Resolutions for April 29, 2021

Here are the resolutions for the April 29, 2021 General Assembly session. The schools attending are Holman Middle, and Pattonville Heights Middle.

Status	Sponsor	Topic
GA-01	Uruguay Pattonville Heights	Lack of Education for Syrian Refugee Children in the Middle East
GA-02	Marshall Islands Holman Middle	Safe Access to Women’s Healthcare
GA-03	France Pattonville Heights	Death Penalty for LGBTQ in Africa
GA-04	Argentina Holman Middle	Prison Reform
GA-05	Norway Pattonville Heights	Overfilled Hospitals in Ecuador
GA-06	Ireland Holman Middle	Housing Crisis

Resolution GA-01 April 29

Re.:                             Lack of Education for Syrian Refugee Children in the Middle East       
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Uruguay
Date:                           April 29, 2021

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 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

Alarmed that as of May 2020, in the Middle Eastern region, especially the countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey, 300,000 of the 390,000 secondary school aged Syrian refugees are not in school, and

Recognizing that even before the COVID-19 pandemic, over 80% of Syrian refugees in Jordan alone were living below the poverty line, almost all were in debt, and they couldn’t afford costs like transportation or other school related expenses, and

Noting with deep concern that a substantial number of adults can’t access work permits for themselves, so they rely on their school aged children to earn money as child laborers, or they marry their daughters off, and

Having considered that quality education has become more and more scarce due to strained education systems with a lack of resources, adequately trained teachers, and space, and

Observing that there is not enough support in terms of curriculum, language barriers, and psychological needs to help Syrian children succeed, and

Emphasizing that education is necessary to escape poverty and strongly rebuild Syria,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The UN would create a program called the Commision for Advancing Refugee Education (CARE) and would be overseen by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). CARE would provide education necessities for refugees in the Middle East.
2. CARE would fund and oversee the teacher training of 1,100 new teachers, as well as the training of other unqualified teachers. CARE would fund the building of 20 more schools (especially those in refugee camps and host communities) (creating jobs) to allow for easier school access and lower transportation costs, as well as prevent major crowding. Funding for 40 more school buses would also be provided. CARE would also help establish an after school tutoring and language help program with tutors and translators (the majority being locals and volunteers), as well as provide access and opportunities for psychological support (also locals and volunteers).
3. CARE and the U.N. would partner with the local government to help make sure refugees can obtain the documents needed to work, so kids don’t have to. CARE, along with would also in part subsidize landlords to help lower rent for refugees.
4. CARE overall would cost approximately 173.34 million USD. Training and hiring new teachers would cost about $13.2 million, building costs for schools would cost around $60 million. The cost for new transportation would be about $120,000, and tutoring, language, and psychological services would cost around $20,000. $100 million would go to subsidizing low cost housing.
5. The majority of funding would come from donors and those working to solve the problem in the area. NGOs could take care of some costs by donating buses, volunteers, teachers, and/or teacher training, as well as donating funds. Donations from international agencies and organizations would also have a large and beneficial impact. For the remaining costs, the U.N. would raise the dues of the ten member nations who pay the highest dues by 8%. (This would cover expansion to the rest of the country)
6. By partnering with local and international governments, other U.N. agencies (like UNICEF and OHCHR), international agencies and organizations, NGOs, and those in the private sector, CARE would be in charge of all refugee education efforts in the region, to make sure there is real, efficient progress, rather than multiple patchwork programs.
7. The program will be evaluated each year. Evaluation will focus mostly in terms of enrollment and in small part students’ success. If changes need to be made, they will be reviewed at the end of the school year.
8. The program would begin in the biggest host communities and refugee camps in Jordan. If in 4 years, there is a 50% or greater increase in enrollment and active schooling, the program will expand to the rest of Jordan. If the program continues to be successful after 4 years, it will expand to Lebanon, and eventually to Iraq and Turkey after another 4 years. If the program stays successful, then it can be expanded to other countries with similar crises.

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Resolution GA-02 April 29

Re.:                             Safe Access to Women’s Healthcare       
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Marshall Islands
Date:                           April 29, 2021

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 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage, and at its dissolution.”, 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 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

Alarmed that Papua New Guinea healthcare spending for 2018 was $64, a 6.11% increase from 2017, and

Concerned that 215 women out of 100,000 die because of pregnancy complications, that’s 9675 women a year. 30% of those women were because of black market abortions, and

Worried that only fifty percent of women and 40% in rural areas get access to medical attention,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Our program is called Rainbow Papuans. We will be working with World Health Organization (WHO)
2. We will train doctors and nurses, build hospitals in rural areas, and get volunteers for both building and nursing.
3. We need building materials, medical supplies, and doctors. We will succeed because we will build off of the already implemented healthcare system and expand off of that. 4. The cost for the program is $17 million dollar per two years. The program will last 10 years, and will extend if the program is working into Micronesia.
4. To fund the program we will be raising the UN dues of the top 20 wealthiest nations by 1.5%.

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Resolution GA-03 April 29 

Re.:                             Death Penalty for LGBTQ in Africa
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            France
Date:                           April 29, 2021

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 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

Alarmed that the death penalty is set in place for members of the LGBTQ community in 13 countries, 3 of which are in Africa, and

Concerned that more countries in Africa are attempting to further their laws against homosexuality, and

Worried that Africa has many untrue beliefs about homosexuals, such as, homosexuality comes from western countries and is therefore unnatural and that the religious practices in Africa make homosexuality to bad,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The Un will start a program called Solving the Death Penalty for LGBTQ in Somalia, or SDPLS.
2. SDPLS will help to rehome LGBTQ people that live in Somalia, until their country lessons the harsh laws against them.
3. SDPLS will provide shelters and temporary housing for the 1,000 people in the LGBTQ community in their country, and then transport them to shelters in safe countries around them, such as Cape Verde and South Africa.
4. The shelter in Somalia will be a collection of 20 IKEA Better Shelters, ($22,000) and the shelters will provide 35 HIV Rapid Diagnostic Tests ($805), 1,000 fleece blankets ($7,000), and 4 AFRIDEV Handpumps ($1,276), and the 1,000 people will be transported to the shelters in South Africa in 85 transport vans ($3,442,500) and the shelter in South Africa will be identical to the one in Somalia, only without the HIV Rapid Diagnostic Tests, so 20 IKEA Better Shelters, ($22,000), 1,000 fleece blankets ($7,000), and 4 AFRIDEV Handpumps ($1,276).
5. The total will be $3,503,857.
6. To pay for SDPLS we are going to raise dues 0.2% for the 10 nations that pay the highest amount of dues, and we will ask for grants from two global LGBTQ organizations, Global Equality Fund and The Calamus Foundation.
7. SDPLS will last for three months, enough time for 1,000 to go to the shelter in Somalia, get HIV tested, and get transported to the shelter in South Africa, it will be reviewed 6 months after the program ends.
8. If successful, the 1,000 people are all safely in the South Africa shelter, SDPLS will be expanded to more people in Somalia.

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Resolution GA-04 April 29 
Re.:                             Prison Reform
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Argentina
Date:                           April 29, 2021

Whereas Article 11 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.”, and

Whereas Article 11 section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act of omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.”, and

Alarmed that the Rate of incarceration grew 55% between 2013 and 2019, and

Concerned that 45.9% people in prison are untried,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Will create a program called Prison Assessment and Reformation(PAR).
2. This program will focus on prison conditions, such as overcrowding and on the prisoners themselves, their sentences and the speediness of their trials. There will be an interview process which the prisoners go through to see where they stand in terms of sentencing and conditions. We will also work with the justice system in place and try to reform it.
3. In order for this program to be successful it will need lawyers, officers, possibly psychologists, and a place for interviewing and assessing prisoners/inmates.
4. We hope to help overcrowding in prisons, which will hopefully also lead to a decline in police brutality in prisons.
5. Will be successful if we narrow down the percentage of people in prisons by 15-20%,and help those who were wrongfully incarcerated, while also helping those who may need to be someplace else besides prison.
6. In order to fund our program we will be working with Amnesty International. We estimate the cost of this program to be 17 million dollars, which we will get by raising the UN dues of the top 20 paying nations by 1.5%

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Resolution GA-05 April 29
Re.:                             Overfilled Hospitals in Ecuador
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Norway
Date:                           April 29, 2021

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 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 over 8.7% of people living in Ecuador do not have access to the medical care that they need, and that the hospital bed density is 1.4 beds per 1000 people, and

Concerned that the degree of risk for infectious diseases in Ecuador is high, and

Worried that people who are already living in poverty are losing their jobs, and cannot afford food, shelter, or medical treatments,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Action plan – create a committee called MAE (Medical Assistance for Ecuador) with a goal to provide necessary equipment for areas that do not have proper means to get it themselves.
2. The committee will set up 10 or more clinics, train nurses and doctors, and provide hospital beds, COVID-19 tests, ventilators, vaccines, and other medical equipment. MAE will also start shelters where people who have unfit living situations can stay safely and have access to basic human needs. Lastly, the committee should provide burials for the dead.
3. The committee will need about $288M to build clinics, provide vaccines, hospital beds, and ventilators. There will likely be many other expenses, so an estimated $300M will be needed for this project. To obtain funding, we will raise dues by 10% for the countries that currently pay the top ten highest amounts of dues. We will also request donations. Norway will contribute an extra $10,000,000 to the committee.
4. We will start working in November of 2021, building clinics and training medical workers. We will then purchase medical supplies for the clinics in January of 2022, and immediately start helping in Ecuador.
5. MAE will be evaluated in June 2022 by A. the amount of decrease of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Ecuador, and B. the decrease of poverty in Ecuador. If the amounts have decreased by a.75% and b. 20%, it will expand to Argentina.

*Ecuador has 276,841 sq km of land. If each clinic should be easily accessible, it will need to be within walking distance for most people, which is why 10 is the chosen number of clinics.

*since clinics will be about 1200 sq ft and cost about 500 per sq ft, having ten will require about $6M $15,000 per ventilator, 2,000 ventilators, $500 per hospital bed, 400,000 hospital beds, $52M for vaccines for most of the population, $30M + $200M + $52M + $6M = $288M

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Resolution GA-06 April 29

Re.:                             Housing Crisis
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Ireland
Date:                           April 29, 2021

Whereas Article 14 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.”, 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 in Dublin, Ireland 74 people died on the streets last year {2020}, and

Concerned that the number of homes in Dublin for sale are at its lowest in level in more than a decade, and

Worried that  just 33.5 percent of home purchases in 2019 were by first-time buyers,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Create a program based in Dublin, Ireland called “Re-housing” whose goal is to create available and affordable housing for the people of Dublin. 
   
   
2. This program needs access to materials and land to create five apartment buildings, the reason for this is because apartments and condos can house a lot of people with little land. We will also need construction workers and equipment to build the apartment complexes, along with architects to help figure out the best way to make these apartments and condos affordable and quick to build. 
   
   
3. Our program will run for a total of five years to not only build the complexes but also to get as many people that need the homes into them as possible. We will know that this program was effective when homelessness in Dublin decreases by 25%
   
   
4. To fund the entire program about €50,000,000, around 30% of the funding would hopefully come from donations from not only the people of Dublin but also from around the world. Another 30% of funding would come from the United States, Canada, and the Czech Republic who have all agreed to help us house our people by giving us not only some military funding but also by giving us a large amount of donations from their people, in exchange for using the program in their country if it is effective. The rest of the 40% of funding would come from the Dublin government who has been raising and setting aside money for housing for years as the problem persisted. 
   
   
5. If this program becomes a success in Dublin it can be used and applied all over the world where homelessness is an issue.

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