Resolutions for April 15, 2026 - CIVITAS-STL

Resolutions for April 15, 2026

Here are the resolutions for the April 15 General Assembly session. The schools attending are Christ Prince of Peace, Hoech Middle, and Ritenour Middle . This may not be the final order/draft of resolutions.

Status:Submitted By: Topic:
GA-01Finland & Jordan
Ritenour Middle
Stopping Water Loss in Jordan
GA-02Canada, Laos
Hoech Middle
Gender Based Violence
GA-03Barbados
Christ Prince of Peace
Reducing Greenhouse Gasses that Cause Rising Ocean Temperatures in Barbados
GA-04Tuvalu, China, Egypt
Ritenour Middle
Stopping Slavery All Around the World
GA-05Thailand
Christ Prince of Peace
Gender Equality
GA-06Honduras, Malaysia
Hoech Middle
Healthcare/Clean Water in Malaysia and Honduras

Note: Some of these resolutions have complicated bulleted lists that did not translate well to being posted online. Your field trip packets will have them correctly formatted.


Resolution GA-01 April 15

Re.:                                  Stopping Water Loss in Jordan
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Jordan, Finland
Date:                               April 15, 2026

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #2 is Zero Hunger, and

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #6 is Clean Water and Sanitation, 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

Saddened that kids can’t have clean water to drink and stay hydrated, and

Shocked that about 75% of Jordan is desert, and

Acknowledging that Jordan is the second most water scarce country in the world, citizens will be suffering from dehydration, and

Noting that Jordan’s water loss rate is starting to grow a bigger and bigger concern,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. The United Nations will now begin a program called JAWLP(Jordan Altruistic Water Loss Prevention)  JAWLP will start placing 60,000 wells in rural areas of Jordan. We will place 645 wells per city. JAWLP will also invest in 2 desalination plants for Jordan at a cost of 750 million USD.
  2.  More wells will be placed in more rural areas where it’s harder to get water. Because people in more rural areas of Jordan will need more water than people in urban areas. Because they don’t have easy access to people selling water and when there’s more people in a city there’s probably going to be more water. These wells will each be able to hold 5,000 gallons of water each.
  3. These wells hold 5,000 gallons of water which will be clean and safe to drink. Every time the wells are empty people will refill them. We will put these wells in easy to get to places. These wells will be able to provide plenty of water to families in need in Jordan. We’ll make sure to clean the wells to make sure it won’t make the water dirty.
  4. This entire program will cost $1.2 billion USD.

$750 million for two desalination plants because we are placing 2 desalination plants at a cost of $375 million per desalination plant.
$450 million for 60,000 wells at a cost of $7,500 USD per well.

  1. Jordan will ask the top 15 richest countries in the UN program, which is Luxembourg, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Australia, the US, Ireland, Singapore, the Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Japan.  JAWLP will ask $34 million from each one and the government of Jordan and donors will pay the $690 million dollars left. If they decline, JAWLP will make a fundraiser/carnival in the popular country/states and start the process. We will also have carnival fundraisers in the USA, Canada, France, and Australia.
  2. After 2 years JAWLP will be evaluated by the general assembly. If there is a 5% increase saying they get to drink water more often. JAWLP will be deemed successful. If successful JAWLP will try expanding to regions of Saudi Arabia. JAWLP also would like to do some work in Bahrain, Kuwait, Palestine, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Lebanon.

Resolution GA-02 April 15

Re.:                                  Gender Based Violence
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Canada, Laos
Date:                               April 15, 2026

Whereas Article 2 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without any distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”, and

Whereas Article 2 section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.”, 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 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

Alarmed by the fact that every 48 hours a woman is killed, and

Deeply concerned by the fact that more than half (53%) of the women that experienced domestic violence and responded to the research study said that at least one type of abusive act happened at or near their workplace, and

Taking into consideration that almost 40% of those who had experienced domestic abuse said it made it difficult to achieve success in daily activities,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. Create a committee Gender Based Violence Awareness (GBVA) to oversee everything.
  2. GBVA will recruit volunteers from around the world to help and organize the program.
  3. GBVA will identify the ten countries in the world that are most affected by or have the highest rate of gender based violence, such as Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Papua New Guinea, and South Sudan.
  4. Construction workers will be hired to build two shelters in each of those countries.
  5. GBVA will spread awareness about shelters through an international advertising campaign with the target audiences of the general public as well as medical facilities, law enforcement agencies, and educational facilities.
  6. Each shelter will be furnished with beds, food, water, clothes, and live-in counselors to treat and teach the victims how to help themselves in dangerous places, with the ultimate goal of being able to live safely in society without fear. The shelters will accept victims of any age, race, sexuality, religion, and even nonbinary people as well.
  7. The program will cost:
  8. Counselor Salary- 86000 per counselor with two counselors per shelter – approximately $2 million total each year
  9. Construction of shelters – one million to build (including construction salaries) –

$10 million total for first year only

  • Food, basic medical needs, clothes, and shelter supplies for residents – $10,000/year for each person – up to 200 people per shelter; 2000 people total = up to $20 million each year.
  • Advertising campaign including workers – $2 million each year
  • Total cost:

i.            2026-2027 – $34 million

ii.          2028 – $24 million

iii.         2029 – $24 million

iv.         2030 – $24 million

v.           TOTAL: $106 million

  1. It will take at least a year to secure funding and complete construction. Victims will be able to access the shelters by 2027, and the program will be active through 2030.

  2. At the end of the four years, if there is at least a 30% decrease in gender-based violence, the program will continue and expand to additional locations around the world. This $106 million will come from the 50 wealthiest nations. We are requesting each nation contribute approximately $2 million. If a nation declines to send funds, we will ask the governments of Canada and Laos to raise a small tax on exports to help fund the program.

Resolution GA-03 April 15

Re.:                                  Reducing Greenhouse Gasses that Cause Rising Ocean Temperatures in Barbados
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Barbados
Date:                               April 15, 2026

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #13 is Climate Action, and

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #14 is Life Below Water, and

Recognizing that 85% of Barbados is made up of coral rock. This means that Barbados is naturally permeable and exposed to water seepage (the slow process in which water infiltrates permeable material or cracks in formation) and realizing that rising ocean water can seep into the coral rock, and

Fully aware that a coral reef surrounds Barbados, and shocked that 70% to 90% of coral reefs die with only a 1.5 degrees Celsius rise in temperature and with a 2 degrees Celsius rise in temperature, reefs die off completely, and

Alarmed that today Caribbean reefs have half as much coral as in 1980, and

Noting with deep concern the 48% decrease in coral coverage is due to climate change, specifically marine heatwaves, and

Keeping in mind that Coral reefs take up less than 1% of the ocean floor but are home to at least 25% of marine animals, including lobsters, sharks, fish, turtles, and many more, and

Having considered, the island is experiencing more intense hurricanes. The hurricanes occurred because of rising ocean temperatures. About 90% of excess heat from greenhouse gasses is absorbed by the oceans. Also the warmer surface temperatures intensify hurricane wind speed, and

Whereas 2019 was the island’s worst drought in over 60 years. Research has shown that an increase in greenhouse gasses can cause climate change, including drought. The rainfall was recorded as a low of 29 inches which was 58% lower than the yearly average, this low has not been seen since 1947. Acknowledging that Barbados relies on underground water aquifers. The reduced rainfall did not recharge these aquifers and caused a severe drought,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. The United Nations will begin a program called WGGRR (World Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Removal) to target, first and foremost, the top greenhouse gas emissions in Barbados. The goal is to start converting greenhouse gas emissions into organic and naturally run.
  2. WGGRR will partner with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to work towards cleaner air and normal ocean temperatures.
  3. WGGRR will send three groups of volunteers: a. Energy b. Plant c. Conservation
    -Energy: The first group of volunteers will go to set up five V163-4.5 MW™ Vestas wind turbines at the main site of Barbados Light & Power Company (BLPC). Every twenty years the UN will send a group of volunteers to BLPC to take down the old turbines and replace them with new ones.
    -Plant: WGGRR will connect with The Walkers Institute for Regenerative Research and Design (WIRRED) to send another group to plant teak and mangrove trees around Barbados, particularly in Walkers reserve.
    -Conservation: The third and final group that WGGRR sends out will go to Graeme Hall Swamp and work to preserve the land and habitats there. The Swamp is the last significant mangrove forest in Barbados. Conserving this swamp could make natural flood control and restore a critical carbon sink. We are going to be protecting its natural water flow, preventing pollution, and maintaining native vegetation.
  1. Barbados will work to create a coalition of western hemisphere countries active in creating and utilizing clean energy sources. We will ask Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica, Canada, Uruguay, and Paraguay to partner in our efforts to help all of the countries in the western hemisphere move toward clean energy.

5. Funding

  • Each turbine costs around $18 million. We need five turbines. We need money to set them up and we need workers. We will ask for volunteers to set up the turbines.
  • $2,000 dollars for 500 mangroves seeds (propagule) red, black, and white
  • $18 million times 5 = $90 million plus $2,000 = $90,002,000 (U.S. dollars)
  • To secure the set amount of money going towards WGGRR we will raise the UN dues of some of the top greenhouse gas emitters (China, USA, and Germany) by 8 %.
  • This will give us $94,972,851.36.

6. Timeline

  • 1 year to get first wave of volunteers to Barbados
  • 3-15 months to set up wind turbines at BLPC
  • 5-10  years for the mangrove seeds to fully grow and mature.
  • 10 years to conserve and recover aquatic and forests ecosystems

7. Evaluation

  • After 5 years, the UN will return to Barbados to check that at least 15% of the country’s electricity comes from renewable energy sources (solar powered, wind powered, etc.) (right now Barbados generates 7-8% of electricity with renewable energy. The wind turbines generate 8.695% of electricity per year. 7% + 8.695% = 15.695%). Also that the areas where volunteers were sent to plant plants have grown and increased. And finally that the conserved areas are developing with cleaner water and a better habitat space. If the program is successful, WGGRR will continue and replace the wind turbines as needed (about every 20 years).  Every five years for the next fifteen years the UN will check that Barbados has increased its renewable energy and decreased the amount of CO2 that they produce into the air.
  • Once the program is marked successful, WGGRR will move on to Vietnam (who’s quintupled the amount of emissions they produce in the last 20 years) and other countries in need of help to reduce greenhouse gases.

Resolution GA-04 April 15

Re.:                                  Stopping Slavery All Around the World
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Tuvalu, China, Egypt
Date:                               April 15, 2026

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #3 is Good Health and Well-Being, and

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

Shocked that there are 50 million slaves in the world, that’s 0.602409639% of the world’s population, and

Saddened that 22 million are in forced labor, and also that slavery contains many things to negatively affects a slave’s health due it contains violence, torture, and abuse making a slaves health poor, and

Noting that slavery means you are forced to work without pay under threat of violence and unable to walk away,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. The United Nations will create a program that makes posters and sends people to schools to teach about slavery and how it still exists, helping many learn that slavery is still here. The posters state that it has our program name which is LAFS which means Liberation and Advocating For Slaves informing  people about slavery and if they can volunteer. Volunteers can have different jobs, like putting up more posters around the area, another is that volunteers can make posters as well if we run low.
  2. The company will start at $850,000 USD as a starting base and gain more funds through donations, fundraisers, and volunteers. These volunteers help create and distribute posters around various crowded areas in hopes to gain more volunteers.
  3. This may take 4 to 5 years to get popular and ubiquitous. When it gets more popular, we expand.
  4. If the amount of slaves goes down by 500,000 to 1 million we will continue our project for another five years and expand out If this does not work, slavery’s population will stay the same or even increase in the future about 50,000 to 1 million slave population increases, we know that this is not working. And if it is not working we will zoom in on a specific spot and work there for awhile and then move to somewhere else and go across slowly instead of ten at a time.

Resolution GA-05 April 15

Re.:                                  Gender Equality
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Thailand
Date:                               April 15, 2026

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 19 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”, 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

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #4 is Quality Education, and

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #10 is Reduced Inequalities, and

We are extremely alarmed that almost over 20% percent of women were married or in a union before the age of 18 in Thailand, and

We are deeply concerned that almost 60% of women are forced to participate in forms of exploitation labour (Agricultural, domestic), and

We are also shocked that under 16% percent of the seats of parliament were filled by women when 51% of Thailand is women, and

We were astonished to find out that women in Thailand account for only 23.9 per cent of high-ranking civil servants, and gender equality in senior leadership positions has risen by just 3 per cent in the last fifteen years, and

We are fully aware that the situation is particularly bad in rural areas, the women there are affected by poverty and discrimination, and

We recognize 30,000 cases of violence against women each year are reported to the Ministry of Public Health, and

We are aware that there is an immigration of foreign workers made up of over 40% women that are working under bad conditions, and

We are alarmed that women also continue to spend 3.2x more time on unpaid domestic and care work than men, and

We are shocked that 9.3% of women aged 15-49 years reported that they had been subject to physical and/or sexual violence by their current or former partner,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. We would like to create a movement called WATT (Women Against Trafficking in Thailand) working within the framework of the UN Women.The UN has a group called UN Women that exists to advance women’s rights and gender equality that has programs to set up to help many struggles in women’s rights such as peace and security, fair representation in government, and fair working conditions which are all things Thailand, and many other countries, need help with.
  2. We will ask the women’s group in Thailand to have more talks with women at community meetings or online. We will also ask them to raise awareness to end the violence and unfairness of women at home or in the work place in Thailand.
  3. We will go to parliament to lobby for a law for Thailand that they should make women’s pay equal to men’s. Currently, women’s pay is 10% less than men’s in Thailand, and that gap is increasing. We suggest a law similar to the Equal Pay Legislation that is set in Iceland.
  4. We will have a social media campaign of women’s rights activists who post about women and their inequality in Thailand and other countries who are struggling with gender equality to help support our cause and get funding and donations.
  5. We can make a building for women and children that is a safe place to stay in rural areas in Thailand if they are going through violence or are very poor or homeless due to violence. They can get help and stay as long as they need without having to pay.
  6. Funding:
  7. We would like to ask the UN for 973,943,285 USD  (Note: if the price we are asking for is too much, we would take out the commercials and internet campaign and the talks and just focus on building the buildings for the women.)
  8. We would ask the UN Women to do talks in Thailand through 2029, as they are already working down there.
    1. We would need to pay hotels for the person going to Thailand, the hotel stays would most likely cost $1085 for one month. (We are going to have 1 speaker come.)
    1. Flights will cost about $800 round trip (flying in from NYC)
    1. We will reserve a room in the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center. (The cost for a room is approximately 10,000 USD).
    1. We will provide free entry for the people who attend.
  9. We would like to run a social media campaign to support the creation of the safe space building 
    1. We will ask for donations to support the building of our safe areas through having ads and billboards in the US, Thailand, England, Norway, and Singapore. It costs 2,000 for an ad per month, and we want this ad to run for 2 months. (4,000 dollars in all) It cost 3,000 USD in Bangkok for billboards to be up for a month. It cost 201.20 USD to have ads run in England. The overall cost for all of this is going to be around 10,400 USD.
    1. We would like to build three 50,000 square foot buildings around Thailand so women who need to get out of bad situations can find a safe spot to go.
    1. The cost of these buildings would be around $300,000,000 (USD) per building to make a hotel that would have separate rooms for women and children and also have a cafeteria, school for both the women and children, and a fun center for the children.
    1. We will provide 30 family rooms for the women with children (those cost 12,000 per room to furnish)  and make 70 regular rooms (those cost 5,000 per room to furnish. (360,000 USD total to furnish all family rooms, 350,000 total to furnish all the normal rooms per hotel.) Fully furnished hotel rooms would in total cost 710,000 USD per hotel.
    1. We will build 2 bathrooms per level (8 in all) with toilets, sinks, and showers, this would cost 500,000 per bathroom (40,000,000 USD for all the bathrooms combined in each hotel).
    1. The average cost for electricity for each hotel would cost about 70,000,000 dollars
    1. The water bill will cost about 243,000 USD for all three years for each hotel. (729,000 USD for all the hotel total for all three years)
    1. The cost to build the cafeteria would be about 250,000 USD to build and that includes all the equipment. The staffing would be 200,000 per year. For staffing we will have 12 people working in each hotel cafeteria (600,000 in total for one hotel and for all three hotels combined for all three years 1,800,000 USD) To run each hotel for 3 years it would cost 432,000 USD.
  10. Starting 2028, we would like the program WATT (Women Against Trafficking in Thailand) to start, which includes the following:
  11. We would like to build a hotel type of building around areas of Thailand, especially where trafficking on women is the worst. This building would be for women who are going through hard times at home, whether that be getting abuse from their partner or other problems. They can also bring their children with them if they need to. At the hotel the women and children would have a place to sleep, eat, learn, and do other fun recreational activities. They can stay here as long as they want and wouldn’t have to pay. To get funds to keep this place open and the people that are working it paid, we would ask for donations from the UN, US, other countries, or people that would like to donate to this cause. We want the building to start being built 2028 and hopefully be finished and the program running by 2034.
  12. We would like to run social media in the first 2 years of the building project. We would also like to run the ads that support our cause for the same amount of time as the social media campaign.
  • Evaluation:
    If we see WATT succeeding in about 3 years after construction, we would like to move it to one of Thailand’s neighbors, Myanmar, who struggles with the same issues. If the situation does not change or gets worse, WATT will cease action and work on another plan to help these countries. WATT succeeding would look like: less reports of domestic violence, a rise in the percentages of women in politics, and also a rise of equal pay for women.

Resolution GA-06 April 15

Re.:                                  Healthcare/Clean Water in Malaysia and Honduras
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Malaysia, Honduras
Date:                               April 15, 2026

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

Shocked that approximately 53% of Orang Asli communities in Malaysia have limited or no access to treated piped water, relying on contaminated natural sources, and

Aware that the Orang Asli communities often reside in or near forests, and face significant challenges with natural disasters, poverty, land rights, and limited access to healthcare, and

Shocked that up to 50% of the population in Honduras lacks access to safe, clean drinking water, and

Deeply concerned that many residents of rural areas in Honduras end up suffering from completely preventable diseases because of the lack of access to basic health care and hand washing facilities with reliable clean water,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. A new task force, the Department of International Healthcare (DIH), will be created to help residents of both Malaysia and Honduras have easier access to clean drinking water and basic health care. The members will include businessmen, doctors, nurses, and additional people with medical or management backgrounds.
  2. The DIH will identify 2 specific locations within the Orang Asli communities and 2 rural locations within Honduras where clean water is not easily accessible and basic healthcare is minimal.
  3. One health clinic (permanent building) will be built in each of the identified areas. Each clinic will be staffed and provided with medical supplies, along with adequate water filters for each household in that area. Residents will be able to visit the clinic for basic health care needs as well as get instruction on installing water filters and central water filtration systems.
  4. This program will start in 2027. That allows time for the DIH to be created and organize supplies, and workers to build clinics. The program will last three years.
  5. If the preventable disease rate and/or the number of people without access to clean water decreases by at least 20%, the program will be considered successful and will continue and spread to additional areas in Honduras, Malaysia, and other countries with similar issues.
  6. The cost would be approximately $14 million. $10 million for the first year of the program, and approximately $2 million for the remaining two years.
  7. 2 million to build clinics (including construction salaries) = 8 million for the first year only
  8. $75000 salary per doctor – 2 per clinic = $600,000 per year of the program
  9. 1 million in medical supplies, water filters, and unexpected costs – yearly
  • This $14 million will be divided equally and come from countries such as the USA, Canada, Mexico, China, Singapore and Brunei as well as others who are willing to donate.

Bobbi

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