GEMUN 2009 Topics

      The committees listed below are being represented in the 20th Session of GEMUN. 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 '09: 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: Measures to Combat International Terrorism; Genocide Prevention; Genetic Engineering in Plants, Animals, and Humans; International Programs to Aid in the Development of Africa; Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation; Improving Response to Humanitarian Crises; Implementation of The Millennium Development Goals and Open Agenda) Security Council (SC Topics: Disarmament, Peacekeeping, The situation in the Middle East, Landmines and Open agenda -- All Issues of Security and International Peace) Economic and Social Council (Topics in ECOSOC: Eradication of Extreme Poverty and Hunger, Productive Employment and Decent Work, The Digital Divide, Oil Crisis, Indebted Third World Countries and Open Agenda) Human Rights Council (HRC Topics: Indigenous People, Poverty, Racism, Trafficking in Persons and Open Agenda) United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP Topics: Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, Chemical/ Hazardous Waste, Alternative Energy Sources, Biodiversity, Regional Seas and Open Agenda) World Health Organization (WHO Topics: HIV/Aids, World Hunger & Malnutrition, International Spread of Disease, Sanitation of Water, Substance Abuse, Health Action in Crisis and Open Agenda) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF Topics: Children, safe water and sanitation; Child Education; Children's Rights; Children in War Afflicted Areas; Orphans; Child Mortality and Open Agenda) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW Topics: Women's Rights, Education and Empowerment of Women, Violence Against Women, Discrimination Against Women, Healthcare and Welfare of Women, Maternal Health and Child Care, Female Refugees, Women's Status in Government/Employment and Open Agenda) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP Topics: Democratic Governance, Poverty Reduction and UNDP, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Environment and Energy for Sustainable Development, HIV/AIDS and Human Development and Any other relevant topics) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO Topics: Eradicating Hunger, Biotechnology, High Food Prices, Food Security, Climate Change, Nutrition Education, Water Scarcity/Quality, Aquaculture and Open Agenda) Country Information/News/Miscellaneous General Assembly (GA) 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 "Create a United Nations Genocide Prevention Focal Point and Genocide Prevention Center" -- article UN Division for Sustainable Development -- Biotechnology Biotechnology -- From Wikipedia Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture BIO -- Food and Agriculture Poverty and Hunger -- from 'Beyond Economic Growth' Statistics of the Human Development Report Weapons of Mass Destruction International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Danger of Nuclear Weapons -- GA Resolution UN Millennium Development Goals 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 UNHCHR -- Torture Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Torture and Inhuman Treatment back to top of page Security Council (SC) Security Council Home Page Alliance of Civilizations United Nations News Service United Nations Peacekeeping Operations UN -- Peace and Security Peace and Security resources in the UN System Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Peacekeeping What is Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR)? UN and Disarmament Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Disarmament Weapons of Mass Destruction News by region: MIDDLE EAST International Campaign to Ban Landmines Terrorism and Disarmament Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons NPT: background Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) UN acts against terrorism Terrorism -- Global Issue before the UN System Terrorism and Disarmament back to top of page Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 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 A Global Agenda Needed for Energy Crisis DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Renewable Sources the Key to Energy Crisis? Third World Debt Undermines Development The Scale of the Debt Crisis 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 Sustainable Development and the UN System United Nations Division for Sustainable Development Achieving Sustainable Development -- The Earth Institute UN-HABITAT -- The Challenge World Food Programme Overview FreeRice Poverty.com -- Hunger and World Poverty Globalization -- Cyberschoolbus Globalization -- World Bank Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Trade and Development resources in the United Nations System Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Globalization UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development Science and Technology for Development Youth Employment Network -- Home Social Development resources in the United Nations System 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 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 Human Rights United Nations Human Rights Website Human Rights resources in the United Nations system 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 Home Page UNEP -- Cyberschoolbus Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change UNEP Climate Change Climate Change -- What is it? UNEP Global Change -- Regional Seas guardian.co.uk -- environment Earthwire Climate -- The Environmental News Portal Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change UN Convention on Climate Change & UN System UNEP Our Planet Magazine UNEP Maps and Graphics on Climate Change 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 Teach with TakePart 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 FAO Forestry Department 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 Water resources in the UN system 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 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 Hunger Facts: Statistics on Hunger from CARE 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 WHO -- Drinking Water Quality WHO -- Water-related diseases/Malnutrition World Hunger Facts 2008 Hunger Facts: International 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 Medical Statistics on the Internet 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 Home Page World Bank--Water Home Page (click on 'Water Supply & Sanitation' on left side of page, then 'Sanitation & Hygiene' on next 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 -- Tsunami Crisis 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 Education resources of the United Nations System UNICEF -- Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education MDGs -- Cyberschoolbus -- Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education UN Literacy Decade Slide Show Commonwealth Secretariat -- Universal Primary Education Goal 2: Universal Primary Education -- UNAUSA.org UNICEF -- HIV/AIDS and Children 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 A low cost laptop for every child 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 Labor -- UN Photos 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 Hunger, malnutrition kill six million children annually Children's right to adequate nutrition Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition Key factor to achieve the UN MDGs back to top of page Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 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 Education and Training of Women 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 Gender Mainstreaming in UNESCO Division on the Advancement of Women -- Women in Decision-making Processes UNIFEM Asia -- Women's Participation in Decision-Making and Leadership International Women's Day 2006 -- Women in Decision-Making Women in Politics Women in Power and Decision-making Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: What Really Works on the Ground Gender Mainstreaming in UNESCO Women and Poverty UNIFEM -- Women, Poverty & Economics Gender and Development Section -- UNESCAP Cyberschoolbus Briefing Paper -- Girl Child International Women's Day Page United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) UNESCO -- Efforts toward 'Literacy for All' UNESCAP -- Women Literacy Women, Literacy and Development back to top of page United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) -- UNDP Home Page About UNDP UNDP -- Cyberschoolbus 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 Home 'Ask FAO' Home FAO -- Cyberschoolbus 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? Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture 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? http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/programs/extension/aquaculture/finfish/factsheets/FF6/ FAO Report: Eradicating Hunger USDA: great information about agricultural, etc back to top of page Country Info/News/Miscellaneous Country Information UN General Assembly 62nd Session General Debate Statements UN Permanent Missions (homepages etc) OneWorld Country Guides Reliefweb: Background by Country CIA -- The World Factbook Nation by Nation Almanac UNICEF -- Press Centre by Region World News 'In Depth' on OneWorld 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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