Here are the resolutions for the April 4th General Assembly session. The schools attending are Holman Middle, McKinley Middle, and Pattonville Heights. The General Assembly will be at the Maryland Heights Community Center from 9:00 am until 12:00 pm. We will be posting resolutions as we receive them. Some of these might be rough drafts and will have changes before the session.
| Resolution Number/Status | Submitted by: | Topic: |
|---|---|---|
| GA-01 SUBMITTED | Morocco, Libya Holman Middle | Libyan Slave Trade |
| GA-02 SUBMITTED | New Zealand Pattonville Heights | Lowering Mortality Rates in Africa |
| GA-03 SUBMITTED | United Kingdom McKinley CJA | Adult Literacy in Burundi & Niger |
| GA-04 SUBMITTED | Czech Republic, Somalia Holman Middle | Famine in Somalia |
| GA-05 SUBMITTED | Seychelles Pattonville Heights | Piracy in Somalia |
| GA-06 SUBMITTED | Norway McKinley CJA | Lack of Religious Freedom in China |
Resolution GA-01 April 4
Re.: Libyan Slave Trade
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Morocco, Libya
Date: April 4, 2018
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 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 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
Appalled that over 5,000 Nigerians have been kidnapped and held hostage in Libya, and
Saddened that the rest of the world has not taken greater action whilst the people of Libya and other countries impacted by this horrendous situation are suffering, and
Outraged that humans are being sold for as little as $200-$400 during slave auctions,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will work with Libya to create police stations and place more law enforcement around discovered trade routes to make it harder to smuggle slaves up for auction. There will also be rehab, therapy and medical care centers to help traumatized victims and uncover more details about the slave trade (where auctions are held, dealers etc.) all around southwestern Libya. All centers will be open 24/7 to take in victims who are rescued during the day and/or escaping at night. This program will be called Slave Rehabilitation and Research (SRR).
- To fund these efforts, SSR is asking the United Nations to raise the dues of the top 30 richest countries by 3% to raise $130 million to go towards building the rehab and medical facilities, paying doctors and funding police activities.
- After a successful 5 years, the program will continue for another 2 years.
- To ensure the plan is effective, we (admin of SRR) will monitor the amount of terminated slave auction grounds, the amount of ex-slaves we take in and the decreasing of slave trade routes across Libya.
- If the amount of slave trade auctions and slaves captured yearly decreases by 10% in 5 years, we will deem the program successful and continue for another 2 years in Libya and spread to other countries such as India and parts of Southeast Asia.
Resolution GA-02 April 4
Re.: Lowering Mortality Rates in Africa
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: New Zealand
Date: March 27, 2018
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 16 section 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state.”, 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 in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.”, and
Concerned that in the Chad 85.5 per 1,000 children are dying. That is almost 1 out of every 10 children and the fifth highest in the world, and
Appalled that these numbers are high, almost 11,000 mothers are dying a year from live birth in just Chad, and
Realizing 48% of children from the ages of 5-14 are forced into child labor in chad, which is hard for the rest of the world to understand, and
Keeping in mind that 60% of the population in Chad is under the age of 25,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- African Development Program or ADP send supplies like mosquito nets, first aid kits, deworming tablets, micronutrient powder, Therapeutic milk, tents and midwifery kits to the countries of Chad, Central African Republic or (CRA) and Niger. These three countries are have some of the top highest mortality rates in Africa and are close together. These supplies will help lower the infant and maternal mortality rates.
- ADP will set up 150 tents per nation, with five volunteers at each tent. We will also send 30 neonatal specialists who travel between 5 tents each. These costs plus all of the tents supplies will be funded mostly by raising everyone’s dues by 2% and to supply this project for the next 15 years. This should give us 50 million a year to supply the hospital tents. We will also reach out to organizations to get donations to help with getting good quality and cheap supplies.
- ADP will be sending Doctors Without Borders and neonatal specialists to set up hospital tents, so not as many mothers and children die each year.
- ADP will work with the Water Project to get clean drinking water and to stop water borne illness and create an easy and accessible way for people to get water.
- ADP will also send mosquito nets to try to avoid diseases like Malaria, Zika and Yellow Fever.
- Base operations for the program will be in the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations Facilities in Darfur and Central African Republic. From this the supplies will be sent to our hospital tents scattered throughout the countries that were first picked to lower maternal and infant mortality rates.
- ADP will last the next fifteen years in these three countries with evaluations every five years.
- If successful in lowering the mortality rates by 10% every five year evaluation in the first three countries, we will keep going to other countries that need our help throughout Africa like Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Resolution GA-03 April 4
Re.: Adult Literacy in Burundi & Niger
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: United Kingdom
Date: March 27, 2018
Whereas Article 17, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.”, 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
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 countries such as Burundi and Niger have very low adult literacy rates (19%), and
Whereas countries with low adult literacy rates cannot get good jobs and will have less money,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- We would get technology to send to Burundi and Niger. We could have teachers from all over the world use technology and help teach the people in Burundi and Niger.
- We could ask for companies who make laptops for support to be able to get enough laptops. We could get a teaching app that would teach them how to read. The cost of an inexpensive laptop is $80. For 13,531,410 people would be $1 billion dollars.
- If we could teach the adults how to read they could teach their kids and it would break the cycle of poverty. We could also get solar panels (4 total, 2 for each country) we could ask for $11,000 – $14,000. We would put 1 solar panel in Illela, Nigeria and Tahoua, Nigeria. Also 1 in Bujumbura, Burundi and Muyinga, Burundi.
Resolution GA-04 April 4
Re.: Famine in Somalia
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Czech Republic and Somalia
Date: April 4, 2018
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
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 in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.”, and
Appalled that right now, close to one million people are in need of emergency food assistance. An additional two million people are struggling to meet their basic food needs and risk falling into a food security and nutrition crisis if they don’t receive sustained humanitarian assistance, and
Shocked that recently, hunger in Somalia has worsened due to a two-year drought. Of the country’s 12.3 million people, 6.2 million are severely food insecure. In addition, almost three million cannot reach their daily food requirements, and
Outraged that one in eight children under five is acutely malnourished,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will send military food packages on a cargo plane. The plane will fly over 9 drop sites, each drop site will contain 93 packages of food. Unfortunately, people can not go along with the food because the ground is too dangerous, this is the last resort to get food to the famine in Somalia. The United Nations will send 900 packages in total. Every 3 and a half months we will drop food at the 9 drop sites. The drop sites are: El Burr, Mareeg, Jilib, Bardhere, Buloburde, Bu’ale, Hudur, Tieyglow, and Hobyo.
- We estimate this will cost $60 million, we plan on getting this money by, asking for donations and raising the dues of the top 10 nations by 1%, which will give us $100 million.
- Our program will run for 3 years, at the end of 3 years the children dying from malnutrition will go down by 15%.
- If this program is successful we will expand to Zambia, Madagascar and Ethiopia.
Resolution GA-05 April 4
Re.: Piracy in Somalia
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Seychelles
Date: March 27, 2018
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 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
Alarmed that the overall unemployment rate in Somalia for ages 15-64 is 54%, and
Deeply Concerned that the unemployment rate in Somalia for ages 14-29 is 67%, and
Aware that economic losses because of piracy in East Africa is around $793.7 million, and
Alarmed that the modern-day Somali pirate problem started around 2008 and nothing has been done to stop it, and
Noting that piracy arose about 12 years ago because the fishing industry in Somalia was taken over by the US, Europe, and China. The Somalis only choice was to turn to piracy to make a living. They hijack any kind of boat they can find- oil tankers, fishing tankers, cruise ships- take hostages and demand ransom, then reap the benefits. They have no other way to get money, so they had to turn to piracy, and that is very bad for the countries government, and other countries economy,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The Peaceful Seas Program (PSP) will involve three steps to bettering the Somali Seas
- Patrol the seas to stop piracy. The PSP will hire local, unemployed people to patrol for piracy to continue getting the unemployment rate down and actually punish the pirates if caught.
A)Punishment would consist of taking the Somali Pirate into custody and fined a reasonable amount depending on their situation, because the pirates come from unfortunate situations and each person does not have the same amount of money and cannot pay the same amount.
B)Talk to the superpowers who took over the Somali fishing areas (the fishing industries in Europe, The USA, and China), and convince them to come to a compromise with the Somalians, so that the Somalis can fish, and get their economy to be more stable.
C)One of the compromises that the PSP will propose is to designate certain Somali fishing areas, for only the Somalis to fish in. These areas will be closer to the coast, to make it easier for the Somalis to fish.
2. The PSP will need boats (putt putt boats) and communication devices, either walkie talkies or phones, arm them, and I will need to pay the salary of about 4,000 people for 4 years.
- The Peaceful Seas Project asks the 100 wealthiest nations for $2 million dollars each to come up with $200,000,000, and ask anyone else for extra money to help further the PSP to get around $250,000,000- $300,000,000.
3. The PSP will be a 4 year program, to patrol the seas and come to an agreement with the fishing industries.
4. If the PSP is working, there will be a decrease in piracy and an increase in economic stability in Somalia. There will be less crisis in general.
5. If successful, the PSP will expand to Djibouti, Kenya, Indonesia, Philippians and Seychelles, because they are also dealing with the effects of piracy.
Resolution GA-06 April 4
Re.: Lack of Religious Freedom in China
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Norway
Date: April 4, 2018
Whereas Article 18 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion of belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”, and
Whereas Article 21, section 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.”, and
Whereas the police go to people’s houses and make sure they aren’t praying and want them to be Communist, and
Whereas elections only have one part (the Communist party) so voting is basically nonexistent, and
Whereas recently, president Xi Jinping has petitioned to become president until he dies and it will most likely pass even though many don’t want it to,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Let the people that want to move go to the country of their choice (except certain private or overpopulated countries).
- To let people travel out, we will send a task force to secure the airports.
- We don’t need any funds and will just use our money (we will use $10 billion).
- We will give people 15 years to move out (only once).
- Basically people get to move to a country of their choice so they have religious freedoms and can vote (free for you).
