by AMUN Staff | Nov 20, 2021 | AMUN Chronicle
GA4: One of the crowning jewels of success for the United Nations (UN) is decolonization. The UN has committed to protecting the rights of all peoples by assisting Nations that lack self-governance to choose their own political, economic and social destinies. In 1946,...
by Samantha Howe | Nov 20, 2021 | AMUN Chronicle
Commission on Population and Development: Adolescents (aged 10-19) and Youths (aged 15-24) make up nearly 25% of the global population, at 1.8 billion people in these age ranges. Young people stand at the precipice of adulthood, with all the potential as they develop...
by AMUN Staff | Nov 20, 2021 | AMUN Chronicle
GA3: Racial tensions are on the rise and hitting center stage once again. Across the globe there are incidents that are racially motivated coming across our news screens. Mistreated refugees globally, rising tensions of xenophobia in South Africa and racially charged...
by Samantha Howe | Nov 20, 2021 | AMUN Chronicle
GA Plenary: When surveying national positions around the world in regard to peacebuilding, a common theme emerges as the key weakness: funding. The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission identified the core need to strengthen conflict prevention and post-conflict...
by Claudia Barney | Nov 20, 2021 | AMUN Chronicle
United Nations Environmental Assembly: Poverty is something that has always negatively impacted people all over the world. As a response to this, many States choose to prioritize their own economic development in the hopes of reducing their number of impoverished...
by Kat Nowicke | Nov 20, 2021 | AMUN Chronicle
International Atomic Energy Agency: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was created in 1957 in response to the deep fears and expectations resulting from the discovery of nuclear energy. Unanimously approved in October 1956, the IAEA Statute outlines the...
by Cassie Krencisz | Nov 20, 2021 | AMUN Chronicle
Historical Security Council 1973: On 9 January 1973, Southern Rhodesia closed its borders to Zambia after economic sanctions were passed on the regime. The economy of neighboring Zambia was harshly affected by the closed border and in response wrote a letter to the...
by AMUN Staff | Nov 20, 2021 | AMUN Chronicle
Human Rights Council: The Human Rights Council (HRC) is tasked with setting human rights standards, as well as bringing non-compliant countries into compliance. One of the standards the HRC has been working on is Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7.C: to halve, by...
by AMUN Staff | Nov 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
The forced displacement of people around the world due to conflict, human rights violations or other violence and persecution remains a massive global challenge, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimating that 82.4 million people were...
by Jared Kolok | Nov 12, 2021 | Turtle Bay
Sunday, 31 October 2021 marked the beginning of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change’s 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. The procedural opening negotiations kicked off an intensive two weeks aimed to “secure global...
