Resolutions for April 11, 2019

Here are the resolutions for the April 11th, 2019 General Assembly session. The schools attending are McKinley Middle and Ritenour Middle. The General Assembly will be at the Creve Coeur Drury Inn from 8:00 am until 11:00 am. We will be posting resolutions as we receive them. Some of these might be rough drafts and will have changes before the session.

Resolution Number	Country	Topic
GA-01	Jamaica McKinley CJA	Child Labor/Human Trafficking in Nepal
GA-02	Morocco Ritenour Middle	HIV/AIDS in Africa
GA-03	Russian Federation McKinley CJA	Slavery in Uzbekistan
GA-04	Sudan Ritenour Middle	Deforestation
GA-05	Israel McKinley CJA	High Infant Mortality Rate in Afghanistan
GA-06	Peru Ritenour Middle	Femicides and Assaults on Women in Peru

Resolution GA-01 April 11

Sapthaka, Cordy, Kennedy

Re.:                             Child Labor/Human Trafficking in Nepal
Submitted to:            General Assembly

Submitted by:            Jamaica

Date:                           April 11, 2019

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 in or 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

Deeply concerned that children in Nepal are being forced to work in dangerous coal mines due to the lack of food, and

Highly noted that there are 70,000 children under the age of 14 in the city of Nagara (in Nepal) working, and

Emphasizing that 75% of children under the age of 14 are working all over Nepal, mostly consisting of girls,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The UN will create a group called Miracle Learn Y to help build successful businesses and schools in low income states of Nepal.
   
   
2. The program will be starting out by building 20 schools all throughout the low-income states of Nepal.
   
   
3. Miracle Learn Y would spend an approximate of $2.5 million dollars to build schools, pa teachers, and provide supplies to kids and or adults that want to learn.
   
   
4. Miracle Learn Y can be supported by Impulse, the group that is already helping kids in Nepal by relocating them into a school in Nepal.
   
   
5. If progress goes as planned we have to get at least 50% of kids in low-income states of Nepal into school and past high school.

 

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Resolution GA-02 April 11

Jordan Watson, Kenneth Fields, Reggie Bibbs

Re.:                             HIV Aids in Africa
Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Morocco

Date:                           April 11, 2019

Whereas Article 2 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without any distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”, 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

Alarmed by the fact that 69% of the 34 million people worldwide with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and

Aware that there are 23.8 million infected in Africa, and

Concerned that 91% of the world’s HIV positive children live in Africa,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Will create an organization called A.H.P.
2. Will create a social media campaign to educate people about HIV-Aids at a cost of $500,000.
3. Will hire HIV-Aids doctors at a cost of $1,200,000.

Funding: 

4. We will pay for the project by raising the dues of the 10 nations who pay the most by 0.1%

Timeline: 

5. This project will take 2 years at first, and maybe longer if it is effective.

Evaluation: 

6. Every year, we will check the statistics and see if the rate of new HIV infected people has gone down.

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Resolution GA-03 April 11

Andrew, Hezekih, Joshua

Re.:                             Slavery in Uzbekistan
Submitted to:            General Assembly

Submitted by:            Russian Federation

Date:                           April 11, 2019

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 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

Deeply concerned that Uzbekistan is forcing children to work in cotton fields, and

Realizing that these children need education desperately, and

Alarmed by the fact that these children are put into danger every day, and

Fully aware that the government is threatening families to work in cotton fields,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Create a program called No More Slavery (NMS) which will provide medical care and education to the children working Uzbekistan. The program will also replace working children with adults.
   
   
2. Our program will cost about $2 million per year so we would like 10% of raised dues from the 10 wealthiest nations to fund this program for 8 years.
   
   
3. Our program will span 8 years and will be tested the first year. If it is successful, we will continue running the program for 7 more years.
   
   
4. If the children are working less in the cotton fields and having less injuries than the program is working.
   
   

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Resolution GA-04 April 11

Re.:                             Deforestation
Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Sudan

Date:                           April 11, 2019

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 all of the world’s rainforests will be destroyed in the next 100 years if they continue to be chopped down at the rate that they currently are, and

Emphasizing that logging destroys 15.3 billion trees a year, and

Observing that 4 to 6 rainforest species go extinct every year, and

Deeply concerned that when trees are cut down the carbon dioxide that they have been storing stays in the air, and

Recognizing that communities in the forests are already planting new trees to replace the ones that are being cut down,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

Action Plan:

1. The United Nations should create a project called Save The Rainforest to stop logging and build rainforest conservation cites to help to protect the forest.
2. All countries should ban logging.

Funding:

3. Save the rainforest will cost approximately $20 Million. This money will be provided by raising the dues of the top 20 wealthiest nations by 0.6%.

Timeline:

4. The amount of logging should be decreased by a least 20% by 2025, and it should be decreased by at least 20% more by the end of 2030.

Evaluation:

5. If these rules and conservation sites aren’t working in three years then the program will only continue for three more years.

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Resolution GA-05 April 11

Zainab, Cecily

Re.:                             High Infant Mortality Rate in Afghanistan
Submitted to:            General Assembly

Submitted by:            Israel

Date:                           April 11, 2019

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 in or 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

Affirming that over 10% of Afghan babies born in Afghanistan do not live to survive their 5^th birthday, and

Knowing that over 1,000 mothers die during pregnancy in childbirth and when carrying their child, and

Concerned that almost 40% of marriages are forced and underage (under 18 years old) leading to health problems that damages the upbringing of the child and is the cause of women dying more than 20 years under the life expectancy, and

Fully aware that 72% of adults cannot read, write, or provide a source of income, and

Alarmed by the fact that 46% of children do not get proper vaccines and 2/3 of them die from simple illnesses that could have been prevented, and

Noting with deep concern that 20% of the children are expected to work if they do not have the ability to get an education, and

Realizing that resources and workers will cost a reasonable amount of money,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The United Nations will begin a program titled Save the Little People (SLP) providing education, food, and healthcare to children and their parents.
   
   
2. The first shelter will be set in Kabul. In association with Aquafina, who have agreed to donate $0.50 for every individual water bottle sold. We will also work with Teachers Without Borders and Doctors Without Borders who will send teachers to educate parents on reading and writing and doctors who will not only care for the people in the shelter, training parents how to stay healthy and care for their children.
   
   
3. To start off, we will have a budget of $950,000. If the program works exactly as planned, we will be able to move money around to work for the people. In order to continue paying for this project we will be increasing the dues of the 10 richest nations on Earth by 0.5%.
   
   
4. The plan will play out for a total of 5 years to determine whether or not it has saved and enriched the lives of children and their parents by then. If the program is successful, SLP will expand and reach out to other countries in need.
5. The countries SLP will be set in first after the success of Afghanistan are Somalia, the Central African Republic, and Guinea-Bissau.

 

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Resolution GA-06 April 11

Jazelle Swope, Malia Holmes, Alea Beckton

Re.:                             Femicides and Assaults on Women in Peru
Submitted to:             General Assembly

Submitted by:            Peru

Date:                           April 11, 2019

 

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 2 section 1 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without any distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”, and

Alarmed by the 94 femicides, 21,000 assaults, and 5,707 sexual assaults on women in Peru, and

Concerned that 4,000 of the female victims of sexual assault, 4,000 were children, and

Recognizing that 32% of Peruvian women experienced physical violence from their partner at some point,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Will provide therapy for the men committing the assaults at a cost of $500,000
2. Will provide therapy for the women who are victims of assaults at a cost of $500,000
3. Will start an information campaign using TV and social media to educate people about femicide at a cost of $1,000,000

Funding: 

4. The total cost of the program will be $2,000,000. We will fund the program by raising the dues of the 10 highest paying UN members by .1%

Timeline: 

5. The program will be up and running in 2 years

Evaluation: 

6. We will evaluate the success by seeing if assault and femicide rates decrease every year.