Ambassadors from countries of the General Assembly come together to form committees and deal with issues around the world. Committee 3 of the GA is focusing on human rights, or more specifically, the lack of them in certain countries. Along with this, Committee 3 is working on the topic of corruption. In this committee, country representatives debate human rights laws, anti-discrimination laws, and problems of ongoing discrimination and corruption within UN countries. Some of the United Nation’s long term goals are abolishing discrimination of all sorts, including discrimination based on race, gender, sexuality, and religion, as well as ridding countries of governmental corruption. The GA of the MUN is also focusing on this topic.
The topic of discrimination and corruption is a pressing issue in many countries. Discrimination is the act of treating someone unfairly solely based on an unrelated characteristic. People are often discriminated because of their race, gender, sexuality, and religion. Governmental corruption is usually caused by greed or lust for power, and results in a weak, biased government. Corruption often relates to power struggles within a government. This topic was assigned to the GA of the MUN and was then discussed. Recently, the GA held a formal debate, involving the following countries: Lebanon, United States of America, Iceland, Chili, Oman, Venezuela, Russia, Ireland, and Honduras. The ambassadors representing these countries conversed about the acts of corruption and discrimination taking place. The GA is proposing a resolution to implement closer investigation on corrupt governments. They also proposed to have UN representatives restabilize corrupt governments, and the members also suggested for the countries to execute criminals rather than imprison them. The GA hopes that these resolutions will lead to safer and more accepting countries, which in turn will begin to eliminate corruption and discrimination, as well as helping third-world countries develop their human rights laws. By Group 6
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