NMUN•NY Background Guides typically provide the most depth. Archived below are select guides for a variety of committees from NMUN•NY past conferences.
2010: 1. 10-Year Review of the Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals
2. Elimination of International Terrorism
3. Climate Change/ Environmental Degradation as a Source of Conflict
2009:
1. New Approaches to Nuclear Non-Proliferation
2. Advancing United Nations Reform
3. The Impact of Migration on Development
2012:
1. Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in Africa
2. Measures to Prevent and Deter Cyberwarfare
3. Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention
2011: 1. Conventional weapons surplus stockpiles
2. The role of science and technology in the context of
international security and disarmament
3. Disarmament, demobilization, and demining: prerequisites
for peace in Africa2010: 1. Illicit Arms Sales
2. The Control of Conflict Minerals
3. The Privatization of War: Employing and Arming Independent Militias?
2009:
1. Upholding the Status of Prisoners of War According to the
Third Geneva Convention
2. Fighting Illicit Trade and Trafficking of Nuclear Material
3. Preventing an Arms Race in Space2008:
1. The Role of Private Military and Security Companies in Conflict
2. Combating the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons
3. Measures to Uphold the Authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol2006: • Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East • Regulating conventional Arms • Non-State Actors and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Distruction
2012:
1. The Role of Intellectual Property in Facilitating Trade and Attracting
Foreign Direct Investment
2. The Role of Microcredit in Promoting Economic Development
3. Fresh Water Management and Economic Development
2011:
1. Ensuring developing countries’ sovereignty over their
natural resources
2. External debt and development: Towards a durable
solution to the debt problems of developing countries
3. Promoting sustainable development practices in
transnational corporations
2010: 1. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development
2. Promoting Low-Carbon Economic Growth in the Developing World
3. Protecting Developing Countries during the Current Financial Crisis
2009:
1. Climate Change Economics
2. Economic and Trade Policies to Address Food Price Volatility
3. External Trade and Micro-financial Assistance to Developing
Countries
2012:
1. Combating Human trafficking
2. Development and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
3. Transnational Organized Crime
2011: 1. Human rights, cultural integrity, and diversity
2. Promoting alternative development strategies to combat
the world drug trade
3. Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms
while countering terrorism
2010: 1. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development
2. Promoting Low-Carbon Economic Growth in the Developing World
3. Protecting Developing Countries during the Current Financial Crisis
2009:
Committee (Social, Cultural, Humanitarian)
1. Examining the Uses and Implementation of Technology in Educational and Social Development
2. Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Children in Conflict
3. Improving Emergency Response through Humanitarian Reform2008:
1. Evaluation and Implementation of the United Nations
Literacy Decade
2. Cultural Property: Illicit Trafficking and Restitution
3. Combating the Spread of Illicit Drugs
Security Council
2012:
1. Combating Violence and Discrimination against Persons based on Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identity
2. Human Rights in Nonviolent Protests and Demonstrations
3. Follow-up on the Durban Declaration and Program of Action
2011:
1. Climate change as a human rights issue
2. The human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
3. Food security and the right to food
2012:
1. Evaluating the Progress and Projections of the Millennium Development Goals
2. The Impact of Sexual and Gender-based Violence on Realizing the
Right to Reproductive Health
3. Environmental Migration and Social Vulnerability as a Result of
Climate Change
2010 1. Promoting Economic and Social Gender Equality as a Means to Achieve Sustainable Peace
2. Improving the Implementation of International Agreements to Promote Global Public Health
3. Promoting Sustainable Cities
2009:
1. Partnering for Development: An Examination of the
Partnerships between Developed and Developing States
2. Working Towards the Achievement of MDG 7: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
3. Increasing Coordination of Humanitarian Agencies with theUN System
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia(ESCWA)
2012: 1. Addressing Youth Unemployment in the ESCWA Region and Arab World
2. Promoting the Empowerment of Women in the ESCWA Region
3. Economic and Social Reconstruction in Palestine
2009:
1. Combating social exclusion and human rights violations in the ESCWA region
2. Improving Technological Capabilities to promote sustainable development in the ESCWA region
3. Facilitating Trade in the ESCWA Region through the
Strengthening of Regional Partnerships and Frameworks
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
2010:
1. Mitigation of the Economic Crisis at the Regional Level
2. Strengthening Social Protection for the Most Vulnerable
3. Access to Information Technologies and the Impact on Social Cohesion
2007:
1. Building Institutions for Economic Growth
2. Creating Grassroots Economies: Developing Credit and Linkages
to Social Programs in Rural Areas
3. Bolstering Regional Macroeconomic Coordination
2012:
1. Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Planning and Implementation of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration
2. Improving Women’s Health as a means to Achieve Gender Equality
3. Women's Economic Empowerment in the Context of the Global
2010:
1. Women’s Equal Participation in Conflict Prevention, Management and Conflict Resolution and in Post-conflict Peacebuilding
2. Women's Role in Capacity Building within Civil Society Movements
3. Fifteen Year Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
2008:
1. Access to Employment
2. The Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination and Violence
Against the Girl Child
3. Enhancing Gender Equality Through Financial Strategies
Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
(CESCR)
2006:
• Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers
• Understanding the Effects of Economic Sanctions on a Disadvantaged Population
• The Marginalization of Education on a Global Level
2012:
1. Responding to the Challenge of Narco-Traffic and Organized Crime in West Africa
2. Drug trafficking and its Role in Fueling Conflict in Central and South America
3. Exploring the Effects of Decriminalization Strategies within International Drug Policy
2012: 1. Managing Peace, Security, and Prosperity in the South China Sea
2. Enhancing Efficiency and Credibility of UN Sanctions
3. Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
2010: 1. Nuclear Disarmament & Non-Proliferation
2. The Security Situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan
3. Combating Maritime Piracy
2009:
1. Implementing the Responsibility to Protect
2. Children and Armed Conflict
3. The Situation in Israel/Palestine2008:
1. The Situation in Somalia
2. The Impact of Climate Change on Global Security
3. Post-Conflict Peace Building2007:
1. Protecting Human Rights after the Darfur Peace Agreement
2. The Situation in Iran
3. Timor-Leste: Post-withdrawal Analysis 2006:
• Security Council Reform
• Strengthening SC Resolution 1267 (1999) Concerning Al Qaeda and the Taliban
• International Instruments to Mitigate the Threat of the Use of Nuclear Weapons by Terrorists
2010:
1. Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia)
2. Questions relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v.
Senegal)
2006:
• Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• Injurious Actions of a State against an Individual: Ahmadou Sadio Diallo
• Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge
2012:
1. The Prosecutor v. Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, and Abdullah Al-Senusi of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
2. The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1. Ensuring Political and Institutional Transition after South Sudan’s Independence
2. The Role of Civil Society in Peacebuilding
3. Improving Transitional Justice Systems in Post-Conflict Situations
2009:
1. Assessing the Impact of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic on
Development
2. Caring for children impacted by HIV/AIDS
3. Improving Access to Treatments for People Living with
HIV/AIDS
2007:
1. Twenty-five years of HIV/AIDS: Evaluating the Epidemic and
Global Response
2. Combating the Spread of the Avian Influenza
3. Developing Stockpiles and Distribution Strategies for Antibioterrorism
and Related Agents
2012: 1. Promoting Gender Equality by Addressing Social Norms and Increasing
Girls’ Access to Quality Education
2. Juvenile Crime and Violence as an Effect of Social and Economic
Conditions
3. Children in Armed Conflict
2010: 1. Legal Concerns and Safeguards for Children in Transitional Justice
2. Fighting Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War
3. Implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child in Order to Combat Child Exploitation
Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO+30) CSustD
2012:
1. The Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development and
Poverty Eradication
2. Keeping the Green Economy Blue: Protecting Oceans and Fisheries for
Future Generations
3. Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development
2012:
1. Increasing Agricultural Productivity: Feeding 9 billion in 2050
2. The Impact of Biotechnology on Food Security
3. International Trade and Microbiological Hazards in Food
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Exec. Board (UNESCO)
2012:
1. Bioethics and the Human Genome
2. World Heritage Sites: Balancing Tourism and Ensuring Preservation
3. Empowering Citizens through Universal Access to Information.
2012: 1. Responding to Famine in Somalia
2. Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development
3. Addressing the Use of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
2010: 1. Limiting the impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa
2. Investing in Agriculture for Economic Growth and Food Security
3. Supporting the Sudan Peace Process
2008:
1. Implementation of a Pan-African Free Trade Area
2. Reinventing Growth in Africa: Development and
Technological Innovation
3. The Role of African Union Peacekeepers in Regional Conflicts
2006
• Economic and Environmental Burdens in AU Member States with Massive Migration
• Cultural Preservation in a Rapidly Urbanizing World
• Reevaluation of AU Programs to Fight the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa
2009:
1. Analyzing the Impact of Intra-Regional Migration on
Development
2. Promoting Regional Trade and Integration
3. Strengthening Mechanisms to Prevent Money Laundering
and Terrorism Financing
2007:
1. Challenges of Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in
War-affected Economies
2. Policies for Regional Integration in Africa
3. Promoting Good Governance for Sustainable Human
Development
2012: 1. Migrant Workers: Protection of Labor Rights
2. Integrated Water Resource Management in a Changing Environment
3. The Role of Culture in Promoting Social Inclusion and Economic
Development
2009:
1. Developing methods to Fully Institute the Hemispheric Plan
of Action Against Transnational Organized Crime
2. Implementing the Declaration of Medellin
3. Expanding Educational and Professional Opportunities for
Indigenous and Minority Populations2007:
1. Evaluating Human Rights in the Americas
2. The OAS and Free Trade Areas and Promotion
3. Special Security Concerns of Small Island States
2012: 1. Targeting Religious Intolerance
2. The Humanitarian and Socioeconomic Impact of Israeli Settlements in
Palestinian Quality of Life
3. Promoting Order for Regimes in Transition
2012: 1. Responding to the Effects of Natural Disasters and Enhancing
Emergency Preparedness
2. Regional Economic Integration and a Free Trade Area of the Pacific
(FTAAP)
3. Global Health Epidemics: Threats to Agriculture, Trade, and Tourism
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