Resolutions for April 24, 2008

Resolution GA April 24-01 

Hixson Middle

Heading:

Re:                              Climate Change

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Canada, Spain

Date:                           April 24, 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 17, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.”, 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 11 of the last 12 years rank among the warmest years in global surface temperatures since 1850, and

Understanding that carbon dioxide is the dominant contributor to current climate change and its atmospheric concentration has increased from a pre-industrial value of 278 parts-per-million (ppm) to 379 in 2005, and 

Concerned that without additional action, emissions of greenhouse gases are projected to rise by 25-90 per cent by 2030 compared to 2000, and

Observing that sea level is rising and glaciers are melting faster than scientists predicted.  In March of this year an iceberg seven times the size of Manhattan broke away from the Antarctic coast, threatening a bigger shelf that is now in peril, and 

Realizing the poorest communities are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1.      Start a program called the Global Environmental Movement Support (GEMS) to encourage and support the Kyoto Protocol, especially developing countries affected more adversely by Climate Change but not contributing nearly as many greenhouse gas emissions as developed countries (also called Annex I countries).

2.      GEMS will have an indefinite time-frame with an annual report by a GEMS UN sub-committee to the General Assembly of money earned and spent.

3.      The money earned for GEMS will be spent in a variety of ways, divided differently each year.  Some of the money will be given to global companies who actively pursue alternative energy sources and prove to reduce in any way their annual GHG emissions.

4.      A percentage of the money will be spent to build better levees in highly populated areas at risk for increased flooding in developing countries.

5.      A percentage of the money will be spent on the creation of a long-range plan to relocate highly populated areas in developing countries in danger of sea level rising.

6.      A percentage of the money will be spent to increase precautions against malarial mosquitoes in developing countries where mosquitoes are moving north.

7.      The U.N. requests that individuals worldwide who purchase cars that earn an average of 25 mpg (or 40 kilometers per 3.78 litres) will pay a 1% tax on the sale price of the car to go to GEMS.

8.      The U.N. requests that individuals worldwide who purchase cars that get below 20 mpg (32 kilometers per 3.78 litres) will pay a 2% tax on the sale price of the car to go to GEMS.

9.      The U.N. requests that individuals worldwide who purchase cars that get below 15 mpg (24 kilometers per 3.78 litres) will pay a 3% tax on the sale price of the car to go to GEMS.

10.  The U.N. requests that an international toll fee of $1 per day for the GEMS initiative be charged to enter the 25 largest cities of the world by car in an effort to increase mass transit use.

11.  Annual U.N. dues of Australia, Brazil, China, India, and the United States will go up by .5% every year their average greenhouse gas emissions stay the same or increase.

Resolution GA April 24-02

St. Mary Magdalen

Heading:

Re:                              Human Trafficking

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Togo

Date:                           April 24, 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 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 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

Deeply alarmed that the amount of human trafficking worldwide and what people are doing to do it.  They are leaving their own country to go on a “vacation” and are violating human rights and offending and sexually offending many children and adults, and 

Deeply dismayed that there is many laws against human trafficking and they are not enforced, and

Distressed that there has been nothing effective to stop it and other countries are participating in humiliating millions of people for their own pleasure. Ahava is a non-profit organization that saves and cares for child victims of human-trafficking in the U.S. and around the world. There are Ahava Kid’s Safe House which is a housing program that works with the law enforcement to protect and care for the children; providing them with all the necessities,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1.      Teaming up with Ahava and the Peace Corps to locate, rescue and care for the victims of human-trafficking.  Once the children are found & rescued they can be sent to a trustworthy and safe house, where they can be helped and cared for in a secure environment, an Ahava safe house.
2.      By using Peace Corp men to act as undercover “tourists” and essentially “buy” a child from a particular place, so they can prove that there are children there. Then bring SWAT teams and rescue the remaining children and put the ‘Mother” or “pimp” in bars.
3.      Also to ask the rescued children who they have been dealt out to or if they had originally been.  Then ask who their parents were and where they are from so we can piece back together their life.
4.      Building some Ahava safe houses in the following countries so we can help and send the children to: Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Benin.
5.      By creating another program Kare for a Kid, where families could donate money to care for a rescued child, so the child can get his/her needs. Plus they will be able to go to school, in which they will write letters to keep in touch with “their family”.
6.      An estimate to build a two story home with 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a master bedroom, a nurse office is about $75,000. The country would have to provide land. Building four houses per country. We will first help Togo, Ghana, Benin, and Burkina Faso.  
7.      Raise the dues by 8% (except for the countries that we are helping), Kare for a Kid, and ask for donations from schools, and see if any churches would send missionaries.

Resolution GA April 24-03

St. Roch’s

Heading:

Re:                              HIV/AIDs in Ghana

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Ghana

Date:                           April 24, 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

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

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 350,000 people in Ghana were living with HIV/AIDs in 2003, and

Understanding many people do not get educated on how you contract HIV/AIDs; that much of the country doesn’t have proper medicine and facilities to deal with the disease, especially, in rural areas, and

Shocked that an estimated 30,000 people die yearly from the disease, and 

Encouraged that those who get the proper care and medicine can live much longer and healthier lives while combating HIV/AIDs,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The General Assembly started a program called End AIDs Today or EAT; the goal of this program is to lower the HIV/AIDS rate by 25% over a period of ten years.
2. We would send “healthmobiles” to Ghana and the surrounding countries which are Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, and Toga.  The healthmobiles would use Doctors Without Borders and equipped with the necessary medicine to help HIV/AIDS victims. Staff would be able to educate the people on how HIV/AIDS is spread and how to prevent it from spreading.  The supplies can be taken to hospitals and doctors there can be trained how to use the medicine correctly and how to treat HIV/AIDS in their facilities.

3. This program is to last for ten years. EAT will send a progress report after five years to report on shortcomings and successes of the program. At this time, suggestion and improvements can be made, however these improvements must be free or at a very low cost to keep a controllable budget. After ten years have passed, the U.N. can decide to continue it or cancel it depending on whether the goal is reached and the successfulness of the program.

4. The UN will ask for donations and/or deep discounts from agencies that carry the supplies necessary for the healthmobiles.
5. EAT will work with (Product)^RED™ to help sponsor and fund our program. (Product)^RED™ sells products that are red to help global HIV/AIDS relief and treatment efforts. Companies such as Motorola, Gap, American Express, Apple, and Windows/Microsoft have all worked with (Product)^RED™. In September, 2007, (Product)^RED™ financing has helped 1.4 million people with treatment for HIV/ AIDS.
6. The ten wealthiest countries, who are members of the U.N., will have their dues raised by 5%. This will raise at least over 51 million dollars a year, sufficient for healthmobiles, doctor training, supplies, education, and any other remaining costs. In return for their payments, Ghana will evenly divide surplus natural resources with all ten countries who have higher dues. Countries that do not make their payments properly and timely will not get any resources.

Resolution GA April 24-04 

Queen of All Saints

Heading:

Re:                              Contaminated Water

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Mauritania

Date:                           April 24, 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 the water sources in Mauritania are becoming very impure, and, and

Understanding many people die from the infected water they are drinking and have limited fresh water resources resulting in sickness and harsh cases, and

Shocked that among the suffering are 800,000 children, 160,000 of whom suffer from malnutrition, which includes not getting clean and healthy water, and

Encouraged that if we desalinate the water people will be able to live a healthier and improved life style, and

Concerned that this unfiltered water is causing serious health problems, especially infant gastro-enteritis,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly: 

1.      To do this, we want to build desalinization plants to purify the ocean water for all the citizens of Mauritania, Gambia, Western Sierra, and other surrounding areas. This process will be called D.O.M.O. (Desalinization of Mauritania’s Oceans).

2.      To fund this plan, we will need the help of the United Nations. We are going to ask some of the countries apart of the U.N. to put an extra 3 pennies to the price of their bottled water.

3.      We would make about $120 million just from the United States chipping in with an extra 3 cents added to their bottled water. If this is how much we would make from the United States alone, then we would make about triple this amount with the help of other U.N. countries. This money would help us construct the desalinization plants.

4.      By doing this process, the country of Mauritania, as well as other countries nearby like Gambia, Western Sierra, and Guinea will be overall healthier places. The citizens in these countries will never again have to worry about their health when it comes to drinking water. We want to purify the water as well, so that we decrease the amounts of death in a year from this country, by an increasing amount.

5.      For this process we will evaluate these countries every 3 years to make sure that the deaths caused by water borne illnesses are decreasing and medical records are improving.

Resolution GA April 24-05 

Lift for Life

Heading:

Re:                              Increasing Literacy

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Turkey

Date:                           April 24, 2008

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

Whereas Article 13 of the UNITED NATIONS CHARTER states, “The General Assembly shall initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of:
b. promoting international cooperation in the economic, social, cultural, educational, and health fields, and assisting in the realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.”, 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

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

Alarmed that there is such a close correlation between the level of literacy and the average personal income of a nation’s citizens, and

Understood that girls and women frequently are not allowed equal education, and

Shocked at the relationship between high infant mortality, poverty, and low literacy rates, and

Acknowledging that one in five adults is still not literate (two-thirds of them women) for a total of 774 million adults lacking minimum literacy skills, and

Disturbed at the millions of children untouched by United Nations sponsored literacy programs and the need for 18 million new primary teachers by 2015, and

Recognizing the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization efforts, and

Encouraged that UNICEF has attempted multiple programs to eradicate illiteracy,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1.      Will strengthen the U.N. Literacy Decade 2003-2012 by expanding the work through innovative recruitment of teachers.  There is no start up money required because the new staff will be attached to existing programs.

2.      The General Assemble initiate a program to recruit teachers from innovated sources.

3.      Countries with mandatory retirement ages will facilitate a way for retired teachers to teach children in the countries identified with the highest poverty and lowest literacy.

4.      Military service for participating countries may be replaced with teaching in targeted countries if the recruit has completed a recognized teaching program.

5.      Organizations of faith are encouraged to provide personnel to provide direct teaching, especially in the area of literacy.

6.      Universities will be encouraged to provide international opportunities for graduate students to include teaching as part of their research and service to the world community.

7.      Room and board for new teachers to be provided by existing U.N. programs.

8.      Evaluation is conducted by existing agencies including:  UNICEF, Human Rights Watch, Educational for All Global Monitoring Report and the Gender Achievement and Prospects in Education (GAP Report).

Resolution GA April 24-06

Queen of All Saints

Heading:

Re:                              Infant Mortality in Angola, Chad, and Zambia

Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            United Kingdom

Date:                           April 24, 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

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

Alarmed by that in Zambia, about 20% of infants born per 1,000 live births die. And in Ethiopia and Chad 10% of babies die per those 1,000 births, and

Realizing that 25% of children dying under the age of five in Angola alone was from pneumonia. And 29% is from severe infection, and

Shocked by the country of Chad, out of all the one-year-olds there, only 23 percent of those one-year-olds were immunized for measles in 2005. And in Angola there were only 25% of those one-year-olds immunized that same year,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly: 

1.      The General Assembly starts a program called “NO MORE DEATHS” (NMD). The purpose is to eventually end the high infant mortality rate in the three countries, and eventually Africa. Hopefully by at least 20% at the end of 5 years.
2.      The program will build several clinics in each region of the three countries. These clinic’s healthcare will be free of charge to citizens, especially those who are very poor/needy. To get poor or unhealthy citizens to the clinics, some men will drive in vehicles around towns asking if anyone needs care. Also, the program will send one or two physicians per clinic who were properly trained in the United States. These physicians will be in the countries for half of the five years and then new physicians will be sent over.
3.      To pay for this mass spending, the program will team up with recreational facilities all over the U.S. like bowling alleys or miniature golf sites. What will hopefully happen is that the recreational facilities will require bowlers or mini-golfers to pay an extra 50 cents per person for at least two years before the project starts. The extra 50 cents added will be given to the program. In return, the facilities will get a free commercial for at least two months on local television or radio provided that there are no more than three commercials a day. This will be sponsored by the program “NO MORE DEATHS”.
4.      The clinics will be provided with proper medicines and equipment which will be bought using money by fundraisers that are only voluntarily.
5.      The program at the end of five years with hopeful success will expand to other nations in Africa by building more clinics and supplying jobs with the help of more volunteer fundraisers.