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Issues

Special Conference on Life and Death

  • The abolishment of the Death Penalty
  • The implementation of article 5 and 9 of the Universal declaration of Human Rights, with special regards to arbitrary executions and torture
  • Safety of nuclear power plants and radioactive waste
  • The rights of childbearing women

GA 1 Disarmament

  • International cooperation in order to put an end to state failure, with special regards to the situation in the horn of Africa
  • The establishment of a no first use agreement for WMDs
  • Disarmament of militia in the Middle-East

GA 3 Humanitarian and Social

  • An effective implementation of Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5, in order to reduce child and maternal mortality rates
  • Dumping food as aid and its effects on LEDCs
  • Transboundary water issues, including pollution of rivers and lakes, overexploitation of ground water, and pricing inequality

GA 4 Political

  • International cooperation in order to strengthen the ICJ
  • The elimination of anti-Semitism
  • The search for a sustainable use of waste gas, instead of gas flaring

G20

  • Intergovernmental efforts to maintain a strong Euro
  • Protectionism in western countries
  • Interdependency of markets as a result of globalization
  • Breaking up global monopolies and oligopolies

ECOSOC

  • Worldwide preparations for sustainable energy resources after Peak oil
  • The safety of journalists in conflict areas
  • Increasing the effectiveness of development aid by fighting corruption
  • The rights of prisoners of war

Security Council

  • Cooperation with regional organisations (ROs), such as the Arab League, in order to maintain peace in conflict areas, including the question of supranational power for ROs
  • The Western Sahara
  • Maintaining peace in Sudan and South-Sudan
  • Further issues will be set ad hoc