Saturday, February 7, 2009

KLASS (Alice Smith) MUN

Here's the Delegation Lost for KLASSMUN 2009 (13th and 14th March 2009)

General Assembly (GA)

Costa Rica – Adrihani Rashid
Greece – Carmen Chong
Fiji –Terance Lee
Georgia – Vivian Yeunh
Zimbabwe – Ho Lye Tong


Disarmament Commission (DC)
Costa Rica – Yap Soo Ming
Vietnam – Prabjit Dev Singh
Greece – Tan Lin Vin
Fiji – Raja Azfar
Georgia – Darryl Low
Zimbabwe – Ali Iskandar


Human Rights Council (HRC)
Costa Rica – Melissa Tan
Greece – Tengku Nur Qistina
Fiji – Cassandra Ser
Georgia – Zaidatul Hanim
Zimbabwe – Joshua Teo


Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Costa Rica – Hera Keziah
Vietnam – Shaun Kua


Topics for the Committes are as stated below:


General Assembly (GA)

- The effects of food shortages on international security

- The question of limiting freedom of expression in the context of religious sensibilities

- The creation of a United Nations Army which will remain independent of member control


Disarmament Commission (DC)

- The role of natural resources in fuelling conflict: oil, diamonds and columbite-tantalite

- The issue of weapons in Syria

- Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction


Human Rights Commission (HRC)

- Human rights and the administration of justice, the case of detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay

- The expansion of human trafficking and illegal prostitution

- Improving reproductive and sexual health and rights on the African continent through family planning, with special regards to birth control and women's education


Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

- Cooperation between nations to ensure landlocked nations access to clean water

- Sustaining economic development by encouraging the use of renewable energy

- The economic and social situation in Zimbabwe.


We will have a workshop to assist the delegates in their research, so afraid not! Have a fun time with the research! :)


- TNQ


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Saturday, January 24, 2009

KLMUN Conference (By Garden International School)

Date: 20th - 22nd February 2009.
Venue: Garden International School, Kuala Lumpur
Time - Friday, 2.30pm - 7.30pm (Please arrive by 2.15pm)
     Saturday, 9.30am - 5.00pm
     Sunday,  9.30am - 4.00pm

Topics that are being discussed are stated below:

General Assembly 

1. Drafting a common position on dealing with hostage situations 2. Question of liberalising trade in agriculture

Economic and Social Council 
1. Measures to reduce Third World debt 2. Question of resolving international oil crisis

Human Rights Committee 
1. Question on the responsibilities of Trans-National corporations with regard to Human Rights 2. Question on the rights of detainees and Prisoners of War

Security Council 1 or 2 Emergency Session Topics Topics will be chosen from recent/current world events in the month prior to the conference. Delegates will only be informed of the topic one day before the conference and are therefore required to keep a close watch of the news and to do extensive research on possible trouble spots. 1 Regular Topic - The curtailment of illegal weapons supply to rogue states.
NOTE: Schools are requested to ensure that delegates assigned to the Security Council at KLMUN have prior experience in a Security Council at another conference, or have a strong interest in matters of international security and peace.


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