Here are the resolutions for the April 3, 2019 General Assembly session. The schools attending are Grand Center Arts Academy, Hixson (8th Grade), and Ladue Middle. The General Assembly will be at the Creve Coeur Drury Inn 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.
Some topics being considered are Syrian refugees, child brides, and water issues.
| Resolution Number/Status | Submitted by: | Topic: |
| GA-01 Submitted | Japan Ladue Middle | North Korean Greenhouse Project |
| GA-02 Submitted | Zimbabwe Grand Center Arts Academy | Zimbabwe Teen Suicide Rate |
| GA-03 Submitted | France Hixson Middle | The Immigration Problem in France |
| GA-04 Submitted | Turkey Ladue Middle | Medical Assistance for Syrian Refugees |
| GA-05 Submitted | Estonia Grand Center Arts Academy | Election Corruption |
| GA-06 Submitted | Ireland Hixson Middle | Child Militia in Somalia |
Resolution GA-01 April 3
Re.: North Korean Greenhouse Project
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Japan
Date: April 3, 2019
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 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.”, and
Aware that North Korea has a Poverty-Stricken Population. It’s The 17th poorest country in the world, and
Concerned that North Korean citizens do not have enough food, and
Worried that North Korean citizens do not make enough money for food and housing,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Japan will build greenhouses in North Korea called the “North Korean Greenhouse Project” that contain genetically modified potatoes so that you can have a faster production of food. This food can be used as a food source for the people of North Korea and/or to sell for profit to help North Korea’s economy expand. It will be able to feed about 1000-2000 people. They will be able to hire 100 people in this greenhouse at first. The greenhouse will be located in the Ryanggang Province. The greenhouse will cost about 1,100,000 USD. As we expand we will be able to hire more and more people. Other benefits of this plan is it can help fund companies that deal with genetically modified plants. Also, it can help supply paid jobs to residents of North Korea. At first we will start with only one greenhouse and if the plan works well at first we will continue to build greenhouses.
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial will fund the project by building a greenhouse, and a portion of the profits from selling the food grown will go back to North Korean citizens.
- It could take about two years for them to start seeing a difference in their countries food supply, amount of jobs supplied, and the amount of money made to help support the country. (2019-2021)
- We will do a monthly check in to see if they are making enough crops and earning enough money to survive. We will compare their revenue to their former earnings as a country. If successful we will continue to build greenhouses. If not successful we will abandoned project.
Resolution GA-02 April 3
Re.: Zimbabwe Teen Suicide Rate
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Zimbabwe
Date: April 3, 2019
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, 1,544,860 Zimbabwean citizens have committed suicide in this year alone and
Whereas, a 1990-2016 study shows a suicide rate of 27.8 deaths per 100,000 people, and
Whereas, women in the age group of 15-19 have a higher suicide rate than men, and
Whereas, Mental health disorders are associated with more than 90% of all cases of suicide, and
Whereas, Women are more likely than men to attempt suicide,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The UN will form the United Nations Program for Suicide Prevention (UNPSP), which will be responsible for:
- Reviewing the current counselors’ qualifications and providing counselors to schools if needed. Each counselor will have minimum requirements including a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and/or behavioral science, a masters degree in mental health counseling, complete graduate and postgraduate internship experience for certification/licensure requirements, and fluent in either Shona, Ndebele, or English, the languages taught in Zimbabwean schools.
- These counselors will be dispatched so there will be a minimum of 1 counselor per school, and will be incorporating a curriculum for the whole school aimed at destigmatizing therapy and mental health.
- The UNPSP will also organize 7 storytelling groups consisting of a minimum of 5 counselors with the same requirements listed above, as well as at least 2 years of experience counseling teens.
- Each group will be assigned a ‘district’ composed of 200-250 schools. At each of the schools, the groups will start off by hosting an assembly in which they tell stories to the students about the topic and why they should talk to an adult or professional about their emotions. Before the assembly, the group will ask the students to write an anonymous statement about how they feel about mental health and therapy, and then they will be collected. They will then inform the students about the counselors permanently employed at their school and how to contact them. After the assembly, the group will again, ask the students about their feelings on the subject and those will also be collected separately, and
- The UNPSP will provide each storytelling group with a van for traveling from school to school and will provide funds for gasoline.
- Each counselor will receive a salary of 37k a year with benefits of health insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance. While each storytelling counselor will receive the same benefits but a salary of 40k a year. The van mention above will be a 2016 GMC Savana 2500, which cost around $15,000 each, and each van will be provided with 22,000 miles worth of gasoline a year, which, at current prices, will cost around $281,000 per van.
- This will be a plan that will be over a ten-year span of time and will be heavily monitored. We will monitor the suicide rates over teens, the counselors amount of each type of case, and if the mindset of our students has changed regarding therapy and mental health. When the ten-year span is over, we will evaluate whether the program has decreased the number of suicide rates. If it has, then we will continue the program as is and possibly look into decreasing the amounts of teams and visitations to each school.
Resolution GA-03 April 3
Re.: The Immigration Problem in France
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: France
Date: April 3, 2019
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 15, Section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states “Everyone has a right to a nationality,” and
Whereas Article 15, Section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change is nationality,” 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
Aware that France is declining immigrants from seeking asylum, and
Knowing that France denies refugees, rejecting people who are trying their best to change their nationality, and
Concerned that 1 in 18 refugees crossing the Mediterranean, die at sea while immigrating in 2018 from their country to said country, and
Aware that 73.2% of asylum requests where declined in 2017 in France, forcing many into camps or back to the country that they were seeking asylum from and
Devastated that Italy, a country that has taken refugees in for years is now stopping their system of open borders, and that more refugees now need a place to go,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The UN will help France create the “Corsica Immigration Plan” that will provide transfer to the island of Corsica, which is a French island that is currently taking in immigrants, for middle eastern immigrants coming to France.
- The UN will provide 1.76M Euros in funding to set up temporary immigration centers on the coast Marseille and the island of Corsica, to pay for the 1.056M Euro Ferry, and to pay for the transportation from the boat to the immigration center on Corsica as well as the salaries for the ferry crew. Some money should also go to making new businesses so that the immigrants can work.
- The operation will only last for 1 year as there shouldn’t be overpopulation on their island. While this is going on; us, the country of France, will work together in order to find ways to better our country with our immigration issues.
- In addition, Corsica refugees seeking asylum should be able to directly arrive in Corsica to become a French resident.
- As of arrival, refugees will receive a VISA that can be renewed, job and language training/help and will eventually receive a part time job offering if they are over the age of 18 and have been unemployed for over 6 months in Corsica, to help them provide for their family and/or selves. If the offer has expired, and they have not let up in starting their job, they will receive temporary help in a homeless shelter, that will be set up in capital of Corsica, Ajaccio.
- After a year of operation Corsica Immigration Plan, if it has been successful for the country of France, the territory of Corsica, and the refugees and people on the island, the plan will be extended to other possible countries that are in need for help due to an extensive amount of immigrants, such as Italy, who has recently turned right wing has has stopped accepting immigrants for now.
- Extra funding will be given back to the community, to help the refugees that have just moved to Corsica to start a new life in a foreign land.
Resolution GA-04 April 3
Re.: Medical Assistance for Syrian Refugees
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Turkey
Date: April 3, 2019
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 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
Whereas Article 23 section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.”, and
Emphasizing that more than half of Syria’s public hospitals and healthcare centers are closed or only partially functioning, and
Alarmed by in the first 6 months of 2018, there were 126 separate attacks on health care in Syria, and
Aware that more than 11.3 million people in Syria need health assistance, including 3 million living with injuries and disabilities,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will create a program called Medical Assistance for Syrian Refugees to help refugees of the Syrian Civil War. The program will start in Eastern Ghouta, Syria.
- The program will create two facilities in Eastern Ghouta to provide free medical care and basic medical education to the refugees. We will partner with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Doctors Without Borders (DWB) to provide medical staff and supplies for this facility.
- One facility will act as a small hospital; it’s designated role being to treat and care for refugees. The other facility will act as a medical education clinic. It will teach the refugees about basic personal care and how to take care of themselves in daily and emergency situations.
- This plan is estimated to cost about $14 million
- $6 million for facilities ($3 million to build each clinic and maintain it)
- $5 million for medical supplies
- $3 million for staff
- Any remaining funds will be used in the previously stated areas as needed
- Funding will be provided by raising the dues of the ten highest paying nations by 1.1%.
- If the program proves to be successful in Eastern Ghouta after one year, the program will move on to build similar facilities in other cities in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. These cities can include Amman and Mafraq in Jordan, Ankara in Turkey, and Beqaa Valley in Lebanon.
Resolution GA-05 April 3
Re.: Election Corruption
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Estonia
Date: April 3, 2019
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
Whereas Article 21, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.”, and
Whereas Article 21, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.”, 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, we have witnessed election corruption, voter fraud, and election interference around the world, and
Alarmed that even great democracies like the United States are not corruption-free as seen in North Carolina’s 9th District in which, allegedly, absentee ballots were improperly collected by an operative associated with Republican candidate Mark Harris, and
Keeping in mind that many countries lack proper ballot security as evidenced by Belarus in which United Nations observers discovered a precinct with the guard asleep and the ballot box broken into, and
Realizing that ballot counting is also of concern as intimidation can occur, and
Observing that limited polling places don’t allow all people to vote, as evidenced in recent elections in India,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Proclaim that free and fair elections are essential so that all citizens can take part in the government of their country.
- Continue to provide electoral assistance to governments who request it through the United Nations Electoral Assistance Division (UNEAD). Since 1991, the United Nations has assisted over 100 Member States and implemented more than 300 electoral projects. For additional information on assistance see the EAD website at un.org/Depts/dpa/ead/.
- Support (with knowledge and training) non-governmental agencies and international agencies who conduct election observations including The Carter Center, National Democratic Institute, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the African Union.
- To further encourage equal and secure elections in the member nations, develop a grant program, the Funds for Equal and Secure Elections (FESE). Member nations can identify election concerns, propose solutions, and apply for funding to improve their election process. For example,
- To improve ballot security by having all voting (including preliminary voting) at secure facilities, including government buildings and schools. Facilities will be considered secure if side doors are always locked and the main door to the building is secured with a guard and if the facility has working security cameras in the voting rooms. To reduce ballot box tampering, secure the ballot box with state-of-the-art sensors.
- Increase the number of secured polling places to encourage all to vote.
- Countries can pass legislation to make election day a national holiday so that all can vote.
- If countries are using paper ballots, educe ballot counting issues by video and audio recording the ballot counting process and have more ballot counters (one per party).
- Move from paper ballots to secure electronic voting.
- Encourage all governments to study their current voting laws and revise them to allow all of the country’s citizens to have an equal opportunity to vote in a secret and secure election.
- The United Nations Electoral Assistance Division (UNEAD) will oversee these initiatives and the grant program and report to the General Assembly annually.
- Since this is such an important issue we propose that annually $3,955,000 dollars be placed in the Funds for Equal and Secure Elections. UNEAD will create the guidelines for the grant and oversee the grant process. We will raise this money by:
- Requesting that the poorest 25 countries pay $1000 each
- Requesting that the wealthiest 25 countries pay $100.000 each
- Requesting that the other 143 member nations pay $10,000 each
Resolution GA-06 April 3
Re.: Child Militia in Somalia
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Ireland
Date: April 3, 2019
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 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 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
Worried that the Al Shabaab organization violently targets schools, at points shutting them down for weeks at a time, and
Aware that there are approximately 3000 child soldiers in use in somalia at this time, and more being “recruited” daily, and
Concerned that Al Shabaab often targets tourists, including the Nairobi Hotel attacks which killed 14 tourists and injured hundreds more, and
Recalling that Al Shabaab killed a “British Spy,” an innocent civilian who was tortured and then shot,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will start a program named Operation Safeguard that will bring Somali children and civilians to shelters built in neighboring country Kenya.
- These shelters will be built near the border in Kenya and will have all essential needs for life, including but not limited to food, water, bedding, entertainment, and outhouses to use the restroom. 10 shelters will initially be built, but more will follow as awareness of an oasis spreads through Somalia, ending with around 20 or more shelters. This ending number can change depending on the need of housing.
- These Children will be escorted to these shelters by trained Peacekeepers, just to insure that they will get there safe and secure.
- We will use some resources from nearby UN headquarters in Nairobi to build these shelters, but we will also require some amount of money from the national UN tax to build these shelters.
- Each shelter will cost approximately $100,000 but should hold at least 10 persons.
- If there are not at 900 less child soldiers in service after 4 years, we shall build more shelters in Kenya for more child soldiers, and if it is successful enough, we will expand to other countries with similar problems. If there are more child soldiers in service after this program, it will close down promptly.
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