Resolutions for May 2, 2018

Here are the resolutions for the May 2nd General Assembly session. The schools attending are Home School Network, Wentzville South Middle, and Wydown Middle. The General Assembly will be at the Lodge at Des Peres 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	Australia Home School Network	Water and Sanitation Improvements in Indonesia
GA-02 SUBMITTED	United Kingdom Wentzville South Middle	High Infant Mortality Rate in Afghanistan
GA-03 NOT SUBMITTED	Wydown
GA-04 SUBMITTED	Syria Home School Network	Eliminating Rape as a Weapon of War
GA-05 SUBMITTED	Dominican Republic Wentzville South Middle	Ending Child Labor in the Dominican Republic
GA-06 NOT SUBMITTED	Wydown

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Resolution GA-01 May 2

Re.:                             Water and Sanitation Improvements in Indonesia
Submitted to:             General Assembly
Submitted by:            Australia
Date:                           May 2, 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 

Alarmed that Tri Dewi Virgiyanti, Director of Housing and Settlement of the National Development Planning Agency in Indonesia states, “Only 5% of human waste is properly treated for safe disposal. The remainder still contaminates the environment,” and

Deeply concerned that more than 70 percent of the nation’s 220 million people rely on potentially contaminated sources, and

Fully aware that the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) states that, “Around 88% of deaths in Indonesia caused by diarrhea are linked to incomplete water, sanitation and hygiene provision,”

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Establish a partnership with Planet Water Foundation to install 20 AquaTowers, systems that take contaminated water and filter it into clean, safe drinking water, in twenty villages around Indonesia.
2. Hire and train locals to set up and maintain 5 bio-gas linked toilets (which require no water) in each of the 20 villages, for a total of 100 bio-gas linked toilets.
3. Create an educational program to increase personal hygiene habits in adults and children. This will be run by 5 health specialists, with each health specialist responsible for 4 villages.
4. After 2 years, the program will be evaluated on the following criteria;
   • Statistics of waterborne diseases in the drinking water
   • Amount of human waste properly treated using the bio-gas linked-toilets
   • Positive personal hygiene habits (hand and body washing) in local areas
5. If successful, the program will be expanded to 100 nearby villages, with the possibility of replicating it in Malaysia, Philippines and Papua New Guinea.
6. Funding will be achieved by raising the dues of the 10 richest countries by 0.08%.

 

 

	How Many Units	Unit Cost	Total Cost
AquaTowers	20	$15,000.00	$300,000.00
Bio-gas linked toilets	100	$250.00	$25,000.00
Health specialists	5	$50,000.00	$250,000.00
Setup/Maintenance	20	$30,000.00	$600,000.00
Grand Total			$1,175,000.00

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Resolution GA-02 May 2

Re.:                             High Infant Mortality Rate in Afghanistan
Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            United Kingdom

Date:                           May 2, 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 

Alarmed by the fact that 115.08 out of 1000 infants dies in Afghanistan, and

Deeply concerned that 94% of births aren’t recorded meaning they aren’t born safely in hospitals,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. We will build medical camps in Afghanistan, and we will send doctors and medical staff to work there. We will start constructing better hospitals when we start this. We will then send/re-locate the doctors and medical staff to the hospitals.
2. We will ask the United Nations for ￡356 million ($429,902,396) to fund this, and we will provide more money for supplies if needed.
3. After sending doctors and construction workers, we will ask for weekly updates on progress on construction, and if the program is stable in the progress. The UN is not responsible for the outcome.
4. We will support this program for 4 years, or longer if infant mortality rate is not under 75 deaths for every 1000.

 

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Resolution GA-04 May 2 

Re.:                             Eliminating Rape as a Weapon of War
Submitted to:             General Assembly
Submitted by:            Syria
Date:                           May 2, 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 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

Alarmed that girls as young as age 12 are being raped or sexually violated in Syria since the war began seven years ago, and

Noting with deep concern that 600,000 women are fleeing from war zones this year in fear of sexual assault and 10,000 have been raped as a weapon of war, and

Fully aware the Islamic State published a pamphlet endorsing rape of women and child slaves in 2014 which promotes sexual violence,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Outlaw rape as a weapon of war in Syria while establishing an awareness campaign to educate the public. The campaign shall be overseen by the United Nations Human Rights Committee with input from organizations with experience in sexual violence education, such as The Consensual Project.
2. A treatment center shall be established under the Global Health Crises Task Force to treat victims in each of the 14 governorates. These centers shall be expansions on current health facilities.
3. Passing the law should not cost any money. The cost of the education campaign via pamphlets, radio and television will cost $10 million. Establishing treatment centers will cost $1.5 million annually based on the costs and operations of the similar Japan Sexual Assault Crisis Healing Intervention Center Osaka (SACHICO) one-stop treatment facilities, which consist of 47 treatment facilities costing ¥160 million (1.5 million US dollars). These facilities have provided 24-hour care and support of victims of sexual violence since 2009 with funding from Japanese Dowa laws to improve conditions for minorities.
4. We would like to fundraise for this money and ask for help from sexual violence prevention groups such as the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN), NO MORE, The Consensual Project and the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence. These organizations will also be helpful in the creation, distribution and implementation of educational materials and programs.
5. We ask that the program be evaluated after five years. If rape cases have been reduced by 10% we will consider the program successful and expand it to include treatment centers in all of Syria’s 65 districts and other nations undergoing conflict.

 

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Resolution GA-05 May 2

Re.:                             Ending Child Labor in the Dominican Republic
Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Dominican Republic

Date:                           May 2, 2018

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 when kids start working at a young age to support their families they drop out of school to never attend school and are robbed of an education causing the countries literacy rate to be low, and

Concerned that it is estimated that 216 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 do dangerous work, and

Noting that 60% of them in farming, and

Alarmed that according to the Ministry of Education (SEE), the main cause of school desertion is work, especially between 6th and 8th grades. Only four out of every ten children complete their primary education,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Schools will be built so kids have easier access to school.
2. School hours will have different timed classes.
3. Put restrictions on types of jobs kids can have (Nothing too physical)
4. Put in place a minimum work age of 14.
5. Have a set minimum wage so kids and workers are not underpaid.
6. Start a program to help family in poverty.
7. Tax upper class citizens to help pay for things.
8. Accept donations from people and countries.
9. Should be in place for 20 years.
10. Send trained people to make sure the children are attending school.
11. If children get an education, they can get a better jobs as adults and in turn won’t have to send their kids to school. If the family allows their child(ren) to go to school, they will be provided with food rations and clothes.
12. If this goes on for 2 decades child labor in the Dominican Republic will be significantly declined. Not only will it help the Dominican Republic but places like Congo, Myanmar, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Zimbabwe.
13. A special committee would be created to get worthy volunteers and train them. The volunteers can be from anywhere, and any country