Resolutions from Fort Zumwalt South Middle

Here are resolutions submitted from students at Fort Zumwalt South Middle.

Resolution Number:	Submitted By:	Topic:
GA-01	Peru	Reducing Air Pollution in Peru
GA-02	Morocco	Decreasing Unemployment in Morocco
GA-03	Romania	Helping Victims of Human Trafficking in Romania
GA-04	Croatia	Improving International Immigration
GA-05	Norway	More Accessible Safe Water in Uganda

Resolution GA-01 FZS

Re.:                             Reducing Air Pollution in Peru
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Peru
Date:                           April, 2020

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

We are alarmed that on average 1,250 people die per year in Peru due to air pollution, and

Observing that 80% of these deaths are caused by public transportation emissions, and

Emphasizing that some of the countries with the highest air pollution rates are India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and China, and

Deeply concerned that Peru has 48 micrograms of bacterial matter per square meters when the safe amount, as determined by the World Health Organization (WHO), is 10 micrograms,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The World Health Organization will begin a project called R.A.P (Reducing Air Pollution) that will help reduce the amount of air pollution. The operation will first take place in Lima, Peru, and if successful it will be implemented in other areas in the world.
   
   
2. In Lima, Peru the current population is 32.17 million people and there are currently 60,000 micros (buses) in regular operation. It will cost about $35,000 per micro to replace the engine to a fuel-efficient electric one. Overall, this project will cost $2.1 billion dollars. Over each 5-year phase of the program, this conversion/replacement process will cost 700 million dollars.
   
   
3. We are asking that the thirty richest countries’ current UN dues be raised by 10% in order to cover all the costs and contribute money to starting R.A.P. in other areas.
   
   
4. The operation in Lima, Peru will take place over 15 years, in three, 5-year phases. Every five years, ⅓ of the buses will be converted.
   
   
5. After the first year, we will test the air quality and send the results to the UN. We will repeat this test again after the second year. After the first two years’ results are documented, the next reports will be sent after the fifth year, the tenth year, and the fifteenth year.
   
   
6. Once this program has been proven successful, it can be implemented into other countries that also suffer from air pollution. Some of those countries include Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Mongolia, Kuwait, Nepal, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, and China.

 

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Resolution GA-02 FZS

Re.:                             Decreasing Unemployment in Morocco
Submitted to:            General Assembly
Submitted by:            Morocco
Date:                           April, 2020

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

Noting that Morocco is ranked 123rd out of 188 countries on the human development index, and

Alarmed by the fact that the unemployment rate between 2007 and 2017 has grown from 4.2% to 9.3%, and

Keeping in mind 152,000 people lost their jobs in agriculture in 2019 alone due to climate change,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The goal will be to set up job training centers that will help the people of Morocco obtain jobs in high-demand industries such as rock mining, textiles, food processing, construction, etc.
   
   
2. There will be four training centers, one in each of the following places: Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakesh, Tangier. We are planning to buy/rent existing buildings in those places.
   
   
3. We will take 6 months to recruit teachers, advertise, and collect supplies for the training.
   
   
4. Once the centers are prepared and staffed, we will offer study certificates for 6 months, 1 year, and 2 year programs. The programs will be based on industry jobs. They will be staggered between the four centers, so that a person will not have to wait a year to participate in a program.
   
   
5. This plan will cost 5 million dollars, which is $1.25 million per training center. This will pay for teachers’ salaries, supplies, and advertisement for the program. We will fund this program by increasing the UN dues of the top 20 dues-paying countries by .05% , which will generate $5, 813,637.
6. Evaluation of the plan as a whole will be done every one year. This will be done by keeping records of the number of graduates for our study programs over the first two years. We will also keep records of the unemployment rates of the cities in which our centers are located for two years. If this plan is successful, we will implement more centers across the country. This plan could also help other countries with high unemployment such as Burkina Faso, Syria, Senegal, Haiti, Kenya, and Djibouti.

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Resolution GA-03 FZS

Re.:                             Helping victims of Human Trafficking in Romania

Submitted to:            General Assembly

Submitted by:            Romania

Date:                           April, 2020

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

Aware that in 2018, there were 497 human trafficking victims in Romania alone, and

Alarmed that the poor, women and minors are the most common victims of trafficking, and

Concerned that other countries affected are Algeria, Russia, Venezuela, Belarus, North Korea, Syria, Yemen, U.S., and Sudan,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. As stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all people should have the right to their own bodies, and human trafficking takes that right away. To help victims cope with this injustice, we propose a therapy system for those who have endured this cruel situation.
   
   
2. Patient program referrals will occur when the trafficking victims are rescued and see a physician, the physician will refer them to our program. The physicians will be advised to keep the program details quiet for the safety and protection of the victims and therapists.
   
   
3. Upfront, if we increase the UN dues of the top 11 countries by 10%, decreasing by 2% each year for the next 5 years it will be able to provide the necessary funding amount for our plan.
   
   
4. To save some expenses, the system will start by renting a facility in the most populated city, Bucharest, just for the human trafficking victims. If more treatment space is needed after one year we would like to expand.
   
   
5. For the first year, the patient counseling and treatment will be provided by volunteers from Doctors Without Borders, the Mental Health Specialists group, while we interview local therapists for positions in our program. To pay for the 140 therapists needed for this program, we ask for 92.1 million dollars.
   
   
6. After one year of sessions, therapists will submit anonymous patient evaluations to the UN, detailing the patients’ progress. If further therapy is deemed necessary for individual patients, the program will continue to provide access to therapy sessions for another year, at which time, the patients will again be evaluated. This program can be continued in other countries affected by human trafficking.

 

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Resolution GA-04 FZS

Re.:                             Improving International Immigration   

Submitted to:            General Assembly

Submitted by:            Croatia

Date:                           April, 2020

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 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

Concerned that the millions of people who attempt to immigrate each year are faced with denials and deportations that send them back to countries torn apart by war, poverty, and hunger, and

Alarmed that those who make the dangerous trip sustain injuries and even death, and

Observing that the excess of immigrants creates an economic crisis in countries that don’t have enough room to provide for their basic needs and establish their lives, and

Aware that while plans to fix this problem will take time and money, they would ultimately lead to a better and healthier world,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. The UN create the International Immigration Fund (IIF). The IIF will be in charge of distributing money to immigration facilities so that they can expand and improve their facilities and services. If a person is requesting entry into the country, then the host country will accept their request and facilitate their assimilation into the country with their newly transformed facilities and services.

 

2. This will be a joint effort of all 193 UN countries. The standards each country will be trying to achieve in their immigration facilities include:

• More living space for immigrants
• Readily accessible food,water, and medical care
• Respectful and competent immigration officers
• Safety in and around the camps

Countries found to possess these qualities already will not receive UN support money, but will be vital in providing both monetary and human support to struggling immigration countries.

 

3. The proposed budget will be $1,000,000,000.00. This money will be split across the struggling immigration countries. The amount that each country gets will be proportionate to how dire the immigration crisis in their country. Money that each country receives will go to expanding their immigration camps and increasing their supply of medical tools, food, water, blankets, etc.

 

4. $251 million will come from raising the UN dues of the top 30 nations that pay the most in dues by 10%. To top it off, we will attempt to create a collective group of about 30 philanthropist billionaires to invest $749 million into the fund. This will round out to our hoped for $1 billion. We will also request help from the UNV (United Nations Volunteers) in the transport of goods and construction of expansions on camps. To prevent possible spread of disease and to provide medical care to the new refugees, we will request the help of programs such as Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross. Lastly, we hope to pull food from the WFP (World Food Programme).

 

5. Our goal is to increase each struggling country’s refugee services by 30% by 2030. This increase in the population served must be sustainable, and each immigrant should receive adequate living conditions until they are able to assimilate into the regular population. We also aim to reduce the mortality rate in refugee camps to near 0% by 2030.

 

6. If this goal is met, we plan to reinvest $1,000,000,000.00 back into the fund and grow each struggling country’s refugee services again by 30% by 2050. Similarly, the increase must also be sustainable, and show that the immigrants receive adequate living conditions until they assimilate into the regular population. However, if by then, immigration has been fixed with the peaceful removal of international wars, then the program can shut down and the remaining money distributed fairly to other UN programs.

 

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Resolution GA-05 FZS

Re.:                             More Accessible Safe Water in Uganda        

Submitted to:            General Assembly

Submitted by:            Norway

Date:                           April, 2020

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

Saddened that almost 40% of Ugandans walk for over 30 minutes to find safe drinking water, and

Deeply concerned 8 million Ugandans, 51% of the population have no access to safe drinking water, and

Realizing that the burden of fetching and gathering water often falls to Ugandan children and causes them to miss school,

Be It Hereby Resolved That The General Assembly:

1. Immediately distribute 200 LifeStraw filter straws to each city near water in Uganda. In the major cities, 800 LifeStraw filter straws will be distributed.
   
   
2. One well will be built in every town or city by Water Wells for Africa. There will be 3 wells distributed into 7 of the major towns (Kasese, Masaka, Kampala, Mbale, Lira, Gulu, and Mbarara).
   
   
3. While the other things are going on, one rain filtering water tower will be built in each town and city. Pipes will run underground out from the towers to the rest of the town to provide water to each building.
   
   
4. The cost of this project will be $1,983,200 USD. $1,168,000 USD will be used to build the wells. $23,200 USD will be used to buy the LifeStraws. $792,000 USD will be used to build the water towers.
   
   
5. The Lifestraws will be distributed immediately, and the wells will take approximately 10 days to build. While all this is going on, the water towers will be under construction. The towers will take approximately one year to build.
   
   
6. For the first year after construction of the wells is finished, the wells will be inspected every four months. For the following three years, the wells will be inspected twice a year. From that point on, the wells will be inspected once a year. For the first year after the construction of the water towers is finished, the towers will be inspected every other month. The towers will then be inspected twice a year for the following three years. From that point on, the towers will be inspected once a year. The wells and towers will be inspected to make sure they are still working properly and to see if they need any repair or change. New LifeStraws, in the same amounts for the respective towns as stated above, will be distributed in the beginning of each year.