Model UN General Assembly: April 7, 2016

Here are the resolutions for the April 7, 2016 Middle School Model United Nations General Assembly. Student delegates from McKinley CJA, and Maplewood-Richmond Heights Middle School will be discussing these resolutions.

Resolution Number/Status	Submitted by:	Topic:
GA-01 SUBMITTED	Austria Maplewood-Richmond Heights	Acid Rain
GA-02
GA-03 SUBMITTED	Nigeria Maplewood-Richmond Heights	Nigerian Citizen Welfare
GA-04 SUBMITTED	South Africa Maplewood-Richmond Heights	Overcrowded City Neighborhoods and Poor Healthcare
GA-05
GA-06

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Resolution GA-01 April 7

 

Re.:                             Acid Rain

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Austria

Date:                           April 7, 2016

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 23 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”, 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

Keeping in mind Austrian exports over $13 billion US dollars’ worth of wood products every year, which is being directly affected by acid rain, and

Thinking about acid rain in austria could be lowered by over 85% if Eco-Friendly Systems were put in place, and

Deeply concerned that over 10 million acres of forest has been destroyed by acid rain and other forms of similar pollution,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

 

1. Create a program called Acid Rain Prevention Systems or ARPS. The goal of this program is to prevent Acid Rain by using more environmentally friendly ways for factories to operate.
2. Collect a 0.4% annual dues increase from all countries, totaling to $11.2 million dollars.
3. Will replace factory machines and systems in industrial factories with eco-friendlier versions of them.
4. We will instruct the factory workers on how to use/operate the eco-friendly machines/systems.
5. Will train employees to monitor the progress of ARPS and report back to the United Nations.
6. If ARPS can lower Acid Rain levels in Austria by over 40% in the next 3 years, the program will collect an additional 1.1% dues from all countries and continue the program to the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, nearby countries which also suffers from acid rain problems.

 

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Resolution GA-02 April 7

 

Re.:                             Nigerian Citizen Welfare

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Nigeria

Date:                           April 7, 2016

 

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 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

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 over 60% of Nigeria’s population lives in extreme poverty, when the country is the 3rd richest in Africa, and

Emphasizing that these citizens are extremely vulnerable to the attacks of the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, and

Reminding that Boko Haram is still in existence, with their leader and main contributors intact, and

Deeply concerned that with most of the citizens of Nigeria living in unsuitable conditions, the main populous is vulnerable to any of Boko Haram’s attacks, and

Fully aware that Nigeria has the largest West-African military, and

Declaring that to fix this problem, the welfare of Nigerian citizens must be improved in the near future,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Will begin the NCWP (Nigerian Citizen Welfare Program), which will focus on improving the quality of life of Nigerian people living in extreme poverty.
2. The program will build schools in the top 5 most populated cities with high poverty counts in Nigeria.
3. These schools will be built by local construction companies, supporting local businesses, and will have 1 school for every 30 square miles in the most poverty stricken places of the city.
4. Willing unemployed adults will be educated on how to become teachers, and will be employed in the schools.
5. Global educators will be brought in to teach at the school as well as training the local adults.
6. Citizens will be paid to renovate roads and clean up trash, improving the wellbeing of their community, as well as earning money for their families.
7. The NCWP will increase dues by 5% from the top 10 richest countries associated with the UN to pay for these projects, generating $10,860,630.
8. Program will go on for 10 years before being checked.
9. If the program is successful, schools will be built in, Madagascar, Eritrea, Mozambique, Liberia, and Niger, which are considered some of the poorest countries in the world, and will expand to even more countries for as long as it is lowering the poverty rate.
10. If program doesn’t decrease poverty levels by 15% or increase literacy by 15% within the 10-year deadline, the program will be kept until the schools are able to generate funding on their own, then payments will be terminated, allowing the schools to still be able to run and educate the citizens

 

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Resolution GA-03 April 7

Re.:                             Overcrowded City Neighborhoods and Poor Healthcare

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            South Africa

Date:                           April 7, 2016

Whereas Article 13 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.”, and

Whereas Article 23 section 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.”, 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

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

Realizing that overcrowding, or having a household population of more than two people per room (excluding bathrooms), undermines the rights of the people; schoolchildren are unable to do homework, the right to health is infringed as contagious diseases spread, and the likelihood of sexual abuse is much greater, and

Shocked that in 2012, 3.6 million South African children resided within overcrowded (more than two people per room excluding bathrooms but including kitchen and living room) or households, and

Appalled that in 2013, 4.3 million South African children traveled for 30 minutes or more in order to reach their healthcare clinic, and

Dismayed that people living farther from their healthcare facility are less likely to go and receive healthcare, and

Regrets that international studies show that universal access to treatment centers could prevent up to 67% of deaths in children under the age of five in developing countries,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Will create a volunteer system, called the Home and Health-care Organization (HAHO), to aid in buying land and building a series of apartment complexes and healthcare centers around the fringe of major city hubs.
2. The cities initially involved in this will be Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Pretoria.
3. These apartment complexes will be no larger than 10 stories, no closer together than 1 kilometer, and at least 25 but no greater than 40 kilometers away from the city hub.
4. Said apartment complexes will be built by the citizens of the cities they surround, and in this process, these citizens will gain valuable knowledge that they can use to find a suitable career in the future.
5. The citizens, led by HAHO volunteers, will have the opportunity to pay reduced apartment rent in the apartments they are building for their efforts. They will also be paid a sufficient and fair amount for their labor.
6. Healthcare centers will also be built by citizens volunteering their time.
7. These healthcare centers will be staffed by local doctors, experienced nonlocal doctors recruited by SAHAHO, and midwives and will be placed at least 8 and no greater than 10 kilometers apart for clinics and 25 but no greater than 40 kilometers apart for full-scale hospitals around the circumference of the city.
8. The budget for this project will be five hundred fifty million U.S. dollars.
9. This project will be funded by increasing the dues of the top thirty highest paying countries by nine percent.
10. Any extra funding will be donated towards funding for medical centers outside of the three experimental cities.
11. If the overcrowding rate decreases by at least 20% in these cities within 10 years, this project will be expanded to Soweto, Johannesburg, and/or Cape Town.
12. If the same results are found within these three cities, the program will be expanded to the top three overcrowded cities in Brazil, Mexico, and Singapore.
13. If the overcrowding rate does not decrease by 20% within 10 years in South Africa, this project will be terminated.