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SEASAC MUN 2017

Committees and Topics

 

Theme: The Price of Progress

 

Human Rights Council

  • Freedom of Expression: the right of whistleblowers

  • Human rights violations in the Middle East following the Syrian crisis

  • Modern slavery and the issue of forced labor

 

Security Council

  • Ethnic and religious violence in the Central African Republic

  • Measures to ensure a peaceful transfer of power for non-democratic countries

  • Determining the rights, responsibilities and abilities of Intelligence Agencies

 

General Assembly I: Disarmament and International Committee (DISEC)

  • Addressing the privatization of war

  • Developing a framework to mitigate the effects of terrorism in Pakistan and preventing any further escalation

  • Measures to ensure transparency in the global arms trade


General Assembly III: Social, Humanitarian, & Cultural

  • The prevention of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

  • Addressing the discrepancies in the supply and demand of healthcare in LEDCs

  • Measures to protect cultural identity of minorities

 

General Assembly VI: Legal

  • Authorising an international legal framework relating to possible infringements of privacy through the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

  • Developing a framework in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security

  • Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission

 

Economic and Social Council

  • Addressing the potential issue of large scale unemployment caused by increasing automation of low-skilled jobs

  • Addressing the consequences of the rise of populist movements in Western democracies

  • Measures to combat illegal profiting in the global financial industry

 

Historical Committee

  • Boxer Protocol signed in 1901 - Reparations from the Qing Empire to the imperial powers for the Boxer Rebellion.

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