Issues

Preliminary issues LEMUN 2014

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Security Council

• The situation in South Sudan
• Achieving nuclear disarmament
• The question of ISIS

GA1: Disarmament & International Security

• Law enforcement capacity building in Iraq
• The situation in the Central African Republic
• Compliance with international humanitarian law
• Drafting a blueprint for the withdrawal of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in comprehension with Cypriotic-Turkish peace talks

GA2: Economic & Financial

• Sustainable industry in upcoming economies
• Youth unemployment in MEDCs
• Cash flow, banking technology and financial digital security in LEDCs
• The question of European dependency on imported natural gas

GA3: Social, Humanitarian & Cultural

• Peace, democratisation and development in Myanmar
• Repatriation of cultural property
• International response to Syrian refugees
• Safeguarding Human Rights in Chechnya

GA4: Special Political & Decolonization

• Tribal rights in African countries
• Regulation of irrigation in Israel and Palestine
• Evaluating the UN transitional administration in Kosovo
• De-escalating diplomatic tensions in the South-Chinese sea region

The Economic & Social Council

• Workers’ rights in upcoming economies
• Reducing child mortality
• Promoting equal pay for women
• The revitalisation of the Haiti economy combined with humanitarian aid

Environment Commission

• Smog in densely populated areas
• Plastic pollution in oceans
• Food production and the demise of bee population
• Fish farms as an alternative for overfishing

Human Rights Council

• Privacy of correspondence in the modern world
• Preventing child prostitution in South-East Asia
• Ethical and social implications of new and emerging technologies
• The increasing number of unaccompanied immigrant children

North Atlantic Council

• The relation between NATO and Russia
• Reinforcing energy security
• Encouraging counter-piracy

Crisis Committee

• Crisis in Europe

Historical Committee

• Diplomacy on the eve of WWI

Special Conference on shaping the Post-2015 Development Agenda

• Promoting primary education for women and girls in Central Asia
• Eradicating extreme hunger in East Africa
• Establishing basic sanitation in South America
• Finding alternatives to tied aid

Arab League

• The development of the Pan-Arab Space Agency
• Preventing escalations in armed conflict situations in Iraq and neighbouring countries
• The question of peak oil and renewable energy resources
• The situation in occupied Palestine (subject to development)