Resolutions for May 7, 2008

Resolution GA May 7-01

North Kirkwood

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Re:                              Health Issues in Haiti

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Haiti

Date:                           May 7, 2008

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 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 Article 27, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Every has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”, and

Alarmed that 40% of the population in Haiti has no real access to basic health care, and

Emphasizes that 1 in 10 children in Haiti die before age 5, and

Shocked that only 50% of the children in Haiti receive routine immunization, and

Deeply concerned that 76% of the population receive their medication through non-qualified personnel, and

Concerned that a quarter of the populations children suffer from chronic malnutrition,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1.      Improving Health Care in Haiti (IHCH) will be a project focusing on improving the limited health care in Haiti. 

2.      IHCH will start by building 5 care facilities throughout the 10 regions in Haiti. These facilities will serve as hospitals and living quarters for the staff.

3.      The hospitals will care for the Haitians in their specific assigned regions, by providing, immunizations, medical emergency transportation, check-ups, pharmaceutical service, maternity service and any other minor health care needs.

4.      We will supply each facility with 4 ambulances and 6 alternative vehicles to each building. These will provide the needed transportation in case of emergency or if they are unable to get to the facilities themselves. 

5.      IHCH will have a goal of improving Haiti’s health care system by 15%.  After 1 year of providing our services we will report the number of people considered to have proper nutrition to the General Assembly. 

6.      If IHCH’s goal is reached and the UN wishes to continue the program, IHCH will expand to Haiti’s neighboring countries, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Aruba. If the UN decides to terminate IHCH, all medical facilities will be shut down.

7.      The UN will ask suppliers to donate or deeply discount the medical supplies. The remaining cost of this program will be paid by raising the UN dues of the 10 wealthiest countries by 1.5%. This will raise over 15 million dollars a year, sufficient to pay for the ambulances, staffing, vehicles, construction, medical supplies, and other equipment.

Resolution GA May 7-02

St. Dominic Savio

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Re:                              Clean Drinking Water

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Australia, Togo

Date:                           May 7, 2008

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

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

Concerned that 300 million African people lack access to safe and clean drinking water, and

Alarmed that 14 countries in Africa suffer from water scarcity, and

Noting with concern that almost half of all Africans suffer from one of six main water related disease, and

Aware that Africa has numerous amounts of water resources that are not being fully utilized

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1.      The General Assembly will start a program called A.F.C.A.W. (Awareness for Clean African Water) based in the country of Togo, Burkina Faso, and Benin (these 3 countries border each other) for the next 15 years. Togo’s leading cause of death for children under 5 is water pollution diseases. Also their access to safe drinking water is 52%. The goal of the program is to raise awareness of unsafe drinking water and to prevent water-related diseases from spreading.

2.      Every country with a GDP per capita of $17,000 or more will have a 0.7% tax increase on all bottled water products to fund out program.

3.      Australia will help install water towers that will lead to every local pump in the countries we listed in Africa. We will install 2 in the first 3 months of our program. We will also be installing water purifiers in each of these pumps to sustain availability of clean drinking water. A.F.C.A.W. will also send trained doctors and nurses to take frequent trips to these areas to study, run tests, and possibly treat the people with these numerous water related diseases and how we as an organization can help.

4.      A.F.C.A.W. will evaluate the progress of the program ever year. A.F.C.A.W. will expand the program if significant progress is being made in Africa.

Resolution GA May 7-03

North Kirkwood

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Re:                              Child labor

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Romania, Tanzania, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Ireland, Mozambique, Dominican Republic, Sri Lanka

Date:                           May 7, 2008

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

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 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 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

Whereas Article 23 section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.”, and 

Whereas Article 24 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.”, 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 or in out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.”, and

Horrified that children are not paid wages for their work, and

Terrified that children have to perform dangerous work such as working with dangerous equipment: machetes, heavy lifting and deal with pesticides, and

Appalled that children have to work as much as eight hours a day for six to seven days a week, and

Enraged that children don’t get a proper education because they have to work to help support their family, and

Upset that employers are cruel to children who do not work by hitting them with broom handles in order to get them to work as fast as they would like them to work, and

Concerned that child labor rapidly increased between the years of 2000 and 2004 by the approximate amount of 1.3 million in Sub - Saharan Africa, and

Aware of the fact that child labor is both a result and a contributor to the cycle of poverty, and

Confident that children who receive an education will be able to grow up and have a well paying job so that they do not have to live in poverty or place their children in situation where they would have to participate in child labor,  

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Will build schools in the nations of Vietnam and Tanzania to help provide the children in communities where child labor is a common practice the chance to earn an education.

2. Encourages nations to make and enforce laws against the use of child labor.  

3. Will provide adults with opportunities to earn money through the provision of jobs that will help to build their nation’s infrastructure as well as provide reasonable wages with which to support their families.  

4. Develops training programs for teachers so the nations will be able to meet demands for education that the new influx of students that it will provide.

5. Will send ambassadors from other nations will come to the nations that use the program to make sure families are sending their kids to school rather than to places of work. Four scheduled and three unscheduled visits each year.

6. Will have families and schools will have to agree to contracts regarding class sizes, making school supplies available, allowing students to be interviewed about their educational experiences.

7. Will issue the program for ten years. The significance of this is that this is the time period where we can measure the affects of the program on one generation of a population and see how successful it has been in lowering the amount of childhood labor practiced within the nation.

8.  We have obtained sponsorship through online purchases over the internet. Such sponsors include the following companies: Target, Amazon, Overstock and Ebay. Target is also open to the sponsorship through their in store purchases.  A store tax of 3.3% is charged to store and online purchases. Voluntary contributions of people purchasing food in grocery stores. They will be asked at the checkout line if they wish to make a one dollar contribution to help end the use of child labor in the nations of Tanzania and Vietnam.

9. Will advise the nations of Vietnam and Tanzania on how to structure their tax systems so that they are also able to pay for some of the changes in with ending child labor.

Resolution GA May 7-04

North Kirkwood

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Re:                              Nuclear Fusion Energy

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Paraguay

Date:                           May 7, 2008

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 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 fossil fuels that have been used for over 200 years are beginning to run out and are estimated to last for only 40 to70 more years at the current rate of use, and

Shocked that these fossil fuels such as oil, gasoline, and natural gas have been polluting the Earth for centuries and we are finally seeing the effect as the ice caps melt around us, and 

Concerned that harmful CFCs are dissolving the ozone layer of the Earth’s atmosphere and allowing ultraviolet rays to penetrate the Earth’s protective skin and cause heightened levels of cancer. 

Understanding that nuclear fusion(1) isn’t the same kind of nuclear energy that you have seen before with harmful waste that continues to be radioactive for many years to come(2). This is clean because there is no waste. It is practical because the fuel is very cheap and plentiful.

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1.  The purpose of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITER is to show fusion could be used to generate electrical power and to get the necessary data to design the first electricity-producing fusion plant.

2.  The annual costs of operating ITER are estimated to be, $188,000,000 to be paid for by the UN, and totaling $3,760,000,000 over 20 years.

3.  These estimated costs include personnel costs (32%), energy and tritium(3) fuel costs (20%), and capital improvements, spare parts and materials, and waste management (48%).

4.  The countries that are already involved in ITER are the USA, Japan, China, Korea, Russia, and the European Union. No African of South American countries are involved in the project.

5.  Raising the dues of the top 10 countries by 1.8332% will fund the project for 1 year. The project should last for 20 years to get sufficient data. After that time the facility will begun to wear down and become less effective. 

6.  Goals for ITER are to breed tritium from lithium, reach Q=10(4) where Q=1 is when the plant produces as much energy as it consumes (It is currently at Q=0.65), and produce heat withstanding metals. This information will pave the way for fusion power plants to become operational and produce power for buildings.                         

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1- Fusion is the combining of atoms which produces much less radiation. * This form of fusion is deuterium (H2)-tritium (H3) fusion. The H2 and H3 are rocketed at each other and collide creating the H5 isotope which is unstable. A neutron is ejected to create H4.   

2-Fission is the splitting of atoms *A neutron is shot at Uranium 235 and causes it to break into Barium 141 and Krypton 92    

3- Tritium is simply an isotope, or variation, of the element Hydrogen. The symbol used for tritium is H3 because it has two neutrons and one proton whereas the symbol for hydrogen is H1 or H.               

4- Q only represents when the plant’s output is as much as its input. A decimal shows the percentage of Q the plant has attained and a whole number shows how many times more the output is than the input.                

5-The fuels for nuclear fusion are also unlikely to be used for terrorist attacks because usually a form of lithium deuteride, which is used because it is easier to weaponize than liquefied tritium/deuterium gases which was proved by the Ivy Mike/Castle Bravo experiment.