GEMUN 2010 Topics

      The committees listed below are being represented in the 21st Session of GEMUN, May, 2010. Each section on this page has a collection of links for the respective committee, which we are always in process of updating. If you find a link that is expired, or a good one that needs to be added, please send an email to GEMUN's staff

The following Committees will be role-played at GEMUN '10: Please note that the order of precedence of the topics is not indicated by the order in which they are listed. All topics are equally deserving of the attention of the committees. It makes the debate MUCH more interesting if all topics are covered. There have been times where half or most of the resolutions submitted are on the same topic, and after one or two of these resolutions are debated, the others receive little interest from the committee. Try to make your resolution an interesting and creative solution. General Assembly (Topics in GA: Preventing & Combating International Terrorism, Genocide Prevention, Sustainable Development, Nuclear Disarmament & Non-Proliferation, Improving Response to Natural Disasters & Humanitarian Crises, Developmental Aid in Africa, Implementation of Millennium Goals and Open Agenda) Security Council (SC Topics: Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts, Issues of Small Arms, Natural Resources & Conflict, Risks of Nuclear Proliferation, Peacekeeping, Terrorism and Open Agenda -- All Issues of Security and International Peace) Economic and Social Council (Topics in ECOSOC: The Digital Divide, Productive Employment & Decent Work, Third World Countries in Debt, Eradication of Extreme Poverty & Hunger, Oil & Energy Crisis and Open Agenda) Human Rights Council (HRC Topics: Racism, Indigenous Peoples, Treatment of Prisoners, Trafficking in Persons, Torture and Open Agenda) United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP Topics: Climate Change, Ecosystem Management, Resource Efficiency, Environmental Governance, Ocean Acidification, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & forest Degradation (UN-REDD), Hazardous Substance Safety & Control and Open Agenda) World Health Organization (WHO Topics: World hunger, HIV/Aids, Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Safe drinking/bathing water/ Overall sanitation, Immunizations and Open Agenda) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF Topics: Child mortality rates, Education of children in third world Countries, Child soldiers, Children living in countries of political unrest, Fighting malnutrition & starvation, Preventing child abuse & education about children's rights, Orphans and Open Agenda) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW Topics: Violence against Women, Forced Marriage of Minors, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Women & Poverty and Open Agenda) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP Topics: Poverty Reduction & UNDP, Crisis Prevention & Recovery, Environment & Energy for Sustainable Development, Democratic Governance and Open Agenda) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO Topics: Increasing & Sustaining Agricultural Development, Education & Extension, Water Scarcity & Technological Development, Advancing Biotechnology and Open Agenda) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA Topics: Nuclear Safeguards, Emergency Response, Nuclear Research, Radiotherapy Programs, Radioactive Waste Disposal and Open Agenda) Country Information/News/Miscellaneous General Assembly (GA) (Topics in GA 2010: Preventing & Combating International Terrorism, Genocide Prevention, Sustainable Development, Nuclear Disarmament & Non-Proliferation, Improving Response to Natural Disasters & Humanitarian Crises, Developmental Aid in Africa, Implementation of Millennium Goals and Open Agenda) General Assembly Home Page Report to G8 Summit Leaders from the G8 Experts on International Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism -- EU Presidency Statement Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [NPT] UN Action to Counter Terrorism Measures to eliminate international terrorism -- GA Resolution Prevent Genocide International Genocide Watch UN Division for Sustainable Development -- Biotechnology Biotechnology -- From Wikipedia BIO -- Food and Agriculture Poverty and Hunger -- from 'Beyond Economic Growth' Statistics of the Human Development Report United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) Danger of Nuclear Weapons -- GA Resolution UN Millennium Development Goals, Background Global Data Monitoring Information System, MDGs UN CyberSchoolBus: Poverty Curriculum A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems United Nations Peacekeeping Home Page United Nations Cartographic Section (Peacekeeping Maps) Fifty Years of Peacekeeping Reform at the UN Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Renewing the United Nations Oceans and Law of the Sea -- Home Page United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -- Overview and full text International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea Law of the Sea & Antartica -- resources in the United Nations System International Strategy for Disaster Reduction ISDR: Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning STOP DISASTERS! A disaster simulation game from the UN/ISDR Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Committee against Torture Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Torture and Inhuman Treatment back to top of page Security Council (SC) (Topics in Security Council 2010: Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts, Issues of Small Arms, Natural Resources & Conflict, Risks of Nuclear Proliferation, Peacekeeping, Terrorism and Open Agenda -- All Issues of Security and International Peace) Security Council Home Page Alliance of Civilizations United Nations News Service United Nations Peacekeeping Operations UN -- Peace and Security Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Peacekeeping What is Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR)? UN and Disarmament Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Disarmament News by region: MIDDLE EAST International Campaign to Ban Landmines Terrorism and Disarmament Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) UN acts against terrorism back to top of page Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) (Topics in ECOSOC 2010: The Digital Divide, Productive Employment & Decent Work, Third World Countries in Debt, Eradication of Extreme Poverty & Hunger, Oil & Energy Crisis and Open Agenda) Economic and Social Council Home Page Digital Divide: The Three Stages Your Guide to the Digital Divide One Laptop per Child (OLPC) About the International Labor Organization (ILO) ECOSOC -- Generating Full and Productive Employment and Decent Work for All Working Out of Poverty: a Decent Work Approach Third World Debt Hunger and World Poverty UN MDGs -- Goal 1: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER MDG Monitor: About MDGMonitor.org MDGs -- Cyberschoolbus -- Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability UNICEF -- Goal: Ensure environmental sustainability United Nations Division for Sustainable Development Achieving Sustainable Development -- The Earth Institute UN-HABITAT -- The Challenge World Food Programme Overview FreeRice Globalization -- Cyberschoolbus Globalization -- World Bank Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) UN Development Cooperation Science and Technology for Development Youth Employment Network -- Home United Nations Research Institute for Social Development UNCTAD -- LDCs, Land-Locked and Island Developing Countries ESCAP: Least Developed Countries Coordination Unit (LDCCU) UNESCAP: Small Island Developing States Small Island Developing States Network UN and Small Island Developing States back to top of page Human Rights Council (HRC) (HRC Topics in 2010: Racism, Indigenous Peoples, Treatment of Prisoners, Trafficking in Persons, Torture and Open Agenda) HRC Home Page What are Human Rights? The Rights of Indigenous Peoples UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Indigenous Peoples Durban Review Conference 2009 World Conference on Racism Poverty Facts and Stats -- Global Issues Children and Poverty Campaign Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery A Web Resource for Combating Human Trafficking United Nations -- Human Rights Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Homepage Human Rights module -- UN's Cyberschoolbus Amnesty International (Human Rights) Human Rights Watch back to top of page United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) (UNEP Topics 2010: Climate Change, Ecosystem Management, Resource Efficiency, Environmental Governance, Ocean Acidification, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & forest Degradation (UN-REDD), Hazardous Substance Safety & Control and Open Agenda) UNEP Home Page UN Atlas of the Oceans UNEP -- Cyberschoolbus Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change UNEP Climate Change UNEP Global Change -- Regional Seas Safe Planet -- the United Nations Campaign for Responsibility on Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes Project SunShine -- The science behind food & energy sustainability. guardian.co.uk -- environment Natural Resources Defense Council -- Global Warming Earthwire Climate -- The Environmental News Portal Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change & UN System UNEP Our Planet Magazine OneWorld -- News -- Climate Change UNEP Activities in Energy Background papers on energy & environment for development, chemicals management & tourism and the environment pdf file for downloading Alternative Energy News Apollo Alliance -- Good Jobs, Clean Energy energy [r]evolution, a sustainable world energy outlook Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Climate Change UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Climate Action, Assisting Business Towards Carbon Neutrality Earth Charter and Climate Change An Inconvenient Truth Website Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change -- wikipedia Repercussions of a Melting Planet PBS--Global Warming for Educators PBS--Climate Change Climate Change -- Science and Development Network People and the Planet -- Climate Change Climate Ark -- Climate Change and Global Warming Portal India ahead of many in adapting to global warming UNEP Activities in Chemicals Ozzy ozone UNEP -- Activities in Ozone UNEP -- Policies and Strategies UNEP -- Biodiversity Biodiversity -- Global Issues Biodiversity: United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Biodiversity Biodiversity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Convention on Biological Diversity Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Biodiversity -- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Biodiversity -- Wikipedia Agenda 21 -- Combating Deforestation United Nations Forum on Forests National Geographic: Eye in the Sky--Deforestation Biofuels Boom Spurring Deforestation UNEP -- Billion Tree Campaign Global Forest Watch Deforestation continuing at alarming rate Deforestation -- Wikipedia Deforestation -- Enviro Facts UN Division for Sustainable Development -- Agriculture What is Sustainable Agriculture? University of California Agriculture UN resources People and the planet -- Food and Agriculture UNEP Activities in Sustainable Consumption UN Division for Sustainable Development -- Consumption and Production Patterns Greendex: Consumer Choice and the Environment--A Worldwide Tracking Survey UNEP -- Freshwater Water Resources Management Water Supply & Sanitation UNEP -- Vital Water Graphics Game: Water Alert! UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme Global Action Required to Avert Water Crisis, Say Reports Global Water Partnership NOW: Science & Health - Leasing the Rain - Water Facts UNEP -- World Environment Day -- Key Facts about Water World Environment Day 2003 -- Water, 2 billion people are dying for it! Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS) The Blacksmith Institute -- World's Worst Polluted Places A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems The Global Environment Information Centre Earth Policy Institute WWF: Living Planet Campaign Planet Ark Sea Turtle Survival League back to top of page World Health Organization (WHO) (WHO 2010 Topics: World hunger, HIV/Aids, Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Safe drinking/bathing water/ Overall sanitation, Immunizations and Open Agenda) WHO Home Page Cyberschoolbus -- WHO WHO -- Disease outbreaks International spread of disease threatens public health security WHO -- Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Hunger Facts -- Bread for the World CARE: Nutrition World Food Programme Friends of World Food Programme WFP Foodforce -- The Game, The Reality, How to Help MDGs -- Cyberschoolbus -- Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger World Food Day International Alliance Against Hunger HungerBanquet.org World Hunger The world hunger problem: Facts, figures and statistics WHO -- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene World Bank--Water Home Page (click on 'Water Supply & Sanitation' on left side of page, then 'Sanitation & Hygiene' on next page) WHO -- Drinking Water Quality WHO -- Water-related diseases/Malnutrition World Hunger Facts 2008 WHO and HIV/AIDS WHO -- HIV infections MDGs -- Cyberschoolbus -- Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases UNAIDS HIV/AIDS a global issue and the UN system Mulago Positive Women's Network (MPWN) Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- AIDS/HIV Worldwide HIV & AIDS Epidemic Statistics WHO -- Health Action in Crises WHO -- Immunization WHO -- Vaccines and Biologicals UNICEF -- Immunization Plus International Organizations Preventing Disease Through Vaccination WHO -- Tobacco WHO -- Management of substance abuse UNODC-- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime WHO | School health and youth health promotion WHO | Promoting Health UNESCO | Education -- Health Promotion WHO -- Health topics WHO -- Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network WHO -- Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response Cyberschoolbus -- Communicable Diseases NewsHour Extra: The Rules of Engagement: Addressing Health Mysteries -- Lesson Plan Global Health Council -- New Rules to Protect Against Spread of Disease WHO -- Health Action in Crises WHO/AFRO -- Regional Office For Africa New Perspectives -- Natural Disasters back to top of page United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (UNICEF 2010 Topics: Child mortality rates, Education of children in third world Countries, Child soldiers, Children living in countries of political unrest, Fighting malnutrition & starvation, Preventing child abuse & education about children's rights, Orphans and Open Agenda) UNICEF Home Page UNICEF--Water, environment and sanitation UNICEF -- Basic Education and gender equality UNICEF--Press Centre--Orphans UNICEF at Work--HIV/AIDS Work UNICEF--Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF--Protecting Children in Times of War Children in Crisis--UNICEF Emergency Response UNICEF--Children of Darfur live under a mantle of fear Cyberschoolbus -- UNICEF UNICEF Press Centre Children: resources in the UN system UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) UNICEF on Wikipedia Children and Armed Conflict Child soldiers -- Amnesty International Human Rights Watch: Child Soldiers UNICEF -- UNICEF in emergencies -- Children and armed conflict Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Child Soldiers Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers BBC World Service -- Child Soldiers Uganda: Child soldiers at centre of mounting humanitarian crisis UN -- Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Impact of Armed Conflict on Children UNMIS -- United Nations Mission in Sudan UN Sudan Information Gateway IRIN Africa -- Sudan UNICEF -- Crisis in Darfur Human Rights Watch -- The Conflict in Darfur Through Children's Eyes IRC -- Caring for Mothers and Children in Darfur UNICEF -- Sudan -- Darfur -- Overview afrol News -- "One in five children in Darfur malnourished" WHO -- Health Situation in Darfur, Sudan Sudan Crisis -- WFP UNICEF in emergencies -- Reaching the vulnerable Emergency Relief: UNICEF USA WFP -- Hunger Hotspots UNICEF -- Tsunami disaster -- Tsunami disaster UNICEF -- The Asian Tsunami UNICEF -- Thailand: children cope with tsunami UNICEF -- Education and play help children leave the tsunami behind Oxfam's Cool Planet for Children and Teachers UniversalEducation -- EndPoverty 2015 UNICEF -- Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education MDGs -- Cyberschoolbus -- Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education UN Literacy Decade Slide Show Commonwealth Secretariat -- Education Goal 2: Universal Primary Education -- UNAUSA.org UNICEF -- Goal: Combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases UNICEF -- United for Children Against AIDS UNICEF -- Young child survival and development UNICEF and Child Survival UNICEF -- Goal: Reduce child mortality MDGs -- Cyberschoolbus -- Goal 4: Reduce child mortality UNICEF -- Early Childhood Surviving the first five years of life Child Mortality The UN Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children OHCHR -- UN Study on Violence against Children Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Girl Child Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Child Labor UNICEF's Child Labour page UN Works for people and the planet/Child Labour in Brazil Child Labour guide Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Children's Rights UNICEF -- Goal: Improve maternal health MDGs -- Cyberschoolbus -- Goal 5: Maternal Health Making Motherhood Safer 'Invisible Crisis' in Maternal, Infant Mortality Children's right to adequate nutrition Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition back to top of page Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) (CSW Topics 2010: Violence against Women, Forced Marriage of Minors, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Women & Poverty and Open Agenda) Commission on the Status of Women UN Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Women and Gender resources in the UN system UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) Amnesty International USA -- Protect Human Rights Amnesty International -- Working to Protect Human Rights Refugees International Human Rights Watch: Women's Human Rights (Discrimination/Domestic Violence/Trafficking/Education/Family) PeaceWomen Project -- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Global Health through Education, Training and Service (GHETS) United Nations Girls' Education Initiative Gender Mainstreaming in UNESCO WomenWatch: Directory of UN Resources on Education and Training of Women Women's United Nations Report Network -- Right to Education The United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012) International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Women and Violence UNIFEM -- Violence Against Women UNFPA -- Violence Against Girls and Women WHO -- Violence Against Women Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women 51st Session CSW -- The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women MDGs -- Cyberschoolbus -- Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women UNICEF -- Goal: Promote gender equality and empower women UNFPA -- Promoting Gender Equality Division on the Advancement of Women -- Women in Decision-making Processes UNIFEM Asia -- Women's Participation in Decision-Making and Leadership Women in Politics Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: What Really Works on the Ground UNIFEM -- Women, Poverty & Economics Gender and Development Section -- UNESCAP Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Girl Child UNESCO -- Efforts toward 'Literacy for All' UNESCAP -- Women Literacy Women, Literacy and Development back to top of page United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (UNDP Topics 2010: Poverty Reduction & UNDP, Crisis Prevention & Recovery, Environment & Energy for Sustainable Development, Democratic Governance and Open Agenda) UNDP Home Page About UNDP UNDP Energy and Environment for Sustainable Development The Resilience Alliance, provides a foundation for sustainable development policy and practice UNDP Poverty Reduction UN Millennium Goals Millennium Development Goals Human Development Reports - UNDP back to top of page Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (FAO Topics: Increasing & Sustaining Agricultural Development, Education & Extension, Water Scarcity & Technological Development, Advancing Biotechnology and Open Agenda) FAO Home Methodological Toolbox on Right to Food Guidelines (free download, contains a 'Right to food curriculum outline') Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture 'Ask FAO' Home FAO -- Cyberschoolbus FAO Forestry Department FAO: Agriculture 21 FAO -- Right to Food Homepage FAO ISFP Home (Initiative on Soaring Food Prices) Backgrounder: Green Biotechnology UN Division for Sustainable Development -- Biotechnology Biotechnology -- From Wikipedia What is Biotechnology? BIO -- Food and Agriculture FAO Water Unit: Water Scarcity Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) WHO -- Food Security USAID -- Food Security World Food Day Better nutrition education helps reduce malnutrition Fisheries & Aquaculture What is Aquaculture? FAO Report: Eradicating Hunger USDA: great information about agricultural, etc back to top of page International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (IAEA Topics: Nuclear Safeguards, Emergency Response, Nuclear Research, Radiotherapy Programs, Radioactive Waste Disposal and Open Agenda) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safeguards to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation FAO -- Cyberschoolbus Country Info/News/Miscellaneous Country Information UN General Assembly 64th Session General Debate Statements UN Permanent Missions (homepages etc) OneWorld--Places (Africa | Asia and the Pacific | Europe | Latin America & Caribbean | North America) Reliefweb: Countries and Emergencies CIA -- The World Factbook UNICEF -- Press Centre by region World News 'Issues' on OneWorld (Development | Economy | Environment | Health | Human Rights | Information & Media | Peace and Conflict | Politics) NPR News Now: World Australian Broadcasting Corp. BBC News -- World One World OnLine -- global news Miscellaneous Worldmapper (The world as you've never seen it before) Gapminder (visualise human development) 10 Stories the World Should Hear More About United Nations Foundation The Earth Charter International Days Better World Campaign -- Dedicated to a Strong US-UN Relationship UN University -- Peace and Governance Programme International Committe of the Red Cross United Nations -- Social Development Social Development and UN Social Summit resources of the UN System Indigenous Peoples -- UN's Cyberschoolbus Indigenous Peoples -- OHCHR Global Issues That Affect Everyone Earth on Edge (Bill Moyers report) UNDP Home Page UNDP: Poverty Reduction MDGs -- Cyberschoolbus -- Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger UNICEF -- Goal: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger First UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty 1997-2006 Commitment to Development Index 2006 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Africa: Portraits of Poverty Poverty | Development Gateway Netaid: Global Poverty ONE The Campaign to Make Poverty History ECOSOC -- Poverty mitigation World Bank Poverty Net Home: Resources and Support to Alleviate Poverty 'First Slum on the Internet' Fighting poverty with microfinance Poverty Curriculum -- UN's Cyberschoolbus Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Poverty People&Planet: Poverty and Trade Sustainable Development resources in the UN system UN Division for Sustainable Development United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Tierramérica -- Environment and Development Sustainable Development -- Wikipedia UNDP: Bureau for Crisis Prevention & Recovery UNDP Publications -- Crisis Prevention and Recovery UNDP Crisis Prevention and Recovery -- Where We Work International Strategy for Disaster Reduction United Nations Global Compact United Nations Procurement Service/The Global Compact The Global Compact Cities Programme Global Compact -- Wikipedia Millennium Campaign -- Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development MDGs -- Cyberschoolbus -- Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development UNICEF -- Goal: Develop a global partnership for development Global Development: Views from the Center Focus on Renewable Energy and the World Energy Council Energy resources in the UN system Global Energy Network Institute Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Governance Governance -- online UN system resources UNDP Oslo Governance Centre back to top of page

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