Model United Nations of Lübeck

Issues on the Agenda

1^st Committee (Disarmament and International Security)

• Promotion of multilateral agreements in the area of disarmament
• Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international cyber security
• The question of Kosovo (research report [PDF])
• Establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East (research report [PDF])

2^nd Committee (Economic and Financial)

• Ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed on Cuba by the United States of America
• Minimizing the impacts of the global economic crisis, especially within LEDCs (research report [PDF])
• Role of microcredit and microfinance in the elimination of poverty (research report [PDF])

3^rd Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural)

• The provision of affordable access to essential drugs in developing countries (research report [PDF])
• Measures against extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
• Preventing corruption in humanitarian Assistance
• Finding measures to improve the conditions of Internally Displaced People (IDP) in Yemen

4^th Committee (Special Political and Decolonization)

• Measures to prepare the reunification of Northern and Southern Cyprus (research report [PDF])
• Measures to strengthen the transitional federal government of Somalia in order to guarantee economic and social security in the country and the region (research report [PDF])
• The situation in Zimbabwe
• Settlement of border conflicts in post-colonial areas (research report [PDF])

5^th Committee (Administration and Budgetary)

• Financing of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (research report [PDF])
• Financing and providing humanitarian aid to Haiti (research report [PDF])
• General Reflection on Alternative Financing for the UN (research report [PDF])

6^th Committee (Legal)

• The status of child soldiers in the 1949 Geneva Conventions (research report [PDF])
• The legal status of natural persons in areas where there has been a succession of States (research report [PDF])
• The question of therapeutical cloning (research report [PDF])

Security Council

• The situation in Afghanistan (research report [PDF])
• Nuclear disarmament (Iran, DPR Korea) (research report [PDF])
• The situation in the West Bank (research report [PDF])
• Protracted conflicts in the GUAM area (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) and their implications for international peace, security and development (research report [PDF])

Human Rights Council

• Ensuring the right to food for all, without discrimination (research report [PDF])
• Protecting the human rights of Internally Displaced People (IDP) in Sri Lanka (research report [PDF])
• Protection of civil rights while countering terrorism (research report [PDF])
• Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (research report [PDF])

Environment Commission

• Assuring sustainable development in the Amazon region (research report [PDF])
• Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa (research report [PDF])
• Enhancing green technologies in times of climate change and globalization (research report [PDF])
• Improving catastrophe-management in areas affected by natural disasters (research report [PDF])

Economic and Social Council

• The challenges to society and good governance posed by illegal organizations (e.g. mafia, pirates, terrorists)
• Strategies to aid sustainable development in LEDCs
• Addressing the socioeconomic challenges in areas where epidemic diseases are prevalent
• Addressing corruption as an obstacle to global welfare

Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

• Measures to combat acts of piracy in the waters of the Horn of Africa
• Crime prevention in urban areas, including juvenile crime and violence
• Measures against money-laundering and the financing of terrorism
• Endorsing international cooperation in combating transnational organized crime and corruption