Haarlem Model United Nations

Haarlem Model United Nations (HMUN) is an annual Model United Nations (MUN) conference hosted by the Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem, the Latin school of Haarlem in the Netherlands. HMUN was founded in 1998 and was an initiative of the students of the Latin School. The MUN is held in the monumental building of the Latin School in the old city center of Haarlem. As an internationally known conference, HMUN welcomes schools from several countries including Tunis, the Netherlands, Spain, Norway, France, Germany, Turkey, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The 2012 edition of the conference will be held from March 31 until April 2.
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Aims
HMUN strongly emphasizes on training speaking, negotiating, leadership and debating skills. Moreover it strives for increasing awareness with regards to global issues among high school students and helping them to find sustainable constructive solutions to these problems. HMUN is regarded as an MUN of high quality. Both beginning as well as utterly experienced delegates are more than welcome to HMUN.
Affiliations
HMUN is affiliated to The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN) and therefore HMUN uses the THIMUN charter, including rules of procedure as the main basis of the conference.
Forums
The Haarlem Model United Nations has 14 forums. The forums present (as of 2011) are:
* SC Security Council
* PBC Peace Building Commission
* AUPSC African Union Peace and Security Council
* GA1 General Assembly 1: Disarmament and International Security Committee DISEC
* GA2 General Assembly 2: Economic and Financial Committee ECOFIN
* GA3 General Assembly 3: Social Humanitarian and Cultural Committee SOCHUM
* GA4 General Assembly 4: Special Political and Decolonization Committee SPECPOL
* ECOSOC Economic and Social Council
* CSD Commission on Sustainable Development
* WTO World Trade Organization
* HRC Human Rights Committee
* SPC Special Conference
* CC Conflict Committee
* G20 G-20 major economies
Applications
The applications to HMUN can be submitted via either postal mail or email. The first application form to be submitted is the registration form of the school in question. Once a school is registered students may apply to positions such as:
* Press Member: editor in chief, deputy editor in chief, reporter, photographer, cartoonist. Each application should consist of the official application form, plus a supplement to that form, namely a letter of motivation. The school’s directors are in charge of ranking the students, when more than one student submits an application.
* Student Officer: Student Officers are utterly experienced participants in the MUN. Student Officers regulate the debate. Applying to a position as a student officer requires a list of mun related experience, a letter of motivation and a letter of recommendation from your school’s MUN director. The letters of recommendation must be submitted by the MUN director him/herself.
Agenda 2011
General Assembly, First Committee: Disarmament and International Security
•Eliminating illegal trade in small arms and light weapons.
•Equal distribution of water in the Niger Delta.
•Further eliminating transnational organized crime, including the evaluation of measures taken by the CTOC.
• Reviewing international regulations concerning uranium enrichment.
General Assembly, Second Committee: Economic and Financial
• Increasing the efficiency of Microfinance in Africa.
• Improving job availability for the increasing number of unemployed in MEDCs.
• Improving the development of new frontier markets for investment in Asia and the Middle East.
• Promotion of ecotourism for poverty eradication and environment protection.
General Assembly, Third Committee: Social, Humanitarian and Cultural
• Eradicating gender disparity in education.
• Elimination of contemporary forms of slavery.
• Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the UN.
• The question of future consequences of ageing populations in MEDCs.
General Assembly, Fourth Committee: Special Political and Decolonization
• The question of over-urbanization in Asia.
• Improving regulations concerning cyber warfare.
• Regulating over-immigration in MEDCs.
• Securing objectivity of media in conflict situations.
Human Rights Council:
• The inhumane conditions in factories in newly industrialized countries.
• The question of birth control.
• The effects of media suppression, distortion and bias.
• Rights of indigenous peoples in conflict situations.
Economic and Social Council:
• Tackling poverty in the slums of large cities in Latin America.
• Improving sanitation in order to prevent contagious diseases from spreading, with special regards to densely populated areas.
• Combating corruption regarding development aid.
• Tackling heterosexism and homophobia as well as promoting LGBT rights.
African Union Peace and Security Council:
•Furthering stability in the Darfur region.
•Finding a solution to conflicts concerning water shortage in the Nile Region.
•The role of natural resources in armed conflict.
•The question of Sierra Leone.
Commission on Sustainable Development:
• Preventing an increase of greenhouse gas emissions despite population growth.
• The question of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
• Prevention of use of illegal toxic and dangerous raw materials in daily used products, especially in LEDCs.
• Eliminating the defective impact of deforestation on the environment.
Conflict Committee
• The question of the disputed territory of Kashmir.
Security Council:
• The question of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
• The protection of classified information.
• Crisis: Libya
Peacebuilding Commission:
• The question of Burundi.
• The question of Guinea-Bissau.
World Trade Organization:
• The question of government involvement regarding exchange rates.
• International legislation concerning protectionism.
• The future role of fair trade.
• The influence of the BRIC-countries on world trade.
Special Conference 1 on Sufficient Healthcare:
• Improving access to medicine in LEDCs.
• Measures to provide sufficient medical personnel in LEDCs.
• Extending and improving the Global Alert and Response (GAR) and making people acquainted with it.
• Improving sanitation in order to prevent contagious diseases from spreading, with special regards to densely populated areas.
Special Conference 2 on Food Shortage:
• Improving the efficiency of food production in order to provide food for the growing world population.
• Increasing the amount of food available in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Increasing food safety.
• The future role of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) to combat food shortage

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