Resolutions for March 25, 2021

Here are the resolutions for the March 25th General Assembly session. The schools attending are Fort Zumwalt North Middle, and Fort Zumwalt South Middle.

Resolution Number	Submitted by:	Topic:
GA-01	Italy (Fort Zumwalt North)	Pollution in the Mediterranean
GA-02	North Korea (Fort Zumwalt North)	Flood and Typhoon Management
GA-03	Poland (Fort Zumwalt North)	Tackling the Air Pollution Problem in Poland
GA-04	Switzerland (Fort Zumwalt North)	Addressing Crowded Prisons and Not Enough Space
GA-05	Yemen (Fort Zumwalt North)	Water Crisis in Yemen
GA-06	Bahamas (Fort Zumwalt South)	Providing Hurricane Relief in the Bahamas
GA-07	Egypt (Fort Zumwalt South)	Helping Air Pollution in Cairo
GA-08	Mali (Fort Zumwalt South)	Reducing Malnutrition in Mali
GA-09	Panama (Fort Zumwalt South)	Employing Panamanians in order to Improve Deforestation and Land Degradation

Resolution GA-01 March 25

Re.:                             Pollution in the Mediterranean
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Italy
Date:                           March 25, 2021

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

Concerned That for every km.^2 there is on average, 892,000 pieces of pollution/trash in the Mediterranean Sea. This can be detrimental to not only wildlife but also human life, and (https://www.iucn.org).

Saddened That The Mediterranean sea is the third most polluted sea worldwide, after The Gulf of Mexico and the Baltic Sea, and  
(https://www.sciencefocus.com)

Recognizing that The Mediterranean Sea Produces large amounts of plastic that hurt animals and humans alike, not only in the Mediterranean Sea but all around the world (https://wwf.panda.org). Pollution in the water can reach a point where there isn’t enough oxygen in the water for fish to breathe causing small fishes to absorb pollutants, such as chemicals into their bodies, and (<https://www.ducksters.com)  

Noting That Pollution In water may severely affect humans, in that it can cause skin and eye irritation, lung, and liver problems from oil deposits and byproducts/plastics and pollutants (https://blog.arcadia.com),

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The Mediterranean Cleaning Project or MCP for short, is going to hire clean-up crews and educate the public about the pollution crisis in the Mediterranean Sea.
2. We will hire 45 clean-up crews for around 18 months. We will disperse these clean-up crews around the Mediterranean. We will also create fees for countries that pollute the Mediterranean for countries in the UN.
3. We will build 3 Job training sites to train professionals to clean up and properly dispose of garbage in the Sea, we will have 2,250 workers with 50 people per crew.
4. The cost will be approximately 7,845,000. We will raise this money by adding fees to countries that pollute the Mediterranean. The budget is:

• Workers: $6,700,000 (45 crews, 50 people per crew)
• Volunteers: get paid N/A
• Research: $1,000,000
• boats (rafts): $45,000 ($200 per raft )
• Other: $100,000 (reserve funds)

5. This entire process will take around 5 years to complete if we have countries stop adding to the pollution and work on cleaning up the Sea.

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Resolution GA-02 March 25 

Re.:                             Flood and Typhoon Management
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            North Korea
Date:                           March 25, 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 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 2018 the North Korean floods killed at least 76 people and left around 10,700 people homeless, and
Shocked that in 2016 Typhoon Lionrock struck North Korea killing around 130 people and leaving 400 people missing, and

Noting that in 2020 around 16,680 homes have been either damaged or destroyed along with 630 public buildings, and

Concerned in the 2020 storm season, the Korean Peninsula has been hit five times by different typhoons, three of which have bombarded North Korea,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Create a committee known as the N.K.F.P.A. (North Korean Flood Protection Agency). Their goal would be to Reduce and protect the people from flooding and typhoons in North Korea.
2. This committee would work alone with the North Korean government to provide all of the protection that the people of North Korea need. The N.K.F.P.A. would first start by installing advanced flood warning systems in cities near the water to help the people take action sooner rather than later. Next, they would install floodwalls, dams, and other man-made barriers near the mouths of rivers to keep water from flooding nearby towns and cities. Finally, the N.K.F.P.A would work to improve soil conditions in the flood areas so that the rain and water from the rivers could be absorbed by the soil.
3. To pay for the N.K.F.P.A., we would recommend that we raise dues on the 10 top-paying UN members. This will raise around 40 million dollars will be used to pay workers and others who wish to join, it will provide construction material, and will cover the purchase of any other supplies necessary to complete the goals listed above.
4. To make sure the N.K.F.P.A is doing its job, the North Korean government will send a report to the United Nations showing their progress after 5 years. If the damage caused by floods has gone down by at least 3% then the N.K.F.P.A. will consider expanding the program into parts of China.

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Resolution GA-03 March 25 

Re.:                             Tackling the Air Pollution Problem in Poland
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Poland
Date:                           March 25, 2021

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 44,000 Poles are estimated to die prematurely each year due to air pollution, and

Recognizing that air pollution shortens a Polish citizen’s life span by 9 months, and

Concerned that Poland’s forests have been damaged by airborne contaminants, and

Noting that Poland also suffers from large forest fires that contaminate the air,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Our goal is to have 75%  of the automobiles in the  country having air filters. The UN would likely recommend a law requiring filters. This would be enforced similarly to license plates on cars. If you are seen without a filter on your vehicle, you would be given a ticket from 10zł – 20zł  depending on if it is a repeated offense. This could also be helped by building in air filters into the blueprint of cars being made in factories. In addition, we need to attach air filters onto large factories that produce smoke and other air pollutants. If these companies do well in using these filters and also working to reduce air pollution then they will receive  tax breaks. Lastly there will be a PSA (Public Service Announcement) to explain that air filters will be a major step forward to decrease air pollution.
2. Wildfires contribute to much of Poland’s air pollution. The wildfires are mainly caused by farmers illegally burning grass.  To solve this, we are going to significantly increase the fine money the farmers have to pay for burning leaves.  We are going to try to better enforce the law. A helicopter will be used to monitor farm lands and ensure no illegal burnings are occuring.
3. The UN will assist in paying to plant 50,000 saplings in Poland. We would get some of this money from a fine on anyone who does not recycle into the correct bins. We will also build several solar and wind farms, hopefully replacing coal fired plants entirely by 2065.  We hope to reduce air pollution by 50 % before 2065.
4. The cost would begin at 0.73 Polish Zlotys for each tree sapling. Times 50,000 would be 18,500 Polish Zlotys. Some of this money would be supplied by taxes, some would be supplied by international trade, and some would be from fines on anybody who doesn’t use the designated bin for recycling.One air filter costs 15$ – 25$ which is equal to 56.19zł – 93.46zł. We would need to make them accessible, so we would likely be selling them at $15 per filter.. We would need significant loans from the UN and also to drastically increase our trade output in order to pay for this, as there are 56.4 million cars in Poland. However, this could be helped by building the Air filter model directly into the blueprint of the car. Some of the money would be provided by fining people who don’t put on filters. We would hope to filter 20% of the cars in Poland

In total, the cost would be at maximum 18,593.46 zł, or 4,878.83 American Dollars for the trees.  To put air filters on 300,000 cars it would cost 28,038,000 zł, or 6,000,000 US dollars. In sum, the program would cost approximately 6,004,878.83 USD. Some of which would be provided by the return from citizens purchasing the filters.

5. Many of the programs as a part of this would be indefinite, as there is no one-time solution to this problem. These would include:
6. Continuing to monitor farmlands for illegal burning
7. Continuing fines on anyone who does not use the  correct recycling bin.
8. Continuing to fine any automobile seen without an air filter on it.
9. Continuing tax breaks on companies who use the filters.

That being said, not all programs would be indefinite. We would not need to plant any more 
After our goal of 50,000 in Poland. We also would not need to continue to boosting our trade output any longer, as hopefully this would be paid for by the time the project finishes in 45 years. If the plans go well, the UN will try to implement Poland’s plans with other countries. Most likely in central areas in which air pollution is the worst.

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Resolution GA-04 March 25 

Re.:                             Addressing Crowded Prisons and Not Enough Space
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Switzerland
Date:                           March 25, 2021

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

Considering that Swiss prisons can only hold up to a maximum of 6736 detainees, and

Recognizing that the total prison population of Switzerland is almost 7500, there is not enough

space to account for all of the detainees,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The UN transport overflow prisoners to prisons in surrounding countries of Switzerland.
2. In the long-term, a new detention center will be constructed in Switzerland that can house an additional 2000 convicts to help temporarily, this will take about 3-months to construct.
3. In the short-term, while the new facility is being built, overflow prisoners will be given alternate options such as house arrest or community service.
4. To build this new facility, it will cost about $110,000,000, to pay for this project, we will request for $1,800,000 from the top 60 richest countries in the UN. This cost will go towards building a new prison.
5. Education and religion programs will be initiated into Swiss prisons to aid the transition from prison life to civilian life.
6. If in the next 3 years, if there are at least 500 empty cells in Swiss prisons to account for more extra prisoners, then we will consider the option to expand this program to other countries with the same issue.

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Resolution GA-05 March 25

Re.:                             Water Crisis in Yemen
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Yemen
Date:                           March 25, 2021

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

Concerned that Yemen has a shortage of water because the city’s pipeline is so eroded and the groundwater that their water supply comes from is contaminated, and

Recognizing that 50% of the population struggle daily to find or buy enough clean water to drink or to grow food, and

Saddened that State-run water companies only supply some households in the major cities and 70% of Yemenis live in rural areas, and

Noting that Yemenis over drilled for groundwater and there is virtually none left while only 1263.2 miles of water pipes in Yemen while Yemen is 203,850 square miles,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The UN will create a program called “The Yemen Water Program” to give immediate help through distributing water purification tablets to Yemen families to help them survive, and long-term help by installing new pipes and a new water system.
2. The YWP will last for 5 years and cost $12.8 million dollars. We will gain this funding through bumping up the fees of the 10 wealthiest countries by 8%. This should fund us for
3. The YWP will ship out 407 bottles of water purification tablets per day so each citizen in Yemen will have 3.7 clean liters of water.
4. The YWP will need $9 million for all the water purification tablets. The installation of new pipes is about $6.8 million.
5. The YWP will last five years and will bring dehydration rates down drastically. With this will come less death and infant mortality rates will go down, therefore following the laws of Article 25, section 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Resolution GA-06 March 25

Re.:                             Providing Hurricane Relief in the Bahamas
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Bahamas
Date:                           March 25, 2021

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 Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas in Late August, 2019 and the people of the Bahamas are still recovering, over a year later, and

Saddened that 70,000 people are homeless in the Bahamas, and

Discovering that there are no existing hurricane shelters in the Bahamas,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The Bahamian people are very vulnerable to becoming victims of hurricanes, both from geographic location and the increasing frequency of storm events due to climate change. Because of the horrible damage caused by Hurricane Dorian, we would like to construct hurricane resistant homeless shelters and community centers.
2. We would like to build four, $2.5 million centers, for a total program cost of $10,00,000. Two of these centers will be in the capital, Nassau, and the other two will be on the island of the Grand Bahama. These areas were most affected by Hurricane Dorian.
3. Volunteers from Build Abroad will be responsible for construction of the shelters. We will also receive medical supplies from them for those who have been injured.
4. We will fund this program using multiple sources: $1,000,000 will be donated by Michael Jordan; medical supplies from the American Red Cross;  and $1,000,000 from each of the top 10 richest countries in the United Nations.
5. Because this center is going to be operated year-round, we will evaluate the centers’ effectiveness bi-annually. preferably once before hurricane season begins in June and once after it ends in November. The evaluation will record the centers’ ability to provide care for the inhabitants and the stability of the centers’ building structure during the hurricanes.

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Resolution GA-07 March 25

Re.:                             Helping Air Pollution in Cairo
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Egypt
Date:                           March 25, 2021

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

Noting that Egypt is ranked 56/98 most polluted countries in the world, and

Alarmed that air pollution is the cause of more than a quarter of all adult deaths in Egypt, and

Concerned that outdoor air pollution in Egypt is responsible for 3.7 million premature deaths annually,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Our program will be located in New Cairo, the most populated and polluted city in Egypt.In order to help patients affected by air pollution, building ventilation-type air filters will be distributed to hospitals and medical centers
2. Hospitals will be provided with funds to purchase medical equipment, such as nebulizers and respiratory machines, as well as other necessary items. Hospitals will be required to give pulmonary function testing to anyone who wishes one.
3. Egypt’s health ministry will evaluate air-pollution-affected patients yearly and compare the results to those of the previous year. If after 5 years, air pollution death rates decrease by 10%, the program will be considered a success and will then continue with funds supplied by Egypt.
4. In total, $6,000,000 will be required for the first 5 years of this program. The $6,000,000 will be distributed evenly between each of the 30 hospitals in Cairo, giving each hospital approximately $166,666 to fund equipment and program costs.
5. To supply the money needed for this resolution, the top 6 wealthiest countries will be asked to pay $1,000,000 more in their yearly UN dues, a one-time cost.
6. At the end of the 5 year program, if it has benefitted New Cairo positively, other polluted cities can use this program.

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Resolution GA-08 March 25

Re.:                             Reducing Malnutrition in Mali       
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Mali
Date:                           March 25, 2021

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 Malnutrition is caused by citizens not getting enough food because of the lack of agricultural products due to constant natural disasters brought on by climate change (drought, hurricanes, etc); and

Alarmed that more than 26% of children in Mali suffer from malnutrition (for reference, less than 9% of the whole population is hungry) and only 7-% of people in Mali have access to safe drinking water; and

Concerned that, other countries affected by this issue are Haiti, Chad, Libra, Nigeria, Timor-Leste, and many other countries.

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. As stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all people should have access to food and drinking water. Our goal is to increase the number of crops they harvest with water from our agriculture wells and increase their access to safe drinking water from the community wells we’re building.
2. We plan to provide 354 drinking community wells and 550 agricultural wells by the end of the three year program.
3. To begin, we will start by building 177 drinking community wells the first year and 177 the second year. Regarding the agricultural wells, we will add 15 every month for 3 years. At the end of three years, we plan to have 550 agricultural wells and 354 drinking community wells.
4. Each well will take 1-3 days to build. We will need five people to build each well. In total, that will provide 4520 local project jobs. We will pay $35 USD to each worker for each well they construct.
5. To build the wells it will cost $4,520,000. To pay the builders it will be an additional $158,200. In total, this program will cost $4,678,200.
6. To gather funds for this plan we will ask the top five wealthiest countries for 1 million dollars in total gathered periodically over the three years.
7. To evaluate our plan, every year for 3 years we will gather statistics on how many wells have been constructed. We will also be collecting information about the yearly rates of malnutrition in Mali, to see if it has decreased; and the percentages of Malians with access to safe drinking water, to see if those rates have increased.
8. If our plan is successful, other countries affected by these problems will be able to use it as well.

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Resolution GA-09 March 25

Re.:                             Employing Panamanians in order to Improve Deforestation and Land Degradation
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Panama
Date:                           March 25, 2021

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

Aware that Panama has an oversupply of unskilled labor and the unemployment rate is over 6%, and

Alarmed that deforestation and land degradation are big problems in Panama right now, and

Concerned that there is little to nothing being done about the land degradation and deforestation problems right now,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. As stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all people have the right to freedom of employment, and most people who are unemployed want jobs, but can’t get them. This is an opportunity for those unemployed people to get a job and help the environment by acting against land degradation and deforestation.
2. Our plan is to hire Panamanian citizens to re-establish the forests and restore the soil. We will train these workers in current environmental practices for land restoration. This training will take 30-40 days before they are deployed to the geographical areas of greatest need.
3. The workers will be trained in the planting of trees and perennial plants, mulching, and placing crushed stone, wood chips, and other similar materials in areas with heavy soil erosion or deforestation problems. They will be housed in tents near the worksites and supplied with food and water.
4. This will cost about $1,000,000 per worksite. There will be about 1,000 people at each worksite and this is enough to supply each with food, water, and tents. If there are 4-5 worksites active at a time and each last for about 2 years, then we will need about $2,500,000 per year. We can easily reach this by raising the dues of the top ten paying nations by 0.75% each year, which will generate …….$ .
5. After four year of the program, we will see how much of the currently deforested land has been replanted and how well it is growing. If it has been majorly improved upon, then we will continue this program with funding from the Panamanian government.
6. Other countries that could potentially benefit from this program are….

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