General Assemblies

Beginners Committee: DISEC Double

Delegation

This year, MSUMUN will run a beginner’s simulation in order to teach Model United Nation’s unique parliamentary procedure to inexperienced delegates. Designed with a hands-on teaching approach, this committee gives new delegates a partner to work with and will feature temporary suspensions of the rules during committee in order to explain parliamentary procedure. Despite the slower pace than other General Assembly committees, the Disarmament and International Security Committee will still feature engaging debate, covering such topics as the regulation of UAVs, and the international small arms trade.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization

Welcome to UNESCO! The 2020 dais is especially excited to have you here for MSUMUN’s biggest anniversary so far, and we hope that you’ve got the same level of excitement. This year, we’re tackling some of the biggest social topics impacting the world today, and we’re hoping you’ve got the solutions the world has been failing to provide. We’ve got education, we’ve got science, we’ve got culture, and now, all we need is your fantastic ability to persevere and find resolution. Once again, the UNESCO dais is happy to have you with us, and we’re ecstatic to see what you’re bringing to the table!

United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environmental Programme was founded as one of the first options to combat climate change and environmental degradation. Over the years the United Nations Environmental Programs has succeeded in protecting the atmosphere through reducing CFC and regulating mercury through the Minamata convention. UNEP now faces the crisis of promoting sustainable food growth and producing clean water for the planets ever growing population. UNEP needs your help to promote a healthy and sustainable planet that will last for generations!

United Nations Human Rights Council

The Human Rights Council at MSUMUN XX will explore and debate a broad range of topics from the crisis in Kashmir to human rights abuses in Venezuela. Human rights demand a unique immediacy in response from the international community in order to end human suffering before it becomes widespread. With this energy we will address the humanitarian crisis in Kashmir that has resulted in a large loss of life and is a continually unfolding geopolitical issue. In Venezuela, we will confront the impunity of perpetrators of human rights abuses and violent suppression of political activism. Some 12,500 people have been arrested since 2014 while attending political protest and over 4.3 million have left the country as refugees to seek adequate healthcare and other basic needs. In China, we will discuss the role the state plays in monitoring its citizens and the implementation of a “social credit” system that rates and punishes citizens based on their adherence to social conventions. The suppression of political rights in Hong Kong will also be highlighted in the context of China’s authoritarian rule.

World Meteorological Organization

The World Meteorological Organization will be focusing on climate change and its impacts to Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. Alongside this we will discuss how the source of water has changed. We will focus in on how the demand for water is increasing while quality is decreasing. In this committee, the goal is to discuss and develop ways to combat the changing climate in the Middle East! WMO will also discuss how to evolve water use in the future.