Here are resolutions submitted from students at Lafayette Prep Academy. To download these as a google doc, please click here.
| Resolution Number: | Submitted By: | Topic: |
| GA-01 | Australia, Norway | Deforestation in Nigeria |
| GA-02 | Colombia | Healthcare in Guatemala |
| GA-03 | Benin | Legal Trade in Africa |
| GA-04 | Stopping the Spread of Ebola in the DRC |
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Resolution GA-01 April 6
Re.: Deforestation in Nigeria
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Australia, Norway
Date: April 6, 2020
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 19 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”, and
Aware that Nigeria has the highest deforestation rate in the world, at about 3.5% every year, and
Upset that deforestation leads to surplus carbon dioxide, as when trees are cut down, there are fewer trees to recycle carbon dioxide into oxygen, and
Appalled that Nigeria has lost over 10,000 hectares of forests since 2001, and
Disgusted that certain world leaders do not believe climate change exists or is a problem despite scientific proof.
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- As the United Nations, we will begin a program named Revitalizing the Forests of Nigeria, or RFN, to begin replanting trees.
- RFN will gather 900,000 volunteers (or as many as we can get) from Nigeria to work for 1-3 hours a day in shifts to revitalize the soil and plant native trees. The volunteers will be split evenly into 300,000 people for 3 groups. Volunteers will be reimbursed with a free meal every shift and college credit.
- Each volunteer group will meet at a location specified by the RFN to revitalize the soil and plant native trees. The locations will be places that were previously forests and are currently barren land.
- Volunteers will be fed with food from many local chefs paid by the RFN budget, which will help employ the unemployed.
- We will ask Liechtenstein, Monaco, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Ireland, Qatar, the United States, and Australia to collectively donate 300 million USD towards the first 5 years of RFN.
- After 1 year, RFN will check on the new trees and if they are still alive in their respective locations. If the trees are faring well, RFN will continue. After the first 5 years, if the carbon dioxide levels have lowered at least by 5% since the beginning of the program. If neutral or no positive progress has been made, the RFN program will be cut. If positive progress has been made, RFN will continue for another 5 years, repeating the checking
Resolution GA-02 April 6
Re.: Healthcare in Guatemala
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Colombia
Date: April 6, 2020
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 the malnutrition in rural areas is 70% and that in February 2014-15 47% of children under 5 are stunted and as of February 2018 has reached up to 70% Totonicapán, Quiche, and Huehuetenango (highly indigenous areas of the country), and
Nothing that there is a huge change in stunting says maternal education and wealth levels have changed, and
Concerned that 27% of children whose moms have a secondary education are stunted, and
Saddened that while the commonness rises to 67 percent of children whose mothers had no formal education, and
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The UN creates a protective Guatemala health task force HHRIG (Helping Health Risk In Guatemala) HHRIG will be held accountable for surveying rural areas and their health rates. If someone is found in a rural area without the proper health will be taken to a clinic until in proper health and will be check up on after to make sure they are comfortable.
- The proposed budget for HHRIG will be 50 Million 7 and a half will be put towards survey test, The clinics will cost 500,000 the clinics will provide food, medicine, sanitary products, condoms, it will add up to around 450,000 the money left will go into helping rural areas become better health-wise and emergencies.
- The money will come from raising the dues on the 30 nations that already pay the most in dues by 3.5%.
- Since the death rates have started to increase we are asking to start this in between the next four months and after a year if the resolution doesn’t work to cut funding.
- After the year if at least 3 indigenous areas in Guatemala’s health risk increase by 65% the solution will prove to be a good idea and can go another year if the percentage rates go down to 45% for 4 months will stop being
Resolution GA-03 April 6
Re.: Legal Trade in Africa
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Benin
Date: April 6, 2020
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 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.”, 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
Knowing that Nigeria has closed its’ borders from Benin and other neighboring countries to stop illegal trade at the border, and
Concerned for the jobs that the people held whilst trading illegally, and
Saddened by the fact that Benin, Togo, and The Gambia are the main trading conduits throughout landlocked Africa,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Create a group focused on assembling unions dedicated to trading, this will be called the PLT (the Project to Legalize Trade).
- The PLT will cost 1 million USD to set up small offices and to pay for attorneys [one USD is equal to 589.00 West African CFA Franc].
- Provide attorneys with offices to support making the illegal trade legal.
- This will affect Togo, The Gambia, Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, and more across the continent.
- Nigeria accounts for 5 percent of Benin’s exports and 3 percent of Togo’s exports, excluding illegal trade.
- Widen the legal trade percentage and shrink the illegal
- We will gain support financially from the top 10 richest countries: Liechtenstein, Monaco, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Qatar, the United States, and
Resolution GA-04 April 6
Re.: Slowing the Spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by:
Date: April 6, 2020
Whereas Article 21, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.”, 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 the number of health care workers in the DRC averages out to 0.09 physicians to 1,000 individuals. This is drastically less than many other countries, such as the United States with almost 3 physicians per 1,000 individuals, and
Whereas the Democratic Republic of the Congo is grappling with the world’s second-largest Ebola epidemic on record, with more than 2,200 lives lost and 3,400 confirmed infections since 2018, and
Whereas as of 2016, there were 401 hospitals in the DRC. Despite this, access to medical care remains sparse in rural areas. In fact, it is still difficult for many citizens to obtain the necessary medical aid,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- A way to stop Ebola from spreading in the Congo, by building more hospitals and bringing in more doctors to satisfy our patients to a good health level. We are trying to do this because there has been over 2,500 cases reported and more 1,500 deaths, and this is one of the largest outbreaks Zaire ebola virus, Bundibugyo ebola virus, and san ebola virus are the three species of Ebola virus responsible for the larger outbreaks in
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