I-W6-1 - OAS
31st MODEL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR
HIGH SCHOOLS (31st MOAS/HS)
November 28th - December 1st, 2012
Washington, DC
DECLARATIONS AND RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE 31ST MODEL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
31st MODEL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH SCHOOLS (31st MOAS/HS)
November 28th - December 1st, 2012
Washington, DC
INDEX OF ADOPTED DECLARATIONS AND RESOLUTIONS
Declaration of the 31st Model OAS General Assembly for High Schools: Developing green transportation infrastructure to facilitate integration of the countries of the Hemisphere 6
General Committee
GC-1 Promotion of democratic values through the celebration of a “national day for the promotion of democratic values 9
GC-2 Utilizing social media and establishing single sex schools as a mechanism for creating equality for women 11
GC-3 Promotion of democratic values among the youth of the Americas through the use of social media and other websites 14
GC-4 Promoting democratic values among the youth of the Hemisphere 16
GC-5 Cooperation with MSME investment and enterprise support to enfranchise women entrepreneurs in the Hemisphere 19
GC-6 Strengthening the economic and social status of women 23
First Committee
I-1 The use of information and communication technologies to increase political participation in the Americas 27
I-2 Increase of civilian political participation through the use of modern technologies and communications and the bolstering of public access broadcast channels 30
I-4 The use of information and communication technologies to increase political participation in the Americas 33
I-5 Promotion of communication technologies to increase women political participation 36
I-9 Promote hemispheric legal cooperation to protect intellectual property and copyright material while preserving freedom of expression on the internet 38
I-10 Hemispheric legal cooperation to protect intellectual property and copyright material while preserving freedom of expression on the internet 41
I-11 Methods to use information and communication technologies to increase political participation in the Americas 42
I-12 The use of information and communication technologies to increase political participation in Americas 45
Second Committee
II-1 Support from Member States to strengthen school awareness programs and combat drug use among the youth throughout the Hemisphere 48
II-2 The promotion of crime prevention programs through education for the youth in the Americas 51
II-4 Towards the eradication of drug addiction and drug-based crime 54
II-5 The establishment of drug education courses and programs in the Americas 56
II-6 Initiatives to promote crime prevention programs among the youth in the Americas by encouranging participation in youth clubs 57
II-7 Suggestions of the initiatives needing to be put in place by Member OAS States to secure a safe and crime free future for citizen of the Americas 59
Third Committee
III-1 Promotion of long distance education through the assistance of the Inter-American committee on education and the Educational Portal 62
III-2 Strengthening partnerships between social actors, and governments to support the implementation of the mandates of the Sixth Summit of the Americas 64
III-3 Hemispherical cooperation on the creation of metholds and mechanisms for distance education resources 66
III-5 Development of mechanisms aimed at the inclusion of civil society organizations in oas and strengthening partnerships between social actors and governments as a tool for social integrity 68
III-6 Strengthen partnerships between social actors and governments through the use of micro loans to support entrpeneurship 70
III-9 Mechanisms for the use of distance education through technology to benefit the youth of the Hemisphere 72
III-10 Mechanisms for the use of distance education through technology to benefit the youth of the Hemisphere 75
III-12 Strengthening partnerships between social actors and government to support the implementation of the mandates of the Sixth Summit of the Americas 77
Fourth Committee
IV-1 Corporate support for post-secondary educational progams through an enhanced OAS multilatral project on technical education and vocational training 80
IV-2 New sources of funding for green technology initiatives that receive corporate support through the Department of Sustainable Development 83
IV-3 Partnering with e-communication technology companies as a means to reduce expenditures and increase participation in the MOAS Program 85
IV-6 Adopting new technologies as a means to reduce expenditures in personnel, communications, travel and facilities within the OAS General Secretariat 87
IV-7 Funding OAS development programs through the creation of associations between the American countries 89
ANNEX 1 - Sponsors of resolutions……………………………………………………………..92
ANNEX 2 - 31st MOAS for High Schools Country Assignment...……………………………...96
31st MODEL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
November 28th - December 1st, 2012
DECLARATION OF THE 31ST MOAS FOR HIGH SCHOOLS: DEVELOPING GREEN TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO FACILITATE INTEGRATION OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE HEMISPHERE
DECLARATION OF THE 31ST MODEL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH SCHOOLS: DEVELOPING GREEN TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO FACILITATE INTEGRATION OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE HEMISPHERE
(Adopted at the first plenary session, held on December 1, 2012)
WE, THE STUDENT DELEGATIONS OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS), gathered in Washington, D.C., on the occasion of the 31st Model OAS General Assembly for High Schools,
RECOGNIZING that sustainable environmental and socio-economic conditions will be essential to the development Member States and in the best interest of next generations,
ACKNOWLEDGING that “green technology” as environmentally sustainable is a socio-economic engine of growth with the potential to stimulate the individual Member States,
NOTING that several nations of the Hemisphere are leaders in clean fuel innovation and are beginning to tap into the expanding market of ethanol fuel, a cleaner burning alternative, as well as other green fuel technologies,
RECOGNIZING that the Sixth Summit of the Americas promotes the further development of physical infrastructure, including roads and rail, which contribute to the collaboration of sustainable development and trade,
REALIZING that the road transport infrastructure of the Americas requires modernization in order to meet the challenges of the evolving green (environmentally sustainable) economy and of increased trade in a globalized world,
HIGHLIGHTING that the Inter-American Competiveness Network (RIAC) has prepared three actions in the areas of infrastructure and innovation including the development of the second Signals of Competitiveness in the Americas Report,
REMINDING OURSELVES that many Member States participate in the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety, highlighting their commitment to upkeep its goals and objectives,
Understanding that high-speed rail development will result in a cost-efficient transportation option that cuts down on automobile use and expensive road maintenance,
TAKING NOTE of the fact that several economies in the Hemisphere have successfully provided grants for the development of a rail transportation system in order to help reduce the number of cars from the roadways,
CONSIDERING that the Regional Public Goods (RPG’s) initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank includes the development of road infrastructure as a mutual beneficial advancement that will enhance the efficiency of transportation in Member States,
UNDERSCORING the importance of the Special Multilateral Fund of the Council for Integral Development (FEMCIDI) in funding development projects that contribute to the growth of economies of the hemisphere in a sustainable manner,
AWARE that the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in the Western Hemisphere, leading to renewed attention and investment for infrastructure development.
DECLARES THAT IT WILL:
1. Encourage OAS Member States to study, design, develop, and implement environmentally sustainable rail systems that mutually benefit collaborating countries, in an effort to decrease harmful carbon emissions and traffic and to expedite transportation.
2. Urge Member States to explore the possibility of establishing Sustainable Transportation and Energy sectors within their governments in order to research and develop the advancement of improved transportation systems that utilize green technology; including the creation of a committee comprised of experts from the various Member States with the goal of providing joint research and development in sustainable transportation.
3. Promote the creation of institutions that adequately train human resources and strengthen institutional capacity building within individual Member States.
4. Increase participation in RIAC discussions in the area of innovation of transportation services, especially in light of the upcoming Americas Competitiveness Forum in Panama City in 2013.
5. Foster joint projects between the Member States geared towards the improvement of sustainable road, rail, and fuel transportation systems.
6. Encourage Member States to make their best efforts towards building a sustainable infrastructure based in the development of non-fossil fuels and renewable energy resources in order to reduce carbon emissions.
7. Urge Member States to develop and implement comprehensive policies that support and are conducive to the industries of sustainable rail transport, development of non-fossil fuels and renewable energy resources through fiscal incentives such as tax credits.
8. Promote joint projects geared towards improving road infrastructure in the region and increase the cooperation of Member States border control in order to make cross-border transportation and security processes more efficient.
31st MODEL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
November 28th - December 1st, 2012
BOOK OF RESOLUTIONS
GENERAL COMMITTEE
GC-1
“PROMOTION OF DEMOCRATIC VALUES THROUGH THE CELEBRATIONOF A “NATIONAL DAY FOR THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRATIC VALUES”
General Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
ACKNOWLEDING that the fundamental principle of the OAS Charter is to promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of nonintervention;
REAFFIRMING that Chapter 2, Article 3 of the OAS Charter establishes that the solidarity of the organization of American States and the high aims which are sought through it requires the political organization of those States on the basis of the representative democracy;
CONSIDERING that Article 47 of the OAS charter finds that the member states of the OAS will give primary importance within their developments plans to the encouragement of education, science, technology, and culture, oriented toward the overall improvement of the individual, and as a foundation for democracy, social justice and progress;
GUIDED BY AG/DEC. 57 (XXXVIII-O/08), which highlights the potential of youth as people, imbued with principles and values, and with ski8ll and abilities, capable of shaping more free, just and democratic societies;
UNDERSCORING Article 27 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter which states that special attention shall be given to the development of programs and activities for the education of children and youth as a means of ensuring the continuance of democratic values, including liberty and social justice;
BEAING IN MIND that the Inter-American Democratic Charter states that the “participatory nature of democracy in our countries in different aspects of public life contributes to the consolidation of democratic values to freedom and solidarity in the Hemisphere”;
NOTING that the collective body of public opinion research finds that most of the young in the Americans are becoming adversely influenced by the news and coverage of democratic institutions, which is mostly negative in tone with the intent to portray corruption at all levels, thereby fostering cynicism; and
TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION that through resolution A/62/7 in 2007, the United Nations established the “International Day of Democracy” to be celebrated on September 15th of each year.
RESOLVES
1. To work collectively with the United Nations to promote the “International Day for the Promotion of Democracy” on September 15th, by organizing various activities and presentations within all member nations inviting the youth populations to join together in the major student’s venues, parks, and convention centers in the capital cities of each country.
2. To recognize that the promotion of the values of freedom of thought and the expression of ideas are vital to the success of future growth under democratic systems.
3. To request that the Secretary General work in conjunction with the Democracy Secretariat for Political Affairs and the pertinent officials from member states in order to create promotional broadcasts of the aforementioned “National Day” through media, social media, newspapers, and magazines, in which public officials and prominent figures from entertainment and sports will join forces in order to deliver speeches and entertainment that will instill democratic values in the youth of the Americas.
4. To suggest that Member States encourage public officials responsible for coordinating public and private media outlets in order to maximize coverage of the entire “National Day” events that are held simultaneously and concurrently throughout the hemisphere, and made so available to youth throughout the nations who are not able to attend events in venues located in major urban centers.
5. To instruct the Inter-American Program on Education and Democratic Values of the OAS/GS to draft a letter to various non-profit organizations whose main goal is to promote democracy, such as The Arcadia Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the United States Agency for the International Development, the Futures Grand Program, and the United States State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in order to seek additional financing for the events.
6. To further suggest that Members States coordinate parallel events, in the previously suggested day, such as “Democratic National Festivals” within all member stations, particularly ones that will draw community participation through sports and music entertainment, while also gaining recognition from government-funded television stations and national news broadcasts, in order to reach out to more of the youth within the hemisphere.
7. To underscore the importance for Member States to secure participation of prominent figures in both sporting and the entertainment fields so that exhibition games and concerts will showcase the attention being brought to the hemispheric celebration of democratic values.
8. To request that the Inter-American Program on the Education for Democratic Values and Practices explore the development of organizational support that will continue to expand upon literacy training that specifically targets educational efforts on behalf of the promotion of democratic values.
GC-02
UTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA AND ESTABLISHING SINGLE SEX SCHOOLS AS A MECHANISM FOR CREATING EQUALITY FOR WOMEN
General Committee Topic No. 2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the mandate of the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, “to take specific steps to improve access to quality education for girls, especially in rural areas, as well as promoting improved capacities of schools, teachers, civil society, and communities to reduce the barriers to regular attendance for women and girls”;
AFFIRMING Resolution AG/RES. 2561 (XL-O/10), “Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality,” which states that the “governments of the Hemisphere are committed to developing decisive strategies to integrate a gender perspective in all spheres of public life as a way of attaining the ultimate goal of promoting and protecting women’s human rights and gender equity and equality and achieving a quality of rights and opportunities between women and men”;
RECOGNIZING Resolution AG/RES. 2685 (XLI-O/11), “Strengthening of the Inter-American Commission of Women,” which urged the Secretary General to support the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) in its role as a specialized organization of the Organization of American States (OAS) with adequate human and financial resources to strengthen the capacity to carry out its growing number of mandates;
RECALLING AG/RES. 2099 (XXXV-O/05), which states “that the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) has been recognized by the Summits of the Americas and the OAS General Assembly as the principal hemispheric forum for promoting women’s human rights and gender equity and equality;
ACKNOWLEDGING the commitments undertaken in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the political Declaration and the Final Report of the Twenty-third Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly (June 2000), on the topic “Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century” which underscored the importance for strengthening the social and economic status of women;
RECALLING that international forums such as the Summits of the Americas, the Special Conference on Security, held in Mexico, and the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development, held in Bolivia, have reiterated the mandate to promote gender equity and equality in all areas;
NOTING that approximately one-quarter of girls in developing countries are not in school and that the profound obstacles in women’s literacy and education throughout the hemisphere result in less opportunities for women to transition into a more professional working class;
UNDERSCORING the fact that many women in the hemisphere lack the vital job training skills necessary for this transition into the work force and that the majority of women’s literacy rates are lower than those of men;
TAKING NOTE OF Service Canada, a model apprenticeship program that provides travel grants for women who can cross borders in order to achieve advanced knowledge of trade and professions; and
ACKNOWLEDGING that an extra year of primary school boosts women’s eventual wages by 10 to 20 percent and that women reinvest 90 percent of it into their families, as compared to only 30 to 40 percent for a man,
RESOLVES:
1. To remind public officials throughout the hemisphere that the education and economic empowerment of women benefit local and national economies and also ensure economic prosperity for future generations.
2. To request that member states institute single-sex schools for girls in both rural and urban areas through the CIM and utilize the Internet portal by the Inter-American Teachers and Educators Network to connect teachers and students throughout the hemisphere.
3. To partner with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as The Girl Effect, in order to launch public awareness campaigns that will inform the public of the beneficial economic and societal effects of the education of women.
4. To request the Secretary General of the OAS to consider the appointment of Special OAS Ambassadors, similar to the Women’s UN Ambassadors, to advocate for the implementation of schools for girls, similar to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, which was established in South Africa.
5. To emphasize the need for the Ministers of Education to set an agenda topic at their next annual meeting addressing the role of school-sponsored student organizations in fostering leadership development for females and the strengthening and formation of these entities throughout the member states.
6. To suggest that the Department for Social and Educational Development assists member states in utilizing social media (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace) as a method to increase public involvement and to serve as a catalyst for the peoples of the hemisphere to support and to implement the aforementioned programs.
7. To request the OAS Office of External Relations to coordinate funding from NGOs and organizations, such as the UN Fund for Gender Equality, Association for Women’s Rights in Development, the International Network of Women’s Funds, Women’s Funding Network, and Women and Philanthropy, in order to further the mandates of these educational initiatives.
8. To request that the CIM provides programmatic support for rural community centers throughout the hemisphere in order to provide short term job training skills and literacy education for women in order to efficiently facilitate a quicker transition into a more professional working class.
9. To seek funding for literacy and job skills centers from those who provide resources to the endeavors proposed by the CIM, especially the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), which directly assists small communities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
10. To urge the CIM to continue supporting gender-responsive labor policies through inter-ministerial cooperation between labor ministries in order to develop travel grants designated for apprenticeship programs for women that permit them to travel across borders in order to strengthen knowledge and skills of trade professions.
GC-03
PROMOTION OF DEMOCRATIC VALUES AMONG THE YOUTH OF THE AMERICAS THROUGH THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER WEBSITES
General Committee Topic 1 of the agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN, the following articles of the Inter-American Democratic Charter:
Article 6 stating that “It is the right and responsibility of all citizens to participate in decisions relating to their own development”, and that “Promoting and fostering diverse forms of participation strengthens democracy”;
Article 26 stating that “The OAS will continue to carry out programs and activities designed to promote democratic principles and practices and strengthen a democratic culture in the Hemisphere, bearing in mind that democracy is a way of life based on liberty and enhancement of economic, social, and cultural conditions for the peoples of the Americas.”; and
Article 27 stating that “Special attention shall be given to the development of programs and activities for the education of children and youth as a means of ensuring the continuance of democratic values, including liberty and social justice”,
REAFFIRMING:
That democracy is the cornerstone principle of the Organization of the American States;
That all member states of the OAS recognize that education is the key to strengthening democratic institutions and have committed to promoting a culture of democracy through formal and non-formal education;
CONSIDERING:
That education is an effective way to promote citizens’ awareness concerning their own countries and, thereby, achieve meaningful participation in the decision-making process, and reaffirming the importance of human resource development for a sound democratic system;
That the World Program of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond identifies that the full and effective participation of youth is a priority area for the progress of society, and that young people bring unique perspectives that need to be taken into account;
That the Organization of American States has appointed an individual to act as its “focal point on youth within the General Secretariat to facilitate the coordination of all OAS initiatives relating to the youth agenda”; and
That as of 2011 Facebook was used by 1 in every 13 people on earth, with over 250 million of them who log in every day, and that there are 500,250,000 registered active twitter users in the world,
RESOLVES:
1. To thank all member states for their diligent work to explore effective, non-conventional ways to promote democratic values among the youth of the Americas.
2. To encourage the continuation of workshops and other events that allows youth participation throughout the hemisphere.
3. To instruct the OAS focal point on youth to utilize social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook to give information on the activities that young people can participate in and to address the consensus made during events such as the Summits of the Americas and the OAS General Assembly.
4. To suggest that a website be created in the official languages of the OAS and maintained by the OAS focal point on youth, where the youth of the hemisphere can learn about the politics of their governments through virtual activities that will allow them to state their opinions through polls and surveys which will identify the concern of the youth of the hemisphere.
5. To encourage educators within member states to use the website and social media sites as tools in schools throughout the hemisphere.
6. To suggest that member states that have not already done so, create a webpage designed to help young people learn about and participate in their government. Individual member state websites could then be linked to the aforementioned website.
7. To suggest that member states request funding from interested governmental and non-governmental organizations, permanent observer countries, and/or interested corporations to help fund initiatives encouraged in this resolution.
GC-04
PROMOTING DEMOCRATIC VALUES AMONG THE YOUTH OF THE HEMISPHERE
General Committee Topic No.1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN:
Resolution AG/Dec.57 (XXXVIII0o.08) DECLARATION OF MEDELLIN YOUTH AND DEMOCRATIC VALUES (Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 3, 2008); AG/RES 2683 (XLI-O/11) “inter America Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices.” and acknowledging the success of the Inter American Program on Education and democracy in its goal of providing educators with the tools and skills to promote democracy through teaching.
AG.RES.2480 (XXXIX-o/09),” Promotion and Strengthening of Democracy: Follow-Up to the Inter- American Democratic Charter”;
AG/RES.2481 (XXXIX-0/09), “Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices”;
AG/RES.2514 (XXXIX-O/09, “Access to Public Information: Strengthening Democracy”;
AG/RES. 2523(XXXIX-O/09, “Right to Freedom of thought and expression and the importance of the Media”,
RECOGNIZING:
The three pillars of the OAS’s Youth Agenda, Institution of dialogue with youth capacity-building, and strengthening institutional development, as a valid framework for further conventional development but flexible enough to include nonconventional institutions and event;
ACKNOWLEDING:
The effectiveness of nonconventional, hands-on activities such as the MOAS as a means to educate and involve the youth of the Americas in the promotion of democratic values, public speaking, debate, critical thinking, cooperation, and issues of Hemispheric concern.
RESOLVES:
1. To develop a democratic election for student government in all public secondary schools that will:
a. Be responsible for upholding the rights of student; and
b. Be responsible for the representing the ideas and opinions of students in decisions made by the school administrators.
c. Imitate the structure of a democratic government, with an elected President, Vice President, Student Council, and Treasurer.
2. To suggest that the member states promote awareness of international political issues through the creation of youth-focused groups and initiatives – For instance, student-run newspapers and journals, intramural debate competitions, and forums for political discussion- which would be based on public schools and advised by faculty.
3. To encourage all public school to modify curriculums in order to stress the importance of democracy by:
a. Including government, civics, economics, and national history courses;
b. Offering extracurricular activities such as Model UN and Model OAS to demonstrate the real-world usage of democracy in achieving goals and promoting peace.
c. Incorporating community service as a primary activity in high school curriculums
4. To reaffirm the significance of the MOPAS For high schools and universities in promoting democratic values among the youth of the Hemisphere, and maintain and reinforce the actual goals of the MOAS for high schools and universities and its policy of developing annual models in different countries of the Hemisphere.
5. To set forth that the aforementioned programs be funded through the establishment of a special fund, which would:
a. Be Called the “OAS Special Fund for Democracy.”
b. Finance programs at the OAS level which serve to inculcate democratic values in the youth of the Hemisphere, such as, for instance, the MOAS< and internship programs.
c. Finance national programs which promote democratic values in the youth:
i. Member States would have to solicit this financial
ii. These programs would need to be overseen by the OAS, to ensure efficient and proper usage of these resources
iii. Create a committee, “committee for Efficient Democracy” that will approve financial contribution made to a Member State based on the efficiency of use
d. Upon its creation, would solicit financial contribution to the fund from individuals, corporations, non-governmental organizations, the Member States of the OAS, and other international actors
i. Would compile a list of financial backers, titled “Friends of Democracy, “ which would include those who have donated to the special fund
ii. Would allow corporations to place a generic seal on their products presenting their status as a “Friend of Democracy.”
6. To solicit corporate sponsors to fund programs on a national level:
a. Corporate sponsors would benefit from the positive public relations in participating regions
b. Corporations based in the Americas would be targeted as potential donors.
7. To promote democratic values of individuality, responsibility, leadership and trustworthiness, through a series of skilled training programs, Programs for the developments of Jobs and Democracy, in which each Member State wishes to adopt the idea. The goal is to emphasize the importance of leading an honest working career as opposed to settling for mediocrity of unethical success.
a. The internships will be provided by the States itself, in which those who are willing and eligible to participate, will be introduced to a certain area of the bureaucratic system of government or in a company that agrees to adopt the program, as will. Eligibility will depend on economic stability and age, where the most needy and those who are under the age of twenty one are deemed the most critical population. The jobs will be white- collar unskilled jobs (such as delivery, assistant, etc.), meaning that the individual receives depend solely on the client.
b. The coordination of said programs will be overseen by the Ministry of Education and/ or Ministry of Youth of each Member State that wishes to adopt this proposal.
c. The direct goal is not only to produce jobs, but also to promote the desire to work, and therefore ensure the presence of the democratic values in the minds and lives of young individuals.
GC-05
COOPERATION WITH MSME INVESTMENT AND ENTERPRISE SUPPORT TO ENFRANCHISE WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN THE HEMISPHERE
General Committee Topic No. 2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
RECALLING:
That “poverty, illiteracy, and low levels of human development are factors that adversely affect the consolidation of democracy” and that “the OAS Member States are committed to adopting and implementing all those actions required to generate productive employment, reduce poverty, and eradicate extreme poverty, taking into account the different economic realities and conditions of the countries of the Hemisphere (OAS Democratic Charter, Section III, Article 12)”; and
Chapter II, Article 3, Clause 1 of the OAS Charter, which states that “the American States proclaim the fundamental rights of the individual without distinction as to… sex”;
Mandates that support the rights and liberties of women, such as the Charter of the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Democratic Charter and the Inter-American Program on the Promotion and Protection of Women’s Human rights and Gender Equity and Equality;
The OAS’s commitment to the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), which promotes the equality of women through means of education, government policy, and public awareness; as well as the pledge made by the Member States in the Declaration of Mar del Plata at the Fourth Summit of the Americas, which fosters the need for entrepreneurship, business, and corporate responsibility;
ALSO CONSIDERING:
Resolutions AG/Res. 2709 (XLI-O/12), AG/RES. 2710 (XLII-O/12), and AG/RES. 2711 (XLII-O/12), which urge member states to promote, ensure, and protect the equal rights of all women in any social, economic, political, or cultural situation;
The Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Americas (WEAmericas) press release by the United States Department of State regarding the essential participation of women in entrepreneurship activities and the cooperation of major enterprises to strengthen this initiative; and
UNDERSCORING:
That 120 million of the 200 million estimated registered business units existing in this hemisphere are Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), and that one third of the 120 million MSMEs in the Western Hemisphere are run by women; (Public Policies to Enhance the Competitiveness of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Dialogue); and
NOTING:
That communities’ economies and conditions improve significantly more quickly when women are running businesses or earning income rather than living as housewives, as has been seen in Brazil (MIT Entrepreneurship Review); and
That woman entrepreneurs are statistically more likely to productively use, capitalize from, and pay back loans by making appropriate use of the money (Forbes); and
HAVING SEEN:
The success that woman entrepreneurs have had in Brazil by improving the qualities of their lives and those of their families through access to food, housing, and education (MIT); and
That, globally, commercial bank loans are available only to an average of 5 to 10 percent of woman-run enterprises (IFC Banking on Women); and
ACKNOWLEDGING:
That at this point in time, of the world’s 3 billion poor, only 20 percent of this potential market for microfinance is reached by existing groups that would provide it, and because micro-financing is such a powerful tool in reducing poverty and empowering women it is imperative that it be implemented in developing economies (IFC Micro financing); and
That there is money available from such alternate sources as micro investments and microloans that will not deplete funds from the OAS or any of its affiliates;
RESOLVES:
1. To applaud those member states that have already taken measures to empower their entrepreneurs, women in particular, with governmental aid;
2. To promote and encourage fairness and equality among member states by supporting women in their business endeavors, formal and informal, by providing financial assistance to female entrepreneurs;
3. To propose that, to achieve this end, the OAS partner with organizations focused on microloans and impact investments (i.e. Microplace and Kiva) in order to expand their outreach to women in the Americas and bolster woman-run enterprises that do not have easy access to government or bank loans;
a. The OAS will establish a liaison with each of the selected organizations and will be responsible for increasing their publicity to the target audience of investors as well as broadening the field of recipients in both rural and urban regions of the Americas;
b. The selected organizations will, through their cooperation with the OAS, create flagship “Empowering Woman Entrepreneurs” projects in which the focus is drawing social investors to woman-run MSMEs in the Americas;
4. To recommend that the OAS also solicit a partnership with Endeavor that promotes high-impact entrepreneurs to aid women in the Americas with the potential to bring serious innovation to their respective markets;
a. Every OAS member state will nominate potentially high-impact female entrepreneurs within their countries, in whatever field, to be introduced to Endeavor;
b. The OAS will respectfully request that Endeavor select entrepreneurs from this field that meet their criteria to be mentored and accelerated in their enterprises;
5. To urge the creation of an OAS conference that brings microloan, impact/social investment, MSME-geared non-governmental organizations (NGOs), donors, and investors from all over the hemisphere together;
a. The OAS will host this conference in its Bogota headquarters during the month of June in the year 2014;
b. The OAS will only cover the costs for its own delegates and affiliates at the conference;
c. Funding will be solicited from private institutions that express an interest in or actively aid microloan efforts, social investment programs, and/or entrepreneurs, namely Chevron, Visa, Sam’s Club, Dermalogica, American Express, Keen, Intel, Nau, QBE, Intuit, and Facebook;
6. To strongly suggest that signatory OAS member states consider revising and streamlining whatever government loan and MSME programs in place at present, whether or not they pertain solely to women;
7. To launch a free smart website geared towards women, but open to all genders, to teach the mechanics of accounting in order to promote the success of aspiring entrepreneurs across the hemisphere;
a. To appeal to college students via university administrators and former accountants from the National Association of the State Retirement Administrators to contribute to the composition of an online course that teaches the aforementioned steps to accounting on a strictly volunteer basis;
b. To utilize platforms such as LiveMocha (a free and interactive alternative to Rosetta Stone) to foster connections between teachers and students so that they may ask questions and get advice;
c. To urge university administrators to ask college students to donate their time in order to set up a functioning domain;
d. To culminate the course in a pass-fail Quia test;
e. To hire an informational technician either already employed by or linked to the OAS to maintain the coding and functions of the domain;
f. To encourage media sources (i.e. radios, newspapers, and television) in the OAS member states to publicize the website;
g. To request funding for this endeavor from the private and public entities previously listed.
GC-06
STRENGTHENING THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STATUS OF WOMEN
General Committee Topic No. 1 of the agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
WELCOMING and promoting equality between every race, gender and demographic within the hemisphere;
UNDERSTANDING the inequality of women in the workplace and the necessity of eliminating the sexism in all aspects of life;
NOTING that the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, states in Article 2 that, “All persons are equal before the law and have the rights and duties established in this Declaration, without distinction as to race, sex, language, creed or any other factor”;
RECALLING the agreement in the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality [AG/RES. 1732] to achieve equality between men and women in all aspects of life;
REAFFIRMING AG/RES. 2454 [XXXIX-O/09], which ensures cooperation between the CIM and OAS in finding solutions to improve the rights of women in the Americas;
RECOGNIZING the U.S. Department of States notion to promote Women's Entrepreneurship in the Americas (WEAmerica’s), to increase women’s economic participation and address three key barriers women confront when starting and growing SMEs: access to training and networks, access to markets, and access to finance;
EXPRESSING its support of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), which examines and seeks to resolve infringement on women’s rights?
ACKNOWLEDGING the Eileen Fischer Grant Program and similar programs that seek applicants from wholly women-owned businesses to combine the principles of social consciousness, sustainability, and innovation to create new businesses or invigorate existing ones;
BEARING IN MIND that humanitarian and non-governmental organizational charities, such as UNESCO and OAS Member-States, may fund these entrepreneurial programs as to ensure that women in the developing countries of the America’s be offered equal rights as men,
RESOLVES:
1. To encourage Member-States to emphasize equal opportunities and their availability to young women through career education in public schools.
2. To recommend that member-states establish career-training services specifically for women to give them equal capacity in procuring a job through:
a. Training programs in schools and universities.
b. Public seminars and workshops for adult women.
3. To advocate for cooperation between the CIM and national governments to eradicate stereotypes in careers considered “mans work” (science and technology, common labor jobs) with:
a. Education in public schools such as:
i. Enrichment programs such as field trips to local businesses.
ii. Visits with women leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals.
4. To ask member-states to guarantee that jobs ensure fair opportunities for women by protecting their rights to:
a. Maternity leave
i. Through government legislation that ensures the necessary length of time and pay.
ii. And through investigations of reported cases in which these needs are not met.
b. Protection from sexual harassment in the workplace by investigating reported cases of offense.
5. To call on the CIM to conduct a study on the effectiveness of certain practices in increasing the status of women in the society, such as:
a. Female-only education.
b. Enforced dress codes in schools and businesses to:
i. Reduce the disparity between male and female attire.
ii. Improve confidence of women by removing the pressure of expectations of their appearances.
iii. Increase women’s safety and comfort in the professional workplace.
c. Female mentors for young women.
d. Affirmative action for women in universities and businesses.
6. To request government reports from each Member State on the progress of the status of women in the society and the workplaces by
a. Conducting investigations into business practices that limit the progress of women’s positions in case studies.
b. Taking surveys of women in a variety of fields and positions on their experiences and treatment.
7. To request women’s collaboration in the America’s to
a. To offer education to women entrepreneurs in the America’s on business growth and management;
b. To provide market access initiatives in the America’s; and
c. To commence and expand initiatives to enable women owned SME’s access to credit and other financial services.
8. To encourage women entrepreneurs to apply to the Eileen Fischer Grant Program to receive a sufficient grant to create an entrepreneurial business that seeks to employ not only men but also women.
9. To ask charitable organizations such as UNESCO and OAS member-states to fund these programs to encourage women entrepreneurship within the Americas.
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31st MODEL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
November 28th - December 1st, 2012
BOOK OF RESOLUTIONS
FIRST COMMITTEE
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THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TO INCREASE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN THE AMERICAS
First Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
REFERRING to resolution AG/RES.2514 (XXXlX-0/09) state that,” Article 13 on the American Convention on Human Rights provides that “[e]veryone has the right to freedom of thought and expression. This right includes freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing, in print, in the form of art, or through any other medium of one’s choice;”
NOTING the effectiveness seen through citizens of any particular country who is well informed amongst public issues such as governmental policies creates a more ordered form of society;
BEARING IN MIND the important realization of resolution AG/RES.2513 (XXXlX-O/09) that states,” the media, the private sector, and political parties like likewise play an important role and facilitate actions by citizens to information held by the state;”
MINDFUL of the use of the currently implemented application of information and Communication Technologies through the program of Electronic Governing, which functions to “increase efficiency, transparency, and citizen participation.” [E-government];
REAFFIRMING resolution AG/RES. 2422 (XXXVIII-O/08)in which the Inter-American Democratic Charter suggests that “[t]he peoples of the Americans have the right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it” and that “[d]emocracy is essential for the social, political, and economic development of the peoples of the Americas;”
BEARING IN MIND resolution [AG/RES.2514 (XXXlX.-O/09)], implements that that Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights includes the right “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers;”
AWARE that democracy practiced in the Inter-American Organization of American States implements a system of government by the whole population or all eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives through knowledgeable well-versed citizens;
ACKNOWLEDGING growing trends in the modern societal world where Internet means of communication informational technologies continues to grow, allowing easier access to public information concerning topics such as and not limited to political involvement with the Organization of American States;
MENTIONING resolution [AG/RES.2514 (XXXlX.-O/09)] refers to Article 4 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, “...that transparency in government activities, probity, responsible public administration on the part of governments, respect for social rights, and freedom of expression and of the press are essential components of the exercise of democracy.”
RESOLVES:
1. To attempt to increase the broad access of public information by encouraging the member states to evaluate the specific needs of the country and endeavor to provide any means of increased telecommunication units and resources.
2. To call for non-profit organizations to assess and provide aide based on need in communication technologies ranging from social media, news outlets, to routers and computers.
a. To promote information and communication technologies for developing countries, also known as ICT4D.
3. To greatly promote internet activism which focuses on digital campaigning, digital activism, electronic advocacy, e-campaigning, etc.
a. Enables a medium of swifter communication between the local / regional member states.
b. Cheap and effective as resources are minimal and outcomes are infinite.
c. Intended audience is never esoteric in nature, it was constructed for large consultation.
4. To urge member states that bolstering administrative processes in the OAS give the right to support democracy in pursuing and retrieving information concerning political features.
5. To remind the states that any communicational organizations or structures that the country may already have should be taken completely advantaged of in order to continue to promote political participation in the Americas, using resources widely spread.
a. Includes e-Government program through the application of ICTs.
b. Introduction of technology into conventional tasks of municipality to increase political relationship between citizens and the government.
6. To encourage the use collaboration participation of the Department of Information and Technology Services (DOITS) in conjunction with the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) to provide prodigious feedback and fundamentally new ideas that increase political participation in the Americas through modern day technology.
7. To ensure the effectiveness of CITEL through constant monitoring and assessment of telecommunication systems in Member States through providing annual reports and improvements to the general assembly of the OAS.
8. To create an OAS sponsored website or database for select countries to educate and excite the citizens about voting and political participation.
9. To recommend the OAS seek funding for the creation of a website from diverse sources interested mainly on technology and such as Google and Cisco.
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INCREASE OF CIVILIAN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION THROUGH THE USE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES AND COMMUNICATIONS and the BOLSTERING OF PUBLIC ACCESS BROADCAST CHANNELS
First Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING AG/RES. 2702 (XLII-O/12) which found that the telecommunication and information and communication technologies (ICT) environment has undergone major changes as a result of rapid technological progress, market globalization, and the convergence of telecommunication, information, broadcasting, and IT services and technologies;
AWARE that according to the Charter of the Organization of American States, “representative democracy is an indispensable condition for the stability, peace, and development of the region”, and that one of the essential purposes of the Organization is “to promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of non-intervention”;
RECALLING that the Inter-American Democratic Charter states that “the peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it” and that “democracy is essential for the social, political, and economic development of the peoples of the Americas”;
NOTING that Article 1 of the inter-American Democratic Charter states that “democracy is essential for the social, political, and economic development of the peoples of the Americas”;
REAFFIRMING that AG/RES. 2705 (XLII-O/12) found that the participatory nature of democracy in member states in different aspects of public life contributes to the consolidation of democratic values and to freedom and solidarity in the Hemisphere;
TAKING NOTE that access to adequate election information through public communication media directly correlates with an increase in voter participation and higher democratic values;
BEARING IN MIND that, although 78.6% of North America has access to the Internet and its resources, only 32.6% of Central America, 28.7% of Caribbean, and 43.3% of South America has access to said resources;
AWARE of the fact that AM radio waves travel hundreds of miles during the day and have an increased distance during the evening due to the reflection of waves from the ionosphere;
BEARING IN MIND that the current political systems throughout the hemisphere are democratic and that an increase in state technologies such as the implementation of public access channels and distribution of political information will augment voter education and participation; and
ACKNOWLEDGING that the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) is an entity within the OAS that focuses on the development of Telecommunications/Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) throughout the Americas,
RESOLVES:
1. To instruct the General Secretariat of the OAS to establish as a priority of assisting Member States in creating independent, balanced broadcasts via the following information and communication technologies with the purpose of educating civilians on the platforms of political parties:
a. Radio
i. The purpose of the radio is to inform the public, in an impartial manner, with regards to ways in which they can interact and participate in their political environment, thus raising their confidence in the political system.
ii. The radio will broadcast political information to the public through AM radio.
b. Television
i. The purpose of the television program is the same as the radio.
ii. The program will be aired on a local station in the Member State.
iii. The funding will be derived from sponsorships which will, in return, receive promotions throughout the broadcasting period.
c. Websites
i. The website is one which the public can visit and search for information about the political systems, parties, institutions, and processes in any member state who opts into support of said website.
ii. This website can also inform the public as to how they can participate in their respective political systems and be represented in their governments.
d. Newsletters
i. These newsletters will have the same purpose as the website, but that can reach communities that do not have access to the Internet and its resources.
ii. These newsletters will be sent by mail to regional governments that can then distribute said newsletters to those areas that lack sufficient Internet access.
iii. The newsletters will be created by the same volunteers, members of the IPAC, in charge of creating the previously stated website.
iv. The newsletter will pull funding through advertisements and corporate sponsorships.
2. To urge the formation of the International Political Awareness Committee (IPAC) to send representatives to the poorer communities, or those with low literacy rates, with the intent of promoting their political participation and democratic values
a. IPAC is a collaborative group made and funded by the member states of the OAS.
b. The members working in this committee will be volunteers assigned by each Member State who will have undergone basic training, given by each country’s delegation on the issues at hand and will be appropriate for educating the general public.
c. The committees will be determined by the percentage of each community’s political participation rate, taking into consideration their average income of the community.
d. The IPAC will have a branch dedicated to the moderation and development of the aforementioned information and communication technologies.
3. To request CITEL to provide technical support in order to expand the strength of public broadcast systems, which should meet operating costs through the revenues generated from the advertisements run on the independent radio stations as well contributions from OAS member states and their respective government entities.
4. To underscore the role that the Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values has to play in assisting member states with enhancing the ability of public access stations within member states at both the national and local levels to host and broadcast public debates for candidates, which should remain available over the public access broadcast stations through radio and television.
5. To emphasize the Member States to strengthen democracy in the region by promoting their platforms and political ideas during election cycles using the technical support of the Democracy Secretariat for Political Affairs as well Inter-American Program of Education on Democratic Values.
6. To further suggest that public television and radio broadcast stations located throughout the hemisphere can receive technical assistance from CITEL in order to deal with issues such as increasing bandwidth and enlarging access to markets in rural areas through the placement of additional tower approximately 300 miles from one another.
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“THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TO INCREASE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN THE AMERICAS”
First Committee Topic 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY:
BEARING IN MIND Article 2 of the Charter of the Organization of American States, which states the primary purpose of the OAS is to endorse and protect representative democracy;
APPRECIATING Citel’s work to improve telecommunications and Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the Americas;
ACKNOWLEDGING that AG/RES. 2702 (XLII-O/12) resolved to encourage member states to promote telecommunications and ICT’s;
BEARING IN MIND that AG/RES. 2514 (XXXIX-O/09) resolved to urge member states to adopt any necessary legislation that would promote respect and recognition of everyone’s right to access to public information;
KEEPING IN MIND that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) should be used to increase political participation in the Americas;
HIGHLIGHTING the need to work on government communications with the public through use of electronics to communicate more efficiently and directly.
RECOGNIZING the revolution and dispersion of technology throughout the Americas and its influence over the political climate of the hemisphere, the current struggles to maintain democracy through enhanced pluralism, and the united effort to make governments more transparent;
NOTING the progress made in the nations of the hemisphere to encourage participation in the democratic process, as articulated in the 2012 annual Report of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission;
RECOGNIZING that the very notion of democracy is challenged when information is not willingly disseminated to and understood by the people;
RESOLVES:
1. To urge member states to commence or resume the suggestions set forth in AG/RES. 2702 (XLII-O/12) and AG/RES. 2514 (XXXIX-O/09), including, but not limited to:
a. Encouraging member states, in accordance with the commitments made in the Declaration of Nuevo Leon, to make any required changes to regulatory and legislative documents in order to make information available to the entire population.
b. Imploring member states to write and adopt legislation that makes information available to the public online.
c. To simplify the process by which the citizens of a nation can receive access to public information.
2. To encourage Member States to create open government web portals that the general public can access, including, but not limited to:
a. Basic information about the state and its government.
b. Organized articles about issues the state is currently facing and the actions that the government is taking to resolve these issues.
c. Official documents, such as data from public institutions.
d. Other information that doesn't jeopardize the security of the nation or other private governmental affairs.
3. To underscore the need for increased efficiency and decreased political bias by promoting the dispersion of political information by all candidates for office through the enhancement of forums such as debates and interviews on public broadcast channels and unbiased radio news sources, and also informing the public of all new opportunities to be politically involved though the Internet,
4. To urge the creation of a government run, non-restrictive digital platform, separate from the government web portal, that is organized in such a way that all articles, laws, and other information is arranged by topic, and citizens, after registering an account, can:
a. Comment on newly passed laws, propositions, and other state run affairs that can directly affect the people, in accordance with freedom of speech and expression.
b. Take subjective surveys, which are monitored and administered by the government, that relate to laws passed under each topic and citizens' opinions on them/their outcomes.
c. Gain information on public services such as safety issues and crisis lines.
d. Complete and submit tax forms to the government to streamline the process.
5. To instruct the General Assembly to:
a. Ascertain financial resources that could be used to support member state’s efforts to diffuse information throughout the citizenry.
b. Encourage other donors to support this cause.
6. To encourage member states to cooperate with the Inter-American Committee on Education in Democratic Values in order to allocate funding for the programs being implemented.
7. To request that member states take it upon themselves to report to the OAS each year their progress in this field, and that the states will be open to suggestions from other member states as to how to further their progress at the time of this report.
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PROMOTION OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TO INCREASE WOMEN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
First Committee Topic 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN:
The Charter of the OAS Article 3 Section 1 it states that “The American States proclaim the fundamental rights of the individual without distinction as to race, nationality, creed, or sex”;
The Road to Substantive Democracy: Women Political Participation in the Americas created in April 18th, 2011 by the Inter-American commission on Human Rights states that, “The international community has established the importance of ensuring equal opportunities for both men and women to enjoy the exercise of political rights.” This document also states that “Despite the fact that women make up approximately half of the Hemisphere’s population and its elected rolls, they are under-represented at all government and decision-making levels”;
CONSIDERING:
CARICOM Secretariat, Inter-American Commission on Women (CIM), UNIFEM, UNICEF and the Commonwealth Secretariat sponsored a project known as Women in Political Participation: Training in Governance and Democracy. The main goals were “To increase women’s political participation and, to influence national and regional development agendas toward gender-balanced policies, planning programming and governance.” The project received a 7.5 efficiency rating out of 10 particularly with regards to skills-training for women in politics and social inclusion of women in public service.
That the Internet can have a positive effect on the political participation of women. The use of the Internet increases the availability of those resources that are fundamental for participation. Also, carrying out certain task online saves time and money.
RESOLVES:
1. To thank the member states for their diligent efforts to improve political participation of women.
2. To create an online social networking group for women who want to be more active in politics. The social networking group will send out weekly newsletters through e-mail that state the different ways for women to get involved in politics.
3. To suggest that the online social networking groups be managed by a joint effort of the Inter-American Commission of Women and individual member states.
4. To recommend that the governments of member states create public service announcements on the importance of political participation on social media networking sites.
5. To hold online leadership workshops geared toward building women political leaders.
6. To suggest that member states and the CIM solicit resources from observer countries interested corporation, and nongovernmental organizations.
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PROMOTE HEMISPHERIC LEGAL COOPERATION TO PROTECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHT MATERIAL WHILE PRESERVING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ON THE INTERNET
First Committee Topic No. 2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
RECOGNIZING:
The Stockholm Convention of 14 July 1967 establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO);
The World Trade Organization Agreement of 15 April 1994 on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement);
The Paris Convention of 20 March 1883 for the Protection of Industrial Property (Stockholm Act, 1967) administered by WIPO;
The Berne Convention of 9 September 1886 for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris Act, 1971) administered by WIPO;
The Andean Community;
The Caribbean Community; and
Mercosur,
KEEPING IN MIND
That Member States have entered into numerous bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements governed by international conventions designed to protect intellectual property rights;
That Member States have entered into Customs Unions that contain protocols for the protection of intellectual property rights;
CONSIDERING that intellectual property rights have become increasingly vulnerable as technological advances make it easier to circumvent traditional laws protecting those rights;
RECOGNIZING that because of technological advances and the relative confidentiality offered by the internet, Member States have taken action to protect owners of intellectual property by enacting national laws for the protection of intellectual property rights;
HAVING SEEN that citizens and residents of Member States are using the internet with increasing frequency;
BEARING IN MIND that the Organization of American States provides an important forum for promoting intellectual property protections and agreements throughout the hemisphere;
RECALLING that the right to freedom of thought and expression, which includes the freedom to seek, receive, and disseminate information and ideas of all kinds, is recognized in Article 13 of the American Convention of Human Rights and other international instruments and national constitutions;
NOTING that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights established the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression in October 1997 to monitor Member States’ compliance with the American Convention on Human Rights in the area of freedom of expression;
RECALLING:
Resolution of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, 2009AG/RES. 2523 (XXXIX-0/09);
IACHR, Annual Report 2011, Volume II: Report of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, OAS/Ser.L/V/II. 134, Doc. 5 rev. 1, 25 February 2009, paras 143 and ff;
Both of which recognize the importance of freedom of expression;
RESOLVES:
1. To commend the efforts of Member States who have enacted national laws aimed at protecting intellectual property and copyright material.
2. To urge Member States of the OAS who have enacted national laws aimed at protecting intellectual property and copyright material to implement said laws in ways that would not limit legitimate freedom of expression on the internet.
3. To reaffirm the right to freedom of expression and to call upon Member States of the OAS to ensure respect for this right, in accordance with international instruments on the topic.
4. To reaffirm that freedom of expression is essential to the exercise of democracy.
5. To urge Member States to safeguard, within the framework of instruments to which they are party, respect for freedom of expression on the internet.
6. To urge Member States to take all measures necessary to prevent violations of the right to freedom of expression.
7. To propose that the Organization of American States establish a conference to promote hemispheric legal cooperation to protect intellectual property and copyright material while preserving freedom of expression on the internet.
8. To suggest that said conference address, the following issues/matters:
a. Strategies that could be used by websites and internet intermediaries to monitor information their users publish or transmit;
b. Technical methods of filtering that could restrict the illegitimate flow of information on the internet;
c. Drafting of national laws that would protect intellectual property and copyright material while, at the same time, safeguarding legitimate freedom of expression on the internet;
d. Methods for enforcing national laws to protect intellectual property and copyright material in ways that would not violate the right to legitimate freedom of expression.
e. Strategies of awareness-raising of sanctions that are in place for copyrights infringement amongst citizenry in their own country.
9. To invite Member States of the OAS to carry out national initiatives to continue to protect
Intellectual property and copyright material while preserving freedom of expression on the internet.
10. To encourage trade agreements to be signed by every member country in the OAS.
11. To request that conference organizers present a paper containing conference recommendations and conclusions at the next General Assembly meeting and publish it on the OAS website.
12. To recommend that the OAS seek funding for the conference from the World Trade Organization.
13. To instruct the Secretary General to create a special fund composed of voluntary contributions to finance the remaining expenses of said conference.
14. To add observer countries as a way of funding the project.
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HEMISPHERIC LEGAL COOPERATION TO PROTECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHT MATERIAL WHILE PRESERVING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ON THE INTERNET
First Committee Topic No. 2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
BEARING IN MIND the reactions of the public to previously introduced acts such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA);
REMEMBERING the importance of uncontested ownership of individual property;
STRESSING the rise in cybercrime over the past decades due to lack of enforcement and consequences for those who act upon it;
REASSURING the right of lawful websites that preserve freedom of speech, while resolving to enforce stronger measures against websites that are used to counterfeit and pirated materials;
REITERATING the role of IACHR-Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, in stressing the importance of stopping cyber crime, while maintaining freedom of speech on the internet;
RECALLING Article 5 of the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression which stresses that “prior censorship, direct or indirect interference in or pressure exerted upon any expression, opinion or information transmitted through any means of oral, written, artistic, visual or electronic communication must be prohibited by law.”
RESOLVES:
1. To discourage cyber crime activities through social media or television and internet advertisements.
2. To seek funding for these announcements by the companies and organizations suffering from online piracy.
3. To encourage willingly famous figures such as pop stars and actors to participate in these announcements, to further discourage the public from downloading copyrighted material.
4. To request all member states of the OAS put in place procedures and/or mechanisms for the effective imposition of legal sanctions on those who partake in sharing or downloading illegal or copyrighted material in order to discourage further abuse.
5. To further request all members of the OAS to refrain from infringing citizens’ rights and to continue working towards eliminating online piracy.
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METHODS TO USE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TO INCREASE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN THE AMERICAS
First Committee Topic No.1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
RECOGNIZES: The Atlanta Declaration (2008) which stated that "Access to information is a fundamental human right";
OBSERVING: UN Reports A/HCR/17/27 and A/66/290 which call for freedom on the Internet;
RECALLING: Resolution AG/RES.2514 creating Processing Requirements, Processing Purposes, Data Processor Responsibilities, and helping secure personal data protection;
OBSERVING: The UN Human Rights Council Resolution (7/36) working to protect freedom of speech and expression, and hoping the OAS can comply;
HAVING REGARDS FOR: The EU Resolution on 11/17/2011 on the open internet and net neutrality in Europe;
UNDERSTANDING: That a Deliberative Democracy, involving increased collaboration between the Governor (The Government) and those governed (The People) [Add More Facts and Figures to Back Up Argument];
AWARE: That encouraging civic engagement through collaborative citizen roles in government increases both representation and satisfaction in government, and that this satisfaction in government brought by Deliberative Democracy leads to long- term future stability;
REALIZING: That voting is the most important mean of civic engagement;
UNDERSTANDING: Many citizens lack the means and/or drive to participate in government, be it due to the lack of transparency in the electoral system, the inability to easily vote, or the lack of literacy to vote;
NOTING WITH CONCERN: That the most significant barrier to democracy is the difficultly involved with the voting process, with many organizational roadblocks discouraging from political participation and taking away from the health of a democracy;
AWARE OF: The relative gap in voting turnout in the Americas, 62% In the United States and 80% in Venezuela;
UNDERSTANDING: That technology, specifically social and socially targeted media, could create simple, intuitive, and streamlined outlets for political participation and engage citizens across the nation;
RECOGNIZING: The worldwide success found in electronic voting in cases like Estonia;
RESOLVES:
1. To invite Member States to consider starting a campaign using informational technology to encourage voter participation, with:
a. Newspapers encouraged to publicize the need for citizen voting and the democratic ideal that political participation fulfills,
b. Government - Run advertisement campaigns publicizing the need and encouraging for citizens to vote, highlighting the need for civic engagement,
c. More public exposure of voting topics at hand, in order to provide an idea of the society- wide ramifications of a vote,
d. Such a campaign begin focused early on to adolescents, so as to enforce the idea of voting as soon as possible.
2. To recommend the, implementation of an electronic voting system in the Americas, with;
a. All electronic voting measured to be complemented by traditional measures begin complemented by traditional voting procedures , for those able to access these procedures to have the option to use a traditional vote,
3. To request that Member States find channels of collaboration between citizens and governments in the Americas by supporting the emerging political theory of deliberative democracy, and to use information and communications technology to do so, with:
a. Governments beginning to hold civic meetings modeled after organizations such as AmericaSpeak's "21st Century Town Meetings", with:
i. Thousands of citizens meeting to participate in engaged discussion on civic issues, with computers and polls to track opinions and ideas, finding themes and proposing them,
b. Opportunities for collaboration, being broadcast and streamed across the region, so as to provide outreach to as many citizens as possible,
c. Requests that popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Orkut create spaces online for civic discussion,
4. To promote the advancement towards more transparency in the electoral processes, with:
a. Election results begin made easily available online, with citizens having simple access to said result,
b. Interest groups influencing elections being made known to public as much as possible, so as to increase public awareness on the need for each citizen's vote,
c.
To make political polling as widely available and as public as possible,
5. To begin providing external opportunities for governments and bodies such as the OAS to determine the fairness of elections in the Americas, with:
a. The implementation of an electronic complaint system to the OAS, through which citizens dissatisfied with political fairness can be provided with the means to voice their concerns,
i. Complaints being tracked an recorded
ii. Excessive numbers of similar complaints being noted as possible signs of electoral corruption and violence, and to be addressed by the OAS on a case to case basis,
6. To encourage as much political efficiency as possible in the OAS, with countries gathering as soon as possible to discuss the measures outlined in the Resolution;
7. Remains actively seized on the matter.
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THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TO INCREASE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN AMERICAS
First Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
RECOGNIZING that use of technologies can increase political participation; to emerge the member states to provide the population to knowledge as a tool for improving public service and political participation;
EMPHASIZING is investing in developing internet based services with the goal of maximizing the quality and transparency in public administration as a way to strengthen participation of poor and marginalized groups;
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that organizations,, like the ford foundation, that have within their concerns to consider and address strategies to strengthen organizations and networks to increase the participation of poor and marginalized groups;
CONSIDERING that the use of can improve the communication between government branches and between the government branches and the people;
ACKNOWLEDGING that Peru promotes many groups and associations that encourage other people to gain knowledge about political features and dedicate into browsing entertainment resources for a better learning and productivity,
RESOLVES:
1. To consider on each member delegation, the creation of a social network on which young adults or people with the interest of involving themselves into political matters of their country can keep track of the political issues and how each political party will address those issues so that when it comes to the political elections they have a clear choice on which candidate is of their best interest.
2. To initiate as member of the OAS an Internet program that provides a wide variety of information based on international affairs between the members of the OAS and therefore increases the transparency of the political affairs going on in each distinguished government and the involvement of its followers on the daily basis.
3. To encourage the schools in each of the member states to provide political enrichment clubs for their students for them to gain knowledge about political affairs through the use of websites, so that in the future they take this information into account to compare different actions that candidates offer and therefore choose the one that best applies fir their respective country.
4. To invite already existing organizations and foundations, to propose strategies that could strengthen organizations as a way to increase the political participation of poor and marginalized groups.
5. To provide members of the OAS with the idea of creating a social network in each nation, that keeps track of the steps that the congress takes when a bill is passed and whether it does or doesn’t become a law, informing the people what measures are being taken and how they are going to affect their lives.
31st MODEL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
November 28th - December 1st, 2012
BOOK OF RESOLUTIONS
SECOND COMMITTEE
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SUPPORT FROM MEMBER STATES TO STRENGTHEN SCHOOL AWARENESS PROGRAMS AND COMBAT DRUG USE AMONG THE YOUTH THROUGHOUT THE HEMISPHERE
Second Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN AG/RES. 2556 (XL-O/10), “Hemispheric Drug Strategy and Preparation of Its Plan of Action”; which highlighted the importance of having up-to-date strategies and mechanisms that facilitate hemispheric cooperation to address all aspects of the world drug problem;
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that during its forty-ninth regular session, the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) approved the Hemispheric Plan of Action on Drugs, 2011-2015;
CONSIDERING that at its forty-seventh regular session, CICAD began the process of drafting the Plan of Action of the Hemispheric Drug Strategy as a policy instrument and its subsequent implementation that directs the collective effort to combat the world drug problem;
CONSCIOUS that the Plan of Action is a tool for the planning and managing the activities of CICAD and its subsidiary bodies;
REITERATING the importance of having up-to-date strategies and mechanisms that facilitate hemispheric cooperation to address all aspects of the world drug problem;
REAFFIRMING its commitment to the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM) as an objective instrument through CICAD for measuring the progress made by member states in addressing the world drug problem, identifying vulnerabilities and areas for improvement, and strengthening hemispheric cooperation,
TAKING NOTE of the importance of the dissemination of information about the risks associated with drug use to the general population, particularly among the youth; and
EMPHASIZNG the use of new information technologies and the mass media as the optimal tool for informing the general public and various target populations about available prevention and treatment services involving substance abuse,
RESOLVES:
1. To request that the Executive Secretaries of CICAD work with their respective counterparts respective within Member States in order to enforce an initiative on drug awareness that will be implemented within school systems throughout the hemisphere.
2. To further suggest that the aforementioned drug awareness initiative will be henceforth referred to as “Initiative on Drug Awareness and Prevention through Secondary and Post-Secondary School Partnerships”.
3. To emphasize that CICAD fulfill the task of fostering curriculum development with university programs in order to galvanize the efforts of to teach future teachers and counselors on the optimal methods for designing instructional lessons designated for youth on how to combat drug temptations and to avoid substance abuse.
4. To express hope that the “Initiative on Drug Awareness” will result in awareness classes incorporated into middle and high school core curriculums for the duration of two weeks for each school year with the intention to provide instructional awareness for students on the dangers of drug use and its subsequent side-effects.
5. To continue to advocate for comprehensive drug awareness campaigns created with the assistance of the “Initiative on Drug Awareness” in order to generate fund-raising events and drug awareness gatherings hosted and run by public school students, thereby energizing the youth sectors to actively become involved in substance abuse awareness campaign.
6. To reiterate the need for Member States to establish relationships between school communities and juvenile incarceration programs aimed at bringing together previously convicted drug dealers in order to bolster the effectiveness of drug awareness campaigns targeted at youth populations.
7. To establish non-profit programs within member states at local youth community centers under the “Initiative” aimed at bringing law enforcement officers into middle and high schools in order to instruct children on the consequences of drug use and possession if caught and convicted.
8. To make use of the existing educational portal on the Inter-American Teachers and Educators Network in order to promote the exchange between instructors at the university and secondary school levels as new curriculums are developed in the area of drug education and prevention.
9. To request member states to create individualized media campaigns directed specifically towards youth complete with ads that aim to discourage first-time drug use and by increasing advertisement in public transportation networks.
10. To request that the member states participating in the MEM share information about creative programs that spreads awareness and understanding about the dangers of underage alcohol consumption as a gateway to use other illegal substances.
11. To underscore the need for technical assistance from CICAD to the member states in order to enhance counseling directed at incarcerated youth who are imprisoned for drug-related charges.
12. To urge member states to continue to work with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to decrease corruption in the healthcare system by regulating pharmaceutical products though preventing doctors from prescribing illegal drugs and increasing the responsibility of members of the medical community to register, control, and monitor the distribution of prescription drugs within the healthcare systems throughout the Americas.
13. To require schools to have active drug addicts give presentations on the dangers of drug abuse.
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THE PROMOTION OF CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS THROUGH EDUCATION FOR THE YOUTH IN THE AMERICAS
Second Committee Topic No. 1 of the agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN Resolutions: AG/RES. 2638 (XLI-O/11) in which the General Secretariat was instructed to carry out activities under the Inter American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices in order to promote cooperation among Member States to better educate the youth of their countries; and CP/CG-1589, which encourages CICAD to increase their efforts against crimes related to drug trafficking through experts and studies conducted with the collaboration of the Unites Nations Center for International Crime Prevention of the United States,
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT Article 2 of the Charter of the organization of the American States proclaims the following essential purposes: Section a. “To strengthen the peace and security of the continent” and section f. “To promote, by cooperative action, their economic, social, and cultural development.”
CONSIDERING the Inter- American Drug Abuse Control Commission, or CICAD, has an educational development program encouraging greater understanding of drug issues by working with universities, professional associations, and national drug commissions. The CICAD seeks to include drug issues and related content in academic studies, especially in education and health by expanding the number of university graduates with specialized knowledge of the drug field. The CICAD program is transitioning away from a single school or faculty model (nursing, education, etc.), towards “integrated” approaches that draw on relevant academic disciplines (i.e. law, sociology, and psychology) and have broad support within the university administration.
ACKNOWLEDGING that the problem of violence in general and in young people specifically, is the product of a continuous cycle that lies in the lack of a good education, that at the same time, generates unemployment, and non- existent opportunities that lead to poverty. In times of desperation and despair, it can cause the young to make the wrong decisions, even if it means risking their lives and getting in situations where they will most likely be involved in some kind of violence;
RESOLVES:
1. To recommend that member states to promote labor strategies that would reintegrate into the labor market, the young, unemployed and those without professional training.
a. Post a conference in which member states would be instructed by volunteer professionals on the benefits of hiring younger people into the labor force to help reduce the levels of crime in their countries and communities. By doing so, the youth would get the chance to explore different job opportunities in which they would acquire the larger sense of responsibility and independence.
b. Invite the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) to implement their entrepreneurial programs in the Americas and elsewhere with the purpose of creating job opportunities for young people as mean to fight poverty and ultimately reduce the involvement in crime related issues.
c. To further entice the participation of youth in job fairs, the organization proposes to solicit the aid of ice cream companies for the lactose intolerant. This would drastically increase attendance.
2. Create a cooperative organization to help teenagers who are part of it, find appropriate jobs that meet their profiles, interests and skills, in order to maintain them away from activities that may lead them towards violent behaviors or can expose them to dangerous scenarios. To stay part of this organization they must agree to go to rehabilitation (if needed) and to share their life changing experiences with others who are just beginning. Being a part of this is a privilege, you get support in every way possible, and in exchange all you have to do, is stay clean, work hard, and help others.
3. To create and education program in which member states will help raise awareness about the escalating rates of crime involving the youth and the necessary precautions that should be take against the problem.
a. Invite experts from each of the member states to a yearly summit in which they will participate in the creation of the educational program's curriculum. The summit would be held every year afterwards to keep the curriculum up to date and working correctly.
b. Collaborate with summits of the Americas Follow-Up System in order to provide all member states access to these programs.
c. Encourage member states to implement the educational program not only as part of a school's curriculum but also in a variety of recreational and religious centers where children can attend regardless of financial means.
4. To continue with the Venezuela National Anti-Drug Office (ONA) to give thousands of traditional musical instruments to provide a cultural education to youth in danger of participating in crimes which will
a) To host youth events such as dances, that promote having fun in a healthy and safe environment without relying on alcohol and drugs
b) To solicit aid from the world’s top ice cream companies to donate popsicles to the dances, in order to increase incentive for youth to attend
c) Continue and create classes in schools and community centers which teach students music and promote community and morals.
5. To suggest that member states create partnerships with the school system, law enforcement, and nongovernmental organizations to build parent-training programs within the school system to encourage parent involvement in the education of youth and build relationships among families.
6. To create an international campaign that promotes the fight against juvenile violence, along with the support of other organizations such as the UNICEF that carry on campaigns with the assistance of ambassadors who are public figures. This campaign would include television media messages such as short films commercials, and broadcast announcements, public lectures, discussions, YouTube videos, posters, brochures, light ceremonies and material symbols like bracelets, pins, key chains, pens, and t-shirts. The material things would be sold to the people around the world through the internet, having its main store in the AMA, Art Museum of the Americas in Washington D.C. All the profit will be used to finance our other programs against violence.
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TOWARDS THE ERADICATION OF DRUG ADDICTION AND DRUG-BASED CRIME
Second Committee Topic 2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY:
NOTICING that according to the National Commission for Development and Life without Drugs (DEVIDA) reveals that 51.2% of high school students admit they are using drugs,
RECALLING that the 16th article of the OAS Charter states that “education is key to strengthening democratic institutions, promoting the development of human potential, and alleviating poverty and fostering great understanding among our peoples,”
RECOGNIZING drug abuse and consumption as growing national and international issues that should be addressed,
OBSERVING that when funds of $70 million were appropriated to police activity in the persecution of drugs in Chile that the amount of material seized increased 48%,
STATING that drug addiction is a health issue and should be treated as such,
RESOLVES:
1. To promote the investment in legal coca-production markets to boost the sales of legal and primarily medicinal coca products to discourage the sale of illegal or surplus goods.
2. To further drug education programs in member states with an emphasis on target groups such as those coming from single-parent homes, those in poverty, prisoners, and especially adolescents.
3. To further the development of programs such as Above the Influence and other similar programs that expose adolescents to the reality of drugs.
4. To work with the CICAD to distribute related drug education material to high schools in high-risk areas.
5. To develop drug rehabilitation centers and halfway houses to aid addicted youth.
6. To continue to improve national and hemispheric policies on the issue of drugs and related criminal activity by utilizing the MEM.
7. To foster communication between national and international governments to share information on relevant statistics and data on drug usage and sales.
8. To promote the development of needle exchange programs to curb the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and other STDs among drug users.
9. To encourage "take-back" programs collecting unused pharmaceuticals to curb their misuse.
10. To take additional steps to monitor chemicals involved in the creation of drugs, both licit and illicit, to prevent deviation from their intended purpose.
11. To reinforce the principle of cooperation nationally and internationally between nations and non-governmental organizations in tracking the flow of armaments suspected to be in use for drug trading.
12. To develop more advanced systems of monitoring drug trade patterns for use in member nations.
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THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DRUG EDUCATION COURSES AND PROGRAMS IN THE AMERICAS
Second Committee Second Topic of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THAT “CICAD promotes regional cooperation and coordination among OAS Member States through action programs, carried out by CICAD’s Executive Secretariat to: Prevent and treat substance abuse…Assist member governments to improve their data gathering and analysis on all aspects of the drug issue…Develops and recommends minimum standards for drug-related legislation, treatment, the measurement of both drug consumption and the cost of drugs to society, and drug-control measures, among others.”
UNDERSTANDING that drug education programs are key in preventing future drug abuse in children and adolescents by educating the youth of the possible consequences of drug and alcohol abuse and by implementing these programs in the public school system they are more likely to effect the youth population;
ACKNOWLEDGING the existence of the Drug Abuse and Resistance program already implemented in Barbadian schools, but the increasing levels of drug use among adolescents and the ineffectiveness of drug abuse scare tactics.
RESOLVES:
1. To recommend the creation of a project within the CICAD to:
a. Formulate more recent data on the causes of increased drug use among youth in the Western Hemisphere.
b. To initially implement the revised program in one school district, collect data on drug use in the same school district, and if stabilized or decreased drug use implement the revised program in all school districts.
2. To suggest a slight increase the taxes on tobacco and alcoholic products to fund the research going into the program, the educators and the education materials for the revision of the Drug Abuse and Resistance program.
3. To host fundraisers inviting private sector CEOs, administrators and charities to pay for their evening with the profits going towards funding the CICAD.
4. To host youth events such as dances, that promote having fun in a healthy and safe environment without relying on alcohol and drugs.
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INITIATIVES TO PROMOTE CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS AMONG THE YOUTH IN THE AMERICAS BY ENCOURANGING PARTICIPATION IN YOUTH CLUBS
Second Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING that crime and violence impair the social, economic, and political development of member states societies;
CONVINCED that there is a need for a Program that helps prevent crime and violence, and promotes a culture for the peaceful resolution of conflicts, especially among youth;
RECOGNIZING that their peculiar characteristics render the Caribbean island states particularly vulnerable and susceptible to the effects of crime and insecurity;
HAVING SEEN the deficiency of communication about the youth violence prevention programs in the small towns throughout the Hemisphere especially in Central and South America;
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the Preventing Armed Violence and Promoting a Culture of Peace. Guidance for Programming in Latin America and the Caribbean-
Presented by Nils Kastberg, Regional Director, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF);
REITERATING Inter-American Coalition for the Prevention of Violence: Five-year Progress Report;
RECOGNIZING That with the adoption of the Commitment to Public Security in the Americas at the First Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas (MISPA I), held in Mexico from October 7 to 8, 2008, the member states expressed their political will for and the priority of confronting crime, violence, and insecurity in a joint, mutually supportive, preventive, comprehensive, coherent, effective, and continuous manner;
RECALLING that there are ice cream companies in the world with an international face to keep or else are known for their charitable habits,
UNDERSTANDING that Homies Unidos is a gang prevention program already at work to prevent child recruitment into gangs as well reforming former gang members
RESOLVES:
1. To commend the already existing youth crime prevention organizations such as Homies Unidos for their work, participation and dedication to finding an end to youth violence in the hemisphere;
2. To promote communal youth activities through social networks thus providing youth with beneficial past-times.
3. To fund contests on Facebook in order to encourage the participation of youth in youth clubs sponsored by approved organizations. This would be done through two monthly contests in each country, which would reward the top winner with a $100 cash prize according to the number of people that contestants manage to recruit.
4. To partner both with youth crime prevention organizations in the Americas, such as the National Crime Prevention Council and other parallel organizations in the hemisphere, and with internationally known ice cream companies such as Magnum, Ben and Jerry’s, and Freddo to specify days in which these companies would provide free ice cream for the advertisement of crime prevention activities.
5. To use the Facebook event app and advertisements to show local teens and children when certain local ice cream shops will have sales on their cream, and then to use these popular gatherings of youth to spread information about events being set up by youth crime prevention organizations.
6. To state that in cases where Facebook is not readily available, to use regular paper advertisements to advertise such events at the ice cream shops.
7.To request that member states reimburse with a tax break or direct cash each ice cream company willing to give to donate however much that member state sees fit and/or has enough funds to give.
8. To approach multi-national corporations that are interested in promoting an international brand image (this is why this program needs to be done internationally) in order to gain the initial $52,000 funding for the first year of this pilot program.
9. To request that member states reimburse with a tax break or direct cash each ice cream company willing to give to donate however much that member state sees fit and/or has enough funds to give.
10. To treat this as a pilot program restricted to five member states (cosignatories) in order to test its effectiveness at reducing crime amongst youth. If it is successful it can be spread to other countries.
11. To invite Homies Unidos to help with this program to promote youth clubs’ services.
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SUGGESTIONS OF THE INITIATIVES NEEDING TO BE PUT IN PLACE BY MEMBER OAS STATES TO SECURE A SAFE AND CRIME FREE FUTURE FOR CITIZEN OF THE OAS MEMBER STATES
Second Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING that there is a rising concern of drug trafficking and consumption among the youth of the OAS member states
BEARING IN MIND Article 16 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, stating “Education is key to strengthening democratic institutions, promoting the development of human potential, and alleviating poverty and fostering greater understanding among our peoples. To achieve these ends, it is essential that a quality education be available to all, including girls and women, rural inhabitants, and minorities”
RECOGNIZING Article 27 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, stating “The objectives of the programs and activities will be to promote good governance, sound administration, democratic values, and the strengthening of political institutions and civil society organizations. Special attention shall be given to the development of programs and activities for the education of children and youth as a means of ensuring the continuance of democratic values, including liberty and social justice”
BRINGING TO ATTENTION the current arguments on whether marijuana should be legalized, in specific cases for medicinal usage only
RECALLING a fact presented by the Above the Influence campaign, stating that alcohol can damage a part of your brain that controls coordination, memory, judgment, and decision making
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT a fact presented by the Above the Influence campaign, stating that using marijuana at a juvenile age can have an outcome of structural and functional deficits of the brain
RESOLVES:
1. To form initiatives that aim to create after school programs that targets the youth’s susceptibility to peer pressure when it comes to drugs and alcohol
2. To create rehabilitation centers that aim to get juvenile adolescents in troubled situations (drug addicts or alcoholics) the support and guidance they need in order to help the juveniles quit taking drugs or to help them hold an intervention
3. To implement student centers in towns across member OAS states, specifically in troubled areas where drugs and alcohol are considered top issues and are the norm
a. A place children of any age from elementary to high school can go when not in school and not at home to keep them off the streets,
b. Organized soccer games are played on a soccer field belonging to the center,
c. Three meals a day are served to members needing financial assistance
d. Funded by the governments of the specific OAS member states
4. To create campaign ads targeting drugs, alcohol, and healthy lifestyles
a. About 75% of the funding will be from endorsements by professional sports players and major national and international corporations.
b. About 25% of the funding will be from the governments of the specific OAS member states.
31st MODEL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
November 28th - December 1st, 2012
BOOK OF RESOLUTIONS
THIRD COMMITTEE
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PROMOTION OF LONG DISTANCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE EDUCATIONAL PORTAL
Third Committee Topic No.2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
RECOGNIZING that the percentage of drop-pits from secondary schools throughout the Americas can be as high as 43% in some member states:
UNDERSTANDING the flaws of secondary educations systems throughout the hemisphere in ensuring retention of students and preparing youth for the job markets of the twenty-first century;
OBSERVING that the standards of rural education in primary and secondary schools can be porous, leading to poorly-educated and low –skilled grades;
HIGHLIGHTING that many students with learning disabilities have trouble learning through traditional methods of instruction;
RECALIING that many teachers teach by traditional means that than making use of present day innovations in educational technology largely due to la lack of training and availability of resources;
COGNIZANT OF THE Fact that alternative schooling and computer-assisted technology provides at-risk students with a variety of options that can lead to graduation, with programs that pay special focus to the individuals’ social and academic needs;
APPLAUDING the important principles behind AG/RES. 2638 (Xli-0/11),. “Educational Portal of the Americas; Ten Years of Strengthening Human Development in the Hemisphere through Distance Education”, specifically by noting the use of Portal in promoting professional development of educators and administrators throughout the hemisphere;
BEARING IN MIND that long distance education, such as online classes, can be translated into many languages, thereby making it available to individuals throughout the hemisphere;
EMPHASIZING that the use of distance education can present cost-saving measures and increase productivity of citizens of the hemisphere while reducing the amount of tuition expenditures;
FULLY AWARE that the strength of math and science curriculums are fundamental pathway to the economic viability of workers in manufacturing sectors that increasingly make use of computerized technology as a production methods; and
RECOGNIZING that many youth living in rural areas have trouble getting to school in the morning due to poor infrastructure,
RESOLVES:
1. To reaffirm the excellent resolution AG/GRES. 2638 (XLI-O/11) and continue the usage of all available funds for the purpose of an increased level of education that produces graduates who are prepared for the jobs of the twenty-first century.
2. To encourage member states to seek outside funding from international financing institution and donors, such as the Inter0-American Development Bank, in order to fund computer labs throughout the school systems of the Americas as way to promote long-distance education for youth who have previously dropped out of formal school.
3. To further request that member states work with the Special Multilateral Fund of CIDI (FEMCIDI) in order to fund specific projects that advance progressive educational technologies such as Smart and Promethean Boards in centers that will service long distance education for high school drop-outs.
4. To highlight the need for the Ministers of Education of establish an agenda item at their next annual meeting that addresses collaborative efforts by local universities to increase duel enrollment with secondary schools through long distance education and for upgrading connectivity in rural areas so that alternative educational strategies may become available.
5. To underscore the need for member states to seek funding from FEMCIDI in order to bolster specific funding for educational programs that utilize computer-assisted technology that address the needs of disabled student to participate in long distance education.
6. To create a program for the training of secondary school teachers through the Educational Portal of the Americas and in collaboration with universities throughout the Americas on the topic of present-day technological innovations and their immediate application to the classroom settings.
7. To direct the Inter-American Committee on Education to examine methods for improving the quality of exchanges between teaching personnel in the area of mathematics and science.
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STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL ACTORS, AND GOVERNMENTS TO SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MANDATES OF THE SIXTH SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS
Third Committee Topic No. 2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the Mandates Arising from the Sixth Summit of the Americas,
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the 42nd OAS General Assembly in Bolivia,
BEARING IN MIND the 9th Hemispheric Forum on Civil Society and Social Actors,
CONSIDERING the importance of the participation of social actors throughout the hemisphere and the fundamental role social actors play in the process of formulation and implementation of development policies and programs;
That improvements in infrastructure help provide social and political stability,
RECOGNIZING the importance of good relationships between social actors and governments in order to carry out the aforementioned policies and programs,
RESOLVES:
1. Encourage regional forums and discussions between social actors and government representatives of member states in order to give both parties a venue to suggest ideas for and express concerns on the Summit’s agenda.
2. Hold public seminars in Member States detailing how local residents can become valuable and productive social actors as well as inform and update those currently involved on issues already at hand.
3. Promote ongoing relationships and professional networks between the different kinds of social actors as well as the government through workshops outlining government services.
4. Encourage presentations of the Summit’s outcomes by representatives of the OAS to both government officials and social actors simultaneously.
5. Encourage a summit between social actors and government representatives to exchange opinions on how to comply with and successfully execute Summit mandates.
6. Encourage the sharing of ideas between multinational social actors and governments by holding annual summits to discuss the progress of Summit Mandates as well as current and possible future issues concerning the member states.
7. Implement a Physical Infrastructure Committee, in order to provide support and services regarding infrastructure projects, taking advantage of improvements in technology, where countries with more developed infrastructure can aid and advise those countries in need of improvement within their physical structure.
8. Encourage synergy between specific social actors and their respective OAS organizations according to their expertise, in order to help the implementation of the five topics discussed in the Sixth Summit of the Americas:
a. Physical infrastructure
i. Refer to the aforementioned Resolve 7
b. Poverty inequality and inequity
i. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
ii. Inter-American Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination
c. Disaster risk reduction and management
i. Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction
d. Access to and use of information and communication technologies
i. Inter-American Telecommunication Commission
e. Citizen security and transnational organized crime
i. Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission.
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HEMISPHERICAL COOPERATION ON THE CREATION OF METHOLDS AND MECHANISMS FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION RESOURCES
Third Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
RECALLING that the Mandates arising from the Sixth Summit of the Americas resolve to foster participation and collaboration between the public and private sectors to provide educational centers with the use ICTs (information and communication technologies) and electronic equipment such as computers;
CONSIDERING that the Inter-American Teacher Education Network (ITEN) “is a Professional Network of Leaders in Education in the Americas who would like to share knowledge, experiences, research and good practices in the field of teacher education” and additionally that “one of the most frequently discussed general concepts in education is that of the objectives of educational systems. It is often said that among these objectives should be the development of life skills, and preparation of students to participate competitively in and increasingly globalized market;”
HAVING SEEN that the importance of global communication in this new technological age of international interaction must form the basis for a modern education system and that an investment in youth education is an investment in the economic and economic integrity of all OAS Member States.
Resolves:
1. To promote and support the implementation of the Mandates arising from the Sixth Summit of the Americas concerning the Access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies.
2. To foster the creation of international data centers which publish electronic education materials, including but not limited to: textbooks, literature (as in an electronic library), course materials, prerecorded lectures, instructional tread videos, and instructions on how to resolve expenditures.
3. To make this data center accessible via the Internet on computers and mobile computing devices, including cell phones and tablet computers, accessible by educational centers free of charge via the World Wide Web for the benefit of the whole population, particularly youths aged twelve to eighteen.
4. To evaluate central points in rural areas which are equidistant from small towns, which lack access to the Internet and to provide these areas with Internet connectivity.
5. To encourage the partnership between international users of these data centers using the data center as a communications platform to foster language learning and to encourage cooperation on school projects.
6. To base this international partnership on the livemocha system, a platform that provides language instruction for 38 different languages by partnering people who speak their desired language together.
7. To request funding from the Inter-American Development Bank, The Carribean development Bank, and the Bank of South America.
8. To additionally apply for funding from the Avina Foundation, a Switzerland-based program targeting the Hemisphere by sponsoring potential projects that better communities, and to request that this program be overseen by ITEN.
9. To request the donation of computers from existing governmental programs, the private sector, and the Avina Foundation.
10. To encourage that this database be integrated into national education systems.
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DEVELOPMENT OF MECHANISMS AIMED AT THE INCLUSION OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS IN OAS AND STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL ACTORS AND GOVERNMENTS AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL INTEGRITY
Third Committee Topic 2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY:
COGNIZANT of the 2012 meetings held in Colombia prior to the Sixth Summit of the Americas that sought to engage civil society and social action participation;
CONSIDERING the Declaration of Heads of State and Government of the Third Summit of the Americas, held in Quebec City, which welcomed and valued the contribution of civil society, to their Plan of Action, emphasized that openness and transparency were vital to building public awareness;
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that the media and the government should work together in order to spread awareness about the poverty, inequity, inequality, and other social issues in the Americas;
Acknowledging the existence of The Civil Society Fund directed towards the contribution of civil society organizations;
NOTING the work of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) and the work of the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL);
RESOLVES:
1. To reaffirm the will and commitment of member states and the Organization of American States (OAS) to continue the implementation of mechanisms such as the Summits of the Americas Follow– up system (SISCA) in an attempt to further effectuate mandates handed down in the Summits of the America in order to measure these objectives in a long term, and incentives that effectively garner participation of social actors in activities of the OAS, especially in connection with member states’ political and institutional bodies, in an attempt to further effectuate mandates handed down in the Summits of the Americas.
2. To entrust and work along with the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL) to create public strategies previously accepted by the Member States in the organization, that will include the Civil society in the internal processes of each country.
a. To promote these strategies via television, radio, pamphlets, websites, newspapers, public service announcements, and social media.
3. To urge the Social Development Civil Society Fund (CSF) which is one of the few programs of the World Bank that directly supports the activities of CSOs, to submit a quarterly report on progress in social investment that will serve as a point of comparison between invested money and the standard of living achieved by vulnerable communities that received it.
4. To request member states to petition social actors that do not fund or have any history of funding this Specific Fund to Support the Participation of Civil Society Organizations in OAS Activities and in the Summits of the Americas Process.
5. To instruct the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) with the cooperation of the Partnership for Development Fund (FEMCIDI) to create dialogue, cooperation, exchange of experiences and best practices, and the adaptation of initiatives for use with social actors geared towards public policies and human and institutional capacity-building to support productivity and sustainable economic and social growth.
a. To focus on some of CIDI's main projects and initiatives, such as:
i. Education, by ensuring human rights are learned and demanded by everyone through the education in schools and universities in the taught curriculum
ii. Poverty, by emphasizing the need to reduce poverty by fostering partnerships and linkages between private sector entities and government agencies in order to support development and combat unemployment
b. To cooperate with CITEL to further the education of the mandates of human rights.
6. To request for the strengthening of transparency of the affiliations of social actors between member states and social actors to promote cooperation between all parties mentioned and share effective techniques between social actors in implementing mandates of the Sixth Summit of the Americas.
a. To instruct the General Secretariat to create the Social Actor Summits Integration Review Group (SASIRG) with cooperation of social actors in order to submit reports to the OAS regarding current progress of the implementation of the Mandates of the Sixth Summit by social actor groups.
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STRENGTHEN PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL ACTORS AND GOVERNMENTS THROUGH THE USE OF MICRO LOANS TO SUPPORT ENTRPENEURSHIP
Third Committee Item No. 2 of the agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING that a mandate resulting from the Sixth Summit of the Americas states that: “Information and communication technologies are to be enhanced in the spheres of education, healthcare, innovation, entrepreneurship, productivity, competitiveness and the rise of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises;”
RECOGNIZING that a better portion of the nations in South America and the Caribbean have large numbers of their population living below the poverty line;
BEARING IN MIND that Chapter VII, Article 33 of the Charter of the Organization of American States reads: “Development is a primary responsibility of each country and should constitute an integral and continuous process for the establishment of a more just economic and social order that will make possible and contribute to the fulfillment of the individual;”
NOTING the use of micro loan organizations in partnership with donors’ will aid in the creation of small business. These programs such as: Kiva, World Vision Micro, and Micro Place have been in place for some time and have been proven; and
HAVING SEEN the results of these organizations on third world countries primarily in Africa, one can assume this method of stimulating small business and entrepreneurship could also see success in South American countries,
RESOLVES:
1. To encourage participation, cooperation, and representation through each member country in annual meetings to link social actors and governments and support a mandates of the Sixth Summit of the Americas by discussing the effects and results of these micro loans and mark progress of the programs developmental stage.
2. To request funding from signing nation’s governments to develop, improve, and sustain an OAS endorsed program to incorporate and manage micro loans through specific micro loan organizations throughout Latin American countries to promote entrepreneurship.
3. To ask for sustainable aid and cooperation through various organizations: Kiva, World Vision Micro, and Micro Place. This cooperation entitles one or many of these organizations to meet with OAS members of a new program developed for the promotion, and distribution of entrepreneurship.
4. To request the governments of cooperating nations to encourage citizens who may not initially be involved with the program to attend OAS related meetings through the distribution of information using government sponsored television commercials, posters, pamphlets, and ads.
5. To invite various private micro loan organizations to attend the first OAS entrepreneurship meeting and discuss methods used by a combination of these organizations to set in place to be as efficient as possible.
6. To construct a set of regulations, and requirements for loans to be given and draft a sustainable, supportable, and justifiable constitution stating the purpose of those requirements and organization mandates.
III-08
“MECHANISMS FOR THE USE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY TO BENEFIT THE YOUTH OF THE HEMISPHERE”
Third Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
AWARE that an individual’s education is widely agreed on as the greatest deciding factor for their financial stability and prosperity in life, and that children who lack basic skills after a threshold age, such as literacy, are often unable to receive a meaningful education from traditional schooling that distance education could instead provide;
TAKING NOTE That distance education faces obstacles with universal accreditation, and that the transfer between it and traditional educational systems becomes increasingly difficult at higher levels of education;
COGNIZANT of the fact that distance education, due to its lack of reliance on locational proximity, can create a level of educational homogeneity that overlooks necessary local dialectic and linguistic adjustment;
AWARE that distance learning can alleviate economic hardship via education, and can provide young people in developing countries – particularly, in rural locations - educational opportunities that may have not otherwise been available to them;
BEARING IN MIND that the two most commonly used channels for distance learning – online video course, which broadcast live lectures from traditional classrooms and have recorded lectures for internet-connected students, and web-conference courses, which require scheduled meeting times over the internet in a similar fashion to traditional schooling – can effectively create a level of flexibility that allows students to achieve education they otherwise could not have;
ACKNOWLEDGING that many children of primary and secondary level education age cannot achieve an education through traditional schooling because their families do not have the means to pay for it, they are made to help support their families through work or employment, or they are placed in danger by traveling to or attending schools without a reasonable standard of security;
TAKING NOTE that the Educational Portal of the Americas, created in Resolution CIDI/RES.248, is an already-established and actively utilized tool for connecting students in the Americas with educational opportunities;
RECOGNIZING the relative success of Costa Rica’s Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) and Venezuela’s Universidad Nacional Abierta, two purely distance-education universities established in Latin America in 1977; and understanding that an Open University is one that share its courses online to the public as a free service, and that there are several Open Universities that are successfully running,
RESOLVES:
1. To promote the creation of communications and technological infrastructure for the purpose of providing distance education to those who cannot receive education through conventional means;
2. To allocate funds to create and provide the aforementioned infrastructure through low-interest loans, possibly through the use of micro-loans facilitated by the private sector, to communities and individuals in low-income and often rural areas.
3. To create an associate body to the Educational Portal of Americas that is dedicated to consolidating, and otherwise creating, free and easily accessible primary and secondary level educational tools and resources for youth across the hemisphere;
4. To instruct the aforementioned associate body to look for options for the distribution and creation educational scholarships for high-achieving students by district or region, so as to promote hope and efforts to strive towards receiving a full education through the Educational Portal of Americas’ programs and extensions.
5. To request that online educational courses adapt to address the diversification of types of education, specifically pertaining sensitivity to local dialects and linguistics, as well as emphasis on vocational training in areas where deemed appropriate.
6. To promote the training, education, and exchange of teachers participating in distance education to ensure proper learning techniques and implement standards by:
a) Creating a set of international education standards for primary and secondary education.
b) Recruiting qualified teachers within the Americas, where deemed appropriate based on local linguistic proficiency and cultural sensitivity, to work alongside local teachers.
7. To ensure the involvement of facilitators in distance education, and to emphasize their importance in local roles such as the proctoring of tests and the maintenance of infrastructure.
8. To encourage partnerships between traditional schooling and distance education so as to combine the two modes of and most effectively use all existing educational venues for students, creating an increasingly flexible schedule to meet different demographics' and students' needs.
9. To create a system that matches, introduces, and connects local employers with students who have undergone and demonstrated excellence in relevant educational courses - likely vocational in nature - so as to further incentivize the use of distance-education by simultaneously providing channels for productive work and the child-aided family income streams.
10. To encourage countries to call upon the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for loans, or for donations from other organizations to provide immediate funding for initiatives listed above, so as to ensure that necessary items such as low interest-loans to low-income areas for educational materials and scholarships can be used as soon as possible.
11. To endorse the use of online resources for academic purposes at the university, such as Facebook, Twitter, iTunesU, YouTube, Khan Academy, and Open-Learn.
12. To request further discussion by holding an annual conference involving OAS member states and the private sector, in a meeting like the previously held Second Conference on the Progresses and Challenges in Hemispheric Cooperation, which would discuss the option of creating an International Open University for all OAS member states with the private sector, bearing in mind that the placement of this open university could stimulate economic growth for the region in which it is placed,
13. To maintain a high level of flexibility and feedback integration to improve the effectiveness of the previously-mentioned actions and goals, to be deliberated and acted upon in a bi-annual summit held with OAS members with reports from each country in which the system is active.
14. To continue to research and develop advancing technologies in the distance education field and implement these new ideas, curriculum, and technology in the university as necessary, and to implement needed funding from the aforementioned organizations and donation options.
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MECHANISMS FOR THE USE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION THROUGH
TECHNOLOGY TO BENEFIT THE YOUTH OF THE HEMISPHERE
Third Committee Topic No.1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING that according to the Declaration of Nassau, [AG/DEC. 1 (XXII-O/92)] technology can be a great tool for motivating and engaging students. Brain research shows that if students are engaged, they learn more;
REGARDING solidarity among and cooperation among American states require the development of mechanism those states based on the effective exercise of representative democracy, and
NOTING that in the Declaration of Managua [AG/DEC. 4 (XXII-O/930)] the satisfaction stated on past efforts of helping to boost the knowledge of the youth from various relevant OAS bodies and nongovernmental organizations,
STRESSING the fact that OAS faces significant financial obstacles and is in need of reform, particularly in the educational realm,
RESOLVES:
1. To establish a Distance Education Exchange Commission (DEEC) to share the information and practice of education, which will be a new educational reserve as well as a new technological advancement.
2. To request that DEEC should be comprised of those OAS nations that have internet capabilities.
3. To call upon DEEC member states to appoint a representative to the DEEC by February 1, 2013 in order for TREC to have its first meeting by March 1st 2013.
4. To urge prestigious enterprises such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank to provide financial loans from its budget to the developed countries in OAS to build Wi-Fi in public areas of large populated cities
5. To create an educational website DEEC.edu to be the source of Education and encourages nations in OAS to upload free flow of information in all aspect of education on DEEC.edu
6. To call upon prestigious public universities to become the center of distance education by using the DEEC to provide classes and tests for the students of its region to achieve their degrees
7. To request 5% of the teachers of each subject in these universities to upload their lecture video to , and
8. To suggest that the DEEC be put in charge of the OAS Educational Portal of the Americas and that it be made to envelop all educational organizations available
9. To require OAS nations to request the sponsorship of any soccer celebrities in their country including but not limited to players such as Messi of Argentina, Kaka of Brazil, Forlan of Uruguay and Barrios of Paraguay to make charity ads for DEEC to encourage poor students to study and donate to this cause
III-12
STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL ACTORS AND GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MANDATES OF THE SIXTH SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS
Third Committee Topic No. 2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING:
AG/RES. 2635 (XLI-O/11), “Increasing and Strengthening the Participation of Civil Society and Social Actors in the Activities of the Organization of American States and in the Summits of the Americas Process”;
HAVING SEEN:
The Mandates of the sixth summit of the Americas affecting all aspects of life, social actors are more involved with these areas, and therefore have an opinion on proposed improvements;
Social actors do not have an easy method to talk to the government;
88% of St. Lucians and over 35% of South Americans have access to the internet;
Internet use in the southern hemisphere is constantly rising;
RECOGNIZING:
AG/RES. 2315 (XXXVII-O/07), “Participation of Workers’ Representatives in Activities of the Organization of American States,” a dialogue between the ministers of foreign affairs and workers’ representatives was agreed;
That an internet page can be more widely used and more easily accessible than public meetings or other pre-existing forums;
RESOLVES:
1. To foster a partnership with Facebook that allows anyone to post opinions regarding the status or effectiveness of the implementation of the mandates of the Sixth Summit of the Americas in their respective countries on a Member State “page” to government Officials.
i. To give social actors a voice to the government by encouraging the communication between the representatives and social actors.
ii. To encourage the use of social networking tools such as re-posting, commenting on posts, or “liking” posts to show degree of public support or dissent.
2. To require government officials to regularly review the page, and read the ‘top comments’.
i. To enable government workers to acknowledge opinions of social actors and have the opportunity to address and comment on the opinions of the social actors.
3. To allow the possibility for increased direct interactions between social actors and the government through the regular use of this forum by both parties.
4. To create an “American States” section as part of each state’s page to provide the opportunity for international discussion among social actors about the general concerns of the implementation process.
i. To promote international cooperation to be demonstrated by the social actors that would then have to be considered and reflected in the mandates of the Summit of the Americas.
5. To introduce this cost-free program for a trial time of twelve months.
i. At the end of twelve months, the program’s effectiveness will be evaluated by a mail-in survey of social actors in all Member States, including those without internet access, to review the degree of implementation of the mandates of the Sixth Summit of the Americas.
ii. If this program is found to be popularly effective, the OAS will consider allocating funds to provide internet access to more rural areas to make the implementation of mandates even more effective.
31st MODEL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
November 28th - December 1st, 2012
BOOK OF RESOLUTIONS
FOURTH COMMITTEE
IV-01
CORPORATE SUPPORT FOR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL PROGAMS THROUGH AN ENHANCED OAS MULTILATRAL PROJECT ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Fourth Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the final report of the October 2012 “American Competitiveness Forum” that was held in Santo Domingo through the sponsorship of the Inter-American Competitiveness Network (RIAC);
RECOGNIZING that the aforementioned Report produced by the Competitiveness and Innovational Authorities and Councils of the Americas placed an emphasis on the cooperation between the public sector, private enterprise, and academic entities in order to stimulate job growth with the new world economy;
NOTING that the Consensus of Santo Domingo from the October 2012 RIAC Meeting highlighted the need for the establishment of effective institutions responsible for promoting competitiveness through public-private partnerships in order to address the short-term and long-term competitiveness issues;
NOTING the 79th Regular Session of the Committee, held at its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and its 80th Regular Session, held in Mexico City, Mexico, where resolutions on education programs were discussed, specifically on the types of companies that can utilize partnership initiatives between the public sector, private companies, and academia;
NOTING WITH CONCERN the fact that the growth of the international economy is slow and in need of revitalization through public-private partnerships that stimulate growth;
CONSIDERING the Northern European Apprenticeship and Manufacturing Model of establishing joint partnerships between corporations and community colleges that receive public support through grants in order to train workers for advanced manufacturing to fill the multiple jobs in major corporations such as Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen by working with local community colleges over the course of three years for future jobs generation;
FURTHER RECOGNIZING that the OAS Multilateral Project on Technical Education and Vocational Training (MPTEVT) is in need of enhancement and revitalization through a renewed source of funding for its programmatic goals and objectives;
EMPHASIZING that corporate support for goals of the OAS can provide a mutually beneficial effect and the development of joint strategies in key areas of economic and social development; and
TAKING NOTE of the Second Inter-American Dialogue of High Level Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Authorities (MSMEs) held in September 2012 which addressed the need for “Public Policies to Enhance the Competitiveness, Innovation, Internationalization of MSMEs” and which offered the opportunity to create a space for dialogue between the public and private sectors in the region,
RESOLVES:
1. To congratulate the efforts the members states to work with RIAC and full their participation in the American Competitiveness Forum in furthering the objectives of private sector cooperation with public entities as a mechanism for fueling growth and development.
2. To underscore the importance for existing initiatives such as MPTEVT that will expand skill acquisition for secondary school graduates so that they will receive necessary training in order to work in advanced manufacturing that requires technological abilities involving computers and software.
3. To further suggest that member states craft public policies under the framework of RIAC with the assistance of the Inter-American Committee on Education and the MPTEVT that will prepare their workforces for the jobs of the twenty-first century that will require advanced technical training.
4. To have the Secretariat for External Relations work with corporate entities in order to seek corporate support for MPTEVT education programs within member states that are designed on a model of partnership between public, private, and academic entities working in conjunction to maximize worker training.
5. To have the Secretariat for External Relations work with RIAC in order to maximize corporate involvement at the next annual “American Competitiveness Forum” in order to establish an agenda for discussion of corporate support for the enhancement of MPTEVT that will attract private sector funding and educational partnership programs with local educational institutions.
6. To request that the Secretary General direct the Secretariat for External Relations to galvanize corporate support for educational and training partnership programs throughout the Americas based on the successful Northern European Apprenticeship and Training Model.
7. To congratulate the previous efforts undertaken by the MPTEVT and the community colleges and technical schools throughout the hemisphere for working jointly to create jobs for the previously undereducated and unskilled citizens who are seeking employment in the advanced manufacture sector
8. To seek corporate support for MPTEVT initiatives that encourage the establishment of joint co-op programs within community colleges where businesses will employ and pay the tuition of the workers to receive training in their specified fields.
9. To highlight the need for member states to enact tax initiatives that are directly linked to job-generating activities as emphasized that the annual 2012 meeting of the Inter-American Competitiveness Network.
10. To work under RIAC to seek the enactment of a certification system within the member states similar to the “Free Trade USA” that awards small and medium enterprises for maintaining certain standards, specifically for educational and vocational training.
11. To further suggest that the MSME Annual Meetings would serve as an additional forum for the aforementioned certification system that would fall under the appropriate entity of the OAS and would receive funding from certification fees paid by corporate and business entities, relative to company size and productivity, seeking standard certification.
IV-02
NEW SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR GREEN TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES THAT RECEIVE CORPORATE SUPPORT THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Fourth Committee Topic No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING the 2012 World Bank Report on “Inclusion Green Growth: The Pathway to Sustainable Development” that found that that green technology and sustainable development create jobs, save money, and thus help the state economies as well as the private sector and corporate funders of the OAS as they receive mutual benefits from flourishing economies;
RECALLING that in the Regional Sustainable Energy Workshops for Energy and Educator Stakeholders in the Caribbean in September 2012, official delegates from, the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti and others showed their support in collaborating with the Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC) to “accelerate the transition toward cleaner and more sustainable energy in Caribbean countries”;
NOTING the Sustainable Energy Access for the Latin America- Caribbean Region of the Sixth Summit of the Americas Initiative that called for “an improvement in the capacity for energy planning and regulation across the countries in the region and for the reinforcement of corporate social responsibility in the energy sector through cooperation between national governments and the private sector”;
RECOGNIZING AG/RES. 2687 (XLI-O/11) which highlighted “regional workshops and roundtable dialogues on corporate social responsibility organized by Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI) of the Organization of American States (OAS), including the additional workshop, “Tools for Achieving an Environmentally Responsible Business Management: From Diagnosis to Evaluation”, and the roundtable discussion “The Role of Various Stakeholders in Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility” held, respectively, in Lima, Peru, on June 4, 2010, and in Santiago, Chile, on July 27 and 28, 2010;
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development, Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Bolivia December 7-8 1996;
HAVING SEEN the American Competitiveness Forum on October 26, 2012 where participants from the Member States put their energies behind the dynamic interaction between the principal actors –the public, private and academic- in order to find the space needed and to create the essential synergies for creating competitiveness and innovation for prosperity”; and
OBSERVING the Secretariat for External Relations that “establishes and develops ties with the private sector in order to foster strategic partnerships in the Organization’s activities and projects”; and
RESOLVES:
1. To continue to gain corporate support for the Special Multilateral Fund for Small Economies of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development in the area of sustainability and climate change in the Caribbean and Central America, specifically the Risk Management and Adaptation to Climate Change (RISK-MACC) where developing countries are at-risk for rising sea levels.
2. To promote “green” technology as an industry through green initiatives promoted by the Department of Sustainable Development and that receive funding from FEMCIDI.
3. To request that the appropriate government entities within member states encourage corporate social responsibility in promoting and funding the initiatives from the Department of Sustainable Development that simultaneously boost the economies and promote environmental security of for the member states.
4. To recognize the importance of ReefFix, an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Ecosystem Services Valuation and Capacity Building Project for the Caribbean that will provide an additional avenue for corporate involvement in funding projects related to sustainable development of coastal resources.
5. To underscore the success of public-private partnerships in conjunction with sustainable development building in order to generate job growth through green technology initiatives.
6. To further recognize the “Pathways to Prosperity” from Fifth Ministerial Meeting of Ministers for Trade which outlined the need for the dynamic interplay between corporate, governmental, and public actors on behalf of environmental decision-making.
7. To develop partnerships between the Department for Sustainable Development and the corporate sector located within Member States and Permanent Observers whocj would have a mutual interest in the promotion of green technology that generated job growth and prosperity while simultaneously supporting environmental goals.
8. To reaffirm that the OAS should find and develop Specific Funds designated for development programs under the Department of Sustainable Development.
IV-03
PARTNERING WITH E-COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES AS A MEANS TO REDUCE EXPENDITURES AND INCREASE PARTICIPATION IN THE MOAS PROGRAM
Fourth Committee Topic No. 2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING:
The Department for Internal Affairs’ “Model OAS General Assembly Instructions and Proceedings for Participation”, which states that the program is “designed to promote democracy among the youth of the Hemisphere and serve as a vehicle for disseminating knowledge about the mission, role and structure of the OAS;” and
RECOGNIZING:
The need to find new sources of funding to sustain the MOAS program, through partnership with external corporations or donors;
The wide social reach of major e-communications corporations, such as Google, and their frequent partnership with educational programs similar in mission to the MOAS;
The advantages of using free cloud computing technologies to complement existing means of communication in the program, to increase communication and collaboration between delegations;
The availability of free computer-to-computer conferencing systems, such as Google Hangout, which provides free video chat for up to 10 computers, or livestreams, which can broadcast an event to a wide audience across the globe. These systems can provide a face-to-face meeting experience without an expense for students, schools, or the Secretariat for External Relations;
RESOLVES:
1. To thank the MOAS program for its tireless work on the promotion of democratic values and leadership among the youth and educational institutions of the Americas.
2. To applaud the work of the Secretariat for External Relations in reducing expenditures of the program, while recognizing the need to further decrease spending through corporate partnership.
3. To contact major e-communication corporations and companies, such as Google, to investigate possibilities of partnership with the MOAS program for future years.
a. To share with these corporations the significant role the MOAS program plays in the Hemisphere, as a means to promote democratic values and education among the youth of the Americas.
b. To inquire whether such corporations would be interested in partnering with the MOAS, to contribute funds for maintaining and further developing the program, which would help the MOAS to broaden its reach to more eager students, while benefiting the company’s public image.
4. To investigate the use of Google’s wide variety of e-communications technologies and services, as a way to further improve public outreach and participation in the program.
a. To explore the possibility of allowing schools and delegations limited by registration, transportation, and lodging costs, who are still interested in participating in the program, to “send” delegates to committee meetings by using free computer-to-computer conferencing systems, such as Google Hangout.
b. To investigate the use of YouTube, one of Google’s websites, as a means to publish or livestream committee meetings and events from the MOAS program to a broad audience.
5. To advocate the use of such corporation’s available e-communication technologies, such as Google Hangout or GoogleDocs, to MOAS club supervisors and leaders, as tools to increase collaboration within and between MOAS school clubs, complementing existing paths of communication for the program, including the Virtual Platform and email.
IV-06
ADOPTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES AS A MEANS TO REDUCE EXPENDITURES IN PERSONNEL, COMMUNICATIONS, TRAVEL AND FACILITIES WITHIN THE OAS GENERAL SECRETARIAT
Fourth Committee Item No. 2 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
NOTING that OAS Member States and Permanent Observer nations have continued to fund the OAS programs despite financial shortcomings;
EMPHASIZING the need for establishing a consistent financial funding base for the OAS;
UNDERSCORING the need for the implementation of new technologies to reduce operational costs; and
REAFFIRMING the need to stimulate investment in the programs of the OAS;
RECOGNIZING that:
67.5% of the OAS budget is spent on personnel;
1,000 meetings are held each year and about 32.5% of the OAS’s budgetary costs can be saved each time the OAS uses videoconferencing rather than holding face-to-face meetings; [1]
RESOLVES:
1. To cut down the General Secretariat’s personnel costs by creating a program within the human resources office that will encourage retired OAS staff members to donate their time and expertise to help current OAS members on either a voluntary or part-time project-to-project basis.
2. To hire new qualified part-time staff members on a project-to-project basis.
3. To create an online forum to share experiences, ideas and most importantly any analysis available that any delegation or invited party has experienced when adopting new technology.
4. To begin a program to encourage delegates to use videoconferencing by rewarding delegates who use video conferencing with 25% monetary bonus of the total cost of their trip as long as:
a. All members confirmed the meeting was switched, and
b. A consensus on how the meeting would take place was reached,
In order to:
i. Save the OAS travel expenses,
ii. Reduce the emissions of the OAS, and
iii. Begin to takes steps in switching a good majority of face-to-face meetings with video conferences.
5. To set up a secure video conferencing service designed solely for OAS use.
6. To contract with external companies to outsource server capacity to cut costs, such as , Microsoft, or .
7. To establish regional groups comprised of neighboring countries that will decrease the number of times that all OAS Member States need to meet (eliminating all face-to-face meetings will cause a :
i. Utilize voice conferencing technology, and
ii. Discuss issues concerning their region and will create in order to decrease the number of times necessary for travel.
8. To push for transparency within the OAS in order to allow the public to check the usage of OAS funds.
9. To decrease the cost on personnel by implementing Nuance’s voice recognition technology, specifically the voice-to-text functionality in a very undisruptive way: the OAS will start integrating the use of voice recognition technology into general procedure and once the current scribes decide to retire, the Nuance’s technology will replace the need to hire new scribes.
10. To create an initiative within the OAS office of Human Resources that will:
i. Seek out possible technologies that can replace OAS personnel without altering the productivity or integrity of the OAS, and
ii. Integrate any new technology deemed appropriate and in the same undisruptive way that resolve number nine.
IV-07
“FUNDING OAS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS THROUGH THE CREATION OF ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN THE AMERICAN COUNTRIES”
Fourth Committee Item No. 1 of the Agenda
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
WELCOMING any country within the OAS council who wants to participate in the creation of bonds within our nations to reinforce the funds for the OAS developing programs;
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that before we can implement any new strategy for funding OAS development programs we need to reinforce all of the American Nations economies;
NOTING the results of the contributions from permanent observers in 2011;
BEARING IN MIND that we can do International Banquets and many more activities to raise funds for the OAS development programs;
RESOLVES:
1. To encourage the citizens of the various American countries to spend more money buying products so then the country’s economy where they live in will achieve a better money flow. Then a tax will be created to support the OAS development programs.
a. This plan will have duration of approximately five years, where the countries will have a chance to lower down their national debt and create this new tax to give funds to the OAS.
2. To create the Fundraising Organization of the Americas (FOA)
a. The FOA will have the only purpose of collecting money by donations or events to support totally the OAS development Programs where all the nations are going to be benefited.
b. This organization will get its money by doing Fundraisings such as International Banquets where many companies are invited to participate and donate, also the FOA will do events such as marathons in every country, the same day in where the participants may donate the quantity of money they want so the can participate in the marathon or any other event to collect money for this purposes.
3. To request all the observer countries to consider donating some funds to the recently created Fundraising Organization of the Americas (FOA) to support the OAS development programs.
4. To create International Non-Profit governmental organizations like UNICEF where all its revenue will go to support the developing programs which will go directly to support the OAS general fund.
a. This organization will also cooperate with the newly created FOA.
ANNEX 1
31st MOAS FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
SPONSORS OF ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS
|General Committee |
|No |Title of the resolution |Country |School |
|GC-1 |Promotion of democratic values through the celebration of a |Barbados |St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes (VA) |
| |“national day for the promotion of democratic values | | |
| | |Costa Rica |International Youth Dynamics |
| | | |Foundation (MD) |
| | |Dominican Rep. |Midland Senior High School (TX) |
| | |Mexico |Robert E. Lee High School (TX) |
| | |Nicaragua |Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) |
| | |Suriname |The Madeira School (VA) |
| | |Venezuela |St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes (VA) |
|GC-2 |Utilizing social media and establishing single sex schools as a|Bahamas |Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) |
| |mechanism for creating equality for women | | |
| | |Canada |Woodstock Day School (NY) |
| | |Colombia |Washington International School |
| | | |(DC) |
| | |Haiti |Trinity School of Midland (TX) |
|GC-3 |Promotion of democratic values among the youth of the Americas |Guatemala |Mercy High School (MD) |
| |through the use of social media and other websites | | |
|GC-4 |Promoting democratic values among the youth of the Hemisphere |Bolivia |Royal School (Colombia) |
| | |Honduras |Saint John’s High School (PR) |
| | |Peru |Karl C. Parrish High School |
| | | |(Colombia) |
| | |Saint Lucia |Wilmington Friends High School (DE)|
|GC-5 |Cooperation with MSME investment and enterprise support to |Brazil |Connelly School of the Holy Child |
| |enfranchise women entrepreneurs in the Hemisphere | |(MD) |
|GC-6 |Strengthening the economic and social status of women |Trinidad and Tobago |Washington International School |
| | | |(DC) |
|First Committee |
|No |Title of the resolution |Country |School |
|I-1 |The use of information and communication technologies to |El Salvador |Wilmington Friends High School (DE)|
| |increase political participation in the Americas | | |
| | |Uruguay |Pan American Student Forum (TX) |
|I-2 |Increase of civilian political participation through the use of|Honduras |Saint John’s School (PR) |
| |modern technologies and communications and the bolstering of | | |
| |public access broadcast channels | | |
| | |Nicaragua |Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) |
| | |Suriname |The Madeira School (VA) |
| | |United States |Midland Senior High School (TX) |
|I-4 |The use of information and communication technologies to |Argentina |The Bullis School (MD) |
| |increase political participation in the Americas | | |
| | |Bahamas |Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) |
| | |Barbados |St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School |
| | | |(VA) |
| | |Paraguay |The Bullis School (MD) |
|I-5 |Promotion of communication technologies to increase women |Guatemala |Mercy High School (MD) |
| |political participation | | |
| | |Mexico |Robert E. Lee High School (TX) |
|I-9 |Promote hemispheric legal cooperation to protect intellectual |Haiti |Trinity School of Midland (TX) |
| |property and copyright material while preserving freedom of | | |
| |expression on the internet | | |
| | |Saint Lucia |Wilmington Friends High School (DE)|
| | |Venezuela |St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School |
| | | |(VA) |
|I-10 |Hemispheric legal cooperation to protect intellectual property |Paraguay |The Bullis School (MD) |
| |and copyright material while preserving freedom of expression | | |
| |on the internet | | |
|I-11 |Methods to use information and communication technologies to |Bolivia |Royal School (Colombia) |
| |increase political participation in the Americas | | |
| | |Canada |Woodstock Day School (NY) |
| | |Colombia |Washington International School |
| | | |(DC) |
| | |Costa Rica |International Youth Dynamics |
| | | |Foundation (MD) |
| | |Dominican Rep. |Midland Senior High School (TX) |
| | |Trinidad and Tobago |Washington International School |
| | | |(DC) |
|No |Title of the resolution |Country |School |
|I-12 |The use of information and communication technologies to |Peru |Karl C. Parrish School (Colombia) |
| |increase political participation in Americas | | |
| | | | |
|Second Committee |
|No |Title of the resolution |Country |School |
|II-1 |Support from Member States to strengthen school awareness |Bahamas |Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) |
| |programs and combat drug use among the youth throughout the | | |
| |Hemisphere | | |
| | |Mexico |Robert E. Lee High School (TX) |
| | |Nicaragua |Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) |
| | |Uruguay |Pan American Student Forum (TX) |
|II-2 |The promotion of crime prevention programs through education |Bolivia |Royal School (Colombia) |
| |for the youth in the Americas | | |
| | |Guatemala |Mercy High School (MD) |
| | |Honduras |Saint John’s School (PR) |
| | |Venezuela |St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School |
| | | |(VA) |
|II-4 |Towards the eradication of drug addiction and drug-based crime |Peru |Karl C. Parrish School (Colombia) |
|II-5 |The establishment of drug education courses and programs in the|Barbados |St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School |
| |Americas | |(VA) |
| | |Canada |Woodstock Day School (NY) |
| | |Suriname |The Madeira School (VA) |
| | |United States |Midland Senior High School (TX) |
|II-6 |Initiatives to promote crime prevention programs among the |Brazil |Connelly School of the Holy Child |
| |youth in the Americas by encouraging participation in youth | |(MD) |
| |clubs | | |
| | |El Salvador |Wilmington Friends School (DE) |
| | |Saint Lucia |Wilmington Friends School (DE) |
|II-7 |Suggestions of the initiatives needing to be put in place by |Argentina |The Bullis School (MD) |
| |Member OAS States to secure a safe and crime free future for | | |
| |citizen of the Americas | | |
| | | | |
|Third Committee |
|No |Title of the resolution |Country |School |
|III-1 |Promotion of long distance education through the assistance of |Bahamas |Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) |
| |the Inter-American committee on education and the Educational | | |
| |Portal | | |
| | |United States |Midland Senior High School (TX) |
|No |Title of the resolution |Country |School |
|III-2 |Strengthening partnerships between social actors, and |Honduras |Saint John’s School (PR) |
| |governments to support the implementation of the mandates of | | |
| |the Sixth Summit of the Americas | | |
|III-3 |Hemispherical cooperation on the creation of methods and |Canada |Woodstock Day School (NY) |
| |mechanisms for distance education resources | | |
| | |El Salvador |Wilmington Friends High School (DE)|
| | |Peru |Karl C. Parrish School (Colombia) |
|III-5 |Development of mechanisms aimed at the inclusion of civil |Bolivia |Royal School (Colombia) |
| |society organizations in OAS and strengthening partnerships | | |
| |between social actors and governments as a tool for social | | |
| |integrity | | |
| | |Mexico |Robert E. Lee High School (TX) |
| | |Nicaragua |Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) |
| | |Uruguay |Pan American Student Forum (TX) |
|III-6 |Strengthen partnerships between social actors and governments |Haiti |Trinity School of Midland (TX) |
| |through the use of micro loans to support entrepreneurship | | |
|III-9 |Mechanisms for the use of distance education through technology|Suriname |The Madeira School (VA) |
| |to benefit the youth of the Hemisphere | | |
|III-10 |Mechanisms for the use of distance education through technology|Argentina |The Bullis School (MD) |
| |to benefit the youth of the Hemisphere | | |
| | |Paraguay | |
|III-12 |Strengthening partnerships between social actors and government|Saint Lucia |Wilmington Friends High School (DE)|
| |to support the implementation of the mandates of the Sixth | | |
| |Summit of the Americas | | |
| | | | |
|Fourth Committee |
|No |Title of the resolution |Country |School |
|IV-1 |Corporate support for post-secondary educational programs |Honduras |Saint John’s School (PR) |
| |through an enhanced OAS multilateral project on technical | | |
| |education and vocational training | | |
| | |Nicaragua |Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) |
|IV-2 |New sources of funding for green technology initiatives that |Bahamas |Georgetown Preparatory School (MD) |
| |receive corporate support through the Department of Sustainable| | |
| |Development | | |
| | |Bolivia |Royal School (Colombia) |
|IV-3 |Partnering with e-communication technology companies as a means|Saint Lucia |Wilmington Friends High School, DE |
| |to reduce expenditures and increase participation in the MOAS | | |
| |Program | | |
|No |Title of the resolution |Country |School |
|IV-6 |Adopting new technologies as a means to reduce expenditures in |Argentina |The Bullis School (MD) |
| |personnel, communications, travel and facilities within the OAS| | |
| |General Secretariat | | |
| | |Barbados |St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School |
| | | |(VA) |
| | |Colombia |Washington International School |
| | | |(DC) |
| | |Costa Rica |International Youth Dynamics |
| | | |Foundation (MD) |
| | |El Salvador |Wilmington Friends High School (DE)|
| | |Mexico |Robert E. Lee High School (TX) |
| | |Peru |Karl C. Parrish School (Colombia) |
| | |Saint Lucia |Wilmington Friends High School (DE)|
| | |United States |Midland Senior High School (TX) |
|IV-7 |Funding OAS development programs through the creation of |Peru |Karl C. Parrish School (Colombia) |
| |associations between the American countries | | |
ANNEX 2
|31st MOAS FOR HIGH SCHOOLS - 2012 |
|COUNTRY ASSIGNMENT |
|No. |COUNTRIES | ASSIGNED SCHOOLS |
|1 |ARGENTINA |The Bullis School (2) - Maryland |
| | |Faculty: Lisa Vardi |
|2 |BAHAMAS |Georgetown Preparatory School (2) - Maryland |
| | |Faculty: Rosita Whitman |
|3 |BARBADOS |St. Stephen & St. Agnes School (2) - Virginia |
| | |Faculty: Keith Mills; Andrea Olatunji |
|4 |BOLIVIA |Royal School - Barranquilla, Colombia |
| | |Faculty: Aurora de Güete; Edgar Fuentes |
|5 |BRAZIL |Connelly School of the Holy Child - Maryland |
| | |Faculty: Barbara Meyer; Adam Lewin |
|6 |CANADA |Woodstock Day School - New York |
| | |Faculty: Rebecca Federspiel |
|7 |COLOMBIA |Washington International School - Washington, DC |
| | |Faculty: Zevi Mehlman |
|8 |COSTA RICA |International Youth Dynamics Foundation - Maryland |
| | |Faculty: Hugo Escobar |
|9 |DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |Midland Senior High School (2) - Texas |
| | |Faculty: Christopher Hightower |
|10 |EL SALVADOR |Wilmington Friends School - Delaware |
| | |Faculty: Javier Ergueta |
|11 |GUATEMALA |Mercy High School - Maryland |
| | |Faculty: Jessica Robinson |
|12 |HAITI |Trinity School of Midland - Texas |
| | |Faculty: Doris Cooper |
|13 |HONDURAS |Saint John's High School - Puerto Rico |
| | |Faculty: Marina Suárez; Mercedes Higuera |
|14 |MEXICO |Robert E. Lee High School - Texas |
| | |Faculty: Christina Ortez; Cinthya Wiebusch |
|15 |NICARAGUA |Georgetown Preparatory School - Maryland |
| | |Faculty: Rosita Whitman |
|16 |PARAGUAY |The Bullis School - Maryland |
| | |Faculty: Lisa Vardi |
|17 |PERU |Karl C. Parrish School - Barranquilla, Colombia |
| | |Faculty: Maria del Pilar Castro; Erika Perez |
|No. |COUNTRIES |ASSIGNED SCHOOLS |
|18 |SAINT LUCIA |Wilmington Friends School (2) - Delaware |
| | |Faculty: Javier Ergueta |
|19 |SURINAME |The Madeira School - Virginia |
| | |Faculty: Mary Georgis; Krystle Merchant |
|20 |TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO |Washington International School (2)- Washington, DC |
| | |Faculty: Zevi Mehlman |
|21 |UNITED STATES |Midland Senior High School - Texas |
| | |Faculty: Christopher Hightower |
|22 |URUGUAY |Pan American Student Forum of Texas - Texas |
| | |Faculty: Amanda Cortez; Erik Buchanan; Belda Martínez |
|23 |VENEZUELA |St. Stephen & St. Agnes School - Virginia |
| | |Faculty: Keith Mills; Andrea Olatunji |
| | |
| |MOAS COMMUNICATIONS CENTER |Springfield Township High School - Pennsylvania |
| | |Faculty: Tom Mullaney |
| |COMMITTEE SECRETARIES |Midland Senior High School - Texas |
| | |Faculty: Christopher Hightower |
| |MOAS GENERAL SECRETARIAT |Georgetown Preparatory School - Maryland |
| | |Faculty: Rosita Whitman |
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[1] CP/CAAP-3147/11 rev. 19 May and June 2012’s budgetary costs for one-day meetings ($18,685)
and the Guide to Holding Eco-Friendly Conferences and Meetings (2011) that stated that the OAS saved $248,747 USD b[pic]*+7;=FGRTacyòãÔ¶¤?¤~¤~j~¤VAVAV)hŒk*hÅiôCJH*[pic]OJQJ\?]?^JaJ&hŒk*hÅiôCJOJQJ\?]etween January and August 2010 by holding 41 videoconferences and that the OAS holds about 1,000 meetings each year
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31ST MOAS/HS
1 December 2012
Original: English
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