HUMANITARIAN COMMITTEE ASSISTANCE

 Write one policy statement and one speech for each topic.

 District MUN Info

 United Nations

 Global Policy Forum

 UN Charter

 Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 1. MANDATORY EDUCATION FOR GIRLS

Gender and Inequality

To Educate Girls Is To Reduce Poverty (March 19, 2000)
An article from the London Guardian advocating the education of women as a necessary part of any long term poverty reduction strategy.

Bridging Ethiopia's Educational Gender Gap (March 14, 2000)
Despite some progress in developing nations to eradicate the educational gender gap, the process is "excruciatingly slow," says Mary Joy Pigozzi, senior education adviser for UNICEF. (Christian Science Monitor)

State of the World's Mothers 2000- Fabulous site substantiating with facts and figures the need to mandate education for both girls and women

 2. DEATH PENALTY

PROPOSED DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM CHALLENGED IN SOCIAL COMMITTEE; SOVEREIGNTY OF STATES IS INVOKED

Against Death Penalty

7 Myths of Death Penalty

Death Penalty
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It violates the right to life. In our online database you will find out why

Facts and Figures on the Death Penalty

Children and the Death Penalty: Facts and Figures

Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

For the Death Penalty

In Favor of Death Penalty: John Stuart Mills
Pro-Death Penalty Arguments

Unbiased Site
The modern death penalty debate usually focuses on one of four arguments. These four arguments are whether or not the death penalty is racist, cost effective, a deterrence to crime, and a killer of innocent people. The links in this site give the opinions of both the supporters and the opposers on these arguments.

Newsweek articles pro and con

3. CHILD LABOR

Mike Brinker wrote this resolution masterpiece!

Why does child labor thrive in developing world?
Check UN page, too.

 4. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

You are on your own here.

 5. PERSISTANT ORGANIC POLUTANTS

http://www.greenpeace.org/~toxics/

Write a policy statement and then a speech
List a set of questions (examples on another attachment)

 6. TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE

High Tech Assistance

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 7. CHEMICAL REGULATION

Change industrial pratices to ensure a toxic-free future

 8. TIBET

17-Point Agreement

Pro Liberation: Dalai Lama Point of View
Free Tibet website
UK site for Free Tibet
International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet
Government of Tibet in Exile
Anti-Liberation: Chinese Point of View
US Commission on Religious Freedom