Issue 4 - Unemployment, Education, and Training

Issue 4: Reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

Submitter: Sweden

Co-submitters: Austria, South Africa, Hungary, and Spain

Concerned with how Sweden and fellow delegations have the highest ratio of youth unemployment compared to the average rate within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation’s members (OECD),

Taking into consideration that Sweden’s youth unemployment, among 24 year and below, is at a high of 24,2%, which is four times the global average (8%),

Aware of how The International Labour Organisation estimates that the global youth unemployment rate is expected to reach 13’1% in 2017,

Alarmed by the increased accessibility to prosperous job opportunities, which lead to young people’s decision to migrate abroad permanently,

Noting, with regret that, globally 620 million young people are currently not in employment, education or training,

1. Suggests the investment into the creation of programmes that offer aspiring entrepreneurs a leg-up in their projects, enterprises and so on;

2. Calls for the governments of each country to invest in more initiatives and extracurricular activities in order to improve employability skills, entrepreneurship, job seeking, and so on, in order to give an opportunity to all of those who need it;

3. Asks for education systems, the private sector and the governments of each country to collaborate, find out and determine, which skills are the absolute priority in present businesses, due to the fact that skills-mismatch is a concerning issue in the job market, and all of this in order to help unemployed youth find a rewarding job;

4. Demands authorities to change expectations in the workplace, considering that entry-level jobs require previous experience, which makes no sense, and that employers are putting considerably little amount of money into training employees;

5. Encourages the governments in which the teaching labour force is not correctly prepared or experienced, to provide and therefore invest infrastructure and preparation for those either holding a degree or graduating in a formative cycle;

·         Students attaining extraordinary results will be given grants, as a recognition to their great effort

·         Financing programmes will be created in order to assist those struggling to gather the amount of money necessary to pay for both their studies and their internships

           

6. Suggests the creation of a programme of laboral youth insertion in the job market

·         This measure, will provide working experience to those entering the labour force

·         Countries introducing these programmes, will receive subsidies proportional to their contribution to employment rates

           

SIGNATURES:

Sudan, Romania, Iceland, Cameroon, Haiti, Monaco, Angola, Iran, Portugal, Greece, Ukraine, Costa Rica, Cuba, Turkey, Serbia, France, Senegal, Yemen, Viet Nam, USA,  Colombia, Egypt, Republic of Kenya

Issue 3 - Refugee Crisis

FORUM: General Assembly

QUESTION OF: Finding a global solution to the current refugee crisis

SUBMITTED BY: Lithuania

COSUBMITTERS:
Egypt, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, USA, Burkina Faso,
Russian Federation, Israel

Reminding the member states of the United Nations about articles 1, 3, 7, 12, 14, 17, 25
and 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

Fully alarmed by the violation of the articles 9 ("No one shall be subject to arbitrary
arrest, detention or exile"), 14 ("Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other
countries asylum from persecution."),15 ("Everyone has the right to a nationality") and
13 ("Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders
of each State") from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

Emphasizing on article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which
invokes the right of any refugee to seek and be granted asylum in a foreign country,

Alarmed by the closure of borders to Syrian and Iraqi refugees by several members of
the United Nations, thus violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

Recalling greater security in the European frontiers in order to control the flow of
immigrants in and out of a country, as well as to identify possible threats entering or
leaving a country,

Fully aware of the constant entrance of immigrants inside Europe in seek of asylum, and
of the slow rate of relocation due to the inflexibility of some countries,

Aware of the tax some member states of the United Nations have imposed on asylum
seekers trying to enter their country, violating article 17 of the Declaration of Human
Rights,

Congratulates nations such as Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus for their efforts
in aiding the refugees fleeing towards Europe by sea,

Fully believing that solidarity and collaboration between nations could solve the
blockade of immigrants in the Balkans and Northern Italy,

Expecting great coordination by all member states when addressing this serious issue in
order to manage to restore order in the frontiers,

Convinced that all member states will help in any way possible to solve this issue, either
with economic help for the affected countries in order to at least meet the sanitary
conditions necessary for the refugee camps, sending humanitarian aid, or by letting
asylum seekers inside their countries,

Desiring the end of xenophobia in some of the member states towards the refugees due
to their religious beliefs or colour of skin in order to avoid violence and to grant
stability, understanding and respect within a country’s borders,

Concerned about the human trafficking happening in Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco,
Egypt and Turkey,


1) Encourages the United Nations to:
a) Respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
b) Divide the amount of refugees equally among the politically and
economically stable nations in order to relieve Northern Italy and the
Balkans depending on the population density of the countries;
c) Open the borders of their countries with reinforced security measures, such
as scanners and fingerprints in order to control the flow of refugees and
identify possible threats entering Europe;
d) Help and collaborate with the nations that are carrying the weight of the
situation, such as Turkey, Spain, Italy, Germany and Cyprus economically,
with humanitarian aid or by taking into our countries refugees;
e) Realize that most of the refugees are families that have left everything they
had behind by fleeing from the war and horror and that they are just looking
for the security they couldn’t find in their homelands;
f) Grant the asylum seekers security by accepting them into our countries;
g) Ban the imposition of taxes to asylum seekers in order to get the protection
of a country;
h) Collaborate with Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey’s
coast guard in order to minimize the amount of deaths at the Mediterranean
Sea;
i) Impose sanctions on countries that decide to close the frontiers to war
refugees;


2) Calls upon the strengthening of Frontex in order to:
a) Increase the security of the borders;
b) Control the flow of immigrants;


3) Encourages nations to better communication and collaboration in order to:
a) Reach consensus regarding the refugee crisis;
b) Face this international problem as a compact entity rather than a divided
organization;


4) Suggests the minimization of racism through education at school, advertising in
the TV, radio, newspapers, or in streets in the form of posters or bringing
refugees to TV shows to tell their stories;


5) Proposes to all member states that are unable to take in refugees due to their
size, distance or other uncontrollable reasons to aid economically to those
countries opening their frontiers to asylum seekers in order to ensure and
improve the sanitary conditions of the refugee camps;


6) Proposes to implement a program based on the placement of refugees
with prospective employers in a range of jobs, particularly cooking, cleaning,
driving, and babysitting. Giving them an opportunity to sustainably provide for
themselves and their families. This idea would work with the beneficial acts of
charitable employers;


7) Requests the construction of temporary hospitals for refugees in one of the
frontiers financed by small countries such as Monaco, where once the patients
are back in health, can be adopted by a hosting country;


8) Strongly condemns mafias who are trafficking with human beings with false
promises and demands that the full weight of the law should fall upon them;


9) Informing the refugees at refugee camps of the dangerous and distrustful mafias
through leaflets and speeches;


10) Condemns the acts of terror by the Syrian regime against the Syrian population,
thus causing the mass migration towards Europe and North Africa;


SIGNATORIES: Ukraine, Austria, Monaco, Colombia, Albania, Pakistan, Romania,
Cambodia, Estonia, Sudan, South Africa, Iceland, Burkina Faso, Angola, Mexico,
Nepal, Brazil, Argentina, Bahamas, Honduras, Croatia, Mozambique, Bangladesh, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Belarus, Lebanon, Serbia, Iran, Central African
Republic, Bulgaria, Congo, Italy, Ireland, Somalia, Madagascar.

Issue 2 - Natural Disasters

ISSUE 2

QUESTION OF: International help for victims of extreme natural events, and other disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, droughts and famines.

SUBMITTED BY: Costa Rica, Cuba, Ethiopia, Congo and Honduras.

CO-SUBMITTERS: Jamaica, Guatemala, Bahamas, Thailand, Madagascar.

SIGNATURES: Rwanda, Japan, Brazil, Finland, Jamaica, Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sweden, Panama, France, Turkey, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, United Kingdom, Tunisia, Niger, Cyprus, USA, Guatemala, Thailand, Denmark, Republic of Korea, Norway, Madagascar, Afghanistan, Philippines, Kuwait, Bahamas, Ireland, Mexico.

The General Assembly,

Aware of the twenty-six thousand million of deaths caused by the natural disasters and the eighty-five thousand million dollars of the economic loses used on affected cities reconstructions, on rescues of hurt people, on hospitals and others necessaries costs for the survival after each of this extreme events,

Bearing in mind that these digits augment every year by 5%, and so it’s important to find solutions that can be used on the different kinds of disasters or to try to minimise the damage,

Taking into account the fact that this countries position in terms of geographical situation not only causes natural disasters, also claims too many lives,

Fully alarmed by the damaging problems that we have nowadays in a lot of countries that is causing a big impact in the world and in human race,

Deeply concerned that all these countries do not possess enough resources to survive or physical infrastructures such as schools, hospitals, etc. due to natural disasters,

Acknowledging that most of the people don’t receive a proper formation due to several conflicts and the poverty in which these countries are involved,

Realizing that the most developed countries ignore the events that are taking place in the sub-developed ones because of the absence of media reporting about what is happening there,

Pointing out that a lot of people fly to their neighbour regions escaping from their devastating situation,

Ashamed that even the neighbours of this countries with all the pollution and contamination that they emit produce climate problems that damage their environment,

Declaring that not every world country is economically and socially prepared for suffering any kind of these events,

Keeping in mind that it affects almost all the countries, and sometimes like something worst of what it is, producing damage in a superlative level, and understanding that these countries need economic power to rescue people,

Recognizing that it’s possible to prevent or reduce the quantity of natural events,

Having into account that there are humans who destroy the ambient and cause climatic change, and that making a solution or decreasing these cases can stop some of these events,

Emphasizing this can affect on a world level, and so, it’s a global issue,

Propose:

1.       Calls all the other countries to create an agreement of mutual help in case of a lack of needed services for helping the victims of the catastrophe. The agreement includes:

a.       Sending a part of the humanitarian social assistance from the neighbour countries to the country that has suffered because of the natural disaster, helping that way to support and stabilize the critical situation of the victims, and reducing the areas of work of the other humanitarian aid, normally sent by the UN or NGO’s;

b.      Taking in the emigrants of the suffering country and providing them with the basic assistance so they can survive until their country become strong enough to help them itself. This can lead to an opening of borders for that country, but although it has risks, the life of those people always must be more important than political tensions, because someday it may happen in your own country. By the same token, it will only happen in case of extreme necessity;

c.       Creating a joint fund between all the affected countries, so if one of them doesn’t have enough economic resources against the natural disasters and its consequences, it can take the part that it needs from this fund, always taking into consideration that:

A.      This fund is only used in case of extreme natural events, and the country can only take the part that the other members of the agreement accept to give it, preventing that way most of the economic manipulations and swindles that may happen without a serious vigilance;

B.      It’s an international fund created between different countries, mostly Caribbean but also from other parts of the world which gave part of their duties for this cause;

C.      It can also contain money given by other countries that want to collaborate in the sustention of the victims of the catastrophes. In case that these countries also suffer damage because of these natural disasters, and they don’t have enough economic resources, they’ll be able to use this fund for their own necessities;

2.       Calls upon stopping promoting the terrorist attacks, because although it’s a big problem, it only affects a small part of the world, while lots of countries are suffering silently due to the extreme natural events without any help or attention:

a.       Countries like Iraq, Iran or Syria should stop occupying all the TV or other type of media time, and leave space for news from other undeveloped countries with other type of problems like earthquakes, droughts, famines, etc. and where lots of innocent victims are living in poorly conditions.

b.      Countries like Germany or other European countries should stop making daily dramas of terrorist attacks or murders while in other sub-developed countries have hundreds of deaths per day and anyone knows about it, because these countries don’t care about it.

3.       Requests to spread at an international level the awareness of the poor conditions of these victims producing documentaries or recording their lives and posting it in social media and news;

4.       Recommends other countries to create an economical support for the coming NGO’s, so they can count on a minimal part of the resources that they will need in their humanitarian aid;

5.       Solemnly affirms that the type of constructions used in these areas are not sufficiently resistant against natural disasters, and that the communications between different human settlements are too poor and delicate. Searching for good resolutions, here’s a list of some reforms that can improve this situation:

a.        Impose a new type of division of the territories around the most affected villages called “zonification”, which consists in transforming these areas in green regions, such as natural parks or cultivatable lands, which will act like a natural sponge and will reduce the inundations;

b.      Reinforce the buildings with the SRF technique, invented by a Japanese architect and proved in the Tohoku earthquake. This will make the building more stable and resistant against earthquakes and hurricanes;

c.       Set aside a bigger part of the taxes that are addressed to social assistance to make reforms in the collocations of the social help stations (such as police stations or hospitals) and to construct more communication routes between several cities which only have one road to enter and exit;

6.       Encourages developed countries to help and accelerate investment in these countries in food production:

a.       Eliminate customs duties from the neighbour’s regions so the import of food can be easier and cheaper;

b.      Promote donations to industries which make canned food so a part of the production can be freely export to the suffering country;

c.       China should stop making lots of cheap products which are exported to developed countries and normally aren’t really useful, because apart from all the contamination that this country produce, it doesn’t help at all poor countries, where all this junk food can save thousands of lives.

7.       Decides to remain actively seized on the matter.

Issue 1 - Climate Change

General Assembly 

ISSUE 1: ‘’Action to combat climate change and to promote sustainable energies.’’

SUBMITTER : Rwanda

CO-SUBMITTERS : Malta, Madagascar, Denmark,

SUPPORTED BY : Oman, Indonesia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Slovakia, Malaysia, Somalia, Monaco, Spain, Paraguay, Austria, Phillipines, DR Congo, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Lithuania, Yemen, Vietnam, Mozambique, Colombia,

The General Assembly,

Reminding all Nations of the pre-ambulatory clauses of the Conference of Parties at the COP21 in Paris,

Recognizing that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet and thus requires the widest possible cooperation by all countries, and their participation in an effective and appropriate international response, with a view to accelerating the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions,

Also recognizing that deep reductions in global emissions will be required in order to achieve the ultimate objective of the Convention and emphasizing the need for urgency in addressing climate change,

Noting that, from 1880 to 2012, average global temperature increased by 0.85°C. To put this into perspective, for each 1 degree of temperature increase, grain yields decline by about 5 per cent. The ecosystems are heavily affected by this rise in temperature,

Is alarmed by the fact that oceans have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished and sea level has risen.

Emphasizes that, given current concentrations and on-going emissions of greenhouse gases, it is likely that by the end of this century, the increase in global temperature will exceed 1.5° ,

Is deeply disturbed by the increase in global emissions of carbon dioxyde (CO2) by almost 50 per cent since 1990,

Is noting with deep concern that emissions grew more quickly between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades,

Acknowledging that climate change is a common concern of humankind, Parties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples.

1.      Reminds all Nations that it is still possible, using a wide array of technological measures and changes in behaviour, to limit the increase in global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels,

2.      Stresses that major institutional and technological change will give a better than even chance that global warming will not exceed this threshold,

3.      Establishes that all Nations must have a carbon standard which, if surpassed, makes the activity emitting the carbon outlawed, and a lower sandard which, if surpassed, requests that  the emitting country pay a tax equal to 30% of the production costs. e20% of his tax will be be redirected to the countries contributing to the ‘’Energetic World Bank’’ and to countries who will have restricted their carbon emission, while the remaining 10% would fund research in geo-engineering,

4.      Proposes the creation of an ‘’Energetic World Bank’’, in which countries with an abundant supply of renewable energies would store their leftover energies, for under-developped countries to make use of them,

5.      Brings forth a plan to use a fleet of airplanes to pump sulphur dioxyde into the stratosphere, where it will form aerosols that reflect sunlight straight back into space and thus cool the planet.

6.      Suggests the creation of dams connected by paths to the sea in order to control the sea level.

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