AMUN Topics

SECURITY COUNCIL

• Open Agenda *

HISTORICAL SECURITY COUNCIL

• 1993 - Open Agenda *

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

General Assembly Plenary:

• International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development
• Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula

First Committee (Disarmament and International Security):

• The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects
• Preventing the acquisition by terrorists of radioactive materials and sources

Second Committee (Economic and Financial):

• Preventing and Combating Corrupt Practices and Transfer of Assets of Illicit Origin and Returning such Assets, in particular to the Countries of Origin, Consistent with the United Nations Convention against Corruption
• Convention on Biological Diversity

Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural):

• Right of Peoples to Self-Determination
• Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

Sixth Committee (Legal):

• Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission
• Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts

SPECIAL COMMITTEE: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

• Food Procurement in Developing Countries
• Humanitarian Access and its Implications for the World Food Programme

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

• Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women
• Mainstreaming disability in the development agenda
• Annual Ministerial Review: Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to global public health
  
• Report of the The Economic Commission for Africa
  
• Report of the The Commission on Narcotic Drugs
  

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

• Aid for Trade: Challenges and opportunities for Africa
• Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa

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

• Expanding the capacity of communities to provide information, treatment, health care and social services to people living with HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases in the context of drug abuse and strengthening monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems
• The need for a balance between demand for and supply of opiates used to meet medical and scientific needs

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

• Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia)
• Kasikili/Sedudu Island (Botswana v. Namibia) (Historical, 1996)
• Advisory Opinion: Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and South Africa)
  

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