out to other countries for help in police procedures against crime and cocaine production. During this, we want to also help stop cocaine production and use in South America. We found that Colombia has been successful in slowing drug production and use. We want to work with Colombia to reduce cocaine production in our country and their country. Colombia will help to train our military so that they can better deal with drug trafficking and crime. We will focus on hiring local people in Peru, even if they are coming from drug trafficking, to instead be part of our drug prevention unit to stop drug production. This cocaine prevention unit will be called CEF (Coca Eradication Force). This force will help to stop all production of cocaine in Peru and hopefully other countries.
- We want to send the military to farms that are producing coca and destroy those crops. These illegal farms will be precisely located by CEF. The cocaine producers will be taken into custody or given the option to join the military. The new farmers will be given land, and these will be experienced farmers. Then members of the committee will get more cash crops like coffee, cocoa, and avocados. Cocoa is a plant used to make chocolate and coca is used for making cocaine. The coca will be replaced with these cash crops. This will hopefully stop the production of cocaine in Peru. This will also benefit Peru by growing more cash crops for money and food. We are going to three different coca farms in Peru to turn them into cash crop farms. Each farm will have 200 troops to go destroy the illegal crops.
- The things we will need to buy are transportation, crops, and construction tools.
– 21 military transport trucks: $420,0001800
-cocoa trees: $1,620,0003
-farm plows: $3,6003
-bulldozers: $90,00060
-farmers: $300,000 yearly in salary for all 60 farmers (each farmer gets 5,000 dollars a year and this is a good living in Peru.) In total 1,500,000
Total: $3,633,600 - Our program will run for five years. We will monitor the reduction of violent crime and cocaine production. We will also monitor the profit made by our three farms. If the profit made by our three farms equals or exceeds previous made by cocaine farming, then we will consider our program a success. Our program will then be expanded to create a total of 10 farms in Peru. We would also like to expand to other countries such as Colombia.
