Here are the resolutions for the May 1st General Assembly session. The schools attending are Assumption, Chesterfield Montessori, and Wentzville South middle. The General Assembly will be at the Richmond Heights Community Center 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.
| Resolution Number/Status | Submitted by: | Topic: |
|---|---|---|
| GA-01 SUBMITTED | Afghanistan Assumption | Clean Water in Afghanistan |
| GA-02 SUBMITTED | Venezuela Chesterfield Montessori | Police Brutality in Central and South America |
| GA-03 SUBMITTED | Norway Wentzville South Middle | Stopping Slavery & Providing Education in South Africa |
| GA-04 SUBMITTED | Philippines Assumption | HIV/AIDS Crisis |
| GA-05 SUBMITTED | Iceland Belgium Chesterfield Montessori | Global Warming in Iceland & Belgium |
| GA-06 SUBMITTED | Switzerland Wentzville South Middle | Improving Education in Guinea |
Resolution GA-01 May 1
Re.: Clean Water in Afghanistan
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Afghanistan
Date: May 1, 2018
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
Deeply Concerned that A study done by Hydrate Life on Afghanistan’s water crisis states that “Only 27% of its population has access to improved water sources, and it goes down to 20% in rural areas, the lowest percentage in the world.”, and
Noting with profound anxiety that families in Afghanistan are forced to drink unsanitary water out of streams and rivers. The people drink the same water that they bathe in, which can cause infections and diseases, and
Disturbed by the evidence that only 20% of Afghans have access to sanitation facilities, and
Alarmed by the fact that poor water conditions and bad sanitation cause diarrhea, stunted growth, Helminth infection, and other health issues due to malnourishment. The children’s health is more affected due to the need of proper nourishment in growing bodies and developing immune systems. 25% of children under the age of five die due to diseases, 54% of children within the ages 6 months to five years old, 67% are underweight, 47.2% are affected by the Helminth disease, and
Noting that the new water systems will need funding and human labor, and
Ashamed that Afghanistan has made little effort to accompany the basic needs of their people,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- To provide clean water to Afghanistan The UN will build a water treatment plant. The water treatment plant will be built in Kabul which is the biggest province in Afghanistan. We have chosen Kabul to experiment with the large population. The water plant will provide clean water for the city of Kabul. After a year, if the trial goes as planned then we will expand to the rest of the country.
- To pay for the water plant we will request $100.000 from the top fifteen wealthiest countries of the UN. We are requesting money from the UN because the war has caused most of Afghanistan’s water problems. The war has caused clean water to be contaminated and for water spouts and wells to be damaged.
- $1.2 million dollars will go to the supplies necessary to go to the water plant. $300,000 will go to the labor of the Afghanistan people. This will give job opportunities to Afghan people. The UN will supply five workers to train the Afghan people to build the water plant.
- The water plant will take approximately a year and a half to build. After this time we will be tracking the deaths related to water and clean facilities for the next year. After that year if it has a decreasing death rate the we will be building more water plants around the country.
Resolution GA-02 May 1
Re.: Police Brutality in Central and South America
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Venezuela
Date: May 1, 2018
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 9 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.”, and
Whereas Article 10 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.”, 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
Shocked that according to the InSight Crime Investigation and Analysis of Organized Crime, public trust in the police forces in Central American and South American countries reach down to as low as 28.7% (Honduras), and
Aware that according to the Foro Penal, about 5,400 were arrested in connections with demonstrations and protests against the government in Venezuela, including bystanders and people taken away from their homes without warrants, and
Saddened that the police and security forces of Central and South America have committed serious acts of violence against detainees including severe beatings, asphyxiation, and the use of electric shocks, all of these amounting to torture, as well as the use of military courts to prosecute civilians in an unfair environment, and
Alarmed by the fact that the aforementioned forces established to protect the people are using violent methods to subdue the demonstrators and protestors such as spraying them with high powered water cannons, running them over with armored vehicles, and shooting them with modified guns or at point blank range, and
Concerned that the people of Central and South America do not feel safe in their own countries and are afraid to protest the growing problem of police brutality, even in a peaceful manner,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations creates crisis teams that will immediately go to the countries Honduras, Guatemala, and Venezuela (three of the countries with the highest rates of police brutality) and negotiate with the countries’ executives, giving them a full report on the police situation in their countries and attempting to satisfy both the governments’ and the citizens’ needs.
- Assuming that this negotiation is successful, the UN and those three governments will create a task force consisting of 10,000 men and women called the South American Civilian Safety Corps. (SACSC) that will train police and security forces to handle detainees, protesters, and bystanders without the use of violence.
- The SACSC will also send officers to oversee any further protests to ensure that they are carried out in a peaceful manner; any violent demonstrators or anyone that commits a crime against the law will be subject to arrest but will not be subject to torture or any form of inhuman treatment.
- Likewise, the SACSC will set up 40 medical tents in all the major cities within each country (meaning 120 cities in total) to treat any person that has been subject to that cruel treatment.
- Officials in the SACSC will additionally inspect jails and prisons in the three countries to liberate anyone held captive under false accusations or as a result of police violently interrupting a peaceful protest.
- The UN will also create a second smaller task force consisting of 8,000 men and women that will work at the same time as the SACSC; it will be called the South American Civilian’s Nourishment and Wellbeing (SACNW) and will work with the governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and Venezuela to improve conditions for the general populations of those countries, and to find a way to achieve a common goal for all parties in order to reduce the protests and the violence.
- This program will start within the year and will end whenever violence caused by the police forces decreases by over sixty percent in each of the three countries, which we estimate to be between one and two years.
- After having demonstrated in Honduras, Guatemala, and Venezuela, we expect the governments of other countries in that region to work together using our program as the foundation; at this point, the UN will only be loosely involved with the police situation in South America, although it will supervise some of the larger decisions made by the governments.
- Estimated cost for the program is $25,000,000 to be spent on the following:
- Equipment for the workers in their task forces: $12,000,000
- Medical tents and medical supplies: $8,000,000
- Other necessities that may appear in the near future: $5,000,000
We request that the UN raise dues by 2% on the 10 nations that pay the highest amounts of dues. This course of action will raise approx. $26 million dollars for the program.
Resolution GA-03 May 1
Re.: Stopping Slavery & Providing Education in South Africa
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Norway
Date: May 1, 2018
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 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
Noting that 5 million people live in South Africa, and about 248,000 people live in slavery, and
Alarmed that 45.87% of South Africans are vulnerable to modern slavery, and
Concerned that even though the literacy rate of slaves is unknown, almost no people in slavery have no sort of education,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Norway will send $14 million dollars (USD) of our own money with the help of the UN with another $14 million dollars.
- We will also raise money by doing a tip hotline. Our goal for the tip hotline is $500,000 dollars.
- We will provide education to the South African peoples and slaves.
- We will run fundraisers, like going to schools and collecting unwanted books and supplies. Out of that $500,000 dollars that we will raise, $300,000 of it will go to building schools for the South African peoples and slaves.
- To help stop slavery $14 million dollars of our own money will go to the police to help stop slavery, they will do this by getting more undercover police men to go to slave auctions and apprehend the slave traders.
- The other $14 million dollars will go to slave rehabilitation camps. At these camps there will be running, clean, hot water. There will be enough food for the slaves. There will also be policemen patrolling the areas.
Resolution GA-04 May 1
Re.: HIV/AIDS Crisis
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Philippines
Date: May 1, 2018
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 according to www.hrw.com the latest statistics from the UNAIDS’ 2017 report indicates the rate of HIV infection in the Philippines has become the highest in the Asia Pacific region, and
Knowing that the Philippines has registered the fastest-growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Asia-Pacific in the past six years with a 140% increase in the number of new infections, and
Concerned that if no serious and widespread measures are observed and implemented, the number of infected could reach an unprecedented 133,000 by 2020, and
Knowing that in 2008, there was 1 case per day recorded. In March of this year it was 25. Nine months later it is 26,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations create a group of volunteers to travel around the Philippines teaching middle school and high school students about the dangers of HIVS. This foundation will teach the students more about responsibility. It will also teach the students how to prevent HIV/AIDS.
- Assuming the success with the negotiation, the UN will create a task force called K’E to Life. We will give middle school and high school students to be able to learn about the dangers and struggles of HIVS. This organization will provide one lesson per health class.
- With the help of volunteers 4 people will be teaching in different schools around the Philippines county, who do not understand the dangers of HIVS.
- K’E to Life will also provide twice a year check ups, for the kids who are participating in the health class. We will use HIV tests on each student.
- Any students who want to do this program, are welcome to join, no matter what religion, race, or gender.
- This program will start during the beginning of the school year and end within that year, because of the immediate knowledge on how to keep yourself from getting the illness.
- Estimated cost for this program $1,005,000.
- HIV Rapid Diagnostic Test: (30 tests for $23/$23 per class) which will add up to about $8,280/year
- Protection: Needed to prevent aids being transmitted so protection will be need and it will cost $1352.25/year
Funding:
- If we raised dues on the 10 wealthiest nations by 0.5% which would equal $863,361 dollars to go towards our organization.
Resolution GA-05 May 1
Re.: Global Warming in Iceland & Belgium
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Iceland, Belgium
Date: May 1, 2018
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 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 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 according to NASA the world average global temperatures have increased by 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1880, and that two thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, and
Saddened that solar energy is what we think is helping solve climate change, but is really the same as using coal. Manufacturing the solar panels uses tons of fossil fuels, relating to using other power objects, and
Knowing that alternatively powered energy may be better than solar energy, but are still creating a different problem. Wind turbines don’t use fossil fuels and don’t pollute the air, but are a potential threat to birds and bats, which are one of our pollinators. They also need a lot of room, making more trees having to be cut down also needs available wind, Geothermal energy doe not use fossil fuels and don’t pollute the air making geothermal energy the best way to go, and
Concerned that people will start buying more solar panels thinking they’re helping the environment, but are using more of the fossil fuels, and
Worried that certain solar cells require exotic materials that are rare in nature and that people will not know this and can cause even more problems with climate change,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The countries in the UNITED NATIONS will slowly convert their energy resources into renewable energy sources.
- The UNITED NATIONS will have fundraisers to raise money for other countries to build wind turbines and help them use geothermal energy.
- Nations in the UNITED NATIONS should gradually stop drilling for oil and start shutting down the oil factories in other countries.
- Schools in the UNITED NATIONS receive a pamphlet explaining what products to buy and what to do to help climate change. The Pamphlet will explain the issues with greenhouse gas emissions and how we can help stop it. People are uneducated and need to be taught what is happening to our earth, or the UN could arrange conferences to educate others about the problem.
- The UNITED NATIONS start funding research into more renewable energy sources. Almost all of the renewable energy sources use fossil fuels and produce carbon emissions.
- Countries in the UNITED NATIONS will send out volunteers to help plant trees, using live stakes from native trees from all regions.
- Have people stop spending money on flood plains when you could be planting native plants to keep the soil nice and drained.
- The UNITED NATIONS will raise the dues on the ten richest countries by 2%, to help fund the operations above.
Resolution GA-06 May 1
Re.: Improving Education in Guinea
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Switzerland
Date: May 1, 2018
Whereas Article 18 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion of belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”, and
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
Noting that only 70% can read and write, and
Saddened that 30% of them can’t read because they are poor and can’t afford it, and
Concerned that because of their religion some lack schooling,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- Timeframe: 4 years.
- A description of a new idea and program: We will send missionaries to KDN Foundation.
- Funding : Charities and school. They will provide donations such as clothes, food and etc. Yes I think that our idea will work. Because we will have people all from all around donating things for the children in Papua New Guinea.
- Ways to make sure the solution works: Make sure the Charities pay the rest.
- Evaluation: Yes because we have to keep track of all the people and money that is donated and made.
