May 1, 2017 Resolutions

Here are the resolutions for the May 1, 2017 Middle School Model United Nations General Assembly. Student delegates from Holman Middle, Marian Middle, Remington Traditional, and Wydown Middle will be discussing these resolutions. Note: Students are still in the process of writing rough drafts, so these topics may change/be added at a later date!

Resolution Number/Status	Submitted by:	Topic:
GA-01 SUBMITTED	Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Luxembourg, Finland, The Netherlands and Fiji Holman Middle	Domestic Abuse in South Korea and Columbia
GA-02 SUBMITTED	Germany Remington Traditional	Immigration in Eastern Europe
GA-03 NOT YET SUBMITTED	Wydown Middle
GA-04 SUBMITTED	Cote d’Ivoire, Bangladesh Marian Middle	Indonesian Deforestation Project
GA-05 SUBMITTED	Canada, England, Japan, Iceland, New Zealand, Egypt, Ethiopia Holman Middle	Re-designing Refugee Camps in Turkey
GA-06 NOT YET SUBMITTED	Wydown Middle

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Resolution GA-01 May 1

 

Re.:                             Domestic Abuse in South Korea and Columbia

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Luxembourg, Finland, The Netherlands and Fiji

Date:                           May 1, 2017

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 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 6 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.”, and

Appalled that in South Korea 60% of domestic violence cases were dropped from prosecution charges in 2015, while only 15.6% went through the indictment proceedings, and

Outraged that in South Korea A total of 118,178 cases were reported but only 8,762 arrests were made, and

Horrified that in Columbia 75% of women have suffered psychological abuse, 50% have been victim to physical abuse and 11% have suffered economic violence, and

Shocked that in Columbia 38,000 cases of reported domestic violence were reported in 2014 alone, and

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. We plan to create a program called Domestic Care Unit (DCU) that will be set up in Seoul, South Korea and Cali, Columbia. This program will consist of an educational plan that teachers can implement in school to teach students about positive and healthy relationships, The program will also build a center in the city that will have medical and psychiatric help available for free to victims of domestic abuse.
2. The center will provide self-defense classes, job training classes and day care. We will work closely with the police in the area to perform monthly check ups on people that have reported domestic abuse in the past or have a restraining order. The center will also work with the government to petition for more strict laws against domestic abuse and harsher sentences.
3. The total cost for the educational program and center is $11 million dollars. Each center will cost around $4 million dollars with salaries for both totaling $2 million dollars. This will pay for building of the center, furniture, classes, clinic, food, and temporary housing. The final million dollars will go to securing the facilities.
4. We are asking for the U.N. dues of the top 25 paying nations to be raised by 0.06% which would give us the 11 million dollars to fund our program for the first two years.
5. Our program will run for two years and if we have a 15% decrease of domestic abuse reports we will run for another two years while collecting more funds to expand the program to Egypt and New Zealand because of the high rates of reported spousal abuse in both nations.

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Resolution GA-02 May 1

Adam Fennewald, Owen Farra

Re.:                             Immigration

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Germany

Date:                           May 1, 2017

Whereas Article 7 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “All are equal before the law and are entitled without discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.”, and

Whereas Article 15, Section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change is nationality,” and

Whereas Article 28, of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.”, and

Alarmed by the rising crime rate by 50% in German towns in accordance with an increase in refugees, and

Realizing that the horrible conditions of refugee camps are not suitable for human beings, with the death toll approaching 10,000 last year, and

Having heard people who oppose letting refugees into the country are being called ‘Nazis’ or white supremacists, and

Keeping in mind 1,800 German troops are trying to maintain security by searching refugees for terrorists, and

Ashamed countries are merely attempting to limit the flow of immigrants. They must be given asylum, not corralled into camps,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Create GIHR (German Immigration Home Reform), a program to give 115,604 Syrian immigrants a home for a year, so they can get a job in that time and apply for citizenship.
2. This program will originally operate in Germany and Hungary, for the purpose of housing refugees, to combat an overwhelming surge of consumers in the economy.
3. We require $56 million and will raise dues by 6% for the ten wealthiest countries.
4. The money will be used to construct 1,092 homes and several miles of road.
5. This program will be in operation for five years, less if the flow of migrants stops or greatly decreases.
6. At the end of five years, the program may be expanded to Austria, Sweden and Italy if a problem concerning refugees still exists in those countries.

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Resolution GA-04 May 1

 

Re.:                             Indonesian Deforestation Project

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Cote d’Ivoire, Bangladesh

Date:                           May 1, 2017

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

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

Whereas Article 29 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.”, and

Deeply concerned that of the 8,300 animal breeds known, 8% are extinct and 22% are at risk of extinction, and

Recognizing that forests account for 30% of earth’s surfaces, providing vital habitat for millions of species and important sources of clean air and water; as well as being crucial for combating climate change, and

Knowing that forests are home to more than 80% of all species of animals, plants and insects on earth, and

Aware that the UN Sustainable Development Goal #15 calls for protecting life on land and the forests that support a diversity of animal life, and

Taking into consideration that the UN Sustainable Development Goal#15 calls for reducing the degradation of natural habitats, halting the loss of biodiversity and by 2020, protecting and preventing the extinction of threatened species, and

Convinced that palm oil production could be a major help to some poor countries, and

Alarmed that Indonesia emits more greenhouse gasses than any country besides China and the United States, and

Noting that Cote d’Ivoire earns 60% of its GDP from agriculture and oil palm is the third export agricultural commodity and aware that Cote d’Ivoire already has an organization, AgriSmart, reducing deforestation,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The UN could create the Indonesian Deforestation project (IDP)to help Indonesia plant palm trees without cutting down forest trees.
2. The UN can organize a way to send experts from Cote d’Ivoire to Indonesia to start an AgriSmart program in Indonesia.
3. Indonesia palm oil produced by farmers who are willing to plant palm trees without harming the forest will receive $1.00 extra from every palm oil product as an incentive for their hard work. The UN can help advertise this so people would be willing to buy these more expensive palm oil products.
4. The UN could help promote the palm oil that is not causing deforestation. This palm oil would be called IDP oil.
5. Since it takes 3-4 years for palm trees to produce palm oil, we would need at least five years before the new palm oil can be sold on the market and if it is successful we could expand the IDP to Malaysia and then Thailand and Colombia and Nigeria. If the program succeeds, the whole world benefits by preserving the wildlife in forests and reducing climate change.
6. The UN could fund about $500,000 for 50 Cote d’Ivoire farmer’s costs to help train the Indonesian farmers for about two months to do the AgriSmart program in Indonesia. Once Indonesian farmers are trained, they can help implement the program throughout Indonesia, with the incentive for more palm oil product profits.
7. The UN could fund this project from its current operating budget.

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Resolution GA-05 May 1

Re.:                             Re-designing Refugee Camps in Turkey

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Iceland, New Zealand, Egypt, Ethiopia

Date:                           May 1, 2017

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 12 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to protection of the law against such interference and attacks.”, and

Whereas Article 14 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.”, and

Whereas Article 14 section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.”, and

Appalled that there are 21.3 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18, and

Shocked that Turkey is home to over 2.5 million Syrian refugees, but its refugee camps can only house around 200,000, and

Horrified that in addition to dangerous and unsanitary conditions within Turkey, it is alleged that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government is illegally deporting thousands of refugees back to Syria without hearing their applications for asylum,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. We will create a program called Refugee Amnesty Program (RAP) that will re-design refugee camps in Turkey and streamline the amnesty process. The RAP will address basic needs in the refugee camps with structures and services. The structure of the camp will be set up similar to a small town with areas for housing, working and education, as well as recreation.
2. Services that will be provided will be medical care, education K- 12^th grade, lawyers, translators and job training.
3. There will also be a service that provides help with applying for amnesty and collecting and housing important documents. Lawyers and other refugees who have received amnesty will be there to help in the application process.
4. In order for this program to work we will need $100 million dollars, the refugee camp will hold 250,000 people at a time, it will have a clinic, individual family shelters, provide education, food and amnesty services.
5. We will receive funding by getting donations from companies and through social media awareness campaigns. Attached is our funding plan.
6. We will run this program for 5 years and each year hope to bring down the number of refugee deaths by 5 %, after 5 years then the number would be 25%.

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Company Funding

• https://www.airbnb.com (Airbnb) – 0.01% of profits
• https://www.dropbox.com/?landing=dbv2 (DropBox) – 0.01% of profits
• https://www.etsy.com (Etsy) 5 cents off every sale
• Facebook (0.0001% of profits)
• Google (0.0001% of profits)
• https://www.instacart.com (Instacart) 1 cent of every grocery sale
• https://www.linkedin.com (LinkedIn) – 0.001% of profit
• Netflix (50 cents for every monthly purchase)
• Nike (1% off every sale)
• Starbucks (5 cents off every coffee for a week– pre-advertising)
• Twitter (raise awareness plus ask for donations, discounted advertising for sponsors)
• Ikea (house donations)

Social Media Sponsoring

• Instagram Sponsors
  • For every 5,000 likes, a company sponsor will donate $1,000 to the foundation.
• Youtube Sponsors
  • For every 15,000 views, a company sponsor will donate $3,000 to the foundation.
• Individual Donors
  • Donation box on website.