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 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 Amrita Bhagia | Jul 20, 2021 | Turtle Bay
Sometimes the world’s eyes turn to the United States. What Americans may think of as domestic or political issues may also be considered through a global human rights, human security or justice lens. On 20 April 2021, Officer Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police...
by AMUN Staff | Jun 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
American Model United Nations (AMUN) expresses our devastation for the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and the many other Black lives that have been ended as a result of systemic racism, extrajudicial violence and police violence. These...
