-Youth Assembly
-International Court of Justice
I looked up a number of conferences throughout the world such as THIMUN in The Hague, and BEIMUN in Beijing, to get an idea of the issues and committees present in MUN. I decided that WEBMUN should include 3 committees to start with - the General Assembly, the Human Rights Commission and the Security Council. The General Assembly allows many members to join as it can have up to 290 countries, and the other two provide smaller and varied committees.
I decided for WEBMUN to debate the same issues inside the committees as were discussed in The Hague in 2010. These issues are therefore very recent and since they were used during this conference, they are most likely good debate sparkers. Here are my issues for each committee:
General Assembly
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Creating a legal framework for the issue of cyber warfare.
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Ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba
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Measures to combat discrimination and social isolation of the disabled
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Ensuring the right to food for all, without discrimination
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Nuclear disarmament of Iran and North Korea
I am only including a few issues in each committee because debate online is bound to be somewhat slow. If there are too many issues available, there will be little debate over each. I would rather have 30 people arguing over one thing a little bit every week than the members losing interest because none of their points have been answered.
Every country is included in the General Assembly, the full list of which may be found here. I wanted to use the countries of the Security Council in 2011 for my own Security Council, but they have not been voted yet. Instead I used the list of members in 2010:
-China
-France
-Russia
-England
-USA
-Austria
-Japan
-Turkey
-Bosnia
-Lebanon
-Uganda
-Brazil
-Mexico
-Uganda
-Nigeria
There are 47 members of the Human Rights council whose list can be found here.
Wikipedia contributors. "United Nations Human Rights Council." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 12 Apr. 2010. Web. 13 Apr. 2010.
"Membership of the Security Council." United Nations. Security Council. 13 Apr. 2010
Wikipedia contributors. "List of United Nations member states." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 14 Mar. 2010. Web. 13 Apr. 2010.
THIMUN. The Hague International Model United Nations. 2010. 13 Apr. 2010 <"http://www.thimun.org/">
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