About Your Topic
Other than just researching your country, you will want to research your country’s position on the topics that will be discussed in your committee. Often, it may be difficult to find specific information such as “Vanuatu’s policy on human rights in China”, so you will have to piece together several sources to get what you need. This will involve a synthesis of two types of information: (1) in depth research on the topic; and (2) research on your nation’s policy regarding that topic.
Below, you will find links related to some of the “bigger” issues that are common to MUN. While this is not a comprehensive list of the topics to be seen at MSUMUN’s conference, it is a helpful start for any delegate:
Atomic Energy
Communications
Crime and Capital Punishment
Disarmament
Economics and Trade
Environment and Sustainable Development
Health
Human Rights
International Law
Military, Peacekeeping and Security
Population
Other than just researching your country, you will want to research your country’s position on the topics that will be discussed in your committee. Often, it may be difficult to find specific information such as “Vanuatu’s policy on human rights in China”, so you will have to piece together several sources to get what you need. This will involve a synthesis of two types of information: (1) in depth research on the topic; and (2) research on your nation’s policy regarding that topic.
Below, you will find links related to some of the “bigger” issues that are common to MUN. While this is not a comprehensive list of the topics to be seen at MSUMUN’s conference, it is a helpful start for any delegate:
Atomic Energy
Communications
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- Government Policy and the Internet
- Information Warfare and Security
- Internet Society
Crime and Capital Punishment
- UN Crime and Justice Information Network
- UN Convention Against Torture
- UN International Drug Control Programme
- CourtTV War Crimes Case Files
Disarmament
- Council for a Liveable World
- Center for Defense Information
- Center for Defense and International Security Studies
- The Henry L.Stimson Center
- UN Department of Disarmament Affairs
- Arm Sales Monitoring Project
- Nuclear Control Institute
- Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (1972)
Economics and Trade
- NAFTA, GATT, and WTO Documents
- United States International Trade Commission
- International Economic Review
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- International Economic Law
- STAT-USA
- U.S. Foreign Trade Statistics
Environment and Sustainable Development
- EarthWeek
- Ecology Communications
- EnviroLink Network
- Environmental Issues Resource Center
- Environmental Treaty Database
- International Environmental Law
- World Resources Institute
- Hunger Web
- International Food Policy Research Institute
- EIA Country Analysis Briefs
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- Overseas Development Institute
- Social Indicators of Development
- EPA Climate Action Report 2002
- Global Warming Research
Health
- All the Virology on the WWW
- Centers for Disease Control
- Pan American Health Organization
- Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
- Young People and HIV/AIDS (UN Children’s Fund)
Human Rights
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- DIANA
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
- Challenge of Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Free the Children
- World Data on Education
- International Labor Organization
- Yearbook of Labor Statistics
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- Stop Sweatshops Campaign
- Journal of Humanitarian Assistance
- ReliefNet
- ReliefWeb
- NativeWeb – Indigenous People
- Political Rights of Women
- The State of the World’s Children (UN Children’s Fund)
- World Heritage Review
International Law
- Government and Legal Structure, by Country
- Resources for International Law
- International Law on the Internet
- Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
- Guide to Foreign Laws
- Legal Information Institute
- Public International Law
- American Society of International Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Legal Dictionary
- International Trade Conventions
- International Environmental Law
- International Economic Law
Military, Peacekeeping and Security
- UN Action Against Terrorism
- War, Peace and Security Guide
- Terrorism Fact Sheet
- Intelligence and Counter-intelligence
- RAND
- Joint Chiefs of Staff
Population
- United States Census
- UN Population Fund
- World Food Programme
- World Population Counter
- World Population Trends
