COMMITTEES & TOPICS

Dear PASMUN participants. We are pleased to be able to post the following chair reports, but would also like to apologize that the list has been delayed and is not complete. We delayed posting as it was our original intention to post all of them at the same time. However, we have had some unexpected problems in this area and are doing our best to address them immediately. We hope to have the remaining reports posted very, very, soon.
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Jeff Buscher, MUN Director, Pacific American School.

Security Council
  • The Issue of Tensions in the Taiwan Strait

  • The Ongoing Situation in Yemen​
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  • Line of Actual Control - the Sino-indian Dispute​​

General Assembly 1
  • ​​Pursuing nuclear disarmament in alignment with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) (SDG 16)
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  • Building on recent peace agreements to pursue conventional arms control in the Middle East (SDG 16)

​General
​Assembly 3
  • Countering disinformation and misinformation in light of the changing face of the modern media platforms (SDG 16)
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  • The question of the economic impact of youth migration on the global economy (SDG 8)

United Nations Environment Programme
​(Middle School)
  • The transition from fossil-fuel based economies to economies based on renewable energy (SDG 13)

  • Measures to manage the rapid deterioration of the Arctic (SDG 14)

Economic and Social Council (Middle School)
  • Measures to reduce trade barriers with the goal of increasing emphasis on free trade (SDG 8)
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  • Measures to ensure access of vulnerable populations to a more equitable standard of living in the drive for sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11)

Human Rights
​Council
  • Enforcing of the UDHR as applied to refugees and immigrants (SDG 16)

  • Balancing the right to free speech with religious/racial/gender or other sensibilities (SDG 16)

Youth Action Committee (YAC)
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  • The question of trial by the court of public opinion (SDG 16)​​
  • The question of how society should respond to the use of recreational drugs (SDG 4)
  • The questions of societal pressures as related to gender roles (SDG 5)

United Nations Development Programme
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  • Measures to ensure access to, and proper usage of, vaccinations (SDG 3)​​
  • Measures to ensure equitable recovery from economic instability caused by the pandemic (SDG 3)

Advisory Panel
  • The question of gender equality (SDG 5)

International Court of Justice
  • Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro)

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