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Agenda Topics...

At MAMUN 2012 there will be a General Assembly, an ECOSOC Plenary, five G.A. committees and three ECOSOC Committees. a Security Council, an International Court of Justice, and up to six crisis simulations. The number following the topic in parentheses is the actual agenda topic number for the General Assembly Provisional Agenda.  

General Assembly (GA) Committees

I.  Political Committee:  

A. The situation in the Middle East (36)

B. Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures (88)

C. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters. (124)

D. Protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their implications for international peace, security and development. (35)

 II. Special Political Committee

II. Special Political Committee

A. Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (64b)

B. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations (137)

C. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (62)

D. Nuclear Disarmament (99o)

III. Social Humanitarian and Cultural Committee

A. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions (63)

B. Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (10)

C. Advancement of women (29a)

D. Global health and foreign policy (128)

IV. Science and Technology Committee

IV. SciTech committee

A. Agriculture development and food security (26)

B. Prevention of an arms race in outer space (97)

C. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (102)

D. Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament (98)

V.  Legal Committee

A. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies (32)

B. Crime prevention and criminal justice (108)

C. International drug control (109)

D. Measures to eliminate international terrorism (110)

Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Committees

1. Economic Committee

A. External debt sustainability and development (18c)

B. Globalization and interdependence (22)

C. Women in development (24b)

D. Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries.(23b)

2. Human Rights Committee

A. Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms (70b)

B. Rights of indigenous peoples (67)

C. Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (68)

D. Assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, particularly orphans, widows and victims of sexual violence (72)

3. Environmental Committee

A. Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind (20d)

B. Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (20e)

C. Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy (20j)

D. Sustainable mountain development (20i)

Security Council

A. Situation in Afghanistan
B. Peace and Stability in  West Africa (Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Sierra Leone)
C. The situation in Chad, the Central African Republic and the subregion
D. The situation in Timor L'este
E. The situation in the Middle East
F. Open 

International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice is composed of 14 student-delegate justices plus a conference staff member as Chief Justice.  The advocates for the parties involved in the suit are also staff members.

Crisis Simulations

Topics will be announced during MAMUN 2012