JHUMUNC 2009 Committees

JHUMUNC is proud to present the following committees for our 2009 conference. The topics that each committee will be discussing are listed below.

Committee webpages and research guides will be posted later in the fall

Standing Committees

• The First Committee: Disarmament and International Security
  • Creating a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East
  • Uranium Weapon Control
  • Cyber Warfare
• The Third Committee: Social, Humanitarian and Cultural
  • Honor Killings
  • Elimination of Racism and Discrimination
  • Clean Water
• The Fourth Committee: Special Political and Decolonization
  • The Treatment of refugee and Internally Displaced Persons in Gaza and the West Bank
  • Stabilizing and Monitoring the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region
  • Combating the FARC in Columbia and Relations with Venezuela
• The Sixth Committee: Legal
  • Intervention
  • Regulation of Organ Trading
  • Treatment of POWs
• The United Nations Development Programme
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Crisis Reduction
  • Elimination of Poverty
• The World Health Organization
  • The Effects of Climate Change on Global Health
  • Bioterrorism
  • Maternal Health
• The United Nations Commission on Human Rights
  • Child Soldiers
  • Migrant Workers' Rights
  • Diamond Trade
• The United Nations Children's Fund
  • Disaster Relief for Children with a focus on the Earthquake in China and Cyclone in Myanmar
  • Prevention of Mother-Child AIDS Transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Gender Equality in Middle-Eastern Education

Specialized Committees

• The Security Counciz
  • Somali State Collapse: A threat to International Peace and Security
  • The Situation in Thailand
  • Challenges to a Western Saharan Sovereignty
• The Historical Security Council (1966)
  • Situation in Angola
  • Situation in Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Situation in Laos
• The International Court of Justice
  • Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 31 March 2004 in the Case concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States of America)
  • Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation)
  • Aerial Herbicide Spraying (Ecuador v. Colombia)
• The Council of the European Union
  • Immigration: the migration of labor and border control
  • Competing for national sovereignty and identity in 21st century European Union
  • Coping with the financial crisis and its coexistence with environmental policy
• The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
  • The AIDS and Drug Trafficking Crisis in Southeast Asia
  • Human Rights Violations in Burma
  • Transboundary Haze Pollution
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Piracy
  • Georgia membership into NATO
  • Rise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization of Eurasian nations
• Triumvirate: Israeli Cabinet
  • "Territories for Peace"--the question of whether Israel should remove all Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights in the interest of forming peace with the Palestinians and Syrians, respectively
  • The current status of Hezbollah in regards to Israel's national security
  • Iran as a threat to Israel's national security
• Triumvirate: Lebanese Cabinet
  • Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
  • Power of Political Parties Towards Gov Decisions
  • Reformation of Economy
• Triumvirate: Syrian Cabinet
  • Syria's relations with Russia and support for North Korea's nuclear program
  • The Conflict over the Golan Heights territory between Syria and Israel
  • Syria's foreign policy towards Lebanon