Here are resolutions submitted from students at DuBray Middle. These were the 3 strongest resolutions submitted by 7th graders and the 3 strongest from 8th graders.
| Resolution Number: | Submitted By: | Topic: |
| GA-01 | Haiti | Haiti’s Poor Education System |
| GA-02 | Japan | Increasing Literacy Rate in South Sudan |
| GA-03 | The Bahamas | Contaminated Water in Bhutan |
| GA-04 | Austria | Endangered Species in Ecuador |
| GA-05 | Saint Lucia | Human Trafficking in Costa Rica |
| GA-06 | Mozambique | Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest |
Resolution GA-01
Re.: Haiti’s Poor Education System
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Haiti
Date: April 2020
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
Understanding that Haitian Educational System yields the lowest total rate in the education realm of the Western Hemisphere, and
Having considered the appalling literacy rate of approximately 61% (64.3% for males and 57.3% for females), as well as, and
Recalling that the agricultural sector made up much of its economic growth last year, which
Affirms the fact that as well as being their main source of income and economic growth, the agricultural sector also employs 40% of the Haiti labor force. We are
Alarmed by how extremely vulnerable Haiti is to natural hazards, with more than 90 percent of the population at risk, and
Fully aware that the southern peninsula is still rebuilding after Hurricane Matthew, a natural disaster that caused damages equivalent to 32 percent of GDP in 2016, and
Confident that these frequent natural disasters are going to hinder Haiti’s growth we believe that a long-term plan of action should be made to increase Haiti’s productivity in other industries to lessen the impact of these natural disasters on their economic growth, and
Noting with deep concern that 90% of Haiti’s schools are private organizations that require steep fees/tuition to attend,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program called Grade School that will provide free education to children in hopes of cultivating interest in other industries in the future.
- Two permanent schools will be set up in each commune Carrefour, Delmas, Pétion-Ville, Cité Soleil, Saint Marc, Cap-Haïtien, Gonaives, Les Cayes, Jacmel, Port-au-Prince, Boucan Carre, Port-de-Paix, Jérémie, and Mombin-Crochu for a total of 28 schools. Children ages 5-15 will be provided free schooling to spark interest in other industries in the future.
- Some adults will also be offered free nightschool to eventually become teachers as well.
- Grade School will cost about 57 million dollars initially for the infrastructure and then $600,000 a year. A salary will also be provided for the night school students that decide to become teachers. The money will be provided by raising dues 5%, for the first year only, for the 10 nations that pay the highest amount of dues and then by raising dues 0.5% for the 10 wealthiest countries.
- We expect to see a 9% increase in literacy rate as well as a 7% increase in STEM jobs over the course of 10 years. If this occurs we will continue in 10 year increments until we reach a literacy rate of 90%. If Haiti takes well to this program we would also like to implement it in other third world countries such as Ethiopia, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Pakistan, And Angola.
Resolution GA-02
Re.: Increasing Literacy Rate in South Sudan
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Japan
Date: April 2020
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
Alarmed that South Sudan has a literacy rate of around 26.83%, and
Concerned that the low literacy and education rate means that fewer people will be able to hold jobs, and that lowers the economy, and
Noting that South Sudan has many natural resources –such as petroleum, gold, silver, and chromium ore– that could be used to further the world’s economy if South Sudan’s economy was stable, and
Emphasizing that about 70% of eligible children in South Sudan are out of school,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The UN would create a teaching organization called the UNTU (United Nations Teaching Union) to help increase the literacy rate of poor countries. To tell if someone is eligible for education, they can be required to take a test to assess their reading level and general level of education.
- Many of the teachers in South Sudan are unqualified, so requirements to become a teacher could be made; colleges to educate the teachers could be set in place. More schools could be built as there are only 120 secondary schools and one university, so we can create about 40 new schools, and import about 500 teachers from other countries such as the United States, Switzerland, and Japan due to their current educational system to replace the current teachers while they are bettering their education.
- With the price of about $2,100,000 per school (including building prices, food, supplies, and the salary of the teachers), we can build about 40 while using a budget of about $85,000,000.
- We can collect the $85,000,000 from raising the UN dues of 7 countries with the highest dues by about 5%, creating about $85,500,000.
- Due to how long it takes to build a school, we are asking for this operation to last about ten years, five for building schools and five to allow time for the students to grow and the literacy rates to increase.
- If we manage to raise the literacy rate of South Sudan to 40% within the five years, we know that this process was successful. If successful, we can expand this operation to other countries such as Afghanistan, Chad, or Niger, as they have an average literacy rate of 26%
Resolution GA-03
Re.: Decontaminate Water in Bhutan
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: The Bahamas
Date: April 2020
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
Concerned that only one-third of Bhutan’s water is not contaminated because of sewage problems and trash in the water, and
Noting that climate change could be a possible contribution to the drying of water systems, and
Saddened that over 13,000 rural homes have suffered from water problems (17% of the homes), and
Fully aware that Bhutan has an abundance of water and has the most water out of the countries around it,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The UN will create an action plan BICWP. (Bhutan International Clean Water Program) BICWP will send people to investigate where clean water is needed the most throughout Bhutan, and will take a census of those places. From there create a ration for the number of water stations in an area. On top of that they will map out where the clean water stations, the treatment plant will be, and the source of the dirty water.
- The BICWP will put 20 small clean water supply stations in rural villages. Then for the big cities they will install 8 big clean water supply station within Bhutan. This water will come through one big water filtering system/ treatment plant that cleans the water from the dirty source of water close to the source discovered by the research. The reason for creating these stations is running water to each home is out of price range, but the fact that the people of Bhutan don’t have to walk multiple hours just to get a bucket of contaminated water.
- The proposed budget for BICWP to create a water treatment plant would be $1.5 million, and it will produce 50 GPM (gallons per minute) of clean water. $2 million for the 20 small clean water stations, and $8 million for the 8 big water stations. It would also cost a total of $3.706 billion for the piping. $5 million for the investigators. All together that will cost $3.877 billion dollars.
- The $3.856 billion dollars will come from raising the UN dues of the world’s top polluting countries (United States, China, India, Japan, Russia), and the countries that pay the most in UN dues (Germany, UK, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Italy, France) all by 196%. Before that we will ask countries like the US, UK, China, Germany, Italy and France (in that order) if they will contribute a large donation like the US did in 2017. If not we will follow through with that plan and we will $3.86 billion. This provides 9 million dollars of extra funds.
- BICWP will start with a year of research and mapping out where everything will go. From there the treatment plant will be installed (3 to 5 years.), and at the same time the stations would be installed in the villages and cities. It will then take another 2 years to connect the piping throughout the country. In all it would take a total of 6-8 years to install everything.
- After 5 years of observation, we will check in with the citizens and interview them along with sending people to research the success. If successful we will expand BICWP to Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Giving them 15 years to see how it works there with adjustments and then possibly expanding to some larger countries like Mexico.
Resolution GA-04
Re.: Endangered Species in Ecuador
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Austria
Date: April 2020
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 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
Alarmed that Ecuador has the most endangered species in the world, with 2,301 endangered species as of 2019, and
Aware that pollution is a huge part of the extinction of lots of Ecuador’s animals, and
Keeping in mind that the Ecuadorian Government is trying to save its animals on the Galapagos Islands by passing protection and pollution laws, and
Concerned that if nothing else is done to protect Ecuador’s animals, then even more animal species in Ecuador and on the Galapagos Islands will become extinct and endangered,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The UN will create a program called the SEA. (Save Ecuador’s Animals) The SEA will consist mostly of 1-2 hundred volunteers from the country of Ecuador. This will include zoologists, vets, and sanitation workers (about 50 of each) sent in from some UN countries who don’t currently have big problems with pollution and animal endangerment. (possible ex. Sweden, Iceland, Finland)
- This group of volunteers, animal experts, and waste experts will travel in 60-seater buses to Ecuador’s most trash-polluted cities and streets and clean up the roads. The waste experts will also search for fixable sanitation problems, such as a sewage leak, and fix the problem to help try and reduce the water contamination that is affecting Ecuador’s animals. While working by areas with water pollution, the zoologists and vets will search for injured animals, such as Ecuador’s endangered Giant Otter, and bring those animals to local medical facilities where they will help the animal recover.
- The cost of this program will be around $10 million. $20 thousand will be used to purchase gear for the volunteers and animal/waste experts, including pants, coats, gloves, and things to clean up the trash. $1.8 million will be used for about 6 buses that can seat 60 people. $100 thousand will be earmarked for repairing any sanitation issues, like sewage problems. $5 million of this will go into paying the zoologists, waste experts, and veterinarians. The remaining money will be used for medical supplies to treat any injured animals, and also to set up temporary medical facilities if there are either no animal hospitals in the area, or the animal hospitals do not have enough room or money to take in the injured animals.
- The UN will pay for this program by raising the UN dues for the 10 nations that are the most wealthy by 10%, which will raise about $11 million.
- At first, this SEA will go on for about 5 years. This should give the group enough time to get a reasonable amount of extremely water-polluted cities clean, but should also give enough time to help rehabilitate a good amount of injured animals. If the program proves successful, and the amount of endangered animal species in Ecuador decreases by at least 3-5 percent, then we can open up more spots for volunteers and continue the program for another few years.
- Also after the first few years, if the program is successful, then we can create similar programs with the same jobs for the 2-3 countries who have the most endangered animal species, such as Malaysia and Indonesia.
Resolution GA-05
Re.: Human Trafficking in Costa Rica
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Saint Lucia
Date: April 2020
Whereas Article 4 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”, and
Whereas Article 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 23 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”, and
Whereas Article 25, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care, and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”, and
Fully aware that Costa Rica is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor, and that (on average) 26 people a year are victims of human trafficking, and
Alarmed by the fact that Costa Rican women and children, as well as those from Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and other Latin American countries, are sex trafficked in Costa Rica, and
Deeply concerned that men and children from Central America, including indigenous Panamanians, and Asia are forced to work against their will in agriculture, construction, fishing, and commerce,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The U.N. will create a mobile police force called HTPF (Human Trafficking Prevention Force) to track down and prevent human trafficking. The force will consist of around 50 local police, trained to check for any signs of human trafficking. They will have all the available resources and have two centers around the island. These centers will be where they detain any criminals found trafficking in humans, any other criminals will be handed over to the local police force.
- HTPF will create a border control group to check outgoing and incoming cargo for illegal activity. They will do routine checks of everything that enters or leaves the city along with checks of a criminal record for everybody who enters the country. If they find a record of criminal records, then they will conduct a search of their cargo.
- The HTPF will oversee the construction of two rehabilitation centers in San Jose, Liberia, Golfito, and Puerto Limón to treat and mentally heal victims that have been affected by the trauma of human trafficking. The rehabilitation centers will come equipped with free meals, therapists, psychiatrists, and recreation areas including a gym, pool, and track.
- This program will cost about $20,000,000 which will pay for the construction and staffing of the two rehabilitation centers which will cost about 425,000 per rehabilitation center, staffing the police force and equipping them with all necessary elements is $19,540,500 in total, Staffing the border control and funding the constructions of checkpoints into and out of Costa Rica, and giving financial support to those recovering in the facilities. Fund this program we will raise the dues of the 10 wealthiest nations by 1.1%. The countries affected would be Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, And U.S.A.
- If this program makes the human trafficking rates go down by at least 10%, after a 5 year period, the U.N. will expand the project to the next 3 countries that are suffering the worst from the terrors of human trafficking, which will include India, China, and Pakistan.
Resolution GA-06
Re.: Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Mozambique
Date: April 2020
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 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
Concerned that animal habitats are being destroyed because people are cutting down trees in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana to build urban areas in place of the Amazon Rainforest, and
Alarmed that native tribes that live in the Amazon rainforest are being invaded by illegal loggers and cattle ranchers who bring diseases are forced to leave their homes, and
Deeply concerned that about 2000 trees are cut down per minute in the Amazon Rainforest, and
Alarmed that in the last 30 years the Amazon has lost 20% of its overall area, and
Aware that there are over 50 endangered species that only live in the Amazon rainforest, and inadequate protection is being provided for them,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The UN will create a plantation in Argentina that grows food that will be exported to Brazil’s supermarkets and stores. This plantation would prevent the need to cut down trees for more resources. Rare and critically endangered species such as the golden lion tamarin monkey, jaguars, poison dart frogs, river dolphin, and their habitats will be strictly reserved for observation and scientific purposes only.
- The plantation in Argentina will be 500 acres and consist of ⅕ corn, ⅕ soybean, ⅕ wheat, ⅕ cattle, and ⅕ other.
- The budget will be 4 million U.S dollars. 1.6 million will be spent on buying the land. 50,000 will be spent paying 1500 workers $280 a month for 15 years. These workers would be given jobs such as planting, fertilizing, watering, harvesting, shipping, botanical engineering, and other farm jobs. Volunteers would also be accepted to work at the plantation. Dues would be raised by 1.5% for the top 20 richest countries to pay for this plantation.
- If the plantation reduces the number of trees cut down in the Amazon by at least 5%, then we continue the plantation for another 15 years and additional plantations will be placed in Venezuela, Peru, and Colombia.
