Issues on the agenda – 19th annual session
‘‘Pursuing a cooperative future between democracies internationally to uphold freedom under threat.’’
General Assembly
General Assembly Committee 1 (Disarmament and International Security)
- Reassessing the relevance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the contemporary world.
- Worldwide refusal to dismantle nuclear programs, as an example of continuing tensions threating international security.
- Renewing efforts to establish diplomatic conversation channels between the current Palestinian and Israeli governments.
General Assembly Committee 2 (Economic and Financial)
- How to deal with macroeconomic challenges to dept sustainability in developing countries.
- Aiding LEDC’s while simultaneously maintaining their financial and social independence. Measure to reduce economic damage to countries relying on gas and oil industries caused
- Measures to prevent future crisis’s similar to the Euro crises throughout Greece, Cyprus, and South-Eastern Europe.
General Assembly Committee 3 (Social, Cultural & Humanitarian)
- Increasing female representation in leadership roles and addressing the issue of the gender wage gap.
- The growing effects of social media and politics, taking examples of Twitter’s and Facebook’s corporate censorship in Australia and India.
- Working to achieve worldwide food security, with focus on combatting hunger in LEDC’s.
General Assembly Committee 4 (Special Political and Decolonization)
- Efforts to de-escalate rising socio- and geopolitical tensions in the Hong Kong city state.
- Challenges of equality in new democracies (ex-dictatorships) such as North African states.
- A deliberation on how UN member states be granted acces to the North and South Poles and their resources, with accord to the Antarctic Treaty System
General Assembly Committee 6 (Legal)
- The promotion of a wider international legal foundation to provide employment to disabled persons.
- Debating the effects of decriminalizing the possession of recreational and medical drugs.
- The UN’s role in imposing fair-trade laws across all member states, to ensure ethical production of goods and liveable wages for workers.
Economic and Social Council
ECOSOC Committee 1 (Sustainable Development)
- Battling the effects of plastic contaminants in the oceans, as an example of consumerist pollution as a whole.
- The conflict over the world’s oil supply, highlighting the trade war between Russia and the US.
- Effectively aiding the COVID-19 diminished healthcare services and resources of LEDC’s, while still maintaining their political and economic independence.
ECOSOC Committee 2 (Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice)
- Deliberating the moral question of abolition of the death sentence across all member states.
- The dilemma of the age of legal responsibility, and the effect this has on the school-to-prison pipeline, aiming to reduce overall incarceration levels.
- Working to abolish the practice of human trafficking as a widespread criminal activity, and furthering penalties and preventive measures.
ECOSOC Committee 3 (Human Rights)
- The question of the constraints of global human rights in terms of religious freedoms, with an example of the Uighur Muslim population in Xinjiang, China.
- Addressing the struggle faced by impoverished women and girls to access menstrual hygiene products.
- Ensuring that the rights of LGBTQ+ people and other minorities are upheld privately and professionally, while promoting their integration into general society.
Security Council
- Handling negotiations between the newly established Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the world at large, focusing on preserving social progress and international peace.
- The UN’s role on imposing worldwide equal and timely distribution measures on vaccinations for the Sars-COV-2 virus, bearing in mind the socio-political and economic situations of all member states.
- UN measures to resolving political instability in the West African and Sahel regions, with focus on this conflict’s origins in climate change and water scarcity.
MunoM e.V. – Model United Nations of Munich
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MunoM e.V. is a not-for-profit charitable educational organization based at the European School Munich.
Elise-Aulinger-Strasse 21 · 81739 München · Deutschland
MunoM e.V. is a not-for-profit charitable educational organization based at the European School Munich.
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