Model+United+Nations

Model United Nations

The flag contains an image of the world because the group is working to improve the world--working together to make a better nation. The olive brand surrounds the world because they usually represent peace. That's what the nation is working towards. The color is blue because it's calming and peaceful.
 * Analysis of UN Flag:**


 * 1) **When & Why the United Nations was created?**
 * 2) **What is the mission of the United Nations?**
 * 3) **How did the United Nations hope to avoid the problems encountered by the League of Nations?**
 * 4) **What the 6 principle organs of the UN & how do they function? **


 * 1) The United Nations was officially established on October 24, 1945 by President Franklin Roosevelt to bring all nations of the world together to work for peace and development based on the principles of justifce, human dignity, and the well-being of all people.
 * 2) The mission of the United Nations was:
 * to keep peace throughout the world;
 * to develop friendly relations among nations;
 * to help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, conquer hunger, disease, and illiteracy, and encourage respect for each others' rights and freedoms;
 * to be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals.
 * 1) The United Nations tried to settle problems by having conferences and giving their opinions on what should be done to improve the situation.
 * 2) The 6 principle organs (main bodies):
 * The **General Assembly (UNGA):** the main assembly consisting of all member states
 * The **Security Council (UNSC): **Responsible for international peace and security issues, it has five permanent members (US, Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union) and other rotating members
 * The **Economic and Social Council:** handles economic and social projects
 * The **Trusteeship Council**: This supervises UN trust territories -- former colonies which have yet to become independent
 * The **International Court of Justice:** Settles international disputes
 * The **Secretariat:** The administrative branch of the UN



<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I didn’t expect any of what she said. In my head I created a completely unfair and unequal scenario where the women hated what was happening to them. I believed that the women truly wanted gender equality and felt strongly about it. But in reality, the Saudi women chose their life style. Like she said, she had graduated with her friends who chose to stay home and take care of their family rather than to work. The women definitely didn’t react the way I expected. She seemed content. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But I still think that they need to have gender equality. It’s just so difficult the way they’re living. The whole house is based on which part is for men, and which part is for women.
 * Video Reflection:**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Women can’t drive
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can’t leave their house w/o the burqa
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have to be in a different part of the house if men were over
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Need to wear the burqa around men at all times

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See, my question here is... How do the women fall in love with their husbands? They can’t show their face...

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But I was surprised to learn that women, regardless of the fact that they wear burqa’s all the time, are quite knowledgeable about fashion.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">RESEARCH **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Case Study: Saudi Police Stopped Fire Rescue": **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Islam Review: WOMEN ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR RAPES **

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I believe that it's understandable for the men to have uncontrollable sexual urges. Yes, I agree that it's a smart idea to have the women cover themselves up. But it's extreme to let the women do all the work in covering their whole entire body JUST BECAUSE the men have these "uncontrollable" urges. **Why can't the men learn to control themselves?** It's unfair that the women are doing all the work. Sure, the women can cover up. But they really wouldn't need to if the men didn't have these desires. So technically, it's still their fault... //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the moral code and religious law of Islam. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">" Sharia deals with many topics addressed by secular law, including [|crime], [|politics] and [|economics], as well as personal matters such as [|sexual intercourse], [|hygiene], [|diet], [|prayer], and [|fasting]. Though interpretations of sharia vary between cultures, in its strictest definition it is considered the infallible law of [|God]—as opposed to the human interpretation of the law" - []
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sharia Law //**

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YEMEN [|UN Republic of Yemen]

"<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">The analysis contained in the Common Country Assessment (CCA) 2005 has identified the following four underlying reasons for the poor outcome of development interventions in Yemen:
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Lack of transparency and participation;
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">**Disempowerment of women** and children;
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Inequitable and unsustainable use of water resources; and
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">Jobless growth, in the face of rising population."

[|Human Rights of Yemenian Women]
"In spite of the Yemeni Constitution of 1994, which stipulates equal rights for Yemeni citizens, women are still struggling with various constraints and secondary status. Yemen's Personal Status Law in particular, which covers matters of marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance, gives women fewer rights than men, excludes women from decision making, and deprives them of access to, and control over, resources and assets. The right to divorce is not given to women equally. It is far more difficult for a woman to divorce a man. A man may divorce a woman at will. While a man may divorce without justifying his action in court, a woman must present adequate justification. Women face many practical, social, and financial negative considerations in divorce procedure. [|[4]] One significant case to gain worldwide publicity was that of 10 year old [|Nujood Ali], who succeeded in obtaining a divorce at age ten, [|[5]][|[6]] with the help of a prominent female Yemeni lawyer who agreed to represent her. [|[7]] Yemen has one of the worst records of child marriage in the world, with UNICEF recording in 2005 that 48.4% of Yemeni women currently aged 20–24 had been married before they were 18 (and 14% before the age of 15). [|[8]] Prior to the unification of Yemen in 1990, the law set the minimum age of marriage at 16 in South Yemen and 15 in the north. After unification, the law was set at 15. In 1999, the civil status law was amended and the minimum age was abolished. From April 2010, a controversial new law set the minimum age for marriage at 17. The bill was actively opposed by conservative parliamentarians on the basis that fixing a minimum age of marriage contradicts Islam. Other factors contributing to child marriage include embedded cultural traditions, economic pressures on girls' parents, and the value placed on young girls' virginity and consequent desire to protect them from sexual relationships outside of marriage. [|[9]] Other potential factors include older husbands' desire for young, submissive wives, and the belief that young girls are less likely to be carriers of HIV and AIDS. The dangers of early marriage to girls include the increased health risks associated with early pregnancies, social isolation, an increased risk of exposure to domestic violence and a cutting short of girls' education, further contributing to the 'feminisation of poverty'. [|[10]][|[11]] Women's access to maternal health care is severely restricted. In most cases, husbands decide women's fertility. It is hard for women to obtain contraception, or to take operation for treatment without a husband's permission. Yemen's high child mortality rate and the fourth fastest growing population in the world are attributed to a lack of women's decision-making in their pregnancy and access to healthcare services. [|[12]] Women are vulnerable to sexual assault by prison guards, and there is a lower, if any, punishment for violence against women than men. [|[3]] The law stipulates protection women from domestic violence, but in fact there are few protections for women who suffer from domestic violence and no systematic investigation of such occurrences has been conducted. Spousal abuse or domestic violence is not generally reported to the police because of social norms and customs, meaning that women remain silent under these abuses. [|[13]] "