Resolutions for May 4, 2010
Resolution | Sponsors | Topic | Status |
GA-01 | Portugal Crossroads College Prep. |
Water Crisis | New! |
GA-02 | France St. Margaret of Scotland |
Child labor/Slavery | New! |
GA-03 | Chile City Academy |
Child Mortality & Malnutrition in Chile | New! |
GA-04 | India Hoech Middle |
Child Mortality/Poverty | New! |
GA-05 | Kenya Crossroads College Prep. |
Drought | New! |
GA-06 | Egypt City Academy |
Egyptian Refugee Population | New! |
Crossroads College Prep.
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Re: Water Crisis
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Portugal
Date: May 4, 2010
Establishing in
the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
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 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
Understanding that 3.575 million people die of water related diseases each year, and that 884 million people in the world, approximately one in eight people, lack access to clean safe water and,
Sadly more than half of the Africans and about 5% in rural areas have any access to water, and
Taking into consideration that Africa owns 19 of the 25 top countries that lack clean water, and
Appalled that 54% of Africans have no access to clean water or
even water at all
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General
Assembly:
1. The United Nations will begin a program called the African Water Support System (AWSS), the goal of which is to supply different parts of Africa with a sufficient supply of clean water, and water cleaning supplies. We will do this by transporting supplies by boat and by air if needed. We will ship the filters and water we have saved up in big cartons and then send people to set up the big filters to help cleanse water for the people we are targeting. It will take 7 to 8 months to ship everything over and around a year to completely construct and hook up the filters so they are doing their job properly.
2. AWSS will provide for Kenya, Chad, and The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
3. Overtime, AWSS will try to supply even more clean water to the other 20% or less of the population that we couldn't provide for in the first 5 years, and try to help other small neighboring countries in Central Africa. Also we will try to teach people how to use the filters for smaller amounts of water, and maybe try to provide 1 or 2 bigger filters, that could purify unsanitary water from lakes and streams.
4. If this turns out to be successful, we will try to expand our organization, and reach out to other countries, and we could talk to other countries in the European Union, to see if they could help the AWSS by either, providing us with money for filters, more clean water to give, or maybe even making a branch of AWSS in their own countries.
5. The AWSS will need around 20 million dollars to provide as much water and filters as can. We will pay for this by taking the top 50 wealthiest countries, and increase their dues by 2% for the 5 years we will try to provide for.
St. Margaret of Scotland
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Re: Child Labor/Slavery
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: France
Date: May 4, 2010
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 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 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 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
Shocked
that 246 million children between the ages of 5-17 are forced to work for
unreasonably low pay in hazardous occupations including agriculture, trash
collecting, child soldiers, industrial work, mining, domestic work, or for
sexual purposes, and
Alarmed
that an estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each year, forced to work
as cheap labor or for sexual purposes, and
Understanding
that 82% of children trafficked are trafficked with the consent of their
parents, and
Convinced
that child labor is directly caused by poverty which is ultimately caused by a
lack of education and educational opportunities,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General
Assembly:
1.
The United Nations will begin a program called Child Labor Ends Today (CLET),
the goal of which is to put an end to child labor around the world in fifteen
years.
2.
CLET will begin in the seven countries identified as having the most child labor
for the first five years and then begin to expand into other nations.
3.
CLET will find as many children as possible that are currently forced into labor
and give them an opportunity to attend school between the ages of 5-17.
4.
CLET will provide training in education and construction so that parents will
construct the schools and staff the schools as teachers.
5.
Recognizing that many parents do not have the capital or education to begin
their own business, CLET will provide small business loans and training for
parents of children who are victims of child labor.
6.
During the time that parents are being trained CLET will provide food necessary
for well being of the people who participate in the program.
7.
CLET will identify businesses that use child labor and call for a boycott of
those businesses by the citizens of the world.
8.
To pay for CLET the United Nations dues from the ten wealthiest countries will
be raised by 5% generating an estimated $2,329,653.
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Re: Child Mortality & Malnutrition in Chile
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Chile
Date: May 4, 2010
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 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 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
Understanding
that health indicators show us that there is a steady rise in maternal and child
mortality, which leads to chronic malnutrition, and
Whereas
this problem is caused from possible unemployed mothers who may not have enough
money to feed themselves during their pregnancy and/or after their children are
born, and
Whereas
this issue affects the children of these mothers and may lead to a possible
death, and
Whereas
there are still 800 million hungry people and 185 million preschool children
seriously malnourished in the world because of lack of food and water or
disease,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General
Assembly:
1.
The United
Nations will start a program called Improving Modern Health (I.M.H.). The goal
of the organization will be to assist unemployed or underprivileged mothers feed
themselves during their pregnancy, and also feed their children after birth.
2.
Improving
Modern Health will take place in Chile, Haiti, Brazil, Yemen, India, and
Ethiopia because together there are over 250,500,000 children in starvation.
3.
The
program will donate up to six million dollars for each country as needed; the
program should be in place for the time span of three years so that these
mothers are financially stable and learn how to support their children.
4.
These
mothers will be able to receive the food required to support themselves and
their children at local clinics OR a new facility which will be built
specifically for Improving Modern Health.
5.
Raising
U.N. dues of the top 10 richest countries 3.33 % per year over the next 10 years
would fund I.M.H. The top 10 richest countries include Luxemburg, Norway, Qatar,
Iceland, Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, the United States, Sweden and the
Netherlands.
6.
Raising
the dues would allow for a 36 million (USD) surplus in dues, funding I.M.H
entirely.
Hoech Middle
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Re: Child Mortality/Poverty
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: India
Date: May 4, 2010
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
Understanding that infant mortality is defined as the number of infant deaths (one year of age or younger) per 1000 live births, and
Alarmed
that the
infant mortality rate in
Afghanistan, Angola,
Liberia, Niger, and Sierra Leone is over 100 per year, and
Recalling 24,000 children die each day due to poverty, and they die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world, and
Recognizing
that around 2.2 million children die each year because they were not
immunized and,
Keeping in mind that around 27-28
percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight
or stunted,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General
Assembly:
1.
The general assembly
will start a program called Ending Poverty Problems Now (EPPN).
2.
This program will be
established in the poorest countries with a highest infant mortality rate.
The goal of this program is to provide help mothers get prenatal care,
immunizations, and hospital checkups so that the infants get the healthcare they
need without cost.
3.
This program will
start in Afghanistan, Angola, Liberia, Niger, and Sierra Leone.
4.
The (EPPN) will
partner with Doctors Without Borders to help with the program and
mothers/children whose survival is threatened by violence, or neglect due to
armed conflicts, epidemics, malnutrition, and exclusion from healthcare.
5.
Health Mobiles will
be used to make sure that mothers/children without hospital and clinic access
because of their circumstances get their healthcare needs provided for.
6.
The program will be
in place for 5 years and renewed for another 5 years if proven successful.
Success will be determined by the reduction of infant mortality rate in
the countries chosen.
7.
If the program is
successful in the first 5 countries over the 10 year time period, the program
will be extended to the next 5 counties with the highest infant mortality rate.
8.
The cost of the
program will be paid for by collecting 10 million dollars a year from the 25
richest countries in the UN which totals 250 million dollars a year.
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Re: Droughts Caused by Climate Change
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Kenya
Date: May 4, 2010
Establishing in
the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in the resolution:
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
Whereas Article 29 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.”, and
Understanding
that there are 23 million people in the Horn of Africa in danger of not having
food or water because of droughts due to climate change and 6.2 million require
emergency aid, and
Using
climate models, they determined that if carbon emissions remain high by 2050,
the number of reliable crop growing days would fall below 90 for almost 1
million square kilometers of arid and semi-arid lands in Africa. With fewer
carbon emissions, the number of growing days would still fall below 90 for some
500,000 square kilometers (124 million acres), the study found, and
Whereas
millions of people around the world suffer from climate change related
droughts,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1.
The United Nations will
begin a program called General Drought Relief (GDR), the goal of which is to
reduce the number of climate change caused droughts and provide relief for those
suffering under climate change caused draughts.
2.
GDR will take place in
Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya, Algeria and Chad, five countries which are suffering
severe droughts.
3.
GDR will build wells
and provide water to the citizen of Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya, Algeria and Chad.
4.
Finally, GDR help
educate about climate change and educate farmers in the aforementioned
countries.
5.
To pay for GDR, the
United Nations will raise the dues of the 10 wealthiest countries 1%, raising
10.2 million dollars a year.
6.
GDR will last five
years. At that time the program will be evaluated by the General Assembly and,
if found to be successful, can be renewed for another five years to expand to
other countries with climate change caused droughts.
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Re: Illegal Immigration from Sudan to Egypt
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Egypt
Date: May 4, 2010
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 13 section
1 of the
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence
within the borders of each state.”,
and
Whereas Article 14 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.”, 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
Understanding
that there are tens of thousands of
Sudanese refugees in Egypt, most
of them seeking refuge from ongoing military conflicts in their home country of
Sudan.
Their official status as refugees is highly disputed. The refugees have been
subject to racial discrimination and
police violence, and
Saddened
that the country of Sudan does not seem to perceive an end to this conflict, and
seems to disregard the lives that are being destroyed by this war,
and
Recognizing
that many of these Sudanese refugees are in the country of Egypt illegally, an
Acknowledging
that these refugees need support and a place to live while they flee their home
country and reside temporarily in Egypt,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
1.
The United
Nations will begin a program called IMPROVING REFUGEE LIVES (IRL).
2.
IRL will
take place in Somalia and Israel, the countries where the people are immigrating
into Egypt illegally.
3.
IRL will
make refugee camps for the illegal immigrants that have migrated toward Egypt
due to military conflicts.
4.
IRL will
create jobs for the Egyptians and the illegal immigrants we would like to create
schools, hospitals and steel mines for the purposes of education, health, and
industry.
5.
To pay for
IRL the United Nations will raise the dues of the 15 wealthiest countries by 2%
over the next 10 years.
6.
Each year
(of the 10 years) IRL will get approximately $718,419.