Resolutions

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 or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United nations for the maintenance of peace.”, and

Whereas Article 26, section 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.”, and

Whereas children that live in rural areas do not have access to education because schools are not close to them and the children don’t have transportation, and

Whereas the children in this generation are not getting a good education, so the people in the future world will be unintelligent,

1. The United Nations will start a program entitled Education Everywhere, the goal is to make sure all children have access to education.

3. Education Everywhere will educate teachers, so that the children have a good education. We will educate these teachers by sending volunteer professors to the specific country. We will be educating old teachers as well as new ones. This process will take about one year.

4. Finally, Education Everywhere will also make it that schools are available to everyone by building schools in new areas. We will build 100 schools. Elementary, middle schools, and high schools will be combined.

5. To pay for Education Everywhere, the United Nations will raise the dues of the top ten wealthiest countries by 1%, raising 10.2 million dollars a year.

6. Every year, administrators will come in and check on how well the schools are doing. They[BC1] will use standardized testing as a gauge of progress. If they are successful after four[BC2] years, more schools will be opened in more parts of Africa, South America, and Asian countries. The seven countries with the lowest literacy rate will have more schools built in five years if everything is going as planned.

[BC1]Was amended to include standardized testing.

[BC2]Lowered from 5.

Whereas Article 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “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 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

Malnutrition accounts for 50% of the childhood deaths in Haiti according to www.Heaitiheallthcare.org, and

Understanding that of 1.35 million Haitian children under the age of five, (approximately 130,000) will die before their fifth birthday because of malnutrition, and

Encouraged that of people using RUTF (Ready to Use Therapeutic Food), more than 85% of children recover, while only 25-40% recover after other treatment methods, and

Considering that Medika Mamba (RUTF) will help the Haitian economy because it is produced in the country using Haitian resources, and

Encouraged that within six to eight weeks after beginning the RUTF (about 30 pounds of RUTF consumed), toddlers are transformed. Their sparse reddish hair grows in thick and black, they look healthy and energetic, and their eyes are bright and clear.

1. The United Nations will begin a program called Malnutrition Support Group (MSG), the goal of which is to reduce the number of children with malnutrition in the countries listed below, by 40% in 5 years, beginning[BC1] at the end of 2010. To ensure the program gets started sooner, pre-existing factories will be used until the new ones become operational.

2. MSG will take place in Haiti and Malawi, the places leading in malnutrition and the countries that produce peanuts, so that Medika Mamba can be produced in their countries. After[BC2] 1 year, more countries will be added.

3. MSG will make a website and have programs that educate people on the importance of Medika Mamba to encourage donations and volunteers.

4. To pay for MSG, the United Nations will raise the dues of the top ten wealthiest countries by 1%, raising $10.2 million dollars yearly for 5 years, to fund the construction of factories in these countries at the approximate cost of $1.5 million dollars for each factory (based on construction estimate for a factory in Haiti), cover the initial production cost of Medika Mamba at $68 per jar.

5. At the end of 5 years, the MSG committee will evaluate its effectiveness in reducing childhood malnutrition and if successful, the program will be expanded to India, Sub-Saharan African nations, and China (all countries suffering from the worst childhood malnutrition and also peanut producers). Construction of factories in these countries will be funded by asking the UN to continue the program’s original funding, and by asking for donations from all the countries and from the public to support the programs in these countries.

6. MSG will have a committee in each country to guide the construction of a factory to produce Medika Mamba and to begin the production of the RUTF using local resources. The MSG committee will also oversee the distribution of the RUTF.

[BC1]The timeframe was bumped up & the use of older factories was added.

[BC2]Expanding after one year was added.

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

Appalled that The International Labor Organizational estimates that 246 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 currently work, and

Alarmed that 25% of New Guinea’s child population between 5 and 14 are forced to work, and

Noting with deep concern that only two-thirds of those who enter the first grade complete the sixth,

2. The program will begin in Papua New Guinea along with Bangladesh, Haiti, Niger, Zimbabwe[BC1] , and Malaysia which also have high child labor rates.

3. ECLP along with UNESCO will set up 8[BC2] schools in each country to help educate students.

4. To build these schools, the top 25 richest countries’ dues will be increased by 1%.

5. Once the schools are built, every 3 years the 25 richest countries will increase their dues by 0.5%.

6. To encourage participation, a stipend equivalent to 1 U.S. dollar once a week will be given to families, whose students attend these schools.

7. After 6 years, UNESCO will evaluate ECLP and if successful, it will spread to other countries with high percentages of child labor. Every [BC3] 3 years, it will move to other countries, including those in the Latin [BC4] American region.

10. Recommend that school be mandatory for children between the ages of 5-16[BC7] .

[BC1]Haiti, Niger, & Zimbabwe were added.

[BC2]Increased from 5.

[BC3]Adding a specific timeframe for expansion was established.

[BC4]Including Latin America was dded.

[BC5]New operative clause.

[BC6]New operative clause.

[BC7]New operative clause.

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 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 17, section 2 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.”, and

Shocked that according to the Kenyan foreign minister, the Somali Pirates have collected ransom equal to over 150 million US dollars from cargo and personnel in the twelve months preceding November of 2008, and

Alarmed that ninety percent of all ships not boarded and carrying food in waters controlled by pirates have required military escort, and

Knowing that the Indian Navy deployed a warship to Somali waters to combat the pirates during October of 2003, and

Knowing that the Navy of the Russian Federation announced that it would join the fight on Somali piracy in September 2008 but clearly there to combat the pirates temporarily, and

Seeing that the sophistication of pirate attacks began increasing at the start of 2009, and

Realizing that the United States deployed Navy Seals to rescue an American ship captain who had been kidnapped by Somali pirates in April 2009, and

Concerned that a record number of 214 Somali Pirate attacks were carried out in 2009, and that twelve of those ships with a total of 263 crew members were held for ransom,

1. The United Nations will begin a program called The East African Coast Guard, the goal of which is to reduce the number of pirate infractions on trading ships off the coast of Western Africa.

2. This program will benefit any nation with trading ships in the designated area.

3. The new East African Coast Guard will provide vessels and education centers to train people in the ways of combating pirates. While providing resistance against the pirates of Somalia, this program will also provide stable careers for those East Africans who join the coast guard. After 5 years, the program will be expanded to include the Caribbean and Mid-Atlantic regions[BC1] .

4. The top ten wealthiest according to G.D.P. countries in the U.N. will donate 50 small vessels to the East African Coast Guard.

5. In addition, each of these countries will deploy ten personnel for a training staff to each of the ten coast guard training centers.

6. Once the training staffs train a decent sized coast guard, the personnel will be able to leave Somalia but the program will sustain until further notice.

7. The cost of this program will consist of the cost of building the training centers (a one-time cost of $5,000,000), and the annual costs of the following: payroll of the training personnel ($3,294,000), maintaining the training centers ($2,100,000), fuel cost (estimated at $1,250,000 a year), and new East African coast guard cadet salaries ($850,000).

8. The coast guard will operate by creating convoys around cargo ships in the area.

9. The program will be evaluated annually to determine if it should be continued or modified. The effectiveness of this program will be measured in the annual 30% reduction of successful attacks on ships in the area by Somali pirates.

10. To help pay for this program, the wealthiest 20 nations will have a 1% dues increase[BC2] .

[BC1]Expansion plans were added.

[BC2]New funding mechanism.

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 co-operation 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 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

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

Recognizing that every year thousands of people cross the Nepalese and other international borders without proper documentation and security clearance, and

Concerned that this cross border movement often threatens the peace and security of people in Nepal, and

Observing that many other United Nations members are experiencing similar problems as a result of this movement, and

Encouraging the United Nations General Assembly to establish a program to prevent international passage of people who threaten the safety and security of sovereign nations,

1. Start a program called “Enhancing International Border Control” (EIBC) to help nations enhance security to help them solve the security and legal issues arising from illegal and unwanted border crossing.

2. EIBC will provide an international service to help nations maintain secure movement of people across international borders.

3. EIBC will maintain passport control stations at international borders to help sovereign nations enforce their own immigration policies and international laws providing for the security of their own nation.

4. EIBC will train agents to enforce national and international immigration laws and policies.

5. EIBC will work with national agencies to help provide security at airports and other legal and illegal international border crossings. They will use hi-tech metal detectors[BC1] . Watch towers will also be placed around borders.

6. The U.N. requests an international fee of $20 paid for by the people using for this service.

7. The U.N. requests an annual U.N. dues increase of 1% for nations using this service. The money will pay to staff EIBC patrol officers, education for the countries using the service, and training the officers.

8. EIBC will last 5[BC2] years for the participating countries. Countries can join at any point in the first 3 years. The program will continue on if necessary. The General Assembly will review the program after 2 years[BC3] .

[BC1]Metal detectors & watch towers were added.

[BC2]Decreased from 10.

[BC3]The checking in by the GA was added.

[BC4]New operative clause.

Whereas Article 3 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.”, and

Fully aware there are over one billion people living with unclean water, and

Unhealthy and unsafe drinking water leads to diseases and death of 3 million people each year, and

Every 20 seconds a kid dies because of the lack of unclean water and basic sanitation. Sulfur, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide are getting into the water and causing people to get sick, and

Keeping in mind that citizens can’t grow food, stay healthy, go to school, or use energy with unclean water,

1. The United Nations will start a program called Play For Water (PFW). PFW will install 10 play pumps in each of the following countries including Mali, Chad, and Niger. If our plan is successful we will choose to expand to more countries in Africa.

2. A play pump is a structure that looks like and is used as playground equipment but it actually pumps water and makes it clean for villages. Play pumps have already been used in Asia, South Africa, And Central and South America.

3. PFW will train United Nations workers to build and install play pumps within Chad, Mali, and Niger.

4. To pay for play pumps the United Nations will raise the dues of the 10 wealthiest countries in the world by 0.5% raising an additional $5,128,669.

Resolution	Sponsors	Topic	Status
GA-01	Brazil St. Gerard Majella	Education	Amended & Passed
GA-02	Greece St. Mary Magdalen	Malnutrition	Amended & Passed
GA-03	Papua New Guinea St. Gabriel	Child Labor	Amended & Defeated
GA-04	Somalia Sperreng Middle	Somali Piracy	Amended & Passed
GA-05	Nepal St. Justin the Martyr	International Border Patrol	Amended & Defeated
GA-06	Chad, Mali St. Gerard Majella	Clean Water	Not debated