Here are the resolutions for the April 25, 2025 General Assembly session. The schools attending are Assumption Middle and Missouri Digital Academy. 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 Number: | Submitted By: | Topic: |
| GA-01 | Ukraine Assumption | Refugees in Ukraine |
| GA-02 | Uruguay Assumption | Preventing E-waste (Chemical) from Poisoning Uruguayan Children |
| GA-03 | Norway, Mexico, Mozambique Missouri Digital Academy | Ending Child Marriage |
| GA-04 | Finland Assumption | Saving Guatemala From Criminal Danger in Their Country |
| GA-05 | ||
Resolution GA-01 April 25
Re.: Refugees in Ukraine
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Ukraine
Date: April 25, 2025
Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #3 is Good Health and Well-Being, and
Whereas Article 5 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”, 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
Recognizing that 6.8 million refugees from Ukraine have been recorded globally, and
Alarmed that nearly 3 million people urgently need access to warmth, clean water, and medical care, and
Concerned that war-affected areas face severe food security challenges as continued air strikes and bombings have caused extensive damage, and
Upset that millions of people are living in damaged buildings without basic necessities like electricity, water, or heat, and access to essential services such as food, and healthcare,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program called “Aid For Refugees In Need” or AFRIN, which will build and supply refugee camps in war torn countries with the goal of rehabilitating and saving civilians.
- AFRIN will try and prevent deaths from dehydration, lack of shelter, and starvation in countries suffering from war. We will provide shelter, food, medicine, and healthcare to those to which these services are otherwise unavailable.
- This program will take place in Ukraine, a country with high numbers of refugees and displaced citizens.
- To pay for AFRIN, we are asking the top 7 UN due contributing countries (not including China) to raise their annual dues by 5%, providing a total of 700 million dollars yearly for AFRIN. This money will go towards:
- Building and supplying a total of three camps (one in Mariupol, one in Volnovakha, and one in Severodonetsk) each in heavily impacted areas in Ukraine.Funding and staffing each camp. Ensuring each individual within the camps receives all basic necessities
- Providing each family with healthcare and the right to a safe and secure shelter
- We will partner with the following organizations to provide water, food, medical care, volunteers, and aid to our refugees:
- International Medical Corps: To provide medical care to the refugee camps
- CARE: Emergency gifts support 4 million with immediate aid and recovery, food, water, hygiene kits, and psychosocial support
- Doctors Without Borders: Will help provide healthcare workers for the displaced Civilians
- World Central Kitchen: deploys chefs directly to disaster areas to provide hot meals to those in need
- Water Mission: to provide clean drinking water to the camps
- This Program will run for the duration of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Once surrender has been called and the war officially comes to a close, the program will run for 5 more years. After this period the HRC (Human Rights Campaign) will evaluate the economic situation of Ukraine and decide if such large-scale camps are still necessary. We will continue this 5 year check-in period until the HRC decides Ukraine is stable enough to terminate the program. Possible war-torn countries that could benefit from AFRIN would be: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, and Sudan.
Resolution GA-02 April 25
Re.: Preventing E-waste (Chemical) from Poisoning Uruguayan Children
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Uruguay
Date: April 25, 2025
Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #3 is Good Health and Well-Being, 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
Shocked that over 30% of kids have lead in their blood when they are born due to e-waste, and
Concerned that over 10 kids die each month due to lead poisoning in their blood from the improper disposal of e-waste, and
Upset that the number of kids being affected by lead in their blood from e-waste increased over 21% in just 5 years, and
Worried that only 17.4% of e-waste in Uruguay is being disposed of properly,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The UN will create a program to clean up the e-waste that is affecting kids in Uruguay. This program will be named Urugain E-waste Clean-up (UEWC).
- We will organize a collection event to gather all the e-waste of Uruguay’s citizens. Along with this, we will set up a waste management district to properly dispose of the dangerous and toxic e-waste.
- The UEWC will be supported by Apple Technicians to see if they can salvage any of the parts. Along with Terex (Heil Environmental) sponsoring our trash clean-up with their company. They will be able to help pick up and transport the e-waste to a disposal site. They will also provide us with 0.1% of their worth. This will provide us with an extra 3 million dollars for the clean-up program.
- The UEWC will be funded by raising the dues of the United States of America by 1%. We will end up having around 6.7 million dollars. This will pay for a waste management system and vans for transportation and the collection of e-waste.
Budget:
Waste Management System- $200,000 per year x 10 years = $2,000,000
E-waste collection vans- $45000 x 30 vans = $1,350,000
The rest of the funds will be put towards staffing, fueling, repairing the vans, and donations to the nearby hospitals to help the people who need treatment for lead in their blood.
- The program will last 10 years. At this time the program will be evaluated by the General Assembly and, if found to be successful, can be renewed for another 10 years and expanded to other countries with improper e-waste disposal. Success is determined by lowering the percentage of children with lead in their blood from 30 percent down to 15 percent. Possible expansion countries are: Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador.
Resolution GA-03 April 25
Re.: Ending Child Marriage
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Norway, Mexico, Mozambique
Date: April 25, 2025
Whereas Article 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”, and
Whereas Article 16 section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.”, 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
Alarmed that in northern and central Mozambique 1 and 4 young women are married by the age of 15. In all the country 53% of women are married by 18, but only 10%, of the young men are married by the age of 18. This shows that these young women are marrying older men. This is bad because it leads to poverty and lack of education. Child marriage in Mozambique could increase earnings for women who married early by 15.6% and would generate an additional USD 375 million in earnings and productivity for the country, and
Aware these girls are busy taking care of their new family so they will not be able to go to school. Some young girls get married off to pay off debt to their family, because the family these girls are living in don’t have enough money to take care of all of their children, they will make their child marry someone so that they have less expenses, and
Upset that it is very harmful and very hard for a young adults (15-18) Raising a child can cause a lot of hard emotions, because all of these young adults are still deciding who they are and who they want or need to become to be a successful human being, but when a child comes along they are forced to put all of their time and attention on this baby that they have no experience in raising, and
Aware that ending child marriage in Mozambique could generate an additional 375 million dollars (USD) in earnings and productivity for the country,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- As the United Nations, we will begin a program named Families Supporting Daughters, or FSD, to end child marriage in Mozambique.
- FSD will hire and train a group of 6 employees including a program supervisor, counselor, and community trainers to travel in the Northern and Central regions of Mozambique where child marriage is almost 1 in 4 young women married by the age of 15.
- FSD Community trainers will set up classes for families and key community members to learn about the importance of protecting the rights of young women in their communities including their rights to an education and making their own decisions about marriage.
- In addition to providing classes in these two regions, FSD will train local community members to create a support network for young women who are in danger of being forced into marriage and intervention strategies for the families.
Budget:
Van: $50,000 (one-time purchase)
Office rental and supplies: $50,000/year
Educational materials: $150,000/year
Advertising/Promotion: $75,000/year
Staff salaries, training, and housing: Supervisor, office assistant, counselor, 3 community trainers: $500,000/year
Two-year total: $1.6 million dollars (USD)
Funding:
Top 10 richest countries will contribute $160,000 in addition to their dues to the Families Supporting Daughters program.
- Timeline:
Months 1-3: Hire and train FSD employees, identify central location to set up headquarters for the office, purchase van.
Months 4-9: Identify key community leaders in the region for collaboration, set up workshops for families, begin training local community members as intervention specialists.
10 – 24 months: FSD should be running at full capacity and identifying new communities to spread out to and introduce programming and training.
- Evaluation:
Child marriage is technically illegal in Mozambique and with the UN they collect yearly statics on child marriage by region. After year 1 FSD would look to see if there is a decrease in child marriage in the communities where they have introduced the program.
The goal is by year 2 to have decreased child marriages by 10%. If the program meets this goal after 2 years, consideration should be given to duplicating the program in other countries where child marriage is an issue.
Resolution GA-04 April 25
Re.: Saving Guatemala From Criminal Danger in Their Country
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Finland
Date: April 25, 2025
Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #11 is, and Sustainable Cities and Communities, and
Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #16 is Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, and
Whereas Article 5 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”, and
Shocked that 2,944 people have lost their lives per day caused by violence in Guatemala, and
Knowing that there are police in Guatemala, there is still a 21.2% increase in crimes each year compared to the prior year, and
Recognizing that Guatemala is one of the most dangerous and high-risk countries, and
Alarmed that there are 22,223 police officers in Guatemala compared to 27.6 million people,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program that will send police to go out and help with crimes that are going on in countries. This program will be called DOP(distribution of police) and it will begin its first mission in Guatemala.
- DOP will send out police along with money to try to help Guatemalans be able to create their own stable police stations. We will send around $20 million dollars and 100 police to help support their country and get them started on making a less dangerous country.
- Our timeline for this operation will take 5 years of training the police officers in Guatemala. After these years are up, if Guatemala has changed for the better, we will move on to another country.
- Our evaluation for this operation will be if the crime rate goes down in Guatemala, and if there are fewer deaths from violence we will know that the operation was a success.
- Our program will last for 5 years in Guatemala, if there is success in Guatemala then the DOP will move on to other countries such as Papua New Guinea and Afghanistan.
