SUBJECT OF RESOLUTION: Mandatory education for girls

SUBMITTED TO: Humanitarian Committee 4

SUBMITTED BY: France

RECOGNIZING that all member nations signed the document for "The Year of the child,"

NOTING that gender integrated countries are more economically independent, tend to have positive growth patterns in their gross national product and require less assistance from foreign sources,

OBSERVING that equal education opportunities for females is connected with:

a) lower birth rates
b) lower infant mortality rates
c) higher national economic productivity
d) reduction of poverty in third world nations
e) improved general health of all ages of females
f) expansion of a nation's critical teaching, scientific and managerial capabilities by the addition of educated females to a nation's workforce

1. CONDEMNS the lack of academic support and access for women on the part of those nations who are not concerned with the well-being of their women and children;

2. FURTHER INVITES all nations to rise up and take immediate affirmative action to diminish social and economic gender discrimination in their own nations;

3. RECOMMENDS that equal education for girls be mandatory in all nations beginning by the year 2002.