april_28_2004_resolutions

Resolution	Sponsors	Topic	Status
GA April 28-01	Bosnia and Herzegovina (Burroughs)	Landmines	Amended and Passed
GA April 28-02	Belize (Northwest Valley)	Increasing Paved Roads and Runways	*Amended and Defeated*
GA April 28-03	China, France, Jordan, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mali (Normandy)	AIDs Education	Amended and Passed
GA April 28-04	Canada (Burroughs)	Depleted Uranium Ammunition	Amended and Passed
GA April 28-05	Spain, Somalia (Northwest Valley)	Getting more Water in Spain, Somalia, and their Borders	Amended and Passed
GA April 28-06	Nepal (Burroughs)	Sexual Trafficking	Not Debated

Resolution GA April 28-01

Amended and Passed, 40-3-1

John Burroughs

Heading:

Re: Landmines

Submitted to: General Assembly

Submitted by: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date: April 28, 2004

Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:

Deeply concerned that 26,000 people killed by landmines each year; 8,000 of which are children, and

Alarmed by the number of casualties suffered by NATO in Bosnia-over 50, and

Shocked at the child to landmine ratio in Cambodia- one to two, and

Realizing that Landmines cost $3-$30 to produce but $300-$1000 to remove, and

Saddened that the Ottawa Treaty ban on anti-personnel landmines is not working, seeing as landmine problems still exists in an estimated 70 countries, and

Noting that without mines, agricultural production could increase by 88-200% in Afghanistan, 11% in Bosnia, 135% in Cambodia, 3.6% in Mozambique, as well as substantially in many other countries, and

Startled by the loss of 54,554 animals were lost due to land mines, with a minimum cash value of nearly $200 per household, just within Bosnia, Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Mozambique, and

Referring to Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states, “Everybody has the right to life, liberty, and the security of person.”,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The General Assembly levy a tax of 2[BobDole1] % on all cigarette imports in the 12 wealthiest countries that import them.

2. To distribute the funds collected by this tax, the UN shall create a council of 2 representatives from each of those 12 countries. This council shall be called the United Nations Council to Ban Use and Existence of Landmines.

3. This 24-member council shall exist for a period of 3 years, and if the General Assembly so wishes, its existence be renewed for an additional period of 5 years. The General Assembly may take a vote every 5 years to reconsider renewing the council for another 5 years.

4. At any time during its existence, this council may not reduce or increase the tax; however the General Assembly may increase or decrease the tax by a maximum of .5%.

5. The Committee shall, with said funds, employ specialists to remove the landmines from the 10 most landmine-plagued countries. Once the situation in those countries is controlled, the funds shall go towards removing landmines in the next 10 countries with landmine problems.

6. A treaty for funding landmine removal in post-war countries shall be voluntarily signed. It states that the victorious country(s) shall partially (10%) fund removal of any landmines placed on foreign soil during wartime.

7. If there is more than one victorious country, the fine shall be divided according to the county’s GDP.

[BobDole1]This was raised from 1%.

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Resolution GA April 28-02

Amended and Defeated, 10-28-3

Northwest Valley

Heading:

Re: Increasing Paved Roads and Runways

Submitted to: General Assembly

Submitted by: Belize

Date: April 28, 2004

Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:

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

Whereas Article 21, Section 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, “Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in their state,” 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 of himself and his family. Including food, clothing, housing, medical care, necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, or other lack of livelihood due to circumstances beyond their control,” and

Whereas of the 42 airports in Belize, only 4 are paved, or 10% of airports, and

Whereas 78% of all highways in Central America are unpaved, and

Whereas 90% of all airport runways in Central America are unpaved,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Money generated from a 1% tax on roundtrip airline tickets in the main tourist countries of Central America. There[BobDole1] will also be a 1% tax added to the imports of Central America.

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 of himself and his family," and

Whereas Article 25, Section 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, "Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance," and

Whereas in China, between 600,000 and 1 million individuals are HIV positive and the rate of infected people has increased 30%, and

Whereas in Tanzania, the number of children orphaned by AIDS is 2 million, and

Whereas 42 million people in the world are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and

Whereas 10% of Africans between 15 and 49 years old are infected with HIV, and

Whereas 14 million children under 15 years have lost one or both parents to AIDS,

2. This money will create an AIDS education plan called World AIDS and HIV Education (W.A.H.E.).

3. The money will be used for AIDS education for people of all ages. The education will take place in schools, community centers, hospitals, orphanages, and other public spaces.

4. One fourth of the money collected will also be spent on researching a cure for AIDs[BobDole2] .

5. People who have AIDS in the community will be asked to speak in public about the disease. This will help to get information out on the table and reduce the stigma attached to AIDS.

6. As sponsors of this resolution, China and France will send doctors over to help train the speakers and the education directors.

Taking into account that in order to achieve the right potency of radioactivity for nuclear reactors, a by product of pure uranium 238 will be discarded, and

Alarmed by the fact that this form of uranium, also known as Depleted Uranium (DU), is used in the form of ammunition by the British and American Armed Forces and at least 15 other countries, and

Aware of the fact that this is a very dense pyrophoric material, which makes it highly effective, and

Also aware that it has radioactive and toxic properties, and primarily converts to uranium oxide particles, a toxic gas, on impact, and

Having considered that the majority of combatants who used this weapon were not informed of the potential dangers, and

Deeply disturbed by the fact that there has been evidence linking this weapon to birth defects, cancer, and various other diseases, and

Recognizing that on impact the dust created can spread to neighboring areas not involved in the conflict, and that this contradict the rules of International Humanitarian Law, and

Having considered that children are affected by the weapon long after all conflict has ended, which is contrary to International Humanitarian Law as well, and

Alarmed that this weapons medium causes death after the war, as well as that it harms the environment severely, which is yet again contrary to International Humanitarian Law, and

Disturbed that there have been no conclusive studies on the effects of Uranium 238 ammunition, and therefore it is still frequently used,

1. The UN shall instate a program to determine the long term and short term effects of depleted uranium ammunition.

3. While this study takes place, there shall be a permanent[BobDole2] ban on the use of depleted uranium ammunition.

4. A committee will be formed to research the environmental and biological effects of all modern weapons. It would be called the UNWRC, the United Nations Weapons Research Committee.

5. Any weapon found to be unreasonably inhumane, or to cause extensive unnecessary environmental damage will be banned, and any country to use it will be sanctioned.

6. Funding for the research will primarily be required from members who have depleted uranium ammunition in their possession and actively use it for militaristic purposes.

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 of himself and his family. Including food, clothing, housing, medical care, necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, or other lack of livelihood due to circumstances beyond their control.", and

Whereas water is so limited people build their own wells, in Murcia (one of Spain’s cities) has 10,000 illegal wells because of limited water, and

Whereas Spain and the rest of Europe get about 346 billion cubic meters of water which of that 109 billion meters evaporate, and

1. Put a 4.5% tax on all factories that pollute water more than 1,000 gallons of waste into the water each month. This will increase the water amount and the money needed to help this problem[BobDole1] .

3. The United Nations Water Improval Committee (U.N.W.I.C.) will over see the water pollution in the companies.

4. The U.N.W.I.C. will be initially authorized for 5 years. In the 3^rd year of the program the General Assembly will commence discussion on renewal of the program.

Alarmed that over 2 million persons are trafficked annually throughout the world, with 225,000 trafficked across international borders, and

Deeply disturbed that sexual trafficking makes more money for its participants than the trading of illegal substances, which makes six to seven billion dollars annually, and

Deeply concerned that over nine billion dollars are made annually through the buying and selling of human beings, and

Aware of instances where hearing-impaired and mute persons who are beaten, enslaved, trafficked across international borders, and forced to peddle trinkets in large, otherwise greatly respected cities, and

Having considered the number of countries that do not attempt sufficiently or efficiently to solve this problem according to an investigation by the United States, and

Taking note that 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,”

1. That all member states do the following by the year 2014: prohibit trafficking and punish violations; prescribe punishment similar to that of grave crimes i.e. sexual assault; make this punishment severe enough to impress the gravity of said crimes upon violators; make a serious and sustained effort to eliminate the issue entirely.

2. This set of rules was set out by the Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 that was enacted by the United States and evaluates many countries annually; meeting these standards would be the equivalent of placement in the 1st Tier.

3. A committee by the name of United Nations Committee to Abolish Involuntary Servitude shall be created immediately to inspect member states on this issue annually.

4. This committee shall be funded by a .05% tax taken from the countries that do not attempt to comply within the first six months of the passing of the resolution.