Announcing the 2021 American Model United Nations Committees and Topics

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American Model United Nations is excited to announce the committees and topics we will be simulating this fall! These topics should lead to lively and valuable discussions among Representatives with a broad variety of interests. Without further ado, the topics are as follows:

General Assembly First Committee:

  • Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
  • Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control

General Assembly Third Committee

  • Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
  • Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa

General Assembly Fourth Committee

  • Assistance in mine action
  • Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

International Atomic Energy Agency

  • Nuclear and radiation safety
  • Nuclear security

ECOSOC Commission on the Status of Women

  • Women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS
  • Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work

ECOSOC Economic Commission on Asia and the Pacific

  • Towards disability-inclusive sustainable development: implementation of the Beijing Declaration, including the Action Plan to Accelerate the Implementation of the Incheon Strategy
  • Building resilience to cross-border disasters

Human Rights Council

  • The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation
  • Human rights and indigenous peoples

United Nations Environmental Assembly

  • Innovative pathways to achieve sustainable consumption and production
  • Poverty-environment nexus

International Court of Justice

  • Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay)
  • Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia v. Thailand)
  • Advisory Opinion: Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Palestine; Israel; Canada; Egypt)

Contemporary Security Council

  • Open Agenda

Historical Security Council 1973

  • Open Agenda

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