General Assembly Plenary

Possible Agenda Topics

NEW in 2011, GA Plenary will not meet during the week with its own agenda.  It will only meet the last day to consider resolutions and reports from appropriate committees.

General Assembly 1st Committee

Disarmament and International Security

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Conventional ammunitions surplus stockpiles

2. The role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament

3. Disarmament, demobilization, and demining: prerequisites for peace in Africa

Delegates in this Committee:

• Augustinus Mohn
• Tim Dressler

General Assembly 2nd Committee

Economic and Financial

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Assuring developing countries’ sovereignty over their natural resources

2. External debt and development: Towards a durable solution to the debt problems of developing countries

3. Promoting sustainable development practices in transnational corporations

Delegates in this Committee:

• Stephan Jagau
• Moritz Ziegler

General Assembly 3rd Committee

Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Human rights, cultural integrity, and diversity

2. Promoting alternative development strategies to combat the world drug trade

3. Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism

Delegates in this Committee:

• Andreas Ziegler
• Fahad Malik

Human Rights Council (HRC)

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Climate change as a human rights issue

2. The human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories

3. Food security and the right to food

Delegates in this Committee:

• Inga Lange
• Solveig Wanczeck

Economic and Social Council Plenary (ECOSOC)

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Providing economic and social services for victims of conflict for internally displaced persons and refugees

2. Addressing the humanitarian needs of Haiti’s displaced

3. Sexual orientation, gender identity and international human rights

Delegates in this Committee:

• Konstantin Burger
• Marc Wiebusch

Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ)

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Combating transnational organized crime to protect vulnerable groups and countries

2. Prevention of youth crime and the rehabilitation and reintegration of youth offenders

3. Responding to violence against migrants, migrant workers, and their families

Delegates in this Committee:

• Claire Thürwächter

Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Improving access to health services for women in conflict and post-conflict situations

2. Elimination of barriers to justice for women

3. Women, the girl child, and HIV/AIDS

Delegates in this Committee:

• to be announced

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Mid-term review of the UN’s “Water for Life” Decade

2. Protecting biodiversity in a changing climate

3. Creating more resource-efficient cities 

Delegates in this Committee:

• Ghislain Batakela
• Sabrina Ruhnau

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Protection of street children and their re-integration into society

2. Providing protection to the disabled child

3. Protecting children's rights in legal conflicts 

Delegates in this Committee:

• Doreen Pietzsch

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

This committee writes a report instead of resolutions.

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Pharmaceutical patents and the fight against HIV/AIDS in developing nations

2. Differentiated intellectual property rights for environmental and climate technologies

3. Patenting life: Intellectual property and complex structures

Delegates in this Committee:

• Benedikt Ketzler
• Bernadette Liessem

Organization of American States (OAS)

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Elimination of all forms of racial and indigenous discrimination, immigration intolerance and xenophobia

2. Reducing illicit crops and drug trafficking

3. Cultural sensitivity in reconstruction efforts and international aid deployment

Delegates in this Committee:

• Andree Stryewski

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference (NPT)

This committee writes a report instead of resolutions.

Possible Agenda Topics

1. Practical measures to implement Article VI

2. Nuclear security as the “Fourth Pillar” of the NPT

3. Article X and deterring withdrawal from the NPT

Delegates in this Committee:

• Carl Anton Waldeck
• Lino Hower

Additional Security Council (ASC)

In this committee we will represent the United States of America instead of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay.

Possible Agenda Topics

1. The situation in Afghanistan

2. Implementing the Resposibility to Protect

3. Climate change and international security
   

Delegates in this Committee:

• Sebastian Dengler
• Niclas Huck