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