Here are the resolutions for the March 29th General Assembly session. The schools attending are DuBray Middle, North Middle School, and South Middle School. The General Assembly will be at the Creve Coeur Drury Inn from 9:00 am until 12:00 pm. 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/Status | Submitted by: | Topic: |
| GA-01 Submitted | Haiti South Middle School | Insufficient Healthcare in Haiti |
| GA-02 Submitted | Yemen North Middle School | Yemen Refugee Camps |
| GA-03 Submitted | Swaziland DuBray Middle | High Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Swaziland |
| GA-04 Submitted | Canada North Middle School | Air Pollution in Canada and Extended Countries |
| GA-05 Submitted | the Philippines DuBray Middle | Unemployment and Homelessness in the Philippines |
| GA-06 Submitted | Israel South Middle School | Clean Water and Sanitation |
Resolution GA-01 March 29
Re.: Insufficient healthcare throughout Haiti
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Haiti
Date: March 29, 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
Alarmed by the fact that 60% of Haiti’s population has no access to healthcare, and
Fully aware that Haiti cannot provide adequate care to their people on their own (because of the lack of funding and lack of doctors), and
Keeping in mind that although Haiti has a small population, still, 6% of their population is living with HIV/AIDS, and
Noting that Diarrhea (Cholera), respiratory infections, Malaria, Tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, are the leading causes of death in Haiti, yet they don’t have the means to provide any treatments, and
Observing that the UN is already working with Haiti to prevent any future Cholera outbreaks,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The goal will be to create an organization consisting of funded doctors with adequate supplies that will provide care to the citizens of Haiti.
- The doctors present will provide vaccinations to infants, children, and young adults as to aid the next generation, and will also provide treatments/antibiotics to adults infected.
- The money will be raised in the following ways:
- We will ask UNICEF for vaccinations in order to treat HIV/AIDS, Cholera, and Malaria. This will cost (roughly) around 40 million (travel, treatment all included). We will then ask the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to fund the transportation of the vaccines. Afterwards, we will ask Doctors Without Borders to provide doctors to Haiti, in order to administer the vaccines.
- If we need any extra funding, we will raise the U.N. dues of the top 10 richest countries by 5% in order to provide the extra funds not covered by the organizations.
- If UNICEF is unable to provide the requested vaccinations and treatments we will ask the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to provide the vaccinations as well.
- We also have access to a new and cheaper vaccine called Euvichol-Plus that will treat Cholera (includes lighter and more convenient plastic tubes, smaller cost, etc.)
- This plan will last for a minimum of 3 years and a maximum of 6 years, with the exception of ongoing care of established doctors.
- In order to monitor the progress of the program, we will have the doctors keep records of the patients in the following ways:
- Number of total patients
- Number of patients who have received the vaccine
- Number of patients who have died from disease WITH the vaccine
- Progress of those who have received the vaccine
- Number of patients who have been cured, or are now in healthy condition
- Quarterly checks on HIV/AIDS and weekly checks on people affected by cholera
Resolution GA-02 March 29
Re.: Yemen Refugee Camps
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Yemen
Date: March 29, 2019
Whereas Article 12 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS states, “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to protection of the law against such interference and attacks.”, 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
Knowing Yemen is a country of poverty with many people suffering from famine. Losing our cities and homes to the indirect hits of terrorists and the United States is not only a huge blow but a cataclysmic one at that, and
Fearful that our population will decrease and poverty rate will rise due to many families losing their homes, and
Concerned for the many people of Yemen who are lost without home or water are going to result with immigrating to other countries which will cause conflicts, and
Knowing that Yemen is a poor country and can’t afford to pay for this plan by themselves,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- To fix the increasing problems of our cities being destroyed and our general populous needing a new home we decided to increase the number of refugee camps in Yemen. We went for a cost-effective but overall helpful plan for our people. Our options were either a tent per family or numerous families per one large tent.
- The question is how do we ensure the safety of the refugees in the camps. And how will we evenly distribute space (via tent size per family) and resources? We planned to place the refugee camps in less dangerous areas outside the general conflict. We ask for possible guards or peacekeepers in and around the camps to prevent the terrorists and protect from bomb strikes. We need the extra defense to ensure less panic in the camps.
- Food and/or resources in camps will be distributed in a fair and orderly manner amongst different camps and different refugees with ration cards. It would be necessary to have bimonthly or even monthly shipments of resources into the separate camps. Currently, there are over 3 million people forced to leave Yemen and seek refuge elsewhere. There are approximately 2.1 million starving refugees that will need clean food and water, as well as an estimated 9 hundred thousand refugees with diseases such as cholera. Resources in the form of food, water, and medicine, will need to be shipped and paid for. It will likely cost over 9 million dollars in canned and prepared foods which could, in theory, be donated by peoples over the world. We will start by building only half of the camos needed to house all the refugees, with this start it will cost around 4.5 million dollars each month to maintain food and continuing to build camps. I will end up costing about 54 million dollars.
- We decided to build sturdy camps due to the monsoons that frequently hit the nation, and possibly will convert this into a system which will allow fresh water from the sky to be collected to be redistributed among the camp to lower overall cost.
- Later down the line, we ask to establish a fund that will protect countries that aren’t participating in a war to use in the event that they are attacked unjustly and use it in a case where their people are in danger for materials such as the resources for refugee camps, food, water, and medicine.
- Throughout this tough time, we will continue to increase the number of camps and will house the refugees and keep them safe. We plan on enforcing most of this cost to America because of the circumstances that they created. The results will not be instantaneous but they will surely show once we get this started. Thank you for your consideration in our idea to protect our citizens.
Resolution GA-03 March 29
Re.: High Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Swaziland
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Swaziland
Date: March 29, 2019
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in this 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
Knowing that over 1 in 4 people in Swaziland have HIV/AIDS, and
Worried that 0.6% of the population in Swaziland is dying from AIDS alone each year, and
Concerned that the epidemic may spread to other countries such as South Africa and Mozambique,
Be It Hereby Resolved That the General Assembly:
- The United Nations will launch a program called Diagnose Swaziland, which will test every citizen for HIV.
- Doctors Without Borders will travel to Swaziland to provide tests, and 1,676 medical facilities will be set up around Swaziland. Some cities with facilities will include Mbabane, Lobamba, and Manzini.
- Some people without HIV/AIDS will go through doctor training to give medicines to infected citizens.
- Diagnose Swaziland will cost $2.5 million for doctors, medicines, tests, hospitals, transportation, housing, food, and any other needs later on.
- Continue for five years, then spread to other countries if prevalence is dropped by more than 5%.
- To get funds for the mission, raise funds for the 10 nations that pay the highest amount of dues by 0.2% for 1 year, raising over $3.8 million.
- Educate people on HIV/AIDS on the symptoms, how to contract HIV/AIDS, what HIV/AIDS does to you, and anything else that HIV/AIDS will do.
- After 1 calendar year, redo the tests and compare data, make monetary revisions as needed.
- Over time, raise all dues by 0.01% to go fund the UN’s AIDS Committee to find a cure and vaccine.
- Spread tests, medicines, and other HIV/AIDS-related medical items to richer countries to use after epidemic is helped in poverty-stricken countries.
Resolution GA-04 March 29
Re.: Air Pollution in Canada and Extended Countries
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Canada
Date: March 29, 2019
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in this 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
Knowing that general industrial production, as well as the production and use of less energy-efficient products, is causing unsafe environments and damaging air quality, causing death and relocation to safer asylum. The risks that the pollution costs violates rights to life, and
Worried that there are 4.6 million deaths due to air pollution every year; in fact, it has become one of the highest killers on Planet Earth. This causes population decline and threatens the lives of our own and other countries’ populations, and
Concerned about population decline and the threat to life on Earth due to unsafe air conditions, and
Aware that Canada has made a great effort to try and reduce the impact of greenhouse gases and air pollution in their environment over the last 20 years, but the problem will get worse if we continue on the path of dangerous pollution,
Be It Hereby Resolved That the General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program called The Solution to Air Pollution (STAP) that will provide support towards the funding of creating energy efficient products, while also spreading the idea of impeding the production of air pollution and non-energy efficient products.
- Taxes will be imposed upon large companies that exceed the limit of greenhouse gases emitted each day.
- The money collected from the taxes will be funded towards the creation of energy-efficient products and research towards safer product production.
- The plan will not cost much money, due to the plan being funded by the taxes coming from the factories. We will need approximately half a million dollars to start the project up. If at all possible once it is started up and proved to be successful we may ask the UN for 1 million more dollars to help the project start up in other at risk countries.
- If air pollution levels do not decrease by at least 25% within 5 years after STAP is implemented and enforced, higher taxes will be imposed upon companies emitting greenhouse gases.
- 50 tons of greenhouse gases produced per day is the limit, exceeding this number will cause a company to be taxed based upon their net worth, per ton exceeded.
- Extend program if successful, to other at risk countries: Pakistan, Qatar, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Iran.
Resolution GA-05 March 29
Re.: Unemployment and Homelessness in the Philippines
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Philippines
Date: March 29, 2019
Establishing in the PREAMBLE the principles that apply in this resolution:
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 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
Concerned that in 2012, 3 million Filipinos were unemployed and 7 million Filipinos were underemployed leaving them unable to pay for housing, and
Aware that unemployed and even underemployed Filipinos are not able to pay for proper housing along with all of their other needs such as food and clothing, and
Knowing that in 2013, 610,000 Filipinos were staying in homeless shelters on any given night not getting enough nutrition or medical care, and
Worried that a quarter of the people in homeless shelters are children under 18 years old who are not getting a proper education, not getting the nutrition that they need to grow and develop, and not getting the medical attention that they need,
Be It Hereby Resolved That the General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program called House and Employ that will provide jobs to unemployed Filipinos while also providing homes for the homeless.
- 3d printed homes and shelters will be built with the help of teams of previously unemployed Filipinos, providing jobs for the unemployed while simultaneously creating cheap housing for the homeless.
- Employees from the 3d printing company will travel to the Philippines and train the new workers on how to build the structures and how to operate the technology. 50 employees will be flown to the Philippines to train new workers. A round trip flight costs about $1000. Accommodations for each employee would round out to about to be $600 per week. Employees would stay in the country for 3 weeks and get paid $900 each week, causing the budget for training to be $275,000.
- Each house will cost $4,000 dollars to build and can hold 4 people. If 2,000 homes are built, housing 8,000 people, the budget would be $8,000,000. Adding this to the training costs, the the budget would be $8,275,000.
- There are also more unpredictable costs that might arise such as permits, leveling land, storm damage, or a number of other problems that could occur. So the budget will be rounded up to $10,000,000 to account for any problems or other costs that could occur.
- The money will be raised by increasing UN dues for the 10 wealthiest nations by 7%.
- The first 2,000 homes should take 3 years to complete with the 3d printing technology. After the first 2,000 homes are completed, the program will continue to expand and help people in need of jobs and housing.
- The program could even expand to other countries with high poverty rates such as Haiti and South Africa to continue helping people in different countries.
Resolution GA-06 March 29
Re.: Clean Water and Sanitation
Submitted to: General Assembly
Submitted by: Israel
Date: March 29, 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
Recognizing that 61 million Ethiopians lack access to safe water and 65 million lack access to improved sanitation, and
Knowing that diarrhea, cholera and other water-borne illnesses have become the leading cause of death in children under the age of five in Ethiopia, and
Fully aware that right now an estimated 45 percent of Ethiopian children attend school, while the other 55 percent spend their days collecting water,
Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:
- The United Nations will begin a program called E-Water that will provide clean water for the neediest villages in Ethiopia.
- The United Nations will provide life 100 Life Straw kits to the 500 neediest villages in Ethiopia, in which water will be poured through to give each family a clean bucket of water daily.
- There will be one stone well constructed in the 3,000 most neediest villages in Ethiopia to provide clean water for the village. The labor will be provided by local Ethiopians and they will be paid.
- E-Water will cost approximately about $25 million dollars for the purchase of 50,000 Life Straw kits and the construction of 3,000 stone wells in the 3,000 of the most neediest Ethiopian villages and the salaries for the labor of the construction.
- The money will be raised by raising the UN dues by $250,000 for the 100 wealthiest countries.
- If progress is made cleaning water and improving sanitation, then the program will continue for another 10 years progressing to the next 5 countries in Africa with the highest number cholera cases. The progress will be measured by number of reduced cases of cholera and malnutrition. The goal is the reduction of cholera cases by 20%.
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