Middle School M.U.N. GA-01: Resolutions

Here are the resolutions for the March 28, 2014 session date. To see them in a pdf file, please click here.

GA-01: Forced Marriage. Submitted by Pakistan, Israel, & North Korea. (Ladue Middle School)

GA-02: Misuse of Pesticides. Submitted by Argentina. (Christ Prince of Peace)

GA-03: Rising threat of IEDs in Afghanistan. Submitted by Afghanistan. (St. Gerard Majella)

GA-04: Albinos and Hate Crimes. Submitted by Tanzania, Syria, and Luxembourg. (Ladue Middle School)

GA-05: Education. Submitted by Poland. (Christ Prince of Peace)

GA-06: Drug Abuse. Submitted by Turkey. (St. Gerard Majella)

Resolution GA-01 March 28

Re.: Forced Marriage

Submitted to: General Assembly

Submitted by: Pakistan, Israel, North Korea

Date: March 28, 2014

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

Whereas Article 10 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.”, 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

Appalled that more than half the marriages in the world are arranged, and

Shocked that 27 girls under the age of 18 get married every minute, and

Dismayed that 85% of Afghan women reported that they had experienced physical, sexual, or psychological violence or forced marriage, and

Realizing that girls living in poor households are almost twice more likely to marry before 18 than girls in higher income households, and

Understanding here is a difference between forced marriage and arranged marriage. Arranged marriage is where the marriage has been planned, but both people are okay with the arrangement. Forced marriage is when one or both of the people do not want to marry but are not given a choice, and some kind of abuse is usually involved,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

The United Nations will begin a program called Ending Forced Marriages (EFM) to address the problem of forced marriages.
EFM will last for five years, and it will take place in Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Bangladesh, and Guinea- the countries with the highest rate of forced marriages.
EFM will take a comprehensive approach to the prevention of forced marriage.
1. There will be a hotline number in the countries listed above that girls can call if they are being forced into a marriage. The hotline number will be run by UN staff from that country who will either direct them to a safe house, or they will contact law enforcement.
2. Also included is a two part educational program about the dangers of forced marriage and explanation of why it is illegal. One part of the education program will be targeting adults who might be considering forcing their daughters into marriage. The other part will educate children on the dangers of forced marriage and how to avoid it. Hopefully, these education programs will help stop the cultural acceptance of force marriage.
3. EFM will provide incentives for marriages over the age of 18. Parents who delay marriage for their daughters until after the age of 18 will receive a small monetary reward.
4. There will also be a public awareness campaign for the general population of these countries to advertise the laws against forced marriage and why those laws are in place.
5. Incentive for the governments who decrease the forced marriage percentage by 10% a year.
To provide funding for EFM, the UN will partner with iTunes, asking for a two cent fee on every download for a year, resulting in 320 million dollars to fund this program.
If EFM is successful, we will expand the program after the original five year period to allow for other countries who have problems with forced marriage to participate.

Resolution GA-02 March 28

Re.: Misuse of Pesticides

Submitted to: General Assembly

Submitted by: Argentina

Date: March 28, 2014

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 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

Having considered that 80 percent of children in Argentina surveyed have pesticides in their blood, and

Alarmed that misuses of American products such as Monsanto pesticides are poisoning Argentina and its surrounding countries. In a province of Argentina, pesticides are causing cancer rates two times higher than in the rest of the country, and

Observing a survey in Argentina; ninety percent of corn, ninety-four percent of soy, and ninety percent of cotton seed is poisoned by pesticides and in some cases genetically engineered, and

Recognizing: that many other countries have pesticide issues such as Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. These countries all have a 35 out of 100,000 people with APP (acute pesticide poisoning), and

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

The United Nations will begin a program called Protecting Organisms From Pesticides (P.O.F.P).
We will help solve this problem by cleaning food to protect organisms/people from ingesting pesticides. We will do this by supplying water and food purifiers to famers and citizens on farms in Argentina and Guatemala. These purifiers will keep what the citizens eat clean. In Argentina 7% of the country lives on farms. In Guatemala 88% of the country lives on farms. This will be our immediate help before we can teach the farmers how to use pesticides.
We will educate the farmers by sending one specialist within P.O.F.P to educate a group of approximately ten people (farmers) within a common area in Argentina and Guatemala, eventually traveling to all of the agricultural areas in the countries. The specialist will educate the people on how to correctly use pesticides. We are requesting that 1,000 specialists (500 per country) be sent at a total, 2 yr. cost of $48,000,000 (that’s a cost of $2000/month for one specialist to cover travel, living expenses).
We will also send 1,000 soil specialists to monitor the pesticide levels in the soil and food for this 2 yr. period at a cost of $48,000,000 (same cost as above).
We will begin this process in large farming areas in Argentina and Guatemala and monitor success by checking the crops and soil for amount of pesticides present.
If after two years, levels of pesticides are found to be at safe usage levels and the numbers of Acute Pesticide Poisoning cases have been decreased by over 50%, then this program can be expanded to other countries.
Other countries that need help dealing with pesticide usage, such as Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Ecuador will be invited to join the program.
We can then move onto the countries of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Ecuador.
Our process will cost $317,351,410 altogether. The water/food purifiers for Argentina and Guatemala will cost $221,351,410. (Will be including the number of water/food purifiers here). To send the specialists (educators and testers) over it will cost $96,000,000.
We will be asking Monsanto, and other large pesticide manufacturers that sell to these countries, to cover the cost of sending the specialists to Argentina and Guatemala, $96,000,000, while also continuing to pay these specialists an appropriate salary.
To fund our program, it will take two years. We will need to raise $221,351,410 to cover the cost of the food purifiers.
We will ask Apple, who sells 2,500,000,000 songs annually to raise the price of a song download to $1.40 rather than $1.30. The extra ten cents will go to fund our program. We would make $250,000,000 a year.
(There will be another clause inserted here dealing with funding if Apple doesn’t agree to the price increase/donation).

Resolution GA-03 March 28

Re.: Rising threat of IEDs in Afghanistan

Submitted to: General Assembly

Submitted by: Afghanistan

Date: March 28, 2014

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

Concerned that in 2012, there were 15,222 incidents involving Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), and

Alarmed by the fact that IEDs still cause 61% of wounds and deaths U.S. troops suffer, and

Dismayed that improvised explosive devices (IEDs) killed the most Afghan civilians according to the UN, accounting 41% of deaths in conflict, and

Shocked that between January 1, and December 31, 2012, UNAMA recorded 868 civilian deaths from IEDs, and

Stunned that the Taliban and other anti-government elements have been blamed for 2,080 civilians who were killed in Afghanistan last year – a sharp rise of 28% on 2009. This accounted for 75% of all deaths whereas pro-government forces totalled 440 civilian killings, and

Surprised that suicide bombings and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have killed the most Afghan civilians according to the UN, with 1,141 losing their life as a result,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

The UN shall make a program called the United Nations Department of Bomb Prevention, UNDBP.
The UNDBP will purchase bomb-detecting dogs and hire personnel that will patrol with these dogs and teach the people to identify possible IED positions with our findings.
The dog teams will cost about $164,000 per team and we will have 120 of these teams.
The total cost will be around $19,680,000 and we will get the money from raising dues on the following donating countries, the United States, Japan, and the European Union. We will raise their dues by 10%.
The dog teams shall be put into duty on the first of April, 2014.
If the death toll and explosion rate goes down, we will send another 120 dog teams to Afghanistan by April, 2015. If this works, we will expand the plan to Pakistan.

Resolution GA-04 March 28

Re.: Albinos and Hate Crimes

Submitted to: General Assembly

Submitted by: Tanzania, Syria, Luxembourg

Date: March 28, 2014

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

Appalled that since 2007 around 57 albinos in Tanzania have been murdered because others believed their bones contained magical powers, and

Shocked that the killers and their accomplices use hair, arms, legs, skin, eyes, genitals, and blood in rituals or for witch potions, and

Dismayed that fisherman put Albino hair in their fishing nets in hope that they will catch more fish in Lake Victoria or to find gold in the fish that they catch, and

Understanding that what is happening to Albinos qualifies as a hate crime, and

Realizing that charities have been founded to help people with albinism in Tanzania like Asante Mariamu which donates sun protected clothing, sunglasses, and sunscreen to the Albinos. It also donates money and funds to them to help their journey to reaching independence,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

The United Nations will begin a program called Golden Boy. UN staff will visit albinos and harbor them in a safe environment, providing emergency care, training them to fend for themselves, and overall giving safety. We will partner with Asante Miriamu, a program already started, and named after Mariamu Stanford (an albino woman who was attacked and in the process lost both of her arms).
This organization will help albinos in Tanzania by giving them donations, life-saving sun protection, and trying to give albinos ways to support themselves and providing them with a safe lifestyle. (temporary housing and food)
Golden Boy will also include a public awareness campaign that teaches the people of Tanzanian villages and other cities and villages that albinos are regular people, and possess no magical powers or capabilities. To carry this out, we will bring spokespeople into the villages and prepare slideshows and easy to follow presentations, and present them in schools, businesses, hospitals, religious facilities, and other jobs.
It will take one year to establish this program, but it will last six years once it is underway.
This program will be in Tanzania and other African countries where hate crimes against albinos are common.
This will be a pilot program. After our program demonstrates success helping albinos we will move to other countries where other hate crimes against minorities occur. Assuming that this program is successful it will continue for six more years.
We will raise the UN dues of the top 17 countries by 0.5% to pay for this program. In addition, for every Apple product bought, $.50 will be donated to the Golden Boy program. This will give us an approximate total of $176,446,430.29 per year. We will spend $125 million dollars the first year and $100 million every other year. $40 million dollars will be split in between the participating governments. The rest of the money will be put in a reserve to be used in case of anything unexpected and to help families of albinos.

Resolution GA-05 March 28

Re.: Education

Submitted to: General Assembly

Submitted by: Poland

Date: March 28, 2014

Whereas Article 4 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”, and

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

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

Appalled that Pakistan, Chad, Afghanistan, Guinea, and Niger put together have the average literacy of rate of 39.8%, and

Aware of the world’s literacy rate as of 2010 that was 84.1%, and

Emphasizing the world’s best economy is the United States with a literacy rate of 99%, Pakistan is ranked 126^th when it comes to economics, Guinea is in the bottom 10 countries for economy, Afghanistan is ranked 101^st in the economy, Chad has the 117^th worst economy, and Niger’s economy is ranked 99^th in the world,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

The United Nations will begin a program called “Boost Global Literacy Rate (BGLR)” which will focus on raising the literacy rate in the countries of Pakistan, Chad, Afghanistan, Guinea, and Niger.
BGLR will work with other organizations that work on increasing the world’s literacy rate such as UNICEF.
We plan to need 4 years and if successful we can run the program for another 4 years to continue to expand literacy rate.
We will send the supplies listed to Chad, Afghanistan, Guinea, Pakistan, and Niger. The teachers will go around the communities with in these countries.
BGLR would send 500 vans for all five countries supplied with 2-4 volunteer teachers per van, and 900,000 emergency school kits in all. (180,000 packs per country that includes radio, pencils, paper, blackboard, & more).
First we will take on Guinea to educate 15 year olds or younger and train kids who want to be teachers.
The vans will cost $15,352,500 for 500 vans.
The packs will cost $231,300,000 for 900,000 emergency kits.
In all the total cost will be $246,652,500 for 4 years.
To get funding we plan to raise the UN fee by 0.1%, to the countries of the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, and France. Raising 0.5% from Czech Republic, Denmark, and Finland. Raising 1% from Germany and in total we will have raised $22,501,000.
Then we will ask for $25,000,000 from Polish billionaires Michal Solowow(rally car driver), Leszek Czarnecki(Engineer), Roman Karkosik(investor), Zygmunt Solorz-Zak(T.V broadcaster), and Jan Wejchert(Engineering). If successful we will have $125,000,000.
Then to wrap up our funding we will ask America’s own Bill Gates for $100,000,000 giving BGLR enough money to run the program for four years.
After our 4 years if the literacy rate in each of the countries is over 50%, the program will be expanded to the countries of The Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, and finally Mozambique.

Resolution GA-06 March 28

Re.: Drug Abuse

Submitted to: General Assembly

Submitted by: Turkey

Date: March 28, 2014

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

Appalled that in 2050, drug abuse is expected to have risen by over 25 percent, and

Disturbed that roughly 230 million people had used an illegal drug at least once in 2010, and

Shocked that problematic drug users, mainly dependent on heroin and cocaine, make up an approximate 0.6 percent of the world adult population, an estimated 27 million, and

Horrified that each year, about 200,000 people die from drug abuse worldwide,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

The UN will form a committee called Disband the Rampant Abuse of Drugs (DRAD). It will focus in Iran, the United Kingdom, and France (the three countries with the highest drug abuse rate).
DRAD will work with organizations, such as UNODC, that focus on ending drug abuse. DRAD will also team up with local law enforcement in the selected areas.
DRAD will train a group of doctors, psychologists, and officers (the officers will be from the local law enforcement) to help those who have been hurt by drugs, and stop people from selling drugs.
The individuals who have been using and/or selling drugs will be dealt with appropriately.
To fund DRAD, we will need two million dollars. In order to pay for this, we ask that the UN raises the dues on the top 15 wealthiest nations by 10%. We will also hold numerous benefits in case we do not have enough money or need more money.
Disband the Rampant Abuse of Drugs will last for three years. If after that time there has been a decrease in drug abuse by 5%, DRAD’s work will continue for another three years. At this time, there will be a discussion on whether or not to expand DRAD’s work into other regions.

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