Resolutions for May 1, 2026 - CIVITAS-STL

Here are the resolutions for the May 1 General Assembly session. The schools attending are Crossroads College Prep, Hixson Middle, and Lafayette Prep Academy. This may not be the final order/draft of resolutions.

Status: Submitted by: Topic:
GA-01Jordan
Lafayette Prep Academy
Water Scarcity in Jordan
GA-02Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom
Hixson Middle
Immigration Problems in the US
GA-03Brazil, Sudan
Crossroads College Prep
Trafficking in Libya
GA-04Yemen
Lafayette Prep Academy
Decreasing famine in Al Hudaydah Governorate located in Yemen
GA-05North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Switzerland
Hixson Middle
Landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina     
GA-06Bahamas
Crossroads College Prep
Reducing the Crime Rate in the Bahamas

Resolution GA-01 May 1

Re.:                                  Water Scarcity in Jordan
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Jordan
Date:                               May 1, 2026

Whereas Article 25, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care, and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”, and

Shocked that only around 100 square meters of renewable water resources are available to each person annually which is way below the 500 square meters of absolute water scarcity, and

Saddened that Jordan’s renewable water resources only meet two-thirds of Jordan’s population water demand, and

Acknowledging that the water stress levels (water withdrawals as a proportion to available water resources) have increased from 80% to 100% in the last two decades,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. Many cities and towns are near the Jordan river which is drying up such as  the capital Amman, Adir, Al-Salt and many more rural areas which are drying up, so the plan is to build around 100 ground-water wells in mainly western Jordan, but some will be in other areas. We will also need to reclaim a lot of the water used in agriculture.
  2. We will need to fulfill our plan of $24,000,000 USD to build the wells and then maintain them. And we will pay about $5,500,000 and we ask the USA, Switzerland, and Luxembourg to pay 6,166,666.67 each.
  3. It would take about two and a half years to finish doing both building the wells and then to continue making the wells work would continue for about ten years.
  4. To make it so that after 7 to 15 years each person would have 800 square meters of renewable water resources instead of 100.

Resolution GA-02 May 1
Re:                                  Immigration Problems in the US
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom
Date:                               May 1, 2026

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #16 is Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, and

Whereas Article 13 section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”, and

Affirming that over 100 million immigrants have come to the United States since its founding, with roughly 86 million immigrating between 1783 and 2019. Immigrants have contributed greatly in creating a strong healthy democratic country, and

Aware that the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of light to the rest of the world on how to treat immigrants and how valuable they are to every nation in the world. If the USA shuts down the beacon of hope for immigrants it will have a negative effect worldwide.  Countries will spread fear and hatred of immigrants and fascism/authoritarianism will spread throughout the world, possibly resulting in mass genocides of immigrants throughout the globe, and

Noting with deep concern that as of April 2026, roughly 42,722 out of 60,311 (70.8%) people in ICE detention have no criminal convictions, representing a significant portion of the population being held, often without due process or bond hearings in violation of the US Constitution. This includes individuals arrested in “at-large” community raids, and

Alarmed by the use of Chemical Weapons and Irritants by US Federal Agents in Minnesota, during a surge in enforcement, officials used chemical irritants on a crowd that included students at a high school during dismissal time, and

Shocked when a family’s 6-month-old baby was hospitalized after the family was tear-gassed in their car while trying to navigate a protest, and

Alarmed that ICE has deported roughly 540,000 people. Many are being sent to notorious prisons in El Salvador. Most people being deported are not sent to their home country with 10% being sent to countries such as Sudan, and

Fully aware In January 2026, ICE/Border Patrol federal agents murdered and fatally shot two US citizens in Minneapolis during enforcement operations: Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse. In addition, 46 people have died in ICE custody and 9 people have been killed by ICE agents using lethal force, and

Affirming that a multicultural/ethnic population creates many positives for a community and most economists state that a strong economy is the direct result of a fair immigration policy,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. The United Nations will begin a program called SIPUS (Solving Immigration Problems in the United States). SIPUS will urge the USA to stop the physical abuse of immigrants who are in the US legally and illegally, and promote tolerance and the rule of law while dealing with immigrants.
  2. SIPUS will create an awareness program during Reality TV shows (very popular in the US) to promote the benefits of legal immigration and facts that immigrants contribute to the economy and have a lower rate of being put in jail or incarcerated using famous US citizens and Sports celebrities whose parents were immigrants.
  3. SIPUS will investigate and produce a report to address ICE practices that violate US and International law. The report will recommend ways to fix the United States immigration policy.
  4. SIPUS encourages the US Congress to pass the Dream Act of 2026 and/or the American Dream and Promise Act of 2026. This would allow children brought to the US to have a legal status and lead to citizenship, provided they meet the requirements and have not broken the law.
  5. SIPUS will also encourage the US to stop mass roundups and imprisonment of immigrants who have not violated the law, specifically violent crimes. SIPUS will promote legal immigration/citizenship and the guarantees of due process promised to all people in the US not just citizens in the US Constitution and international law.
  6. SIPUS supports the US government’s right to deport immigrants who violate US law by perpetrating violent crimes and to protect its borders.
  7. Congress to promote reform and fully fund its immigration system so that SIPUS will also create a program where US bilingual interpreters and lawyers can go to the Mexican to translate and give legal advice to help the process of immigration into the United States. This program helps both the immigrants and the American border police peacefully and safely respond to immigrants.
  8. For this plan, SIPUS will need 26 million dollars for 5 years of the awareness program. SIPUS will need an additional 20 million for advertisements to help persuade the American government to pass the Dream Act and end abuse and the demonizing of immigrants.
  9. SIPUS will fund this by asking for the 50 wealthiest countries in the UN to raise their dues by a million dollars each.   
  10. SIPUS will be a 5-year process to start, but it can be extended depending on how the USA progresses in making their immigration policy more humane. If the US stops mass deportation of peaceful law-abiding immigrants, violence and the use of chemical weapons and puts in place the reforms mentioned above. 

Resolution GA-03 May 1

Re.:                                  Trafficking in Libya
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Brazil, Sudan
Date:                               May 1, 2026

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

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #8 is Decent Work and Economic Growth, and

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #17 is Partnerships For the Goals, and

Saddened that the government hasn’t done anything to help even though they have received money and aid from other countries, and

Shocked that Libya has placed in the top 3 for the past 8 years for most human trafficking scoring 8.5/10, and

Noting that the government reports of human trafficking has stated that 68% of people in Libya have gone thru some kind of human trafficking, and

Concerned about alarming reports of the deteriorating living conditions of over 700,000 migrants in Libya, and

Shocked that 67% of sex trafficking is done to girls under the age of 18, and

Acknowledging that in August 2022 there were an estimated amount of 134,787 were internally displaced people and majority of those people were sex and/or drug trafficking, and

Aware that despite the countries Libya and Nigeria being miles apart, ever since conflict in Libya, 2011, it has become a major route for human-trafficking and smuggling,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. Action Plan: Make higher security detention centers, make places with therapists and basic amenities accessible to everyone after they have experienced any type of trafficking. If trafficking victims make it to the detention centers there would be access to call the National Human Trafficking Hotline. If the people who tried to immigrate to the EU did not make it and had to come back to the detention centers there would be mini hospitals to treat their injuries.
  2. Budget/Funds: $2.5 million from Luxembourg, Singapore, Macao, Ireland and Qatar. We will ask 500k from each country we will locate these detention centers in the cities with the highest trafficking rates.
  3. Timeline: Our program will last 10 years. Every 2 years we will check in. At that time the program will be evaluated by the percent of people in Libya who have gone through any kind of trafficking.
  4. Evaluation: Right now it’s 68% and if at the end it’s at 30% or less we will move to more countries.
  5. Expansion: We will consider its success and move it into Afghanistan, Yemen, and Eritrea.

Resolution GA-04 May 1

Re.:                                  Decreasing famine in Al Hudaydah Governorate located in Yemen
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Yemen
Date:                               May 1, 2026

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #2 is Zero Hunger, and

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

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #15 is Life on Land, and

Saddened by since 2016 there has been a food insecurity crisis in Yemen which has caused an estimated of 400,000 deaths, and

Concerned that over half the population which is about 18 million people in Yemen are experiencing a major food crisis and this part of Yemen is experiencing it the worse, and

Whereas Yemen is categorized as a Least Developed Low-income country therefore it would be very difficult for them to fix this issue on their own,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. Action Plan – To save Al Hudaydah Governorate’s food crisis completely we would need at least 4000 volunteers to deliver food and hand it out equally, we would need a minimum of $300 million dollars per year and we would need these trucks and volunteers to have stable equipment and tents to be prepared for any conditions.
  2. Funding – Like I stated earlier we are asking for a minimum of $300 million dollars per year and we are asking our closest allies Yemen Arab Republic and Egypt for this money in exchange for being your close ally in any future wars. But if there is some circumstance where our allies cannot give us this money we are kindly asking any other countries in the UN who want to pitch in to do so.
  3. Timeline – After 3-6 months the majority of this city could be thriving on our food supplies, but to completely solve this food crisis in this city to the point where they need little to no aid would take 8-10+ years of agricultural recovery, rebuilding markets, and even then there would still be a couple people starving.
  4. Evaluation – After one year the UN would check if the hunger rates (This includes people dying from starvation and people who only get to eat every few days and are just experiencing malnutrition) have dropped by at least 25% starting at about 79%. If the rates have dropped we will keep this project going and keeping checking every year, but if there is a year where the hunger rates increase or don’t drop (unless decades have passed and they are back to completely normal) we will end this project since it would be wasting money.

Resolution GA-05 May 1

Re.:                                  Landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina     
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Switzerland
Date:                               May 1, 2026

Whereas Sustainable Development Goal #15 is Life on Land, 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 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 13 section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”, and

Deeply concerned that the Bosnian War from 1992 – 1995 displaced over 2 million and over 100,000 Bosnians, mostly Muslims, were killed in a genocide perpetrated by Serbians and their allies, and

Aware that landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) from the 1992-1995 conflict continue to kill and injure people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with over 1,770 casualties recorded between 1996 and 2023, including at least 615 deaths, and

Shocked that roughly (about 1.6% of the country) remains contaminated, posing a critical, ongoing threat to rural residents, farmers, and returnees, and

Emphasizing that Bosnia is the most heavily mined country in Europe and has the largest number of landmines and UXO per square mile in the world. This was caused by a significant war in the 1990s, where 3 warring factions/nations placed thousands of landmines during the breakup of the nation of Yugoslavia, and

Alarmed that 60% of Bosnians live in rural areas, which is the most mined area, with about 1.6% of all of the country contaminated with landmines, and

Deeply Concerned that Refugees from the Bosnian war are still unable to return due to the extreme amount of landmines, and

Alarmed that minefield warning signs have been removed from rural areas, which include some of the biggest tourist destinations in the country, which are also very susceptible to mines, and

Overjoyed that cluster munitions, small weapons that are dropped from the air, have been cleared from Bosnia, and it has been declared decontaminated, but some countries are still using and stockpiling cluster munitions, such as Israel, Iran, Russia, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and the United States,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. The UN will create a program called Coordinated Landmine Elimination and Recovery (CLEAR) to determine the locations of all landmines and cluster munitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. and remove them, aiming to fully decontaminate Bosnia from landmines, UXO, and Cluster bombs.
  2. In 2013, it was estimated that there were about 29,000 minefields. We will do a survey of suspected areas prior to beginning.
  3. CLEAR will coordinate its efforts with 5 NGO’s with their considerable resources and manpower.  These include:
    1.  The HALO Trust: Founded in 1988, it is the world’s oldest and largest humanitarian demining NGO.
    1. Mines Advisory Group (MAG): A co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its role in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. MAG specializes in clearing landmines and cluster munitions and providing risk education
    1. Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA): Active since 1992, NPA is one of Norway’s largest NGOs and has cleared over one billion square meters of land globally. They are also leaders in breeding and training Mine Detection Dogs (MDDs).
    1. APOPO: Renowned for its unique approach of training HeroRATs (African giant pouched rats) and dogs to “sniff out” landmines faster than traditional manual methods. 
    1. Humanity & Inclusion (HI): Formerly known as Handicap International, this NGO is a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and focuses on both demining and providing physical rehabilitation for survivors.
  1. CLEAR will recruit people who are unemployed or need work and an income. The goal would be to recruit and train 1000 people to work with the 5 NGO’s. They will receive a salary of $40000/yr, more than double the annual average salary in Bosnia—$ 40 million.
  2. CLEAR will coordinate these 5 NGO’s and organize their efforts.  Clear will also raise money to fund landmine-proof suits, which will be purchased. We will need 1,000 base landmine suits for all volunteers, plus a surplus of around 750 in case the suits are damaged in any way. In total, we will need to purchase 1,750 landmine suits. These things are incredibly expensive, retailing for around 3,000 dollars a piece. In total, we will have to spend $5,250,000 on these suits alone.
  3.  Additionally, metal detectors will be needed to find the landmines, costing $150 per metal detector. We will purchase metal detectors for each volunteer, with a surplus of 500 metal detectors in case of technical problems. For 1,500 metal detectors, it will cost 225,000 dollars.
  4. To help the NGO’s, CLEAR will provide 100 transport vehicles. These vehicles will also need to be mineproofed for safety reasons. It costs $30,000 for the base vehicle and $10,000 for the mineproofing. It will cost $40,000 per car. Total cost is $4,000,000.
  5. CLEAR will cost $50 Million per year.  CLEAR will propose that the EU put a .05 Euro tax on each airline ticket. There were 1.1 billion airline passengers in 2025. This would raise a little over $50 million.
  6. This program will be reevaluated once every month to reach a 75% decrease in landmine deaths in Bosnia in 6 months. Once this goal is reached, CLEAR will work to clear the remaining landmines and UXO. This will promote tourism into Bosnia’s most beautiful regions that have been too dangerous to explore before; which will help the Bosnian economy.
  7. If this program succeeds, we will expand to countries with the next highest number of landmines per square mile, according to the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs.

Resolution GA-06 May 1

Re.:                                  Reducing the Crime Rate in the Bahamas
Submitted to:                 General Assembly
Submitted by:                Bahamas
Date:                               May 1, 2026

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

Saddened that the Bahamas is ranked 33rd in crime out of 150 countries, and

Shocked that 4801 major crimes happen yearly within only 12 Judges and 20 prosecutors. In the Bahamas, it takes around 18 months to several years to appear in court, and

Acknowledging that crime won’t ever disappear fully, but we can take action to reduce it, 

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

  1. The Bahamas should increase patrol in smaller areas with more crimes. Specifically, keeping surveillance on areas with Gang violence. Youth in Bahamas should have proper education to get opportunities for adulthood. The Bahamas should begin a program called GREAT (Gang Resistance Education and Training) for youth to have other opportunities for proper education before adulthood. The United States will need to control sending ghost guns and weapons to Bahamas. The Bahamas will also hire more judges and prosecutors.
  2. The United States will send the Bahamas 15 judges and 15 Prosecutors and secure the online weapon border. Schools will spread word of the GREAT program and enlist kids 9-17 and enlist 800 kids in the first year. Police forces will send more units to patrol smaller areas of the community with higher crime rates.
  3. The budget will be roughly $6 million dollars
  4. $1.8 million yearly for salaries of new judges
  5. $1.3 million yearly for salaries of new prosecutors
  6. $870,000 yearly for new police officers
  7. $2 million for GREAT program to come to the Bahamas

4. We are asking this money come from the 10 wealthiest countries. Each country will donate $600,000.

5. After 2.5 years the crime rate will decrease by at least 10%. The country’s safety will improve greatly, especially in big cities like Nassau. Gang violence by youth and young adults age 13-25 will decrease 12%.

Bobbi

Bobbi Kennedy is the middle school coordinator for Civitas. She also helps with high school activities and keeps the web site from imploding.