Here are the resolutions for the May 6, 2022 General Assembly session. The schools attending are Hixson Middle, Ladue Middle, and Lafayette Prep Academy. 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.
| Status | Submitted By: | Topic: |
| GA-01 | Switzerland Ladue Middle School | Infrastructure in Angola |
| GA-02 | Yemen, Armenia, Bulgaria Lafayette Prep Academy | Food Security Crisis in Yemen |
| GA-03 | Germany, Peru Hixson Middle School | The Mexican Femicide Crisis |
| GA-04 | Mozambique Ladue Middle School | Stopping Absolute Poverty in Mozambique |
| GA-05 | Mexico Lafayette Prep Academy | Establishing a Program for Better Vaccines in Central and South America |
| GA-06 | Ireland Hixson Middle School | Women’s Education Rights in Afghanistan |
Resolution GA-01 May 6
Re.: Infrastructure in Angola
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Switzerland
Date: May 6, 2022
Whereas Article 8 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.”, 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 28, of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.”, and
Deeply concerned that infrastructure was severely damaged after the Angolan Civil War, as thousands of landmines were laid, and
Recognizing that Angola ranked as the worst country for quality of infrastructure on the list of 148 countries ranked by the World Economic Forum, and
Noting with deep concern that mover 40% of Angolians rely on an untreated water supply and 58.11% of Angolians don’t have access to electricity, and
Emphasizing that this is not how humans should be living, and
Convinced we need to do something about this,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Launch the Angola Infrastructure Mission (AIM), an all-inclusive restoration of Angola’s transportation, water and electrical infrastructure.
- Hire locals to help build infrastructure in Angola so that they will have paying jobs for residents and more suitable living.
- Our sources of funding are the charity Aid for African and UN dues. It will cost approximately $96,000,000 to supply clean water supplies, roads, and sewer systems.
- It will take around 15 years with the unemployed population of Angola working on infrastructure. We think that the UN should start this project within the next one to three years, because once a few roads are built it will be easier going forward.
- If more than 85% of Angolans have access to clean water, sewer systems and roads, our project will be deemed successful.
Resolution GA-02 May 6
Re.: Food Security Crisis in Yemen
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Yemen, Armenia, Bulgaria
Date: May 6, 2022
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 over 18,400 civilians have died as a result of an ongoing civil war, and
Whereas Yemen is experiencing the world’s worst food security crisis with 20.1 million people or two-thirds of the population in need of food, and
Whereas roughly 80 percent of Yemen’s population requires humanitarian aid, including over 12 million children,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- We will feed the cities of Ta’izz and Al Hudaydah, both with a combined population of 600,000. We will purchase 21,600.000 lbs. of rice over all 12 months. We will give each person 1 pound of rice each week for the whole year. This will cost us a total of $18,360,000 for the food. All together we are raising 25,000,000 dollars for this project. Rice can be sourced from around the world and delivered to a location in Saudi Arabia. It will then be shipped via truck and moved to these two cities. It will then be given out to locals as needed.
- We will ask major global brands to donate for each product they sell. Major brands such as Coca-Cola, Apple, BMW, Epic Games, etc. will be asked to donate a certain amount of money for each product they sell. This could be used on their marketing helping them sell more products. If this plan fails or the companies deny our plan then we can ask for private donations or look for another source of funding.
- We will give this project 12 months to see if it works and we are looking to lower the amount of hungry people by 450,000. This will allow us to be able to determine if we can continue raising money for this project or if we need to stop it.
- After 12 months, if the number of people in need of food is down by 450,000 then it is successful. If successful, we will look to expand our funding and project to cities all around Yemen. This will help the rest of the 10s of millions of citizens eat. We will start small and use these 12 months to see if the project can be viable to help the entire country.
Resolution GA-03 May 6
Re.: The Mexican Femicide Crisis
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Germany and Peru
Date: May 6, 2022
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 5 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”, and
Whereas Article 7 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “All are equal before the law and are entitled without discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.”, and
Keeping in mind that over 1,000 women were killed in Mexico just last year, and
Fully Aware The top three cities of murders of women in Mexico are Acapulco de Juárez (24.22 per 100,000), Tijuana (10.84 per 100,000), and Juárez (10.36 per 100,000), and
Appalled by the fact that women that were murdered, were killed for no particular reason, or simply killed for being a woman, and
Concerned that many of the murder cases were never opened, not investigated to the fullest extent possible, and/or never brought to trial. 90% of these types of crimes go unsolved in Mexico, and
Deeply concerned that 11 women are killed in Mexico every day. And that at least 20,000 women are missing in Mexico. Cases of “femicide” in Mexico have increased by 137 percent in the last five years, and
Recognizing that femicide could spread to more cities within Mexico and throughout North and Central America,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program called the Mexican Femicide Crisis (MFC), which is going to educate Mexican women on safety, include a public awareness campaign to illustrate the problem to the public, and investigate and solve Femicide (homicides against women) in Mexico.
- The Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, (CNP)from Spain, Interpol and the FBI from the US will send 2 teams each, to train police officers in Mexico to investigate Femicide cases and to supervise the investigations in and around Acapulco de Juárez, Tijuana , and Juárez.
- The MFC will coordinate with Mexican media companies to publicize instances of femicide through the television, internet and social media.
- The MFC will create public service announcements with famous soap opera stars, politicians and soccer players to make the public aware of femicide, to encourage reporting of crimes with an anonymous tip line, and to give safety tips for women to be safe.
- The MFC will ask the US, Spain and Interpol to fund the trainers and the special investigative teams they send to Mexico to help contain the spread of this violent pandemic.
- MFC will raise money for the 20 specially trained members of the Femicide Mexican Investigative team members for each city Acapulco de Juárez, Tijuana, and Juárez, by putting a $0.50 US dollar or 20 peso surcharge that will be added to international flights and cruises into tourist areas in Mexico. This will raise over $15 million dollars from the 30 million international tourists that visit Mexico each year.
- The members of the Femicide Mexican Investigative team will be paid a base yearly salary of $40,000, 2 times more than the salary of an average Mexican police officer. It will pay for the salaries, the media awareness and the education programs.
- We expect that the MFC will be in place by 6 months. A review of the training procedures and graduates of the program will start 6 months after it is operating in Mexico. A review of the results of the Femicide Mexican Investigative team and the education and media awareness programs will be conducted on a yearly basis to analyze the data with the goal of reducing femicide in Mexico for each year.
Resolution GA-04 May 6
Re.: Stopping Absolute Power in Mozambique
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Mozambique
Date: May 6, 2022
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
Daunted that 70% of Mozambique’s population is currently living in poverty, and
Dismayed that only 11 percent continue on to study at the secondary level and just one percent continue on to college,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program called Leave Poverty Behind (LPB) which will focus on Mozambique, India, and Nigeria (Three nations with large poverty forces.)
- LPB will work with other NGOs who focus on poverty reduction in Africa including the Hunger Project in Mozambique.
- LPB will train a group of associates (using volunteers from aforementioned NGOs) to teach and mentor Mozambique citizens.
- To retore Mozambique from poverty the volunteers will be assisting the Mozambique citizens to improve their farming and crop outputs.
- To create LPB, we request that the UN raise dues on the 40 wealthiest nations by 0.5% and take funds to get help from the agriculture company, Cargill. This would raise $32,746,830. We would spend 2 million dollars for the volunteers (hiring, equipment, basic training, traveling, etc.). The rest of the funds ($30.7 million) will go towards farming supplies, seeds, land, and agricultural education.
- Leave Poverty Behind will last for 4 years. If after this time there has been a reduction in poverty by 5%, it can be renewed for another 4 years. At this time it is suggested that the program be spread to another region with high absolute poverty rates.
Resolution GA-05 May 6
Re.: Establishing a program that sends better vaccines to Central and South America
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Mexico
Date: May 6, 2022
Concerned there is a 67% Cansino vaccine efficacy according to clinical trials arena, and
According to Google statistics 61% of Mexico’s population is vaccinated, and
According 40% to nature’s briefing 50 percent of people had serious side effects with the Cansino vaccine,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Asking the US and Canada to help their neighboring countries in Central and South America. We can first start up a program and send volunteers and residents at least 2250 to each country. We establish at least one center for every 350 square miles to ensure every community has a nearby clinic/center so all together building 200 clinics. They distribute clinics and vaccines by population, size of the country, and vaccination rates.
- From both countries, we are asking for 500 million dollars for Pfizer vaccines and 100 million to set up the vaccination clinics.
- In the course of 6 months, we start off with an initial plan. Each month we get a request from each clinic predicting how many vaccines they will need for the course of the month. Then we will have inspectors analyze the number of people going to each clinic and if there are any significant changes in covid rates and vaccines we continue the program until the vaccination rate is 95% or above in each country. Then we would move our program to other countries with vaccination rates of less than 62% vaccination rates.
- This plan ensures that people are becoming vaccinated and help the covid rate decrease. With the recent events in the news, this would be one thing the world can feel at ease with so with this we hope the United Nations can take our proposal into consideration.
Resolution GA-06 May 6
Re.: Women’s Education Rights in Afghanistan
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Ireland
Date: May 6, 2022
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
Whereas Article 26, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance, and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United nations for the maintenance of peace.”, and
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
Appalled that out of the 3.7 million children out-of-school in Afghanistan, 60% are girls, and
Keeping in mind that 61.3% of New Zealand graduates are female, and
Alarmed by the fact that religion is being used as a reason not to educate women, even though the Qur’ān encourages all Muslims, regardless of gender, to read, think, contemplate, and pursue knowledge, and the Prophet Muhammad encouraged education as a religious duty for both males and females, and
Dismayed that by not giving women an education is leading to lower paying jobs, child marriage, early childbearing, and lower country wealth, and
Observing that when you educate a woman, she in turn will most likely educate her children and teach them the importance of education, and
Seeing that research shows that there is a strong linkage between maternal education and children’s health. Children born to educated women suffer less from malnutrition which manifests as underweight, wasting and stunting in children,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will start a program called Support Women’s Education in Afghanistan (SWEA).
- The goal of SWEA is to begin the process of educating women in Afghanistan which is the basis of creating a peaceful, stable and prosperous Afghanistan.
- SWEA will find female teachers from Muslim countries that currently support and promote a good female education. Through this program these teachers will be working at 8 girls only boarding schools K-12. There will be two each in the four geographical locations of Afghanistan. Educators will be recruited for the schools from Turkey, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Malaysia. The boarding school will begin with 100 students per school.
- Universities in Muslim countries will be asked to give scholarships to Afghani women who complete their education and promise to come back to Afghanistan to educate girls for 2 years in their degree subject.
- SWEA will need $40 million up front to build and operate the schools and a total of 8.5 million dollars a year to operate which includes security, school supplies, sleeping arrangements and food.
- In the first year, we will raise dues on the 10 nations that pay the highest dues by the amount of 2.5% and each year after the first-year dues will be reduced by 2% of the original amount to 0.5%.
- SWEA encourages the government of Afghanistan, the Taliban, which promised to respect the rights of women after US withdrawal, by negotiating economic aid and debt forgiveness if Afghanistan cooperates and protects the rights of women to be educated.
- After the schools, SWEA will be reviewed every 2 years. The purpose of the review will be to make sure the safety and educational needs of the girls are being met. The review will make sure that educational best practices are being put in place. If it is a success, SWEA will coordinate and build more schools in Afghanistan.
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