Committees and Issues 2022

Dear future delegates, MUN-Directors, Student Officers, Press team members,
It is with great pleasure that we announce this years committees and issues as the following:

The following General Assemblies

General Assembly 1 (GA1)
The Question of:

• Safeguarding the role of free press in conflict situations
• The situation in Yemen
• Reforming the United Nations Security Council

General Assembly 3 (GA3)
The Question of:

• Providing a place for traditional perceptions of the use and possession of land within legal systems of ownership
• Guaranteeing women’s right to education
• Stimulating alternatives to the consumption of meat

General Assembly 4 (GA4)
The Question of:

• Combatting the destabilizing effects of the production and trafficking of narcotics in Latin America
• The situation in Western Sahara
• Measures to combat the neocolonialist effects of investments in LEDCs by foreign state-owned enterprises

The following United Nations Committees

Security Council (SC)
The Question of:

• The situation on the Korean peninsula
• Reforming the United Nations Security Council
• The situation in Ukraine

Human Rights Council (HRC)
The Question of:

• The rights of migrant workers in the Gulf region
• Creating a framework for national gender quota in the governing boards of private sector entities
• The right to access independently sourced and reliable information

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The Question of:

• Damage to the marine environment due to plastic pollution as a result of fishing
• Mass extinction of insects
• Geoengineering to reverse desertification

Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
The Question of:

• The economic consequences of the introduction of a cryptocurrency as legal tender
• Formulating permissible restrictions for limiting employees’ right to collective action
• Ensuring the right to adequate housing

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
The Question of:

• The role of social media on the social-emotional development of children and young adults
• Medicine and vaccine testing on children
• Establishing a framework for international adoptions.

The following non-UN Committees

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
The Question of:

• Freedom of navigation in the South China Sea
• The situation in Myanmar
• Accelerating the transition to renewable energy in Southeast Asia

North Atlantic Council (NAC)
The Question of:

• A collective NATO response to disinformation campaigns and cyberattacks
• Measures to assist Ukraine in its defense against the invasion of its sovereign territory by the Russian Federation
• Responsible expansion of NATO membership

The following special Committees

Crisis Comittee (CC)
No issues will be announced, for more information check the crisis committee page.

Should you wish to be a chair at one of those committees, please apply for a position as a Student Officer by clicking here (or by copying and pasting the following link in your webbrowser: https://forms.gle/KfKAGRfWKYdcAb928).

Are you interested in participating in LEMUN as an external school? Please fill in the registration form by clicking here (or by copying and pasting the following link in your webbrowser: https://forms.gle/PDBiKia9GttGCQSV6)

Kind regards,
The Taskforce Issues team