AMUN 2012 Committees

American MUN Chicago Committees

General Assembly

General Assembly Plenary

  • Strengthening crime prevention and criminal justice responses to violence against women
  • International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development

First Committee (Disarmament and International Security)

  • Convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction
  • Preventing the acquisition by terrorists of radioactive sources

Second Committee (Economic and Financial)

  • Agriculture development and food security
  • Groups of countries in special situations: specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: outcome of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation

Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural)

  • United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all
  • Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization)

  • The occupation of the Syrian Golan
  • Assistance in mine action

SPECIAL COMMITTEE: Human Rights Council (HRC)

  • Protection of the human rights of civilians in armed conflict
  • The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

  • Recovering from the world financial and economic crisis: a Global Jobs Pact
  • Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system
  • Report of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
  • Report of the Commission on Population and Development

ECOSOC COMMISSION: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

  • Energy security and sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific
  • Development of health systems in the context of enhancing economic growth towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific

ECOSOC COMMISSION: Commission on Population and Development (CPD)

  • International migration and development
  • The changing age structures of populations and their implications for development

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

  • Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda) – 1999
  • Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia v. Greece) – 2008
  • Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore) – 2003