Here are resolutions for the February 9th Model UN Session. We are giving priority to resolutions that were submitted to the Fall 2018 sessions that did not get debated. If you would like to submit a resolution, please email [email protected].
The deadline for submitting/resubmitting resolutions is Feb. 6th at 5:00 PM.
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AM-01
Re.: Extending Monaco’s Coastline for Country Expansion
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Monaco
Date: December 1, 2018
Fully aware that Monaco is currently less than one square mile of land (500 acres) and is the second smallest country in the world. One out of three citizens of Monaco are millionaires and Monaco is one of the richest countries in the world. The GDP per capita in 2014 was $187,650, and
Keeping in mind that this is not the first time Monaco has expanded their land and that it has been expanding since 1880. Monaco was expanded by 20% during the 1960s, and
Deeply concerned that Monaco will not have enough land to keep up with the growing population and current estimated 38,000 citizens and tourists who come to the country. There is not enough living space for new residents. Monaco continues to increase their population and more and more people come to Monaco to reside as citizens. This is very rare to happen to a country without the involvement of war, and
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The UN will support Monaco’s resolution to increase their land by 10 acres.
- Allocate $2.4 billion to increase Monaco’s land by 10 acres. Part of the funding of the $2.4 billion will be by raising Monaco’s UN dues by 5%, which would allow for $61,854,422.
- So that marine currents are not disturbed, this project shall take place by following the existing shoreline. This project shall not be environmentally inconsiderate and will be extremely eco-friendly.
AM-02
Re.: Election Fraud and Unwanted Intervention in Democratic Elections
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: People’s Republic of China
Date: December 1, 2018
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
Aware that on average, foreign interference in elections causes the voting outcome to be affected by three percent, and
Noting that three percent of all elections, including local elections, are suspected of being interfered with, and
Concerned that accusations of foreign interference of elections has caused ongoing tensions between countries for decades,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will form a new committee called United Nations Election Monitoring Committee (UNEMC) that will investigate the democratic process of elections.
- UNEMC will be formed from a member of the ten wealthiest and ten poorest countries in order to prevent bias within the committee.
- UNEMC will investigate all accusations made for election interference and will determine whether the claim is warranted. Interference will be defined as an outside attempt to influence a democratic election be any means including acts of violence, producing advertising, and technological meddling.
- UNEMC will include 20 military observers offered from the aforementioned 20 countries, and will cost $1 million dollars per year, for staff payments and monitoring equipment needed. This money will be provided by raising the dues of all countries by 0.0004%.
- If a country is found to be interfering with other countries elections, then sanctions on their top trade product that are imported will be put on the country for 6 months on the first offensive, 1 year on second offense, 2 years on third offense, and then increase by one year at every repeat offense.
AM-03
Wade Howdeshell
Re.: Preservation of Cultural Monuments Throughout the World
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: United Kingdom
Date: November 17, 2018
Whereas Article 27, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”, and
Knowing that cultural treasures around the world face deterioration and destruction, and
Deeply concerned that these works of human achievement may be lost if action is not taken, and
Recognizing that the monuments are precious, and should be preserved for future generations to admire and enjoy, and
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program called Restore World Heritage, which will work to restore and preserve monuments of art, architecture, history, and other aspects of culture that are not currently World Heritage Sites for posterity.
- Five nations, which will be selected at random, will have the opportunity to restore a monument of their choice through the program every year.
- Historians, architects, and art conservationists will be hired to restore the monuments selected. A team of approximately fifty people will work on each monument.
- The team members’ budgets, as well as their salaries, will place Restore World Heritage’s yearly cost at $15,000,000. The money will be provided by raising each member state’s dues by a mere 0.01%.
- Restore World Heritage will continue until every country has been affected one time. After that, a vote in the United Nations will take place to determine if it should continue until each country is affected again.
AM-04
Kim Minjun
Re.: Withdraw of International Forces from Serbia
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Serbia
Date: November 17, 2018
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
Whereas Article 15, Section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states “Everyone has a right to a nationality,” and
Deeply concerned that Serbia’s relations with other countries has been exacerbated by the situation in Kosovo, and
Deeply concerned that Kosovar rebels are strengthening their armed forces and are threatening Serbian national security and territorial integrity,
Be it Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The Yugoslavian War caused Serbians to leave their land in Kosovo.
- According to Balkan history, there has never been an independent nation called Kosovo.
- Kosovo has been politically, religiously, and socially central to the Serbian nation since the Serbian Orthodox church moved to Pec, in the western part of Kosovo, and functioned as a capital of the Serbian Kingdom when King Stefan Dusan moved the political capital to Kaljaja.
- The Serbian Government should negotiate with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to disbanding Kosovar rebels.
- Serbia recommits itself to its international human rights obligations.
- The General Assembly calls upon NATO, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and all international forces to withdraw from Kosovo by January 1, 2021.
- After the withdrawal of UNMIK from Kosovo, Kosovo will be administered as the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohijia, which was the original name for Kosovo under Serbia.
AM-05
Yutiancheng Yang; Ade Yang; Xingda Chen
Re.: Project of Further Construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: China
Date: November 17, 2018
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
Project overview:
The People’s Republic of China is taking measures to boost the development of supply chain economy these years. China can lead a construction of international investment organization to provide training and forum platforms to vast developing countries, offer help to emerging enterprises, reward the achievements of increasing women’s percentage and competitiveness among SMEs in each member economy, help people to deal with the technology and money barriers they may meet in their career and at the same time protect the environment in some countries.
Particularly, first of all, the project will raise funds from some leading international companies like Huawei and government-owned enterprises and its related companies, and provide funds to support the implementation start-ups with broad market prospects and high value-added. Second, the project will take measures to communicate with other economies and help the companies in China and cooperated countries to have the access to get into the market of every economy. Third, the project will gather representatives from both the local enterprises and the international companies 2 times per year to catch up with the trend of what the world is doing through the data analysis and the regional specialty analysis, which are precious for both the local companies and the international companies. Forth, the project is able to provide a platform to establish a system for talented women and enterprises’ resources, so as to promote the maturity and perfection job opportunities, match the right person with the right job, which will create reciprocal results to the enterprises. Fifth, the project will cooperate with some women organizations to provide particular skills’ training to young women and keep the people as a future workforce for the international companies. Sixth. The countries along Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Marine Silk Road should raise fund to the project to keep the order and help with the regional environment,
The plan will be discussed and implemented in Beijing, and it will be launched December 2018 and completely set in December 2020.
Be it Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
SECTION A: (Project Details)
- Relevance:
In view of the clear understanding of the importance of international cooperation and economic interdependence, the People’s Republic of China also believes that government power will become one of the irreplaceable aspects for all economies in the Europe-Asia-Pacific region. The increasingly serious problem now is how to break the occurrence that start-ups cannot access the opportunity to learn a skill that can push the economy development forward, and the most essential thing to do is to maintain the equality of both men and women and match the right people in the right occupation without concerning their gender. The function of the project can help to lower the unemployment rate, attract more investment for valuable SMEs, protect environment, make the best use of labor force and finally increase the economy growth.
- Objectives:
To create a framework of annual prize and reward among SMEs that increase women’s percentage and competitiveness in each member economy.
To build support and provide trainings, forums to companies and officials in order to get real-time data analysis and specialty analysis.
To build support for the STEM workforce (after long-term capacity building of the local labor) for the developing economies.
To build support on the infrastructure of every economy members.
To create a more efficient, effective and non-bias channel to offer help to emerging enterprises that need investment.
To improve the capacity of some cooperated enterprises by providing them some projects or workshop opportunities.
To create an action plan international hiring system.
To create a central organization to supervise and help the members to keep the environment.
SECTION B: Project Impact
- Outputs:
The international investment organization will be created and aims at substantial working opportunities, encouraging innovation start-ups, visa-free system in the Europe-Asia-Pacific region and promoting a regular system via the sub-organizations and the headquarter with the cooperation with governments and related enterprises that focus on a matter of concern about civil right activists, reputation, discovery of workers, environment and infrastructure.
- Outcomes:
Offer a practical access for the international companies to get involved in the infrastructure building and the field they are good at.
Provide more workshops and projects for the local SMEs and thus increase profit for both the companies and the local government.
Offer STEM capacity building programs to local labor and use these people as a group of work force for both the leading companies and the local SMEs.
Help workers, the SMEs and international companies to find each other that best fit to them.
Provide a training and forum platform for women workers and officials 3 times per month to communicate and improve in order to achieve a reciprocal result, the workers may get into the headquarter or the sub-companies to work after finishing the training.
Offer investment to companies with further perspective.
The environment will be protected and supervised by the central organization.
- Beneficiaries:
The participants of the direct project include the government departments, some leading enterprises, women workforce and SMEs. The beneficiaries are women employees(more job opportunities and capacity building), emerging entrepreneurs(get investments from the leading companies and real-time data from them), SMEs(get fund, workshops and projects from the leading companies, learn a scientific and efficient administration system and get real-time data), local governments(infrastructure building, technology from the leading enterprises and taxes from SMEs and those enterprises) and the leading companies(larger market, substantial data resource, reputation and lower fixed cost after the local companies could do some workshops for them, extra fees earned by providing workforce for local companies).
- Gender:
The project will affect the SMEs lead by both men and women. It will help women to get the job fit them and help the women entrepreneurs to get fund without bias on their gender. Those will help to serve the needs of the majority of women in strategies and create incentive mechanisms.
SECTION C: Project Effectiveness
|
Task |
Person liable |
Time |
Resources |
Due time |
|
Identify participating economy and create the head office and the sub-organizations |
China |
1 month |
Plan of the organizations and sign the contrast |
2019.1 |
|
Discuss the events every year and the time, headquarter, place and participating companies’ issues about the organization |
Representative council |
6 months |
Leading enterprises and government bureaus |
2019.6 |
|
Training program for young labor and entrepreneurs |
Cooperation |
1 year |
International foundations; Leading enterprises; IT and Law experts |
2019.12 |
- Work plan:
- Risks:
Differences on the infrastructure building and economic development.
Differences in policies between different economies.
The support from different government.
- Budget:
About 100 million USD to launch the project
AM-06
Hyrum Blau, Alyssa McGaughey
Re.: Social Discrimination in Brazil
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Brazil
Date: December 1, 2018
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 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 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.”, and
Ashamed that in Brazil the rights of disabled, LGBTQ, and Afro-Brazillian communities are being trampled on, and
Saddened that the discrimination of these peoples haven’t yet stopped,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The peoples of Brazil petition congress for a committee in their Government monitoring the situations of complaints sent in by minorities, and investigating a place of major discrimination.
- A small increase in taxes for the financial costs, before becoming a self-sufficient government committee, by instituting a fine.
- If found to be discriminatory, to any people, a large fine of 10% of the company’s total income be taxed, and, should it be a privately owned disabled home, be fined $10,000.
- If successful, such an institution should be seriously considered for all nations to institute.
AM-07
Olivia Zecca, Anastasia Bain
Re.: Spy Cameras
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: South Korea
Date: December 1, 2018
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 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
Aware that many women and men can be affected by this mentally, physically, and socially, and
Saddened that some women and men have been recorded and put onto the internet without their consent and/or their knowledge, and
Knowing that more than 30,000 cases of surreptitious filming have been reported nationally since 2013, and
Concerned that the privacy of many individuals are being breached,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Daily inspections in public places such as bathrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, etc.
- Continue increasing the number of municipal employees assigned to search public bathrooms for hidden cameras, using the $267,000 the province’s police force received to put toward the effort to focus on the problem.
- Use funds other police departments have put toward the issue of spy cameras.
- Have harsh punishments for people who have been found guilty of placing secret cameras.
- Create and implement a system to filter online pornography to ensure there is no unintended pornography online.
PM-08
Riley Weber
Re.: Provide Structures and Refuge for Those Escaping Syria Civil War
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Russia
Date: December 1, 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 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
Alarmed that millions of ordinary people living in Syria have had to escape from their homes to find somewhere safer to live, and
Emphasizing upwards of five million people have had to leave the country to escape to other neighboring countries, and
Fully Aware Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt have already housed over a million refugees and are stretched thin, and
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will provide housing and refugee for any civilian, not a soldier or major player in the Syrian Civil War that wishes to avoid violence.
- Temporary shelters will be created on the outskirts of Jordan to house the refugees until they are able to secure asylum in other countries. In order to promote safety, the United Nations will give Syria 1,000 family tents for any refugees they help within their territory.
- If it is discovered that a refugee is contributing to the violence while in the shelters, they will be kicked out, and handed over to the Syrian government.
- These shelters and combinations will cost about $6 million dollars for temporary housing, and the payment for the employees, keeping refugees safe. The money will be procured by raising all nations dues by 0.0022%.
5. These shelters will be removed once the civil war has ended, and the top form of government is established. The refugees currently in the shelters at the time will be provided with enough money for travel back to their homes, and to help house them until they are able to establish their lives.
AM-9
Daria Nastasia
Re.: Opposition to Hate Speech
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Spain
Date: December 1, 2018
Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises in its Introduction “all the economic, social, political, cultural, and civic rights that underpin a life free from want and fear,” 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
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
Recognizing the large numbers of people in various settings globally, including in Spain, additional European nations, and the United States, who are being prevented from leading lives without fear, discrimination, or attacks because of hate speech and hate crimes, and
Alarmed by the increase internationally by over 10%, in the past three years alone, in hate crimes on the grounds of gender, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability, and
Realizing that a society in which people can fully enjoy their economic, social, political, cultural, and civic rights can only be achieved if hate speech is strictly forbidden and hate crimes resulting from hate speech occur very rarely and when occurring are severely punished, and
Seeking assistance from countries willing to stand up to hate speech and hate crimes with regulations and legislation to prevent and to punish these horrendous forms of oppression and injustice, and
Confident in the ability of a united front of political and civic bodies from various countries and international organizations to stand up to and not allow hate speech and hate crimes,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will work with its member countries towards guidelines and legislation to discourage and ban the use of language that can lead to hate violence and crimes, and will focus particularly on cases of organized activities of targeting people and groups based on gender, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.
- The UN will work with its member countries to make sure that a mechanism is created and maintained to make it easier for victims of hate crimes to be able to report what has happened to them without intimidation.
- The UN will work with its member countries to prevent the access to media venues and social media platforms of individuals and groups documented to spread hate speech and encourage hate crimes .
- The UN will support the establishment and work of a a group of researchers focus on understanding how to best prevent the spread of hate speech and the occurrence of hate crimes.
- After a period of five years, the UN will reassess the efforts towards reducing hate crimes and reintroduce the topic to the assembly for a vote to decide if it should continue.
AM-10
Mary Ellen Raymo
Re.: Sending Aid to 2.1 million displaced people in the Syrian Idlib Governorate
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Poland
Date: November 17, 2018
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 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
Knowing that open borders to Syrian refugees have caused a degradation of national values by the immigrants themselves refusing to respect the country’s religion and government, and
Aware that as fellow human beings, Poland has a responsibility to defend other human’s rights, but not at the risk of jeopardizing public order and the rights and freedoms of our own people by the immigrants’ refusal to assimilate with their country of asylum’s laws, and
Knowing that the Syrian government has cut off most aid to the 3 million people misplaced in the Idlib Governorate area and have abused and threatened those held internally hostage, we cannot simply stand by and let our fellow human beings die from lack of basic needs as stated in Article 25, Section 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Be it Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will start a program called the Idlib Crisis Aid Program. It will provide pure water, nutrition supplements and first aid kits to civilians displaced in the Idlib Governorate.
- If the delivery convoy is met with resistance by the Syrian Government or any rebel forces, a Peacekeeping Force shall be sent to guard the supplies and make sure they are placed safely in the hands of those held internally hostage in the Idlib Governorate. They will remain with the supplies until the U.N. is sure that neither side will interfere and try to seize the supplies.
- If the Syrian government or the rebels do interfere with the supplies and the Peacekeeping Force is unable to protect the supplies, Poland itself will retaliate with whatever force we deem necessary to ensure the supplies get through.
- Once the supplies are safe and the Peacekeeping Force has left, any surprise attacks from either side will be met with direct force from Poland.
- For the first year, the program will cost about $5 million. Three of the $5 million will go to provide pumping and filtration systems across the Idlib Governorate to displaced people. The other $2 million will go to provide nutritional supplements for children and first aid kits.
- After the pumps are in place, the program will be reduced to about $3 million a year and focus on nutritional and medical needs. Poland will provide $2 million of the $3 million.
- For the first year, the U.N will provide $2.5 million of the $5 million cost. The other half will be directly supplied by Poland as our contribution to the Syrian refugee crisis. Nonprofit organizations are also free to donate and the money will be used to purchase more specialized medical equipment if possible.
- To provide the U.N’s half of the cost for the first year, the countries directly involved in the Syrian civil war will have their dues raised by 2.2%. These include Syria, Russia. United States of America, Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Israel, the United Kingdom, and France.
- To provide Poland’s half for the first year, we propose a surcharge of .04 cent on all products containing iron or steel from Poland. If this does not cover the cost, Poland will propose a tariff of .04 cent on oil imported from any of the countries listed in clause 7.
- After the first year, the countries listed in clause 7 will only need to pay $1 million a year. This will bring the extra dues down to 0.9% Poland’s surcharge will go down to .03 cent on iron and steel products. The tariff will go down to .03 cent on oil imported from the clause 7 countries.
- The program will be in play until conditions change or the people are freed.
AM-11
Ellaha Matin and Fatima Alkenani
Re.: Refugee Crisis
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Turkey
Date: December 1, 2018
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 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
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
Heartbreaking that (according to the USA for UNHCR) “68.5 million people have been forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations,” and
Merciless developed and rich countries like the United States, Poland, and Denmark for example, have been very cold and downright insensitive to the influx of refugees. They deny entry to the country, give little to no welfare or social help to the refugees in the country, they take tactics and measures to stop the refugees from entering like the US and the tear gas attacks on the border, and xenophobia would affect their lives daily, and
Knowing they are blind to the fact these refugees are fleeing because their lives are in danger, they can’t have a good future in the countries they are fleeing from, those countries they are fleeing from don’t have governments that will help them due to corruption, terrorism, and dictatorship. These refugees have rights that are being ignored, and
Alarmed that 1 in every 110 people globally is either an asylum-seeker, internally displaced or a refugee (according to the USA for UNHCR), and
Appalled that one person becomes displaced every 2 seconds – less than the time it takes to read this sentence. That’s 30 people who are newly displaced every minute (according to the USA for UNHCR), and
Understanding that Turkey continues to host the world’s largest refugee population, and 90% of those refugees live in urban and peri-urban areas (they don’t live in refugee camps),
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The nation of Turkey wants to activate “Operasyon Karahindiba 14” or Operation Dandelion 14. This operation was named dandelion because when you blow a white dandelion puff, all the seedlings suddenly lose each other and end up in different locations which is symbolic of refugees. The 14 stands for Article 14 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
- This Operation basically is an initiative for the other countries in the UN to pick up some of the slack on the refugee crisis.
- We want countries to accept at least 100,000 refugees every three months as a start. If a country doesn’t want to comply, then they have to donate at least $50,000 to the UNHCR or UN to give to a country who needs it to fund for the expenses it may cost to take refugees in.
- We want this operation to soon grow into a program that takes people like educators, political advisors, doctors, etc. to developing countries and volunteer their time.
- This operation will highlight specific refugees who are getting an education and becoming successful so that more countries will be motivated.
- We want ALL countries to improve and implement refugee programs and help that will aid the refugees with their transition into a new country like getting more interpreters, having public schools raise money, canned goods, or supplies for new refugees. Having families who have a very wealthy income participate in a “adopt a family” like program which involves them taking in small refugee families and helping them find shelter, show them around the town, etc. Colleges and Universities across all nations should have free classes for refugees to learn the language of their new country, how the government works, history, etc. The professors donating their time can be paid directly by UNHCR or just volunteer their time.
- Operation Dandelion 14 is a great project because this encourages nations to accept more refugees or donate money to those nations who are. This operation has a ton of room for growth and because it’s objectives are broad but still in reach, it gives nations a lot of guidelines and ideas to follow.
- The timeline for this project will be from 2025 until around 2035. From now until 2025, we will be trying to get donations and funding for Operation Dandelion 14 to work. After 2035, the refugee crisis will hopefully be a lot lower than what it is now and the program can cut back and be reevaluated after 2035.
- The refugee crisis is a serious one. People all over the world are running for their lives, horrible and heart shattering images of children from war torn countries are constantly being released, and hashtags and internet prayers are enough to solve the problem. We as the UN need to uphold the natural rights humans are given at birth and take action to at least lesson the statistics of how many people get displaced daily. The refugee crisis isn’t one that’s in a far away country, it’s happening on our nation’s doorstep and YOURS. It is all of our responsibilities as world leaders to fix this and have some compassion for these people. These “refugees” and “undocumented immigrants” are ALL PEOPLE who deserve their rights just as much as anyone in this very UN.
- Overall, the funding for this project will come from donations from the countries who don’t want to take in 100,000 refugees every three months. Donations from individual families and organizations/companies will also be accepted. In total we are estimating a minimum of 1 million will be needed for this operation.
AM-12
Emily Underwood
Re.: Deploy UN Peacekeeping Forces to the Korean Demilitarized Zone
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: South Korea
Date: November 17, 2018
Whereas Article 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.”, and
Noting we wish for nations other than the United States to send troops, we believe the US has been doing more than its part keeping the peninsula safe, and
Stressing the fact that the United Nations faces significant financial obstacles and is in need of reform, particularly in the humanitarian realm,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Encourages all relevant agencies of the United Nations to collaborate more closely with South Korea; provide 50 troops per UN nation to help monitor the border between South Korea and North Korea.
- Urges member states to comply with the goals of the UN to help keep peace in the world by providing Peacekeepers to South Korea.
- Requests that all nations provide a target minimum of 50 soldiers to act as Peacekeepers to watch the North Korean border.
- Calls for the development of a United Nations Peacekeeping mission to free up American and South Korean troops from the border.
- Stresses the continuing need for a show of force against the Kim regime.
- Calls upon states to respond quickly and generously to the Resolution.
- Requests the expansion of preventive actions and assurance of post-Kim regime action to reintegrate North Korea back into the free South Korea.
AM-13
Emmy Schroeder
Re.: Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Violation
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Finland
Date: December 1, 2018
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
Deeply Concerned about the mistreatment of many indigenous peoples within the levels of government, and
Recognizing that unfair treatment and lack of representation of these peoples compromises countries’ ability to uphold the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, and
Aware of countries’ obligation under Article 5(2) of the United Nations’ Nagoya Protocol with respect to “[taking] legislative, administrative or policy measures, as appropriate, with the aim of ensuring that benefits[…]are held by indigenous and local communities, in accordance with domestic legislation regarding the established rights of these indigenous and local communities”.
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The General Assembly condemns all forms of government restriction of the rights of indigenous people as a violation of human rights.
- The General Assembly establishes the United Nations Indigenous Peoples Rights Conservation Agency (UNIPRCA) to assist and inform those countries which are the biggest violators of such human rights.
- UNIPRCA will work with international governments to inform them of the injustices being faced within their borders and assist them until such time as legislation is passed which provides fair and equal rights to Indigenous Peoples within their country.
- The General Assembly calls upon Sweden, Australia, the United States, Myanmar, New Zealand, Canada, and other nations which have violated indigenous peoples’ rights to fund UNIPRCA and lobby to create new legislation to fully restore all rights and protections to their indigenous peoples. Each of these donor countries should contribute 5 representatives from their indigenous population and 5 from their government to be appointed to a chair on UNIPRCA until such time that efficient legislation has been passed in their county.
- Any country willing to contribute to UNIPRCA will be able to do so.
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