The Conference

SEMMUNA XV

October 23, 2010

Troy Athens High School

Updated: 18 July 2010

Country confirmation & School delegate count.

SEMMUNA XV 2010 AGENDA

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY	Topic & Sources	Background Papers	Chairs
POL	International Cooperation During Insurgencies		Troy Athens
			Ariana Mostafa, Prashant Bhagavatula
Future SPOL	Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe		Royal Oak
			Ryan Tarr, Emma Green
SPECPOL	Hydropolitics in India-Pakistan		Royal Oak
			Kate Kelley Kacey Lawniczak
LEGAL I	Rights of Illegal Immigrants		IA West
			David Bonnen, Kat Gawronski
LEGAL II	Legal Definition of Democracy		IA Central
			Ben Yoon, Sarah Khan

ECOSOC	Topic & Sources		Chairs
IWC	Penalties for Violation of Whaling Regulations		DCDS
			Michelle Liu, Vikas Kilaru
IBRD	tba		Lahser
			Alex Moore, Craig Kaplan
UNEP	Protection Against Man-Made Disasters		North Farmington
			Prianka Raju, Tazeen Abbas
CEDAW	Women's Rights in Education		IA Central
			Eleanor Davies, Laura Cheng
UNCSD	Satisfying Energy Demands of Developing Nations		DCDS
			Dillon Cumming, Vikram Shah

SPECIAL	Topic & Sources		Chairs
SC	Situation in the Koreas		DCDS
	Somalian Security		Alex Kucy, Joe Juszak

AGENDA 2009:

GENERAL ASSEMBLY	Topic & Initial Sources	Chairs
DISEC	Post-Conflict Peace in Sri Lanka	Jahanavi Ramakrishnam, Cameron Griggs (DCDS)
UNSCO	Middle East Peace Process	Lahser
SPECPOL	Cyber-security: The Internet and Terrorist Recruitment	Troy Athens
LEGAL	Nuclear Treaty Regime Review: ABM/SORT, CTBT, NPT	Rachel Hartman, Karly Lawniczak, Royal Oak
COC	Determining UN Conference Agenda for 2010-2012
ECOSOC	Topic & Sources	Chairs
UNHRC	Religious Persecution	Aarushi Suneja, Navmeet Dhillon,North Farmington
WHO*	Water Scarcity in the Middle East	Jake Lewis, Frank Zhu, Troy
UNEP*	Desert Agriculture in the Middle East	Wendy Miller, John Fitchpatrick, Harrison
FAO*	Food Security	Troy Athens
UNCSD*	Role of Youth in Sustainable Development	Hema Karunakaram, Ian Magenta, Saline
SPECIAL	Topic & Sources	Chairs
SC	The Situation in DPRK	Ellen Vial, Ryan Tarr, Royal Oak

Agenda 2008:

Political Committee           Enforcing Transnational Corporation Ethics:

                                                Wal-Mart Case Study (Neha Jain & Jennifer Liu, IA Central)

Special Political                   Disarmament of Somali Warlords (Robert Bowen & Janu Ramakrishna, Country Day)

SOCHUM                              Torture of Political Prisoners in Myanmar (Kanupriya Soni & Anita Vasudevan, IA Central)

Legal Committee                 Legal Status of Tibetan Government-in-Exile (Emily Swanson and Kevin Westfield, IA West)

World Health Org                 Government Responses to Natural Disaster Relief:

                                                  Myanmar (Chairs: Jim Smith & Ben Fallert, Roeper)

Human Rights Comm.       Human Rights in Kosovo (Hema Karunakaram & Conner Fitzpatrick, Saline)

UNEP                                     Elephant Poaching In Africa (Cristina Cornejo & Ian Koncagul, IA Central)

CEDAW                                 Reproductive Rights in China (Shane Wechsler & Amre Metwally, North Farmington)

Security Council                Israel Nuclear Capability and Middle East Security (Domenic Smith & Sam Doyle, ROMUN)

Agenda 2007:

SPECPOL (Royal Oak's Melanie Adams and Novi's Malati Vadapalli)

Zimbabwe

DISEC (Harrison's Yana Osipov and Chelsea Cooper)

Child Disarmament

SOCHUM (IA's Clara Yoon and Molly Zechar)

Int'l Adoption Regulation

UNDP (Royal Oak's Sam Doyle and Domenic Smith)

Transnational Responsibility in Africa

HRC (Harrison's Wendy Miller and Tabetha Chapman)

Rights of Women

     http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/

     http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/WomensRights.asp

     http://hrw.org/women/

     http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/women/engl-wmn.html

     http://www.whrnet.org/

WHO (Harrison's Nana Osipov and Kristen Lovio)

Fast Food Regulation

UNEP (IA's Ben Yelian and Danielle Tatchio)

Endangered Species

IAEA (Lakeland's Joe Michalak & Matt Mortellaro )

Iran

Security Council (Northville's Ian Cartmill and Abigail Wright-Geddes)

Israel/Lebanon