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Index of 8th Grade Resolutions for April 2, 2003
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Resolution |
Sponsors |
Topic |
Status |
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Argentina, Belize (Cathedral) |
Decreasing World Poverty |
Amended and Passed |
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| Jamaica, Guatemala (Mary Queen of Peace) |
Child Labor Worldwide |
Amended and Passed |
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| Vietnam (Cathedral) | Drug Problems |
Amended and Defeated |
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| Zimbabwe, Belgium (Mary Queen of Peace) | AIDs in Africa |
Amended and Passed |
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mozambique (Cathedral) | Refugees |
Amended and Passed |
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| GA April 2-06 | Australia (Mary Queen of Peace) | Decreasing Hunger in Africa | Amended and Passed |
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Switzerland, the Bahamas (Mary Queen of Peace) |
Child Soldiers around the World |
Submitted and Passed |
Amended and Passed
Cathedral
Heading:
Re: Decreasing World Poverty
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Argentina, Belize
Date: April 2, 2003
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
Acknowledging that in Argentina 57.5% of the population is below the government’s poverty line. Nearly 19 million countrymen pick through the rubbish to survive. The average person makes two dollars a day, and
Recognizing that in Belize 33% of the population live below the poverty line. In parts of Belize more than 46% of the population does not have toilet facilities, resulting in poor health,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1. Request that all first and second world countries put a 1%[AHL1] tax on alcohol and tobacco sales.
2. The money raised by this tax will be given to countries with a poverty rate above 25%[AHL2].
3. The name of this commission will be the World Wide Poverty Decrease Association. (W.P.D.A.)
4.
After 5 years, the W.P.D.A. delegates will meet and discuss the progress
of it and decide whether or not to renew the program.
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Amended and Passed
Mary Queen of Peace
Heading:
Re: Child Labor Worldwide
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Jamaica, Guatemala
Date: April 2, 2003
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
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 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 3, of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states that, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.”, and
Whereas Article 2, of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states that, “Everyone is entitled to all of the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration without any distinction of any time.”, and
Concerned about a recent report released by the International Labor Organization estimates that there are about 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 working in developing nations, and
Whereas of that 250 million about 120 million children are working full time and 130 million are working part time. All of these children are also deprived of a normal education, and
Recognizing that the problem of child labor is an international problem. It is the result of poverty, the lack of political commitment to end it, and weak legal monitoring mechanisms. Even in the U.S. there are about 1.5 million underage children that are working illegally on farms and in sweatshops, and
Alarmed by average incomes have fallen over the past 10 years in many countries, and social sector spending—which previously helped support the poor—has been seriously reduced. Child labor has further impoverished societies because wages are pushed lower by child workers and adults remain underemployed or out of work. So poverty is deepened by child labor,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1. The General Assembly will form a new educational program entitled Work Station Education (WSE) in order to encourage free [AHL3]schooling to child workers. Funding for schools will come from a tax set up by G7 committee that will set up taxes on international airline tickets. This tax will be only on G7 countries so that poorer countries will not be pushed further into poverty.
2. Member nations agree that the age limit to begin work should be 15[AHL4] years of age.
3. Member nations agree that all factory workstations should have a decent schooling area located inside the work building by the year 2007.
4. Factory workstations are to provide free housing to the students and their immediate families to encourage education over full time employment.[AHL5]
5. The U.N. should have volunteer teachers to teach the children and volunteer workers to install the schools.
6. The U.N. will send inspectors to inspect the work buildings and schools every 6[AHL6] months to make sure working conditions are up to basic standards as decided by the International Labor Organization.
7.
A penalty will be given towards any work buildings that does not match up
to the standards set by the International Labor Organization. This penalty
cannot come out of other workers’ pay but the employer himself must take a pay
cut as penalty. The penalty of money will be donated to child labor causes.
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Amended and Defeated
Cathedral
Heading:
Re: Drug Problems
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Vietnam
Date: April 2, 2003
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
Whereas Article 3, of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states that, “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
Acknowledging that the drugs used in Vietnam are mostly used by teenagers, and
Recognizing that the persons who use drugs which are being transported into Vietnam are wasting their lives,
Be It Hereby Resolved That the General Assembly:
1. Request a 1% tax on all international flights and the money will go to cleaning up the drugs in Vietnam. [AHL7]The “cleaning up” process will be a combination of establishing rehab clinics, funding additional police efforts to thwart drug trafficking, and funding drug education programs.
2. The name of this association will be the Drug Free Association. (D.F.A.)
3. This program will go on for 5 years.
4. In 2 years
the program will be checked on by the General Assembly.[AHL8]
If the drug use has decreased by a reasonable amount, the program will continue.
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Amended and Passed
Mary Queen of Peace
Re: AIDs in Africa
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Zimbabwe, Belgium
Date: April 2, 2003
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
Whereas Article 21, section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.”, and
Alarmed by that as February 2003, 70% of adults and 80% of children living with AIDs live in Africa, meaning one out of every nine people in Africa has AIDs, and
Realizing that in Africa, as of March 2001, there are about 200 babies born HIV positive everyday, and
Concerned about the fact that as of February 2003, only 0.2% of all people infected with HIV will get treatment, this is due to the fact that on average an African nation spends only $10 per person per year on health care, and resulting from this 25 million people will not get treatment and die, and
Recognizing that for an entire year AIDs medication can cost between $10,000 and $15,000 per patient and the national GNP per capita income in Burundi is only $600 and in the Republic of Congo only $900, and
Noting that many people are uninformed about AIDs, as of March 2002, 70% of girls in Somalia ad 40% of girls in Guinea-Bissau have never heard of AIDs,
Be it Hereby Resolved That the United Nations Security Council:
1. Suggest that on average, every African nation spend [AHL9]at least $100 per person per year on health care.
2. Request that every nation that has a GNP per capita of over $17,000 give 1% of GNP payment to this program.
3. Ensure that pharmaceutical companies will lower prices of medication for AIDs by 30% for African people by 2006.
4. The non-profit organizations in countries affected by AIDs will be given a percentage of money to provide AIDs/HIV awareness classes.
5.
This program will be authorized for 5 years and in the fourth year of the
program, the General Assembly will discuss its renewal.
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Amended and Passed
Cathedral
Heading:
Re: Refugees
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mozambique
Date: April 2, 2003
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
Whereas Article 13 section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country...”, 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 in Bosnia and Herzegovina alone there are more than 848,000 Croatian Serbian refugees and IDPs, and
Whereas the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia continues to host roughly 226,000 Bosnian refugees,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1. The U.N. will set up a fund to existing refugee relief programs. The money will be used to reintroduce refugees to their countries of origin, to create new jobs, and build houses.
2. The fund would be created by using money from a 2[AHL10]% tax off weapon production[AHL11].
3. The funds will be called the United Nations Refugee Assistance Fund. (U.N.R.A.F.)
4. Program will be authorized for 5 years. After 5 years, the General Assembly will vote for the renewal of the program[AHL12].
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Amended and Passed
Mary Queen of Peace
Re: Decreasing Hunger in Africa
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Australia
Date: April 2, 2003
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
Whereas Article 3, of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states that, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.”, and
Recalling that in 2002 crops have failed for the second year in Malawi, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Zambia, and Mozambique, and
Noting that children ages 10-12 are forced to find food for younger brothers and sisters in the Sub-Sahara during the year of 2002, and
Acknowledging that 145,000 tons of food worth $69 million is needed in Africa. Only $3 million worth of this food has been pledged to the U.N., and
Concerned that 186 million Africans are malnourished, and 30% of African children are undernourished,
Be it Hereby Resolved That the United Nations Security Council:
1. Establish a committee to oversee all food operations in Africa. The committee shall be called H.W.A. (Hunger Watch in Africa), and will be made up of nine delegates from six countries. Africa shall have four members, and each permanent country member of the U.N. shall have one delegate each.
2. Establish a 1.5%[AHL13] tax on military production [AHL14](i.e. Air force, missiles, firearms, tanks, and munitions.) in countries with a GNP over $17,000. The money shall go to the H.W.A. which will distribute it to African nations according to their need.
3. Increase the guard on food being delivered to poor Sub-Saharan people.
4. Guards for this food will be unemployed African citizens[AHL15] and will be paid by taking 1% of the profits from the top 3 African food producers. Any extra proceeds shall go to the H.W.A.
5. The H.W.A. will meet in 2005 to present its progress to the U.N. Renewal of this program shall be decided by vote of the U.N.
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Passed
Mary Queen of Peace
Heading:
Re: Child Soldiers around the World
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Switzerland, the Bahamas
Date: April 2, 2003
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
Whereas Article 16, section 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state.”, and
Whereas Article 20, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one may be compelled to belong got an association.”, and
Noting that more than 300,000 children under the age of 18 are fighting in armed conflicts in more than 30 countries worldwide, and
Alarmed that hundreds of thousands more children have been recruited, both into governmental armed forces and armed opposition groups, and
Realizing that while most child soldiers are aged between 15 and 18, many are recruited from the age of 10 and sometimes even younger, and
Aware that some children are recruited forcibly and that others are driven into armed forces by poverty, alienation, discrimination, or abuse at the hands of state authorities,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1. Prohibit recruitment of any child below the age of 18 into any form of armed forces.
2. Require any country containing child soldiers to set up centers to rehabilitate the children back into society.
3. Supply more aid to countries containing child soldiers to eliminate the cause and/or the necessity of children in conflicts.
4. Attempt to mediate armed conflicts that result in the use of child soldiers.
5. Set up committees in countries containing child soldiers with the help of the United Nations to monitor the situation.
6. Let the above programs be funded by a 1% tax on the production of weapons. Let those countries who fail to comply with the above resolutions forfeit and aid they receive from the United Nations.
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[AHL1]Originally it was a 0.7% tax.
[AHL2]This was amended from 30% to 25%.
[AHL3]Original word was affordable.
[AHL4]The limit was increased from 14 to 15.
[AHL5]This whole operative clause is new.
[AHL6]The sponsoring countries changed it from 2 months to 6 months.
[AHL7]Through various friendly amendments this clarification was included.
[AHL8]The first draft of the resolution had the DFA checking into the program.
[AHL9]The term “at least” was added as a compromise by the sponsors.
[AHL10]The 2% tax was lowered from 3%.
[AHL11]Original tax was on weapon sales.
[AHL12]Clause 4 was removed and then recreated to be a sunset clause.
[AHL13]There was no specific tax increment in the original.
[AHL14]The specific exact forms of military production were also added.
[AHL15]Where the guards came from was added.
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