Here are the resolutions for the March 27, 2015 Middle School Model United Nations General Assembly. Student delegates from Holman Middle School, Pattonville Heights Middle School, and Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School will be discussing these resolutions.
| Resolution Number & Status: | Submitted by: | Topic: |
|---|---|---|
| GA-01 Submitted | Liberia Pattonville Heights | Ebola in West Africa |
| GA-02 Submitted | Belarus, Canada, & Brazil Saul Mirowitz | Torture |
| GA-03 Submitted | Iraq Holman Middle | Bioterrorism |
| GA-04 Submitted | Australia Pattonville Heights | Poverty in Ethiopia |
| GA-05 Submitted | Sudan Saul Mirowitz | Child Labor in Africa |
| GA-06 Submitted | Chile Pattonville Heights | Women's Education in Yemen |
Resolution GA-01 March 27
Re.: Ebola in West Africa
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Liberia
Date: March 27, 2015
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
Keeping in mind West Africa has suffered a severe epidemic of the virus Ebola, and
Alarmed by thousands of West Africans have been quarantined because of the disease, and
Deeply concerned many Africans have died from the virus,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will initiate a plan of action called the Ebola Watch Committee (EWC) that will be centered on West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal. (The six nations hardest hit by the Ebola Virus.)
- EWC will be a group of highly specialized and distinguished healthcare workers from around the world in a think tank that for solutions to cutting down and preventing the transmission and spreading of Ebola Virus while also operating Ebola Treatment Centers and will be found through an extensive worldwide search for leading health practitioners.
- ECW will lead the efforts for containment and sterilization such as implementing Ebola Treatment centers with highest level of cleanliness and containment for the better health of the public and the patients to help patients recover faster. Also to prevent death from the virus.
- Doctors and other healthcare workers such as nurses and nurse practitioners will be hired to be on the front line of this epidemic at treatment centers will be provided with the most protective materials available and medical tools needed to enhance their abilities on their job.
- When a possibly infected patient enters the facility, they will be decontaminated and entered into a filtered room with the cleanest air possible and receive as much possible treatments to help recover from the disease.
- For ECW to be started, it is requested that the UN raise the dues on the 10 wealthiest nations by 2%.
- Ebola Watch Committee shall be a two-year renewable program that can be continued based off of the situation of the environment as it pertains to Ebola Virus.
- After the first if funding is approved then the focus of the program will expand to Guinea, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal the nations least threatened by the virus but still are vulnerable.
Resolution GA-02 March 27
Re.: Torture
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Belarus, Canada, & Brazil
Date: March 27, 2015
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 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
Appalled that men under the age of 50 who have broken the law are caned in Singapore, and
Outraged that caning is only used on young men, and that it is illegal to cane women, and
Shocked that over 2,200 people were caned in Singapore in 2012, and
Disgusted that torture is viewed as acceptable by the governments in Asia and Central and South America, and
Sickened that in countries like the Philippines, police houses have fun with torture, and
Astonished that the United Nations has not taken larger precautions to prevent the use of torture, and
Disturbed that such discriminative, harsh and unfair punishment is encouraged by the governments of the countries mentioned,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program entitled Torture Ends Now (TEN), with the goal of stopping the use of torture in the top ten countries with the most use of torture.
- TEN will write letters to all of these government’s officials, demanding them to stop the use torture.
- TEN will hold weekly protests in front of police houses and other government buildings, to make people aware of the problem.
- TEN will send representatives to tour jails, and if they have continued to use torture as a punishment, they will be fined 1,000 dollars for every day they don’t stop using torture. They money collected from the fines will be used to fund TEN.
- To create TEN, we ask that the United Nation raise dues on the 10 wealthiest nations by 0.10%.
- Torture Ends Now will last for 10 years. Once those 10 years pass, if there has been a 10% decrease in use of torture by governments, then the program will be renewed for another 10 years.
Resolution GA-03 March 27
Re.: Bioterrorism
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Iraq
Date: March 27, 2015
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 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
Appalled that in the past century, plague-infested fleas, cholera, anthrax, and biological agents such as glanders have been used or field tested by aggressor nations in times of war and hostility, and
Outraged that offensive biological weapons programs are known to exist in over a dozen countries, including Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, and Syria, and
Horrified that Iraq is known to have manufactured relatively large quantities of anthrax and botulinum toxins; however, its scientists apparently have had difficulty developing efficient spray nozzles, forcing them to rely on explosive release by SCUD missiles equipped with these toxins. Iraq may have produced up to 10 billion doses of anthrax, botulinum toxin, and aflatoxin, and
Shocked that the economic impact of an anthrax attack could range from $478 million to $26 billion for every 100,000 people affected,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Bioterrorism Attack Help- a program designed to help victims of bioterrorism with vaccines, shelters, and medical camps/facilities.
- $200 million, raise the dues for the top 10 nations that pay the highest dues by 11%.
- One 100x400m bunker by 2018 and five medical facilities (which include vaccines and research labs and decontamination crews) in Deir Al Zour (a Syrian province) by 2020, along with radios/communication technology to spread information on vaccines and attacks.
- There was a problem in Syria and Somalia where polio was accidentally spread, with this problem and rumors of other uses of bioterrorism in Syria, we believe that this is a good program to start assisting with the polio outbreak.
- The UN does not have to check in on Bioterrorism Attack Help. If needed, the UN will be able to retrieve numbers of attack victims helped. Records of this will be kept in all medical facilities.
Resolution GA-04 March 27
Re.: Poverty in Ethiopia
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Australia
Date: March 27, 2015
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 24 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.”, 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
Deeply Concerned that 78% of Ethiopians struggle with an income below $2 a day, and
Alarmed that more than 12 million people in Ethiopia are chronically or periodically food insecure, and
Aware that 80% of Ethiopians are dependent on agriculture as their main source of income, and
Conscious that in recent years, crops have failed for Ethiopian farmers, causing them to not be able to have the needed amount of funds during the next years,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program to improve poverty rates and food security in Ethiopia, this program will be called Improving Poverty in Ethiopia a Seed At a Time (IPESAT) and will be focused in Ethiopia.
- IPESAT will work with other organizations that help to reduce poverty in Ethiopia.
- IPESAT will collect and ask for donations of quality seeds and fertilizer from top companies in the agriculture field such as Monsanto to distribute to the farming population in Ethiopia. If not enough donations are collected; the program will purchase seed and fertilizer to distribute.
- IPESAT will also train individuals and groups to teach individuals in Ethiopia techniques and ways to effectively grow crops.
- To create IPESAT, we request that the UN raise dues on the 10 wealthiest nations by 0.75%.
- IPESAT will last 4 years. If after this time there has been a drop in the poverty rate in Ethiopia of at least 12%, it can be renewed for another 4 years. At this time we suggest that the program be spread to other countries with high poverty rates such as Liberia, Burundi and Zambia.
Sources:
http://borgenproject.org/ten-facts-about-poverty-in-ethiopia/
http://finance.mapsofworld.com/economy/ethiopia/poverty.html
Resolution GA-05 March 27
Re.: Child Labor in Africa
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Sudan
Date: March 27, 2015
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 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born or in out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.”, 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
Shocked that the Eastern and Southern regions of Africa have the highest proportion of children involved in Child Labor in the world – 36 percent of all children between the ages of five and 14, which is almost 150 million children, and
Appalled that 2,000 to 3,000 girls worked year-round as commercial sex workers, and nearly half of them started as young as 12 or 13 years of age, and
Unnerved that only 22% of children who complete the sixth grade move on to the Junior High level in Africa, and
Enraged that in sub-Saharan Africa, children ages 14 and younger are prostitutes, miners, construction workers, pesticide sprayers, haulers, street vendors, full-time servants, and sometimes are not even paid for their labor, and
Realizing that Child Labour deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will start a program called Child Labor Fighters (CLF), which will focus on child labor in Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Somalia, and Zimbabwe.
- CLF will work with non-governmental organizations (NGO) and benefactors who focus on education, child soldiers, and child working in facilities.
- CLF will get inspectors and train them to be able to find traces of child labor in facilities for the first 3 years.
- If traces of child labor are found in a facility, then that facility would pay a fair price per kid to our corporation. Then the children who are working there will then work there again for one more month, then leave. For the first 3 years that money that was given would be used to get children school supplies, build more schools for all those kids to go to, and to train the inspectors.
- To create CLF, we want every country that is a member of the U.N to donate $10,001 dollars.
- Child labor fighters will last 3 years, if after this time there has been a reduction in child labor by 8.99%– It will be renewed for another 3 years.
- For the next 3 years the money will be more toward training teachers and improving equipment, instead of training inspectors and making more schools.
Resolution GA-06 March 27
Re.: Women’s Education in Yemen
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Chile
Date: March 27, 2015
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 25, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born or in out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.”, 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
Unfortunately only 29% of students attending University in Yemen are women, and
Deeply concerned that women in Yemen have limited access to health care, economic opportunities and education, and
Aware of the lack of education women have makes it harder to find a job making them more dependent on men, and
Keeping in mind many families in Yemen struggle with money and can’t afford to send their child to college,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The General assembly will establish a program that provides scholarships for women who can’t afford to attend University.
- This program will be called Women Want to Learn. (WWL)
- These scholarships will be provided for women in Yemen who graduate high school but don’t have enough money to go to college.
- WWL will cost about $112,000,000 for 2,000 2 year scholarships and books for each woman that has applied and is accepted into the program.
- WWL will last for about 5 years and will be checked at the 3 year marker to see if women’s attendance in University has increased from 29% to 45%.
- If successful, WWL will be expanded to Iraq.
Sources:
UN Statistics Division
genderindex.org/country/yemen
oecd.org
http://www.right-to-education.org
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