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AMUN Topics

Below is a list of committees that will be simulated at AMUN during our 2010 session. For further information on any of the AMUN 2010 topics, please consult our Issues at AMUN Handbook, which is updated each August.

AMUN Handbooks from previous years are available in the AMUN Handbook Archive.

SECURITY COUNCIL

  • Open Agenda *

 

HISTORICAL SECURITY COUNCIL

  • 1993 - Open Agenda *

 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

General Assembly Plenary:

  • The role of Diamonds in Fuelling Conflict
  • Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development

First Committee (Disarmament and International Security):

  • Towards an Arms Treaty: Establishing Common International Standards for the Import, Export and Transfer of Conventional Arms
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Second Committee (Economic and Financial):

  • Macroeconomic Policy Questions
  • Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Humankind

Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural):

  • Eliminating Rape and Other Forms of Sexual Violence in All Their Manifestations
  • Status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child as it Relates to Child Labor

Sixth Committee (Legal):

  • Nationality of Natural Persons in Relation to the Succession of States
  • Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization

SPECIAL COMMITTEE: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

  • Nuclear Power and Iran
  • Nuclear Energy and Multilateral Approaches to the Fuel Cycle

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

  • Protection against Products Harmful to Health and the Environment
  • Development Cooperation Forum: South-South and Triangular Development Cooperation
  • Technical Assistance for Implementing the International Conventions and Protocols Relating to Terrorism  
  • Report of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
  • Report of the Commission on the Status of Women

ECOSOC COMMISSION: Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

  • Sustainable Development and Productivity: Water Resources
  • Social Development: Population and Social Development

ECOSOC COMMISSION: Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

  • The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS
  • Women’s equal participation in conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peacebuilding

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

  • Belgium v. Senegal: Questions Relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite
  • Ecuador v. Colombia: Aerial Herbicide Spraying
  • Georgia v. Russian Federation: Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

* PLEASE NOTE: The Security Councils may discuss any peace and security issue which the Members choose to bring before the body. AMUN will provide brief overviews for several likely topics, but these are not intended to limit the actual discussions which may take place when the sessions convene.

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