Resolutions for March 29

GA-01

Re.:   Education and Nutrition for Poor Children

Submitted to:  General Assembly

Submitted by: China, Monaco, Norway, North Korea, Armenia, Israel, Italy

Date:   April 2, 2013

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 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 in Burkina Faso, the youth female literacy rate ages 15-24 in 2007 was 33%, and

Whereas in Ethiopia between 2006 and 2010, 33% of children under five were underweight, and

Whereas in Haiti in 2011 there are 400,000 children ages 6 to 11 who do not attend school, and

Whereas in Nepal 50,000 children die every year, with malnutrition as the underlying cause for more than 60 percent of these deaths, and

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The United Nations will start a program entitled Education: Mission Possible.

2. The program will take place Haiti, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Nepal, countries with very low literacy rates.  The program will take place in rural areas that have a significant school-age population.   

3. We will partner with Global Campaign for Education and Child United, two organizations that are already working on issues of childhood education.

4. Education: Mission Possible will build sixteen schools (four in each country).  The schools will serve ages 5-18 and the curriculum will include kindergarten through 10th grade.  Both genders will attend the schools, with some single gender classes as culturally acceptable.  Dormitories will be available for students who need them.

5. Students will be given both a health screening prior to attending, and will be given necessary vaccinations.  They will be evaluated for malnutrition and emotional problems, and will also be screened for educational placement.

6. Counseling will be available for students who have emotional needs.

7. Personnel for Education: Mission Possible (teacher, counselors, translators) will be volunteers at first, and then they will train local citizens to staff and teach in the school, thus providing jobs in the poor community.  The staff will be paid a living wage, with a bonus if funds allow.  Students who graduate from the program will be encouraged to contribute to the school community.

8. All students will be provided breakfast, lunch, and dinner if they board. The schools will have gardens for locally grown vegetables.  In addition, children found to be malnourished during their health screening will be given a regiment of Plumpy’Nut, a peanut-based paste in a plastic wrapper for treatment of severe acute malnutrition manufactured by a French company Nutriset.

9. Any food left over from the school could go to the families.  Families of students suffering from acute malnutrition will be given any extra Plumpy Nut.  

10. To pay for the Education: Mission Possible, the United Nations will partner with Amazon and Barnes and Noble.  Each time an ebook is downloaded, five cents of every dollar will be donated for this program.  Other corporate sponsorships will also be pursued.  In exchange, Amazon and Barnes and Noble will receive good public relations from their efforts.  

11. This program will last five years, and then be evaluated for effectiveness.  If it is effective, it can be renewed and expanded to new countries.  If it does not work in a particular site, the funding will be removed and put in another site.  

GA-02

Re.:   Child Soldiers in Mali

Submitted to:  General Assembly

Submitted by:

Date:   April 2, 2013

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 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 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

Appalled that extremists allied with al-Qaida who occupy northern Mali have been recruiting children for their cause since April, 2012, and

Deeply concerned that these children, over 1,000 by some accounts, have been recruited in schools, and

Realizing most of these children and their families are led to believe the children will be doing safe jobs like cooking, and

Understanding that some families are in desperate need of the $1,000 to $1,200 paid to families per child, and

Knowing these children are being trained in firearms and physical fitness and staffing checkpoints throughout northern Mali, and

Reaffirming that Mali is a party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which states that recruitment and use of child soldiers is a war crime,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The United Nations will implement a program called Child Help In Mali (CHIM).

2. CHIM will create “Safe Houses,” heavily protected, in northern Mali for child soldiers to seek refuge.

3. CHIM will send guards to all schools throughout Mali to prevent soldiers from recruiting.

4. A door-to-door campaign will be started to inform families of what children will really do if they sell them to the extremists.

5. Money and/or food or other supplies will be given to families to help them.

6. Child soldiers will receive education on the conflict while in the “Safe Houses.”

7. Families will also be given “Safe House” locations for refuge.

8. UN peacekeepers will be sent to checkpoints to remove children from working and to privately spread the word of the locations of the Safe Houses.

9. Five safe houses (actually large tents for $1,240 each) will be placed in five areas of northern Mali where children have been seen with the Islamist groups.

10. Food and water will need to be available for the children and some family members.

11. Transportation and needs of UN Peacekeepers will need to be provided, and for volunteers to talk to Malian families about the conflict.

12. After six months CHIM will be assessed for success.  If children are making it to the Safe Houses and the tents are safe, five more tents will be placed in other areas.

13. When the conflict ends, a plan will be put into place to help children return to their homes.

14. The expense of CHIM for the first six months is estimated at $5 million.

15. Because of their involvement in the Malian conflict against the U.N.’s recommendation, we are asking France to pay half of the expense of this project, $2.5 million.

16. The rest of the money will be raised by asking the other four Security Council members, who have been in discussion with France about the conflict, to pay $625,000.  

GA-03

Re.:   Clean Water for Africa

Submitted to:  General Assembly

Submitted by: Monaco

Date:   April 2, 2013

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

Appalled that of the 1 billion, 844 million without access to clean water, 37% of those live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and

Shocked that Sub-Saharan Africa alone loses 40 billion hours per year collecting water-the same as a whole year's worth of labor by the entire workforce in France, and

Horrified that in Niger, 51% of the population doesn’t have access to clean water, in Chad, 49% of the population doesn’t have access to clean water, and in Mali 36% of the population doesn’t have access to clean water, whereas in America, only 1% of the population doesn’t have access to clean water, and

Disgusted that in developing countries, 80% of illnesses are related to poor water and sanitation conditions, and

Disturbed that 1 out of every 5 deaths under the age of 5 worldwide is due to a water-related disease, and

Troubled that in Sub-Saharan Africa, 43 per cent of children drink unsafe water and one in five die before their fifth birthday, and

Dismayed that in Sub-Saharan Africa a lack of clean water and basic sanitation is responsible for 1.6 million preventable child deaths each year,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The United Nations will begin a program called Clean Water for Africa (CWA.)

2. CWA will operate in Mali, Niger, and Chad.

3. CWA will be installing Elephant Pumps, which can be mostly manufactured and installed locally, by locals, in the countries.

4. The locals will install the pumps in their own communities.

5. The materials, as it is with elephant pumps, will be provided by the locals.

6. One pump will be installed for every 250 people in each country, because the elephant pump provides enough water for 250 people each day.

7. UN instructors will travel to the communities and instruct the locals on the installation. One instructor will be hired for each pump.

8. Instructors will be volunteers, but if not enough volunteers are available, then instructors will be hired.

9. The installation will cost around $42,000,000 and in order to pay for this dues will be raised 2.5% on the countries that pay the highest dues, (Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, UK, USA,) and will raise $47,744,545. This is $5,744,545 more than the installation cost, so the remaining money will be spent on assisting in the digging of the wells when the ground is not diggable by hand, as well as for transportation, when needed, and paying the UN instructors.

10. CWA will last for four years, but if the program lasts longer than that time frame, the program will be extended, and additional money will be raised at that time if needed.

GA-04

Re.:   Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

Submitted to:  General Assembly

Submitted by: France and Andorra

Date:   April 2, 2013

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 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 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

Appalled that over 300,000 Syrian refugees are located in Lebanon, and

Emphasizing that this is more refugees than any other country bordering Syria, although Lebanon is the smallest of all the countries bordering Syria, and

Aware that Lebanon is not fully supportive of these refugees, and is the least friendly/welcoming of the countries that host other Syrian refugees, and

Concerned that several refugees have perished from hypothermia in the Lebanese refugee camps, and

Recalling that the Lebanese government supports the President al-Assad and his government, and

Concerned that international aid is not going to the refugees.

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The United Nations will implement a program called Syrian Refugee Rescue, or SRR.

2. SRR will work with nations worldwide who have contributed over 1.5 billion dollars in humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees to ensure the aid is going to the refugees.

3. Immediately SRR will send tents, medical supplies, sleeping bags, blankets, and food to the refugees in Lebanon. Some supplies will be dropped by helicopter or plane into camps.

4. Negotiators will be sent to speak with Lebanese government officials to hold them accountable for the money donated to refugees.

5. SRR will provide transportation to refugees in Lebanon, by bus, to go to other countries or other regions of Syria where more camps with better supplies and provisions are available.

6. Syrians who have not yet left their country will be provided transportation to neighboring countries other than Lebanon.

7. Once Syrian refugees in Lebanon are more secure in person, SRR will help other neighboring countries (Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel) with provisions for refugees.

8. A plan will be created to help Syrians return home once it is safe.

9. SRR will help the refugees in Lebanon first, which will cost an estimated $25 million for supplies, food, shelter, and transportation.  Since the money has already been donated through an international effort, negotiations with the Lebanese will provide what’s needed.

10. A sleeping bag for a temperature down to 25 degrees Fahrenheit can be purchased for $37.  We are hoping for corporate donations for them to immediately drop to refugees while it’s still winter and temperatures are near freezing at night.

GA-05

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Re:   WHINSEC

Submitted to:  General Assembly

Submitted by: Venezuela

Date:   May 11, 2012

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

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 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

Whereas Article 30 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.” and

Realizing the name changed from School of Americas (SOA) to Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) had no effect on the curriculum of the school, and

Understanding WHINSEC is an American school funded by the American government whose main goal is to destabilize legitimate governments in Central and South America by creating soldiers to use terror and brutality to create puppet governments loyal not to the people of the country but to the United States of America and multinational corporations, and

Aware of the hundreds of thousands of Latin American people suffering because of graduates of the SOA/WINSEC, and

Deeply Concerned that a country so powerful is producing terrorists that are endangering the lives of Latin American civilians, and  

Shocked that in February 2005, eleven people were massacred including 6 Jesuit priests and two other women and their children, 19 of the 27 killers were graduates of the SOA, and

Recognizing Waldo Albarracin the director for the Assembly for Human Rights in Bolivia, who was kidnapped and tortured in 1997 by Captain Filmann Urzagaste Rodriguez who attended WHINSEC in 2002, and

Keeping in mind Colonel Alvaro Quijano an instructor of Peacekeeping Operations and Democratic Sustainment courses at WHINSEC from 2003 to 2004. Who was arrested in 2007 for providing security for FBI’s top 10 most wanted Diego Montoya a notorious drug lord and leading a drug stronghold in Colombia,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The United Nations will begin a program called Countries against Terrorism (CAT), in which countries will come together and try to abolish any sort of terrorist acts.  

2. CAT will try to prevent terrorism by allowing the United States two years to close WHINSEC.  This will prevent terrorism by ensuring that no more graduates from WHINSEC will be terrorizing Latin America and other countries.

3. CAT will be sending UN representatives to WHINSEC to monitor the activities being held and taught at the school.  UN representatives will review the curriculum and make any necessary revisions to the curriculum.   

4.  If America does not meet the two year deadline given, the UN will recommend for sanctions against the country to arise.  Countries belonging to OPEC will boycott the United States, by not providing their country with our resources (oil).  Countries will bring upon a boycott of all United States manufactured weapons.  No sorts of trade will be made with the United States.

5. CAT will last five years.  When evaluated by the General Assembly and found successful with the closing of WHINSEC, CAT will be renewed for 10 years and expanded to other countries with productions of terrorist.