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Index of 8th Grade Resolutions for April 20, 2005
Resolution |
Sponsors |
Topic |
Status |
GA April 20-01 | Kenya (Crossroads) | Orphanages in Africa for Victims of AIDs | New |
South Korea (Parkway South) |
Education for Women in South Korea |
New | |
Madagascar |
Child Labor |
New | |
Norway (Holman) |
Dumping of Waste in the Ocean | New | |
Luxembourg, Djibouti (Pattonville Heights) |
Literacy Rate |
New |
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Israel |
Occupancy Dispute in Israel |
New |
Crossroads
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Re: Orphanages in Africa for AIDs Victims
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Kenya
Date: April 20, 2005
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
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 22 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international cooperation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each state, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.”, and
Whereas Article 25 section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.”, and
Whereas Article 28 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.”, and
Concerned that it is thought that about 300,000 Kenyan children have already lost one or both parents due to HIV/AIDs, and
Alarmed by the 1997 survey that identified over 109,000 children in need of special protection in 13 districts. This is in addition to the estimated 500,000 children nationally, including 300,000 children living or working on the streets, neglected lacking protection or neglected in hazardous labor, and
Having considered that HIV/AIDs has weakened extended family and other communities to which orphans have been turned, and
Reaffirming that because of HIV/AIDs many children had to withdraw from school so they could earn money for the family or take care of a sick relative,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1. Money will be raised by selling rally bracelets private schools throughout North America that allow us to do so, and request that countries with $22,000 or above GNI per capita increase U.N. member dues by 0.7%
2. This money will be used to build orphanages in the Kenyan areas with the highest AIDs occurrences and to improve the existing facilities.
3. While the structures are being built we will require weekly updates to ensure that things are going as planned. After it is set up we will have annual inspections to make sure that the children are being treated humanely.
4. The name of this commission will be O.K.C., Operation Kenyan Children.
5. The operation will last for eight years, being reevaluated after four years and checked for soundness every year. If it is successful it will be extended to other countries suffering from AIDs. Every four years after the initial eight it will be evaluated.
Parkway South
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Re: Women’s Rights
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: South Korea
Date: April 20, 2005
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
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 21, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country.”, and
Whereas Article 5, of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment.”, and
Realizing that few women go to secondary schools and receive higher education, and
Concerned that the only acceptable choice for women is marriage, and
Worried that a lot of women in South Korea will leave the country for better education opportunities and never return,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1. Request that member nations ask companies to fund this program, in exchange for land for factories, to hire trainees.
2. This money will be used for building schools, hiring teachers, and buying supplies.
3. The money will be given to South Korean women, so they can fund their schooling and buy their supplies.
4. The name will be Women’s Opportunist Rights Movement (W.O.R.M.).
5. If W.O.R.M is successful in South Korea the program will be available to the nations that have the lowest percentage of women in higher education.
6. The program will be authorized for three years, and then will be discussed by the General Assembly for the renewal of this program.
Pattonville Heights
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Re: Child Labor
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Madagascar
Date: April 20, 2005
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
Whereas Article 4 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states that “No one shall be held in slavery of 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 that “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel or degrading treatment or punishment,” and
Whereas Article 24 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states that “Everyone has the right to rest and leisure including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay,” 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
Appalled that, according to the ILO, 246 million children worldwide have jobs which take up all or most of the time they could spend in school, and that of that number, nearly half are involved in what the agency calls the “worst forms of child labor” prostitution, mining, and slave labor in different industries, and
Noting with deep concern that, according to the ILO, many of these children serve as servants, working for meager rations and no food, and
Aware of the fact that, according to the ILO, many countries don’t see domestic child labor as a problem, and
Realizing that this can easily be changed by punishing countries that promote or fail to regulate this devastating form of child labor, but also
Keeping in mind that some children would starve if all forms of child labor were illegal,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1. Realize that child labor is work performed by a child that; interferes with schooling, is in a dangerous environment, or involves a child working more that 10 hours a week (7 days).
2. Punish countries that promote or fail to regulate child labor, as defined above, by raising member dues 2% for each year that they are in violation from the time that this resolution is enacted.
3. That the countries not effectively punishing child labor at the time this resolution is enacted will be rewarded for establishing anti-child labor policies with any money needed to establish an effective program to police child labor violations. The funds for this reward will come from the money raised by the increased dues stated above.
4. That the countries not effectively punishing child labor at the time that this resolution is enacted will be rewarded for establishing anti-child labor policies with any money needed to establish an effective program to police child labor violations. The funds for this reward will come from the money raised from the increased dues stated above.
5. That this resolution should be known as Countries Against Child Labor (C.A.C.L.), and that it should be established for 8 years, after which it shall be put up for renewal, which will last another 8 years, at which time this cycle will be repeated. The program shall only be renewed if it gets majority vote, and it is strongly recommended that the program’s continuation shall be approved if the number of children working goes down by at least 800 each cycle.
Holman
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Re: Dumping of Waste in the Ocean
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Norway
Date: April 20, 2005
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
Whereas Article 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states that “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 30 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states that “Nothing in this declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group, or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.”, and
Whereas even with regulations, the amount of waste dumping could be greatly curtailed, and
Noting that sufficient punishment for going against regulations could be more efficiently enforced, and
Whereas this dumping of waste causes pollution in ocean water, and
Whereas the ocean plays an important role in a natural balanced environment, and
Observing that the dumping of waste is already hurting and drastically effecting the ocean environment, and
Observing that fishing is a main economic way of living for many countries, and
Realizing that 70% of the earth is covered by water, and
Observing that only 0.5% of all water on Earth is clean, and
Appalled that 10% of all ocean pollution comes from ocean dumping, and
Realizing that our oceans are a non-renewable resource,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1. Higher fines of $500 per pound of waste payable to the United Nations are imposed upon the company responsible for the dumping for waste dumping in the ocean that negatively affects human health, the marine environment, ecological systems, or potential economic endeavors exceeding current regulations in order to enforce regulations already in place.
2. Fines of $1000 per pound payable to the United Nations are imposed upon the company responsible for the dumping for dumping waste in the ocean without a permit to dump that specific kind of waste.
3. The money collected from these fines shall be put to use towards effective management of landfills and promotion of recycling programs.
4. This program shall be called No Ocean Pollution on Earth (N.O.P.E) and will last for 4 years at which time it will go up for renewal.
Crossroads
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Re: Occupancy Dispute in Israel
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Israel
Date: April 20, 2005
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
Whereas Article 17 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.”, and
Whereas Article 15 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to nationality.”, and
Realizing the proposal to destroy up to 3,000 Palestinian homes, and
Appalled that it would have a devastating effect on the civilian population, and
Concerned that it would violate international humanitarian law, and
Worried that if disputes continue more people could get hurt and even die, and
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1. Communicate with the leaders of each country to set all border limits.
2. We request that all members of the united nations be taxed 1% of their GDP going forward.
3. Since the disputes going on in Israel & Palestine affect everyone, everyone in the United Nations should take a vote on what country receives ownership of each of the occupied Territories.
4. The name of this program is the Israeli Palestine Peace Agreement, (I.P.P.A.)
5. The program will last for two years with a bi-annually check of this program, plans to extend or retract will be made at this point.
Pattonville Heights
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Re: Literacy Rate
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Luxembourg, Djibouti
Date: April 20, 2005
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution
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 and religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United nations for the maintenance of peace.”, and
Whereas Article 21, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country.”, and
Realizing that Sierra Leone, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Burundi, and many other countries have an adult (15 years or older) literacy rate of less than 50%,, and
Appalled that all these countries had a primary school enrollment of less than 55% from 1996-2002, and
Recognizing that Djibouti has a school enrollment rate of only 24%, and
Concerned that these countries have a public expenditure on secondary education of less than 40%, and
Worried that the education index (based on the adult literacy rate and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrollment ratio) for these countries are less than 45%,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1. Request that member nations with a GNP per capita more than $14,000 add a 0.5% increase to their U.N. member dues.
2. 80% of this money is to be forwarded to the countries with a literacy rate of less than 50% for public school improvement. Specifically focusing on hiring properly trained teachers, purchasing modern textbooks, and trying to enroll as many students as possible in the funded schools.
3. 20% of the money raised will go to countries with less than 30% school enrollment to use on updating and building public schools.
4. The name of this commission will be United Nations Committee for Reading and Education (U.N.C.R.E).
5. If this program is successful in Djibouti, Sierra Leone, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Burundi in five years then it will be continued in ten new countries that the committee feels are most deserving at that time.
6. This program will be authorized for five years. The General Assembly will discuss the renewal of this program at the end of the third year.