Topic List

Full topic briefs can be found in the MAMUN 2007 handbook, available here.

General Assembly First Committee: Disarmament and International Security

  1. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction
  2. Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Accelerating the Implementation of Nuclear Disarmament Commitments
  3. The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy

General Assembly Second Committee: Economic and Financial

  1. Unilateral Economic Measures as a Means of Political and Economic Coercion against Developing Countries
  2. Natural Disasters and Vulnerability
  3. Women in Development

General Assembly Third Committee: Social, Cultural and Humanitarian

  1. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  2. International Cooperation Against the World Drug Problem
  3. The Right to Development

Economic and Social Council

  1. Economic and Environmental Questions: Science and Technology for Development
  2. Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice: Responses to Violence Against Women and Girls
  3. Strengthening of the Coordination of Emergency Humanitarian Assistance of the United Nations

Security Council

Due to the changing nature of the international situation, the Security Council is free to discuss any issue affecting the international community. Possible topics include:

  1. Situation in Ethiopia and Eritrea
  2. Situation in Somalia
  3. Situation in Sudan
  4. Situation in DPRK (North Korea)
  5. Situation in Iran
  6. Situation in Iraq

Historical Security Council - 2002

Due to the changing nature of the international situation, the Historical Security Council is free to discuss any issue affecting the international community. Possible topics include:

  1. Southeast Asia Security Issues
  2. Ethnic Cleansing of Africa
  3. Middle East Situation

International Court of Justice

  1. Republic of the Congo v. France - Certain Criminal Proceedings in France
  2. Costa Rica v. Nicaragua - Proceedings Instituted by Costa Rica against Nicaragua
  3. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United States of America - Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention Arising from the Aerial Incident over Lockerbie (Historical)

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