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2008 Washington ModelOrganization of American States General Assembly

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ESTABLISH A COMMITTEE FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF ESSENTIAL MEDICINESLISTS TO ACHIEVE GREATER ACCESS TO MEDICINES IN THE HEMISPHERE

First Committee Topic No. 1 of the AgendaDraft Resolution presented by the Delegation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN:

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (1948) which concludes that“everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of hisfamily, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right tosecurity in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack oflivelihood in circumstances beyond his control”;

The Declaration of Alma-Ata (USSR, September 1978) the International Conference on PrimaryHealth Care, which strongly reaffirms that “the attainment of the highest possible level of health is a mostimportant world-wide social goal whose realization requires the action of many other social and economicsectors in addition to the health sector”;

Amendment VIII of the Declaration of Alma-Ata (USSR, September 1978), that contends that“all governments should formulate national policies, strategies and plans of actions to launch and sustainprimary healthcare as part of a comprehensive national health system and in coordination with othersectors”;

Section 15.C.a of the Medicines and Related Substances Control Amendment Act (Republic ofSouth Africa, December 1997) which upholds that “no Member shall have a direct or indirect interest inthe affairs of the appellant or respondent.”;

(WT/MIN(01)/DEC/2) the Declaration on the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects ofIntellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and Public Health, that instructs the council for TRIPS in paragraphsix “to find an expeditious solution to the problem of the difficulties of the World Trade Organization(WTO) Members with insufficient or no manufacturing capacities in the pharmaceutical sector”;

(WT/L/540) Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration (December 2005) on the Agreement on TRIPSwhich addresses deficient pharmaceutical manufacturing capacities says that “Members recognize thedesirability of promoting the transfer of technology and capacity building in the pharmaceutical sector inorder to overcome the problem faced by Members with insufficient or no manufacturing capacities in thepharmaceutical sector. To this end, eligible importing Members and exporting Member are encouraged touse the system in a way which would promote this objective.”;

The provision of Article 31 of TRIPS agreement (Doha 2005) states that any compulsorylicenses granted by any exporting country shall be “predominantly for the supply of the domestic marketof the Member”;

Paragraph 5 under provision (b) of the Doha Declaration (Doha 2005) which reads “each Memberhas the right to grant compulsory licenses and the freedom to determine the grounds upon which suchlicenses are granted”; and

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CONSIDERING:

That the globalized trading market leads to detrimental implications for the access to medicines inthe region, and without that access to healthcare and medicines, an environment where democracy cannotthrive;

The Organization of American States (OAS) as an organization committed to the advancement ofhuman rights and the promotion of democratic leadership, cannot remain idle in the face of inequities ofmodern trade agreements that further catalyze the profits of corporations at the expense of citizens ofdeveloping countries;

That, to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO)has proposed a target to halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015;

That as a step towards developing a global partnership for development, the WHO willcollaborate with pharmaceutical companies to provide access to affordable essential drugs in genericforms to developing countries;

That the overprotection of areas within public health, such as pharmaceuticals, has a seriousimpact on social welfare as it inadvertently negates the second part of the agreement on TRIPS thatemphasizes the transfer of technology regarding patents without jeopardizing a government's ability toprovide adequate healthcare to its citizens;

That in a statement by the WTO, it maintains that nothing in the TRIPS agreement shouldprevent members from protecting public health so that the flexibilities implied under paragraphs 4, 5, and7 should be implemented by developed members of the WTO and the OAS;

Parallel imports, compulsory licenses and ‘exhaustion’ of rights are all flexibilities located inparagraph six of the Doha Declaration that are seldom used by developing countries;

That it is not trade itself that is in question, but trade regulated by an ideological obsession withlow tariffs and by a standard-setting process that gives less value to human health and environmentalprotection and more value to commercial gain;

That many developing countries cannot avail themselves of the flexibilities established under the TRIPSagreement due to a lack of or insufficient manufacturing capacities;

That developed countries take economic and political actions against developing countries that tryto make effective use of the TRIPS flexibilities that allow importation and exportation of generic drugsby granting compulsory licenses,

RESOLVES:

1. To commend the OAS and Member States, WHO, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO),the Organization for African Unity (OAU), and the United Nations (UN) for their dedicatedcommitment to the increased access to medicines by developing countries and consistentlyshowing reverence for the protection of human rights as outlined by the Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights (UDHR).

2. To propose that the Inter-American Committee on Social Development (CIDES) create a taskforce made up of OAS experts on health and members of PAHO with the following agenda:

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a. to establish, update and expand Member States' Essential Medicines Lists,b. to discuss the innovation and development of new medicines by developing Member States to

treat neglected tropical diseases in the Hemisphere for which the pharmaceutical companiesof the developed world are not producing appropriate medicines, and

c. to discuss and explain, with the assistance pledged by WHO, the grounds for grantingcompulsory licenses and the exercise of flexibilities located in paragraph six of the DohaDeclaration on the TRIPS agreement.

3. To propose that the task force give an annual report on the Essential Medicines List for theHemisphere, a report on pharmaceutical advances in the Hemisphere and an update oncompulsory licenses and TRIPS flexibilities, and that all this information be posted on the OASand PAHO websites.

4. To suggest that the CIDES task force be formed by December 2008.

5. To recommend that the CIDES task force submit its work at the December of 2009 OAS fifthSummit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.

6. To recommend that funding for the activities regarding the essential medicines list be provided bypharmaceutical companies that already subscribe to the TRIPS safeguards and that alreadydonate money, medicines and services for the treatment, prevention, and education of tropicaldiseases.

7. To encourage all members of the OAS, PAHO, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB),the World Bank, and Observer States to the OAS to strengthen their coordination, and to continuehelping the Hemisphere gain greater knowledge of and access to essential medicines.

Approved for form and substance: ___________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories:

1._________________________ ___________________________(Signature of Delegate) (Country Representative)

2._________________________ ___________________________

3._________________________ ___________________________

4._________________________ ___________________________

5._________________________ ___________________________

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PROMOTION OF HEALTHCARE AND SOCIAL INCLUSIONFOR WORKERS IN THE INFORMAL ECONOMY

First Committee Topic No. 2 of the Agenda

Draft Resolution presented by the Delegation of Panama


ACKNOWLEDGING:

The problem of providing access to healthcare for the growing number of workers in the informal

economy and their families;

RECOGNIZING:

That the provision of adequate healthcare is a basic human right as described in Article 25 of the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and that as such, it is a necessary condition for poverty

alleviation;

That the rapid inflation in the healthcare sector, coupled with an increase in the size of the

informal economy throughout Organization of American States (OAS). member states will likely lead to a

worsening of this problem unless actions are taken to address it;

RECALLING:

Article 34, Section I and Article 45, Section B of the Charter of the Organization of American

States which affirm the right to a healthful life and working conditions that facilitate a decent standard of

living for a worker and his family;

HAVING SEEN:

Article 46 of the Charter of the Organization of American States which recognizes the “need to

harmonize the social legislation…, especially in labor” fields so that the rights of workers are equally

protected throughout the region;

CONSIDERING:

The Declaration of Margarita’s (October 8th, 2003) commitment to combat the serious problem of

poverty and social exclusion outlined in Article 1;

Article 2’s determination to strengthen policies and programs that can potentially reduce the

negative effects of social exclusion, such as that which results from working in the informal sector and

Article 3’s proposal to address these problems through a multi-faceted approach, such as coordinating

within between Health and Labor Ministries;

Article 13’s commitment to promote dignified labor conditions allowing for professional success,

which cannot occur in the absence of an effective mechanism providing healthcare for workers.

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RESOLVES:

1) To address the problems faced by workers in the informal economy, both rural and urban,

throughout the Americas.

2) To collect information about the size of the informal labor force in member states by using

consistent surveying practices throughout.

3) To allocate resources in the amount of $289,000 from the 2008 budget to assist member states in

collecting this information in a uniform manner.

4) To commission a meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development for the

explicit purpose of addressing the growing lack of access to healthcare for workers in the

informal economy.

5) To invite as participants to this meeting experts in this area, particularly from academia, the

United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO),

the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, and the Economic Commission for Latin America

and the Caribbean (ECLAC), as well as other pertinent Inter-American agencies that could

provide further insight into this area.

6) The information recollected from the sates will be put together by the Secretariat General of the

OAS. This information will be available for any other organization that would like to analyze it

and propose mechanisms for the solution of the problems faced by workers in the informal

economy both in the rural and urban areas.

Approved for form and substance: _________________________

(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Co-Signatories: 1) __________________________ ___________________________

(Signature of Delegate) (Country Represented)

2) ___________________________ ____________________________

3) ___________________________ ____________________________

4) ___________________________ ____________________________

5) ___________________________ ____________________________

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IMPROVING LABOUR CONDITIONS BY INCREASING OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENTASSISTANCE IN THE REGION

First Committee Topic No. 3 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Canada


GUIDED BY:

The principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically article 23 that states:“(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions ofwork and to protection against unemployment; (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right toequal pay for equal work; (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remunerationensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary,by other means of social protection”;

The Charter of the Organization of American States, that proclaims as one of its main purposes:“to eradicate extreme poverty, which constitutes an obstacle to the full democratic development of thepeoples of the hemisphere”;

BEARING IN MIND:

The commitment made by Governments in the Fourth Summit of the Americas to play an activerole in the creation of decent jobs;

The principle of common but different responsibilities addressed in the International Conferenceon Financing for Development held in Monterrey, 2002;

ALARMED BY:

The fact that Latin American and the Caribbean still remain as the most inequitable region in theWorld;

The fact that 70% of all new jobs belong to the informal sector, and that as a consequence of thisreality, an even smaller part of the population has access to social security;

RECALLING:

The Millennium Development Goals Report, a Latin American and Caribbean Perspective, thatstates that “official development assistance to supplement the domestic resources of the poorest countriesin the region (…) must be increased” and affirms that poverty and indigence levels have been risingpractically in all member states; and

ACKNOWLEDGING:

That the official development assistance channeled to the Caribbean and Latin America does notsatisfy the needs of the region;

That public migration policies and labour policies must be based on the protection of HumanRights,

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RESOLVES:

1. To recognize the achievements made by national programmes and social policies in the region tofight against hunger, access to food, lack of water sources, illiteracy, among others, as gravemanifestations of extreme poverty.

2. To accept that in order to eliminate poverty and extreme poverty regionally, deeper reforms mustbe implemented in regard with labour conditions and income distributions.

3. To urge member states to take all the measures needed to fight the steady increase of the largeproportion of informal employment, which has represented seven (7) out of every ten (10) jobscreated currently in the region.

4. To consider it desirable that new jobs in the region provide health care, unemployment insuranceor retirement plans pensions in order to allow people to attain financial self-reliance.

5. To stress the fact that, since the Millennium Development Goals Report, a Latin American andCaribbean Perspective, the size of indigent households´ income deficit “is 2.5 times larger thanthe net Official Development Assistance (ODA) received by Latin America in 2007”.

6. To require member states to elevate their ODA and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the regionin order to promote the creation of sufficient and better quality jobs and accomplish the UnitedNations goal for donors to double annual ODA.

7. To draw attention to the design of mechanisms to create better quality jobs in urban areas,considering that 75% of the population lives in cities, and it will increase to 81% by 2015.

8. To promote international cooperation and aid in order to increase the FDI, ODA and financialassistance in the region, from developed countries and organizations all over the World, such as,the G-8 countries, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, among others, to eradicateunderemployment and informal employment, as major obstacles to sustainable development.

9. To further promote and share public policies that encourage the creation of suitable jobs in ruralareas, by placing special emphasis in investment in land and soil management, energy,communication, infrastructure and agricultural research, among others.

10. To invite the Civil Society to participate in specialized forums sponsored by the Organization ofAmerican States and those held by its member states, where organized citizens have theopportunity to express their opinions on how labour conditions can be improved in theHemisphere by increasing ODA and how this aid can be used to reduce underemployment andinformal employment.

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11. To request member states to evaluate the outcomes of the ODA and FDI in improving labourconditions and eradicating informal employment and underemployment and to present a report tothe General Assembly at its thirty-eighth regular session.

Approved for form and substance:(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories: 1. __

Signature of Delegate Country Represented

2. __

3. __

4. __

5. __

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INCORPORATING DENTAL CARE AS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENTOF HEALTH CARE AS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT

First Committee Topic No. 4 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Argentina


HAVING SEEN:

The Charter of the Organization of American States, Article 34, which calls for the, "Protection ofman's potential through the extension and application of modern medical science";

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations, whichstates that "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself andone's family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care";

The Special Summit of the Americas, Declaration of Nuevo León in Monterrey, México (January,2004), which states that member states "will continue to broaden our prevention, care and promotion strategiesas well as investment in this field in an effort to provide quality healthcare for all.";

The Third Summit of the Americas, Declaration of Quebec City (April 2001), which emphasizes that"good health and equal access to medical attention, health services and affordable medicine are critical tohuman development and the achievement of our political, economic and social objectives";

The Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic DiseasePrevention, and Health Promotion Division of Oral Health, which outlined a series of steps to help nationsstrengthen their oral disease prevention techniques, and to "ensure the safe delivery of dental care";

The meeting in 2007 of the Organization of Dental Schools in Latin America and the Caribbean,which called for "the presentation of research pertinent to infection control in dentistry";

RECALLING:

That health care has not been added to the OAS Charter as a basic human right, and that the WorldDental Federation, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Pan American Health Organization(PAHO) will be meeting in April 2008 in Lima, Peru for a Summit on Oral Health in the Americas to discussthe most effective ways to improve oral health in the Americas; and

CONSIDERING:

That a lack of statistical information on dental care in the Americas has led to stunted development oforal health in specific regions;

That there is a lack of recognition for dental care as a pertinent issue within the Organization ofAmerican States, although oral hygiene affects every person in the Americas and lack of dental care leads tooral complications such as tooth erosion, abscesses, and gum disease, which recent research has linked tocontributing to heart disease, strokes, and premature births,

RESOLVES:

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1. To request that the Pan American Health Organization host a meeting to incorporate dental care asan essential component to health care, by which:

a. The meeting would include, but not be limited to, representatives from PAHO, WHO, theWorld Dental Federation, The Latin American Dental Federation, the Organization of DentalSchools in Latin America, all member nations and observer nations.

b. The main function of this meeting would be to agree upon a call of action to incorporatedental care as an essential component of health care as a basic human right.

c. The meeting would be held in São Paulo, Brazil at the University of São Paulo.

2. To call upon the National Oral Health Surveillance System, The Dental, Oral and CraniofacialData Resource Center and other specific dental/oral centers to work cooperatively to help compile acomprehensive report on the statistics of dental/oral health in Latin America.

3. To urge members of the different dental, oral or health organizations to initiate programs to helpfoster new programs within different countries in the Americas to promote dental care as an importantpriority amongst all people.

4. To fund this meeting through requests to member states, permanent observers, PAHO, WHO, and theWorld Dental Federation, as well as to ask for special donations from dental organizations throughout theAmericas.

5. To request that the OAS adds health care as a basic human right and dental care should be a component ofit.

Approved for form and substance: __________________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories: 1.____________________________ ___________________________Signature of Delegate Country Represented

2.____________________________ ___________________________

3.____________________________ ___________________________

4.____________________________ ___________________________

5.____________________________ ___________________________

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SUMMIT ON THE EFFECTIVE USE OF HIV/AIDS DRUG PATENTS TO LOWER THE COSTAND CONSEQUENCES OF THE DISEASE IN THE AMERICAS

First Committee Topic No. 1 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of the Republic of Brazil


HAVING SEEN:

The Declaration of San Salvador: Gender, Violence, and HIV, which stresses the development ofHIV related initiatives in coordination with international organizations, particularly the Pan-AmericanHealth Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations Program, UNAIDS;

Resolution AG/RES. 2308 (XXXVII O/07) “Eradicating Illiteracy and Fighting Diseases thatAffect Integral Development”, which recognizes that there are major shortcomings in regards to healthcare provisions in the Americas, especially those meant to alleviate chronic, emerging, and re-emergingdiseases, in turn depriving a large number of people of the potential to participate fully in processes aimedat integral development;

The findings of the Executive Committee of the Inter-American Commission of Women(OEA/Ser.L/II.5.29) which states that HIV/AIDS has both cross-cutting implications within the areas ofmicrobiology as well as sociology and, as an epidemic, it takes a tremendous toll on so many frontsdestroying both new and time-worn developmental gains achieved over generations because it reinforcesevery problem that connects ill-health to poverty;

BEARING IN MIND:

Article 34.i of the OAS Charter which states the “protection of man’s potential through theextension and application of modern medical science” as a basic goal to be pursued in the process ofattaining integral development;

Article 38 of the OAS Charter declares that Member States shall “extend among themselves thebenefits of science and technology by encouraging the exchange and utilization of scientific and technicalknowledge”;

Article 43 of the OAS Charter maintains that “in order to strengthen and accelerate integration inall its aspects, the Member States agree to give adequate and priority to the preparation and carrying outof multinational projects and to their financing, as well as to encourage economic and financialinstitutions of the inter-American system to continue giving their broadest support to regional integrationinstitutions and programs”;

NOTING:

The Declaration on Security in the Americas from the Special Conference on Security held inMexico City in October of 2003 states that the HIV pandemic is a threat to the stability and security ofcommunities and States;

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That the halt and eventual reversal of the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases thateffect humanity is expressly included in the United Nations Millennium Declaration as one of theMillennium Development Goals;

The Declaration of Florida acknowledges the role of Member States’ in their commitment toactive solidarity in the fight against the spread of lethal infectious diseases as a means of promoting andprotecting democracy;

The Fourth Summit of the Americas, paragraph 13, of the Declaration of Mar del Plata, commitshemispheric leaders to developing comprehensive, crosscutting strategies and cooperation mechanismsthat promote greater access to education, health care, labor markets, and credit, within the framework ofPAHO and the World Health Organization (WHO). Specifically, heads of state are concerned withchronic, emerging and re-emerging diseases, pledging to strengthen cooperation and the exchange forinformation in the fight against diseases, as well as developing programs for their promotion, prevention,control and treatment, with a view to implementing integral health actions;

The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health agrees that the TRIPSAgreement does not and should not prevent World Trade Organization members from taking measures toprotect public health and that they should be interpreted and implemented in order to promote access tomedicines for all; and

CONSIDERING:

That in 2007, there was a total of 33.2 million people living with AIDS, and the estimated cost tohalt and reverse the AIDS epidemic in 2008 is US$22.1 billion;

While drugs and medicines to alleviate the consequences for chronic, emerging and re-emergingdiseases is available, due to the cost of intellectual property rights of pharmaceutical companies, it is tooexpensive and as a consequence unavailable to those affected in the Americas;

Certain countries have managed to significantly reduce the number of citizens infected withHIV/AIDS by improving access to affordable medicine through the use of generic drug patents;

A series of measures have yet to be established that takes into consideration developing nationswith insufficient or no manufacturing capacities in the pharmaceutical sector, and cooperation amongMember States and drug manufacturers must be pursued in order to cultivate positive change,

RESOLVES:

1. To reaffirm OAS Member States to recognize HIV/AIDS as a priority in order to realize a significantreduction of further transfer of treatable diseases and AIDS fatalities.

2. To suggest that a summit be held under the supervision of PAHO in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,in order to take advantage of the location of generic drug manufacturing plant, Farma Manguinhos.

3. To request that the summit be held during the third week of October of 2008.

4. To encourage participants to discuss the following issues considered necessary in order to providebetter access to health care to the people of the Americas:

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a. The possibility for countries to engage in the exchange of patents, medicines, expertise todevelop lower cost drugs,

b. The discussion of potential measures and channels for the transfer of technologies todeveloping countries within the Western Hemisphere,

c. Examination of the pros and cons of pursuing various alternative means of providing healthcare, while taking into consideration the TRIPS Agreement,

d. The consideration of implementing the Doha Declaration putting it into practice so thatcountries that are lacking pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities may access drugs bymeans of parallel imports.

5. To recommend Member States, permanent observers, national institutions, international private entities,NGOs and experts in science, international law, and drug patents to participate in the summit.

6. To seek funding for the provisions and preparations that may be necessary from the InternationalMonetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Health Organization, Center forDisease Control, HIV Collaborative Fund, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Gilead Science, private donations,and the health department of each nation as well as voluntary donations from member states as well asobserver nations.

7. To request the PAHO to submit a series of reports outlining the results of the summit to the GeneralAssembly at the next regular session in 2009.

Approved for form and substance: ____________________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories:

1. ____________________________________ _____________________________________

2. ____________________________________ _____________________________________

3. ____________________________________ _____________________________________

4. ____________________________________ _____________________________________

5. ____________________________________ _____________________________________Signature of Delegate Country Represented

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ENHANCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION REGARDING ELECTION

MONITORING MISSIONS IN THE HEMISPHERE

First Committee Topic No.2 of the Agenda

Draft Resolution presented by the Delegation of the United States of America


HAVING SEEN:

The Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS), which in its preamble

announces a profound dedication to representative democracy as “an indispensable

condition for the stability, peace, and development of the region”, and also declares the

promotion and consolidation of representative democracy to be a fundamental purpose of

the Organization, at the same time recognizing the principle of non-intervention;

The Inter-American Democratic Charter, which defines obligatory elements of

representative democracy such as “respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,

access to and the exercise of power subject to the rule of law, and the holding of periodic,

free, and fair elections based on universal suffrage and secret balloting as an expression

of the sovereignty of the people”;

The Declaration of Principles for International Election Observations,

commemorated October 27, 2005, at the United Nations, New York, which affirms that

only genuinely free elections can move the democratic process forward, and confirms that

active and passive suffrage is an international human right, and which furthermore

establishes internationally standardized guidelines for election observations, which aim at

promoting truly free and transparent elections, always with due respect for the principle of

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Resolution AG/RES. 2337 (XXXVII-O/07), “Modernization and Use of Electoral

Technologies in the Hemisphere”; and

CONSIDERING:

That the Second International Meeting on the Implementation of Principles for

International Election Observation was held in Washington DC on November 14 and 15,

2007, and was co-organized by the OAS;

That the Meeting emphasized the necessity of stronger cooperation and

information sharing, and pronounced safeguarding the integrity of objective and impartial

election observation to be a global responsibility;

The suggestion put forward in the Meeting as to the creation of joint workshops

dedicated to post-election follow-ups;

Consultations between the OAS and the European Union (EU) on September 24,

2003, resolving greater cooperation between the OAS and the EU, inter alia on issues of

democratic governance and election observation;

The many Special Election Missions conducted by other non-governmental and

governmental organizations such as the Carter Center and the EU Election Observation

Mission (EU EOM) in the Americas, which promote free and transparent elections with

their expertise and professional know-how;

RESOLVES:

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1. To officially endorse the Declaration of Principles for International Election

Observations and to urge the various Election Observation Missions of the OAS to

adhere to those guidelines.

2. To create election observation workshops under the direction of the Secretariat of

Political Affairs committed to:

a) an adequate preparation of the various election missions regarding country-

specific knowledge and language,

b) post-election follow-ups of the various election missions including mid-term

reviews, in order to better analyze strengths and weaknesses of elections,

thus determining ways of improving future electoral processes.

3. To encourage and invite external organizations to:

a) make efforts to coordinate between different election observation missions

and share information during electoral processes,

b) participate in the mentioned workshops.

Approved for form and substance __________________________


Cosignatories:

1. ________________________ __________________________

Signature of delegate Country Represented

2. ________________________ __________________________

3. ________________________ __________________________

4. ________________________ __________________________

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5. ________________________ __________________________

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HUMANITARIAN REGULATIONS AND SECURITY IN LABOR MIGRATION LAWS


Draft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of El Salvador


CONSIDERING:

That the migration that occurs in the hemisphere is mostly due to the search for better labor

conditions, economic growth, integral development and security;

That in the context of the challenges of globalization, issues of protection of migrant workers is

important for economic development and social cohesion;

HAVING SEEN:

The results of the Sixth Coordination Meeting on International Migration of the Department ofEconomic and Social Affairs of the United Nations held in New York on 2007, show that migrationpressures in most developing countries lead to social and economic dislocation associated with persistentpoverty, growing unemployment, loss of traditional trading patterns, and what has been termed a‘growing crisis of economic security”;

RECOGNIZING:

Article 30 of the Charter of the OAS that states: “The Member States, inspired by the principles

of inter-American solidarity and cooperation, pledge themselves to a united effort to ensure international

social justice in their relations and integral development for their peoples, as conditions essential to peace

and security” and that “Integral development encompasses the economic, social, educational, cultural,

scientific, and technological fields through which the goals that each country sets for accomplishing it

should be achieved”;

Article 32 of the Charter of the OAS that states: “Inter-American cooperation for integral

development should be continuous and preferably channeled through multilateral organizations, without

prejudice to bilateral cooperation between Member States.” and that “The Member States shall contribute

to inter-American cooperation for integral development in accordance with their resources and

capabilities and in conformity with their laws”; and

RECALLING:

The Plan of Action of the Fourth Summit of the Americas held in 2005 in Argentina where

delegates agreed to strengthen constructive dialogue on international migration and to establish

collaboration mechanisms among countries so as to disseminate information on labor rights of migrant

workers,

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RESOLVES:

1. To applaud the efforts of all that Member States of the OAS have done in confronting illegal

migration issues.

2. To request that the Secretary General work with the Inter-American Council for Integral

Development (CIDI) to set a meeting of the General Assembly to discuss the issues of migrant

worker labor conditions and border security.

3. To request all Member States to consider a temporary labor residence program for illegal migrant

workers, in which a mechanism of identification of illegal workers will be established.

4. To urge all the Member States of OAS to promote and protect the rights of migrant workers in

harmony with each countries internal law.

Approved for form and substance: ___________________________


1. _______________________ Bolivia

2. _______________________ Honduras

3. _______________________ Venezuela

4. _______________________ Peru

5. _______________________ Panama

Signature of Delegate Country Represented

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HUMAN RIGHTS, A HEMISPHERIC OBJECTIVE

First Committee Agenda Topic 4Draft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Barbados


RECALLING:

That the American Convention on Human Rights recognizes that “ the essentialrights of man are not derived from one's being a national of a certain state, but are basedupon attributes of the human personality, and that they therefore justify internationalprotection”;

BEARING IN MIND:

That Article XI of the OAS Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man statesthat “Every person has the right to the preservation of his health through sanitary andsocial measures relating to food, clothing, housing and medical care, to the extentpermitted by public and community resources”;

CONSIDERING:

That the OAS charter declares that “Inter-American cooperation for integraldevelopment is the common and joint responsibility of the Member States…It shouldinclude the economic, social, educational, cultural, scientific, and technological fields andsupport the achievement of national objectives of the Member States” and that theCharter also states that “Development is a primary responsibility of each country andshould constitute an integral and continuous process for the establishment of a more justeconomic and social order that will make possible and contribute to the fulfillment of theindividual;

AWARE:That the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights define a

body known as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and delegate said bodywith the responsibility to “promote the observance and protection of human rights andserve as a consultative organ of the Organization in these matters”; and

HAVING SEEN:

AG/RES. 2290 (XXXVII O/07), which resolved to “note with satisfaction thedecisions taken by governments of member states that have invited the IACHR to visittheir respective countries; and to encourage all member states to continue this practiceand to consider the requests filed by the IACHR to that end,”

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RESOLVES:

1. To thank the IACHR for reporting to the General Assembly, through Annual Reportsand Country Reports, on their work and progress regarding the protection of humanrights within the hemisphere.

2. To reaffirm a hemispheric commitment to continue to respect the fundamentalrights of the individual without distinction as to race, nationality, creed, or sex asoutlined in the OAS Charter and the American Human Rights Convention.

3. To recognize the right to clean water, food and health care as a hemispheric objectiveand thus a joint responsibility of all member states.

4. To instruct the IACHR to organize a special Commision on Human RightsInvestigatory Committee, with the appropriate staff members who have expertise andexperience in analyzing and investigating human rights situations.

a. Every member nation will have the opportunity to be represented on thisspecial committee.

5. To give this special committee the responsibility to

a. Travel to member States that are willing to participate, to engage in an indepth analysis of each member States’ human rights situation in terms of theindividual’s access to clean water, food and health care.

b. Provide a detailed report to the government of each member State outliningthe State’s strength and weaknesses in terms of public access to clean water,food and health care and to recommend the adoption of measures, to theextent permitted by the State’s resources, which would contribute to theprotection of these basic human rights.

c. Organize and carry out informative conferences, meetings and seminars withthe appropriate representatives of governments and academic institutions inorder to spread information and to increase knowledge about issues dealingwith access to clean water, food and health care.

d. Stimulate public consciousness regarding human rights.e. Provide a Special Report to the Secretary General detailing the committee’s

work and progress on an annual basis.

6. To instruct the Secretary General to create a special fund composed of voluntarycontributions that will finance the activities assigned to the special Commision onHuman Rights Investigatory Committee of the IACHR.

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7. To finance the remaining expenses of the committee through the OAS’s regularbudget.

Approved for form and substance ____________________________________(Signature of Faculty advisor)

Cosignatories:

1. ___________________________ Uruguay

2.____________________________ Ecuador

3.____________________________ Mexico

4.____________________________ St. Lucia

5.____________________________ Dominica

6. ___________________________ Jamaica

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ACCESS TO MEDICINES FOR ALLAND STRENGTHING OF PUBLIC HEALTH

First Committee Topic No. 1 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of the Republic of Chile


HAVING SEEN:

The Doha Declaration on the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of IntellectualProperty Rights (TRIPS), adopted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), which allowsmember states flexibilities with respect to patents on pharmaceuticals to allow for access toessential medicines.

The Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Public Health (CIPIH),initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) through Resolution WHA56.27 which hopesto collect data and proposals from the different actors involved and produce an analysis ofintellectual property rights, innovation, and public health, including the question of appropriatefunding and incentive mechanisms for the creation of new medicines and other products againstdiseases that disproportionately affect developing countries.

That the UN Millennium Development Goals include Goal 6 which plans to “combatHIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases,” and Target No. 17 which highlights the need to “provideaccess to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.”

BEARING IN MIND:

That the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in their Report of the WorkingGroup Meeting on Access to Essential Public Health Supplies and Procurement Mechanisms,states “access to medicines and public health supplies is a subject of increasing and urgentimportance for countries in the region of the Americas: it must be viewed within the context andrecognition of the importance of the right to health for all.”

That the WHO states in their report on Public health, Innovation and Intellectual PropertyRights that “around 45 percent of the disease burden in lower income countries is caused bypoverty-related diseases. A large proportion of these diseases could be prevented with existingtreatments and techniques. Unfortunately, access to essential medicines remains extremely low inmany areas of the world.”

CONSIDERING:

The WHO defines “essential medicines” in their report on Public health, Innovation andIntellectual Property Rights as “those drugs that satisfy the health care needs of the majority ofthe population; they should therefore be available at all times in adequate amounts and inappropriate dosage forms, at a price the community can afford.”

RECALLING:

That the flexibilities provided in the WTO TRIPS agreement are defined as thefollowing:

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a) “Compulsory licenses” has evolved from the phrase “other use without authorizationof the right holder” found in Article 31 which allows for provisions “where the law ofa Member allows for other use of the subject matter of a patent without theauthorization of the right holder, including use by the government or third partiesauthorized by the government.”

b) “Bolar” provisions in Article 30 as an exemption whereas “Members may providelimited exceptions to the exclusive rights conferred by a patent, provided that suchexceptions do not unreasonably conflict with a normal exploitation of the patent anddo not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the patent owner, takingaccount of the legitimate interests of third parties.”

c) “Parallel Imports” also known as “exhaustion of rights” is found in the DohaDeclaration 5(d) as “The effect of the provisions in the TRIPS Agreement that arerelevant to the exhaustion of intellectual property rights is to leave each Member freeto establish its own regime for such exhaustion without challenge, subject to theMFN and national treatment provisions of Articles 3 and 4.”

RECOGNIZING:

Paragraph 4 of the Doha Declaration which states; “The TRIPS Agreement does not andshould not prevent Members from taking measures to protect public health. Accordingly, whilereiterating our commitment to the TRIPS Agreement, we affirm that the Agreement can andshould be interpreted and implemented in a manner supportive of the WTO Members' right toprotect public health and, in particular, to promote access to medicines for all.”

Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration which states; “We recognize that WTO Memberswith insufficient or no manufacturing capacities in the pharmaceutical sector could facedifficulties in making effective use of compulsory licensing under the TRIPS Agreement.”

Article 8.2 of the TRIPS Agreement which states that; “…appropriate measures, providedthat they are consistent with the provisions of this Agreement, may be needed to prevent theabuse of intellectual property rights by right holders or the resort to practices which unreasonablyrestrain trade or adversely affect the international transfer of technology.”

RESOLVES:

1. To request that the PAHO organize seminars to inform country negotiation teamsconsidering intellectual property legislation in trade agreements of the effects of suchagreements on future access to medicines.

2. To request the PAHO and the Department of Trade and Tourism create an ad hoc jointcommittee to investigate provisions in multilateral and bilateral trade agreements that gobeyond the protection of intellectual property provided in TRIPS, and to developrecommendations for alternatives with respect to providing access to essential medicinesfor those otherwise unable to afford the medicines.

3. To urge Member States to take full advantage of flexibilities allowed in the TRIPSagreement.

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4. To urge Members States to include in national legislation the safeguards provided byTRIPS (parallel imports, compulsory licenses, “Bolar” provisions, etc.), as well aslegislation that prevents abuse of patent holders such as Article 8.2 of TRIPS inintellectual property law.

Approved for form and substance(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories1. __________________________ Bolivia

2. __________________________ Guyana

3. __________________________ Brazil

4. __________________________ Venezuela

5. __________________________ Grenada

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ALLEVIATING LABOR MIGRATION IN THE CARIBBEAN BASINAMONG THE COLLEGE-EDUCATED

First Committee Topic No. 3 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of the Commonwealth of Dominica


HAVING SEEN:

That the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS) states in Article 2 that one of itsessential purposes towards fulfilling regional obligations under the Charter of the United Nations is “topromote, by cooperative action, their economic, social, and cultural development”;

That the Charter states in Article 32 that member states shall contribute to inter-American cooperationfor integral development in accordance with their resources and capabilities and in conformity with their laws;

RECALLING:

That, through the Department of Human Development, the objective of the Organization of AmericanStates (OAS) Program of Scholarships and Training is to assist the member states with their domestic effortsin pursuit of integral development goals by supporting human resource development in the priority areasestablished by the Summits of the Americas, the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Integral Development of theInter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), and the OAS General Assembly;

That the OAS is committed to identifying and implementing strategies for increasing access to highereducation and to instituting new mechanisms that foster greater responsiveness to the national developmentpriorities of its member countries;

That Inter-American cooperation includes supporting the achievements of national objectives of theMember States, and respect to the priorities established by each country in its development plans;

That the Declaration Proposal of the IV Summit of The Americas includes plans to devise efficient,high-quality professional development by increasing both public and private investment in vocational training,with a view to boosting the productivity of enterprises and individual’s employability;

That the Leo S. Rowe Fund ("the Rowe Fund"), a student loan program of the OAS, helps citizensfrom Latin America and the Caribbean countries finance their studies or research at accredited universities inthe United States on condition that upon completion of his or her studies, the beneficiary must promise torepay the loan in full and return to his or her country in order to further intercultural exchange andsocioeconomic development in the region; and

CONSIDERING:

That the Pan American Health Organization considers professional migration as a traditional and newproblem for overcoming inequities of Social Protection, which encompasses programs devised to alleviatepoverty by promoting proficient labor markets;

That keeping college graduates within the region is necessary to promote economic, social andpolitical goals;

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That historically, college graduates have migrated to other countries for better opportunities, such as tothe United States and Canada;

That perpetuities provide a financial instrument through which a consistent source of monies for thescholarship can come without repeated investments;

That migration of college-educated individuals is hindering the development of the Caribbean Basin,as a whole,

RESOLVES:

1. To commend past efforts to provide grants and scholarships to students in the Hemisphere.

2. To create a new scholarship within the existing framework of the Secretariat for Integral Development inorder to support students within the Caribbean Basin.

3. That this scholarship comes with stipulations that will be determined by a working group which will:

a. Consists solely of representatives of nations from the Caribbean Basin.b. Consider a standard period of time, no longer than 5 years, for students to remain in the

Caribbean Basin.c. Create standard criteria to determine scholarship candidates and recipients.

4. To request funding for this scholarship from businesses or corporations, foundations, Caribbean BasinNations, other member states, permanent observers, international financial institutions and privateindividuals.

5. To recommend that this fund be created as a perpetuity and be self-sustaining for the duration of itsexistence.

Approved for form and substance: __________________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories: 1.____________________________ ___________________________Signature of Delegate Country Represented

2.____________________________ ___________________________

3.____________________________ ___________________________

4.____________________________ ___________________________

5.____________________________ ___________________________

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WATER DISTRIBUTION CONFERENCE AND REORGANIZATION OFINTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (IWRM)

First Committee Topic No. 4 of the AgendaDraft Resolution presented by the Delegation of Jamaica


RECALLING:

Article XI of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, which states that“Every person has the right to the preservation of his health through sanitary and social measuresrelating to food, clothing, housing and medical care, to the extent permitted by public andcommunity resources”;

That paragraph 10 b of the Declaration of Santa Cruz recognizes the promotion of measuresthat grant effective and equitable access to basic health and water;

The UN Millennium Goals in which it is stipulated “to reduce by half the proportion ofpeople without sustainable access to safe drinking water”;

HAVING SEEN:

AG/RES. 2347 (XXXVII-O/07) In which it is resolved “To expedite efforts, in the contextof national realities and laws, to achieve the objective of halving the proportion of people who areunable to reach or to afford safe drinking water, on the basis of nondiscrimination, equality, equity,solidarity, and environmental sustainability” and “To promote technical cooperation to facilitateaccess to appropriate, low-cost, ecologically sustainable technologies for water use and supply andto strengthen the capacity of local communities to make sustainable use of water resources”;

AG/RES. 2349 (XXXVII-O/07) In which it is resolved “That water is essential to the lifeand health of all human beings and that access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation isindispensable for a life with human dignity”;

BEARING IN MIND:

That the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that “[a]round 1.2billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world’s population, live in areas of physical water scarcity,and 500 million people are approaching this situation;

AFFIRMING:

The commitment of member states to achieving the internationally agreed upon objectivesof integrated water resources management (IWRM) and access to safe drinking water and basicsanitation, including those agreed to in Agenda 21, the United Nations Millennium Declaration, andthe Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development;

ACKNOWLEDGING:

The work made on past years on the subject and the actions implemented by the IWRN, theDSD and other OAS linked organizations, reminding also the necessity of greater and broaderrealistic projects;

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TAKING NOTE:

Of the report of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply andSanitation (2006), which states that 50 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean lackaccess to safe drinking water and 125 million lack access to adequate sanitation services;

Of the Fourth World Water Forum, held in Mexico City, Mexico, from March 16 to 22,2006; and

That the American continent has almost 1/3 of the water in the world,

RESOLVES:

1. To organize a conference in which OAS leaders may:

a) Clarify their country’s main problems in reaching sustainable levels ofdevelopment.

b) Discuss the realization of currently ongoing projects like the San Juan River Basinor the Guarani Aquifer System.

c) Discuss the reorganization of the Interamerican Water Resources Network in orderto create a governing body inside the Network to supervise the realization of theprojects by member states. Such Body will include a bigger participation of theWater Web Consortium that will help on the technical issues.

2. That said Conference should have the participation of:

a) The Heads of the member states of the Organization of American States.b) The Institutions in charge of the management and administration of water

resources within the same states.c) Donors or specialized agencies from the member states.

3. The Jamaican Delegation offers to be the location of such an event on behalf of the GeneralSecretariat and hopes that the date will be set before the end of the present year.

4. Despite the fact that access to water is considered a fundamental right, the stated reorganization has also as an objective, the creation of another body that supervises the actions ofthe States and point out its flaws; resembling in a way to the Interamerican System of HumanRights where there are annual evaluations on the status of its subjects.

5. All results from the conference will be passed to the Secretary General for further use andconsultation.

Approved for form and substance ____________________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories

1. ___________________________ Panama2. _____________________________ Peru3. _____________________________ Mexico4. _____________________________ Canada5. _____________________________ El Salvador

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COORDINATION OF MIGRANT WORKERS

First Committee Topic No. 3 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Ecuador


RECALLING:

The International Migration: Human Rights and the Treatment of Persons in the Americasconference which recognized the need for an “informed and transparent labor migrations admissionssystem designed to respond to measured, legitimate needs, relying on regular labor market assessmentsconducted in consultation with social partners to identify and respond to current and emerging needs forworkers high and low skilled”;

CONSIDERING:

AG/RES. 2289 (XXXVII-O/07) “That practically all the countries in the Hemisphere arecountries of origin, countries of transit, and receiving countries for migrants and have the authority toregulate the immigration of persons into their territories, in accordance with applicable international law,including international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international refuge law”;

AG/RES. 2289 (XXXVII-O/07) “The positive contributions often made by migrants, both to theircountries of origin and to the transit or receiving countries, and their gradual incorporation into thereceiving societies; as well as the efforts made by some transit or receiving countries to attend both to theneeds of migrants and to those of the receiving or local community”;

RECOGNIZING:

That migration is also an integral reflection of the processes of integration and globalization, aswell as a consequence of the erosion of traditional barriers to the mobilizations of populations;

That according to the International Labour Conference, 92nd Session, 2004 “migration flows aredominated by workers moving to fill vacancies in the agricultural segment of the labor market that havebeen vacated by native workers who increasingly transition to the industrial sector”;

The seasonal nature of the agricultural labor market in which the demand fluctuates vastly;

REAFFIRMING

The sovereign right of each State to formulate and apply its own legal framework and policies formigration, including the granting of permission to migrants to enter, stay, or exercise economic activity,in full conformity with applicable international instruments relating to human rights and in a spirit ofcooperation,

RESOLVES:

1. To charge the Special Rapporteur for Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families ofthe International Court of Human Rights with promoting the harmonization of migratoryrequirements between interested OAS Member States through the formation of an international

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migration network as a subgroup that would research methods to coordinate labor requirements ofmigratory workers concentrating in long-term goals.

2. To urge Member States to make voluntary contributions to support the activities of theSpecial Rapporteur for Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families of the InternationalCourt of Human Rights (IACHR), and the Inter-American Program for the Promotion andProtection of the Human Rights of Migrants, including Migrant Workers and Their Families.

3. To request the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly at its Thirty-Ninthregular session on the implementation of this resolution.

Approved for form and substance: ____________________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories: 1._____________________________ Peru

2._____________________________ Barbados

3._____________________________ Venezuela

4._____________________________ Brazil

5._____________________________ El Salvador

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SAFE WATER FOR THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

First Committee Topic No. 4 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Bolivia


CONSIDERING:

That Article 15 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter recognizes that a safeenvironment is essential to the integral development of the human being, which contributes todemocracy and political stability;

BEARING IN MIND:

The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21, as well as theJohannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and its Plan of Implementation, whichstate that adequate drinking water is a necessity for life;

RECOGNIZING:

That economic development, social development, and environmental protection areinterdependent pillars of sustainable development and that water is necessary for all other basichuman rights;

RECALLING:

That goal 7 of the United Nations Millennium Development goals includes reducing byhalf the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water; and

REALIZING:

That access to clean water is an essential basic human right that should be guaranteedthroughout the hemisphere,

RESOLVES:

1. To encourage member states to use their resources to enable the indigenous andrural population ample access to sanitary drinking water.

2. To encourage member states to establish a hemispheric standard for water qualityby for 2020.

3. To encourage member states to monitor the quality of water particularly in ruralareas.

4. To encourage member states to view clean water as a human right and to include itin the Social Charter of the OAS.

5. To encourage member states to seek funding from international bodies like Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and other IGOs and NGOs whosemissions are compatible with this goal.

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Approved for form and substance __________________________


Cosignatories: 1. ____________________ Colombia

2. ____________________ El Salvador

3. ____________________ Mexico

4. ____________________ Chile

5. ____________________ Jamaica

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RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES

First Committee Topic No. 3 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Mexico


HAVING SEEN:

Article 2 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states,“Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, withoutdistinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion,national or social”;

That in June 1998, the International Labour Organization (ILO), in its “Declaration onFundamental Principles and Rights at Work”, proclaimed “…the ILO should give specialattention to the problems of persons with special social needs, particularly the unemployed andmigrant workers, and mobilize and encourage international, regional and national efforts aimed atresolving their problem”;

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT:

The North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC) between thegovernment of Canada, the government of the United Mexican States and the government of theUnited States of America signed in 1993, which desires “to build on their respective internationalcommitments and to strengthen their cooperation on labor matters.” Further recognizing Article11, 1.c., which states, “The [Commission for Labor Cooperation] shall promote cooperativeactivities between the Parties, as appropriate, regarding: migrant workers of the Parties”;

REAFFIRMING:

Article 3 k. of the Charter of the Organization of American States, which states“Economic cooperation is essential to the common welfare and prosperity of the peoples of thecontinent”; as well as, Article 3 m., which states “The spiritual unity of the continent is based onrespect for the cultural values of the American countries and requires their close cooperation forthe high purposes of civilization”;

Article 16 of the OAS Charter requires “The jurisdiction of States within the limits oftheir national territory is exercised equally over all the inhabitants, whether nationals or aliens”;

Article 37 of the OAS Charter requires that “…Member States agree to join together inseeking a solution to urgent or critical problems that may arise whenever the economicdevelopment or stability of any Member State is seriously affected by conditions that cannot beremedied through the efforts of that State”;

All points outlined in Article’s 45 and 46 of the Charter of the Organization of AmericanStates including, “The incorporation and increasing participation of the marginal sectors of thepopulation”;

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RECOGNIZING:

The Inter-American Democratic Charter of the Organization of American States formallyadopted on September 11, 2006, and “that the rights of workers to associate themselves freely forthe defense and promotion of their interests is fundamental to the fulfillment of democraticideals.” As well as, article 9 and the protection of migrant rights, which said article defends;

Article 10 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which recognizes the ILODeclaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work as its core labor standards, and states,“The promotion and strengthening of democracy requires the full and effective exercise ofworkers’ right”;

OBSERVING:

Resolutions agreed upon at the Thirty-Seventh Regular Session of the Organization ofAmerican States General Assembly. Including:

AG/RES. 2289 entitled, “The Human Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families,”which states “the migratory status of a person cannot constitute a justification to deprive him ofthe enjoyment and exercise of human rights, including those of a labor-related nature”;

AG/RES. 2326 entitled, “Migrant Populations and Migration Flows in the Americas,”which requests “the Permanent Council to arrange for the working meetings needed to establish aspecial committee on migration issues as a specialized committee of the Permanent Council of theOrganization of American States”; and

BEARING IN MIND:

The UN High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development held inSeptember 2006, “…which sought to identify appropriate ways and means to maximize thedevelopmental benefits of international migration and to reduce its negative impacts.”Included in the OAS 2008-2009 Calendar of Activities of the Inter-American Conference ofMinisters of Labor (IACML), under the topic heading, “Labor Rights for Migrant Workers”,

RESOLVES:

1. To commend and formally recognize the Member States who have made positivestrides in “maximizing the benefits of International migration,” while respecting the inalienableHuman Rights of the migrants. And to commend all those Member States who do so in the future.

2. The immediate need for “the Permanent Council…to establish a special committee onmigration issues as a specialized committee of the Permanent Council of the Organization ofAmerican States,” with responsibilities that include:

a) To act as a mediator between member States affected by the displacement ofmigrant workers and families, and those member States in which the displacedare migrating to.b) To recognize the working rights of migrant laborers who are in possession oflegal proof of employment.

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c) Offer public support to those migrant workers, who are denied the rightsoutlined in the ILO “Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights atWork.”d) To call regional, hemispheric and international attention to any and all abusesof the inalienable human rights of migrants and their families.e) To encourage member states to hold accountable those private citizens thatwould abuse or exploit migrant workers and their families.f) Funding for the creation and maintenance of the special committee should beproportional to the current OAS budget, while recognizing that certain Stateshave a stronger gravitational pull amongst migrants, and it is from those memberStates where funding should be greatest.

3. That physical barriers to migration are disrespectful and counterproductive towardbuilding hemispheric solidarity and unity.

4. To affirm that migration and immigration issues are intrinsically linked to the foreignpolicies of member States, specifically aiding the removal of extreme poverty and the promotionof equity throughout the hemisphere.

Approved Form and Substance(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories:1. Colombia2. Guatemala3. Argentina4. Chile5. Bolivia

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COORDINATING HEMISPHERIC LABOR MIGRATION LAWS AND STRATEGIESFOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LABOR CONDITIONS

First Committee Topic No.3 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of the Republic of Colombia


HAVING SEEN:

The “Migration from Latin America to Europe: Trends and Policy Challenges” (Report tothe International Organization for Migration, May 2004);

The “Migration in an interconnected world: New directions for action” (Report to GlobalCommission on International Migration, October 2005);

RECALLING:

Resolution AG/RES.2326 (XXXVII-O/07) “Migrant Populations and Migration Flows inthe Americas” establishing the Special Committee on Migration Issues “to analyze migrationissues and flows from an integral perspective, taking into account the relevant provisions ofinternational law, and maintaining for that purpose close contact with the Committee on Juridicaland Political Affairs and the Special Rapporteurship on Migrant Workers and Their Families ofthe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)”;

The important work of the Organization of American States (OAS) in promoting andprotecting the human rights of migrant workers and their families pursuant to the followingresolutions: AG/RES. 2027 (XXXIV-O/04), AG/RES.2130 (XXXV-O/05); AG/RES.2141(XXXV-O/05); AG/RES.2224 (XXXVI-O/06); AND AG/RES.2248 (XXXVI-O/06);

The adoption, by United Nations resolution A/C.2/58/L.77 on “sustainable developmentand international cooperation” with regard to “international migration and development;” and

The adoption of the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population andDevelopment, in particular chapter X on international migration (5-13 September 1994);

CONSIDERING:

The need to address migration flows in the Americas and their causes and impact on allmember states of the OAS, in addition to developing and coordinating comparable laborconditions and other practical alternatives;

The social and economic significance of hemispheric migrations including the transit andreceipt of migrants;

That migration flows beyond the hemisphere will very likely decrease the availability ofa young, educated, and highly-skilled labor force resulting in the impediment of developing andsustaining a knowledge-based economy;

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TAKING NOTE:

Of the results of the special meeting of the OAS Permanent Council held on May 2, 2007“to consider, analyze, and discuss human migration flows and their impact on member states, andat which time a report was received from the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs on thehuman rights of migrant workers and their families,” held in accordance with AG/RES.2248(XXXVI-O/06), at which it was recommended that this issue should remain on the Agenda of theOAS Permanent Council;

Of the discussions of the Santiago Plan of Action of the Second Summit of the Americasin Santiago de Chile, Chile (18-19 April 1998), the Symposium on International Migration inLatin America and the Caribbean in San Jose, Costa Rica (4-6 September 2000), and the Plan ofAction of the Regional Conference on Migration in San Salvador, El Salvador (27-29 November2006);

BEARING IN MIND:

The proposed work plan of the Special Committee on Migration Issues (OAE/Ser.G CE/AM-6/08),

RESOLVES:

1. The Permanent Council will instruct the Young Americans Business Trust (YABT) to establisha high-skilled migrant workers employment databank known as High-Skilled Opportunities forMigrant Employees (HOME).

2. To instruct the Permanent Council to recognize the high-skilled training and employmentprogram for migrant workers (Hi-STEP) operated by the Young Americans Business Trust(YABT).

3. To urge member states to promote and support the activities of both HOME and Hi-STEP.

4. To instruct the Permanent Council to establish the role of Goodwill Ambassador; to invitesomeone directly involved in HOME and Hi-STEP, who must be searched for to represent theseprograms for the Organization of American State.

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5. The Goodwill Ambassador will report directly to Office of the Secretary General.

Approved for form and substance ____________________________________(Signature of Faculty advisor)

Cosignatories:

1. Chile

2. United States

3. Canada

4. Bolivia

5. Mexico

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Second Committee Item No. 4 of the AgendaDraft resolution presented by the delegation of Suriname


BEARING IN MIND:

That clean water, food and health care are considered basic human rights in several internationalinstruments, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on Economic,Social and Cultural Rights; the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man; the AdditionalProtocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and CulturalRights; and OAS AG/RES. 2349 (XXXVII-O/07) entitled “Water, health and human rights”;

REMEMBERING:

That in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, the Heads of State and Government decided“[t]o halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world’s people ... who suffer from hunger and ... ofpeople who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water”;

CONSIDERING:

That in developing countries, only 60% of all births is attented by skilled health personnel, thatmore than a fifth of the total population has no access to safe water supply and that more than 24,000people die from hunger every day; and

That according to the report of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supplyand Sanitation (2006), 50 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean lack access to safe drinkingwater and 125 million lack access to adequate sanitation services;

NOTING:

General Comment No. 15 (2002) of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social andCultural Rights (CESCR), entitled “The right to water (arts. 11 and 12 of the Covenant)” (United Nationsdocument HRI/GEN/1/Rev.7, p. 106), which considers the relationship between human rights and water asa limited natural resource and a public good fundamental for life and health, indispensable for leading alife in human dignity; and


The final report on human rights and the environment by the Special Rapporteur (UN doc.E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/9), which states that “[f]ood security is inextricably linked to an environment freefrom degradation and ... depends on environmentally sound and socially sustainable development; and

That according to the WHO “sustained good health of any population, over time, requires a stableand productive natural environment that: (i) yields assured supplies of food and fresh water; (ii) has arelatively constant climate in which climate-sensitive physical and biological systems do not change forthe worse; and (iii) retains biodiversity”,

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RESOLVES:

1. To emphasize our responsibility and the importance of promoting food, clean water and healthcare as basic human rights.

2. To recognize and accentuate that the protection of the environment represents an essentialprecondition for the full exercise and enjoyment of these human rights.

3. To request the Secretary General to arrange for the working meetings needed to establish the “Inter-American Commission of Environmental Impact on Human Rights”, a technical commission ofinterdisciplinary character that will have the following main objectives:

a. Investigating about: i)- the environmental situation in the Americas, in this sense thecoordinated work with the OAS Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment isfundamental, as well as with national governments, scientific groups, NGOs, UNEP, and otherinstitutions; ii)-environmental degradation and human rights abuses (existing legislation at thedomestic level, national institutions addressing this issue, actions of international bodies,actions of the United Nations, other actions of regional systems, NGOs, good practices,jurisprudence, etc.).

b. Promoting public debate (in undergraduate and advanced university programs, the press,businesses, workers corporations, Internet, especially through the OAS Inter-AmericanStrategy for Public Participation–ISP).

c. Promoting the adoption of regional agreements on sustainable development, human rights, andthe environment, and the introduction of the human rights dimension into environmentalagreements.

d. Promoting intergovernmental cooperation towards sustainable development (systems ofinterstate information on environmental risks, joint planning, etc.).

e. Designing proposals of domestic legislation models and Inter-American legislation that linkhuman rights and the environment.

f. Conducting research on human rights abuses, especially those against indigenouspopulations, caused by environmental degradation in the continent. This task will beexecuted by the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Environment, a position that isto be created in the Inter-American Commission of Environmental Impact on Human Rightsand reported at the next OAS General Assembly.

4. To request the Secretariat General to seek funding for these meetings and commissions frominternational bodies such as the World Bank, private corporations and NGOs, as well as voluntarydonations from member and observer states.

Approved for form and substance: _____________________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories: 1.____________________________ _________________________Signature of Delegate Country Represented

2.____________________________ _________________________

3.____________________________ _________________________

4.____________________________ _________________________

5.____________________________ _________________________

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PROMOTING REGIONAL STABILITY, MUTUAL PROSPERITY, AND INTERNATIONALCOOPERATION ON THE USES OF MAJOR TRANS-BORDER RIVERS IN THE AMERICAS

First Committee Topic No. 4 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Mexico


CONSIDERING:

General Comment No. 15 (2002) of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social andCultural Rights (CESCR), entitled “The right to water (arts. 11 and 12 of the Covenant)” (United Nationsdocument HRI/GEN/1/Rev.7, p. 106), which underscores the importance of water as a basic human rightand a public good fundamental for life and health, indispensable for leading a life in human dignity;

Articles 10 and 11 of the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights inthe Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, “Protocol of San Salvador,” which recognizes the rightof every person to health and the right to live in a healthy environment and have access to basic publicservices;

The obligations of the states party to the International Covenant on Economic, Social andCultural Rights with respect to the realization of the rights recognized in its Article 11, paragraph 1, andArticle 12, paragraph 1, whereby, respectively, every person has the right to an adequate standard ofliving for himself/herself and his/her family, and to enjoyment of the highest attainable standard ofphysical and mental health;

REAFFIRMING:

The commitment of member states to achieving the internationally agreed upon objectives ofintegrated water resources management and access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, includingthose agreed to in Agenda 21, the United Nations Millennium Declaration, and the Plan ofImplementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development;

NOTING WITH SATISFACTION:

The Fourth World Water Forum, held in Mexico City, Mexico, from March 16 to 22, 2006, whichcalled on all governments to prioritize water sanitation and hygiene;

TAKING NOTE ALSO:

Of the report of the World Health Organization/United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) JointMonitoring Program for Water Supply and Sanitation (2006), which states that 50 million people in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean lack access to safe drinking water and 125 million lack access to adequatesanitation services;

TAKING NOTE FURTHER:Of the decision of the 13th session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable

Development (2005), which emphasizes, inter alia, that Governments have the primary role in promotingimproved access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation;RECOGNIZING:

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That water resources management should take into account the vital importance of wetlandecosystems, and underscoring, accordingly, the commitments made in the Convention on Wetlands ofInternational Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention on Wetlands);

RECOGNIZING ALSO:

That access to safe drinking water should be provided, in accordance with the principles ofnondiscrimination, equality, justice, solidarity, equity, and sustainability; and

TAKING NOTE:

Of Principle 2 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, which established that“States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law,the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmentalpolicies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not causedamage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction”,

RESOLVES:

1. To recognize and emphasize that water is essential to the life and health of all human beingsand that access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation is indispensable for a life with human dignity.

2. To underscore that water is a natural, limited, and vulnerable resource that has economic valueand that also performs an environmental, social, economic, and cultural function, and that efforts must bemade to ensure that all sectors of the population have access to safe drinking water and sanitationservices.

3. To reaffirm the sovereign right of each state to establish rules and regulations on water use andwater services in its territory.

4. To recognize and respect the ancestral use of water by urban, rural, and indigenouscommunities, in the framework of their habits and customs on water use, emphasizing as well theimportance of this resource as an energy source.

5. To urge member states to uphold Principle 2 of the Rio Declaration on Environment andDevelopment, and to develop government policies or work through relevant international organizationsthat seek to improve the water quality of all major trans-border rivers (1,000 Km in length or longer).

6. To recognize that it is the duty of member states that share major trans-border rivers to respectand uphold the provisions of any water sharing treaties they may have so that the people of all the nationsinvolved may have equal access to clean water.

7. To recognize the environmental and economic importance of the wetlands formed by majortrans-border rivers, and to develop government programs or work through relevant internationalorganizations to preserve, protect, and improve the quality and quantity of water that flows into thesewetlands.

8. To respect and protect all plant and animal life that lives and depends on the existence ofwetlands formed by major trans-border rivers, especially those species of animals and plants that areendangered.

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9. To reaffirm the seventh U.N. Millennium goal, and to call upon all member states that sharemajor trans-border rivers to foreswear taking any actions that may adversely affect the flow of waterbetween member states who share the same major trans-border river without prior consultation of thepotentially affect parties.

10. To recognize the social, cultural, and economic importance of farmers, and to call upon on allmember states that share major trans-border rivers to prioritize the farmer and to allocate water for allfarmers that work and live along major trans-border rivers according to the principles of non-discrimination and equality.

11. To acknowledge and respect that member states that share major trans-border rivers have animportant environmental and economic stake in the well being of their shared rivers, and to urge allmember states in the spirit of cooperation, mutual concern, and hemispheric security to share evenly indecisions regarding all dams along these major trans-border rivers.

12. To urge all member states to respect the value of a human life with dignity, and to developgovernment programs or work through relevant international organizations to improve existing watertreatment facilities along major trans-border rivers, to increase the amount of water treatment facilitiesalong major trans-border rivers, and to remove or seriously curb the amount of nitrates and per chloratethat exist within the major trans-border rivers respective member states share.

13. To urge all member states that share major trans-border rivers to think globally in theiractions regarding the uses of their respective major trans-border river/s so that all the peoples, animals,and plants that depend on that/those particular major trans-border river/s will benefit.

Approved for form and substance: _________________________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories:1. Chile

2. Guyana

3. Jamaica

4. Costa Rica

5. Bolivia

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\THE INTER-AMERICAN FOOD FUND (IAFF)

First Committee Topic No: 4 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Canada


HAVING SEEN:

The resolution “Support for efforts to eradicate Child Malnutrition in the Americas”approved in the thirty-seventh regular session of the General Assembly in the Republic of Panama;

REAFFIRMING:

The Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area ofEconomic, Social and Cultural Rights, “Protocol of San Salvador”, which establishes the right tofood and expresses that “everyone has the right to adequate nutrition” and that States must“improve methods of production, supply and distribution of food” and “agree to promote greaterinternational cooperation”;

ACKNOWLEDGING:

The fact that Millennium Development Goals Report, a Latin American and CaribbeanPerspective expresses that “sufficient and quality nourishment is a key component to development”and that undernutrition “limits the development of physical and intellectual potential” and“seriously affects labour productivity and the population’s capacity to generate income”;

HAVING SEEN:

That the Millennium Development Goals Report, a Latin American and CaribbeanPerspective states that “by the start of the decade 10% of Latin American and the Caribbeanpopulation suffered from undernourishment”. The Report also states that “undernutrition (lowweight for age) is particularly severe in Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras andNicaragua), in some Caribbean countries (Guyana, Haiti, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines andSuriname) and in Ecuador” which account to around 1.2 million children;

ALARMED BY:

The International Food Policy Research Institute annual essay 2005-2006 which predictsthat, in a scenario based on current biofuel investment plans, in 2020 maize prices will rise 41 percent, oilseeds prices will rise 76 per cent, sugarcane prices will rise 66 per cent and wheat priceswill rise 30 per cent;

CONSIDERING:

The impact of increased food prices on the low income families in urban and rural areas ofdeveloping countries where income is not related to the agricultural and food industry opposed tothe rural areas, and on the food aid for these countries; and

HAVING STUDIED:

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Hedging as an effective economic strategy used to reduce the risk of future value changesby investing in futures and securities correlated to the initial investment,

RESOLVES:

1. To stress the need of member States to pay special attention to the problem ofundernutrition that urban and rural low income families face and will continue to face as aconsequence of the continuing increase in food prices, and the need to take specific actionto eliminate this problem.

2. To congratulate the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Inter-American Bank ofDevelopment (IBD) for their support and participation in eradicating poverty in thehemisphere and urging these organizations to efficiently contribute to reducing the effect ofthe increase in food prices on the low income families in urban and rural areas ofdeveloping countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

3. To create the Inter-American Food Fund (IAFF) administered by the InteramericanDevelopment Bank which will:

a) Encourage the member states to invest in the IAFF;b) Invest in strategically selected securities and futures with the purpose of hedging

against the risk of increase in food price; andc) Utilize the profit obtained from hedging to buffer the effect that the increase in food

prices will have on the budget of the World Food Programme.

4. To recommend the WFP to create a campaign based on providing balanced daily meals toprimary school children in urban and rural regions, since these regions will be moreaffected by the increased food prices because their income is not related to the agricultureand food industry, in the nine countries with the highest prevalence of undernutrition:Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and theGrenadines, El Salvador and Suriname based on the Millennium Development GoalsReport, a Latin American and Caribbean Perspective.

5. To request the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) to report to theGeneral Assembly at its thirty-eighth regular session on the implementation of thisresolution, which will be carried out within the resources allocated in the program-budget.

Approved for form and substance:(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories:

1. United States

2. Jamaica

3. Bolivia

4. Nicaragua

5. Guatemala

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COORDINATION OF HEMISPHERIC ELECTION MONITORING

First Committee Topic No. 2 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Bolivia


RECALLING:

That the Preamble to the Charter of the Organization of American States establishes that democracy is anindispensable condition for the stability, peace and development of the region and one of the essentialpurposes of the Organization is to promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respectfor the principle of nonintervention; and

That Article 34 of the OAS charter recognizes that basic objectives of integral development are equalityof opportunity and the full participation of their peoples in decisions relating to their own development;

BEARING IN MIND:

The Inter-American Democratic Charter, which strengthens and upholds democracy, particularly Article23, which establishes that states are responsible for organizing, conducting, and ensuring free and fairelectoral processes and Article 24 which recognizes that electoral observation missions shall be carriedout in accordance with the OAS, and that these missions are effective and independent;

HIGHLIGHTING:

The importance of hemispheric cooperation and democratic participation, for the purposes oftransparency, the exchange of technologies utilized in the promotion of free and fair elections, andsolidarity and democratic values in the hemisphere;

REAFFIRMING:

The contributions of member states to promote democratic values, strengthen political parties, andpolitical organizations as priorities for the strengthening of democracy established in the OAS Charter andthe Inter-American Democratic Charter; and

That Resolution AG/RES. 2337 (XXXVII-O/07) “Modernization and use of Electoral Technologies in theHemisphere,” recognized the importance of electoral techonoliges and horizontal cooperation andexchange of ideas concerning electoral processes;

RESOLVES:

1. To encourage Member States to promote free and fair elections in their own states and within theHemisphere.

2. To encourage Member States’ cooperation and collaboration on efforts to introduce, implement, andmaintain new technologies encouraging the continuation of free and fair electoral processes and increasedcitizen participation.

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3. To encourage Member States to ensure that the same guidelines are practiced in all election monitoringactivities to uphold the hemispheric goal of electoral integrity.

4. To encourage Member States to reaffirm their commitments to the democratic process, to play anactive and fair role in the governance process and promote healthy political competition to build anenvironment sustainable for increased electoral integrity.

5. To encourage Member States to allow election monitors to have all the facilities to accomplish theirgoals, avoiding undue restrictions on their activities or movements, during their presence in the electoralprocess.

6. To call upon member states, permanent observers, and other donors to make voluntary contributions toallow for the increased participation of citizens and the implementation of new electoral technologiesthroughout the hemisphere.

7. To call upon international organizations involved with the electoral process to aid in the acquisition ofresources to ensure the integrity of elections through the implementation of new technologies, electoralobservation missions, and monitoring elections in the hemisphere to strengthen democracy.

8. To reaffirm the mandate contained in resolution AG/RES. 2337 (XXXVII-O/07) “Modernization anduse of Electoral Technologies in the Hemisphere”, to ensure that electoral technologies are implementedand progress is made towards quality electoral processes.

9. To request the elections being monitored report back to the General Assembly as a means to maintaineach member states' commitment to free and fair elections.

Approved for form andSubstance: ___________________________________


Cosignatories:

1. Colombia

2. Panama

3. El Salvador

4. The Bahamas

5. Ecuador

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A HEMESPHERIC SUMMIT ON MIGRANT LABOR CONDITIONS

First Committee Topic No. 3 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegations of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Barbados

HAVING SEEN:

Article 3, Section J of the OAS Charter identifies “social justice and social security arebases of lasting peace” as a primary principle of the Organization;

Article 45 of the OAS Charter which states that “All human beings, without distinction asto race, sex, nationality, creed, or social condition, have a right to material well-being and to theirspiritual development, under circumstances of liberty, dignity, equality of opportunity, andeconomic security”;

Article 9 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter which states that “The elimination ofall forms of discrimination, especially gender, ethnic and race discrimination, as well as diverseforms of intolerance, the promotion and protection of human rights of indigenous peoples andmigrants, and respect for ethnic, cultural and religious diversity in the Americas contribute tostrengthening democracy and citizen participation”;

CONSIDERING:

The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, which states that all personsare equal before the law and have the rights and duties established in that declaration, withoutdistinction as to race, sex, language, creed, or any other factor;

The American Convention on Human Rights, which states that essential human rights arenot derived from one’s being a national of a certain state, but are based upon attributes of thehuman personality, and therefore justify international protection;

The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers andMembers of Their Families, which established the duty of states to ensure that all migrantworkers and members of their families within their territory, or subject to their jurisdiction, aregiven rights provided for in the Convention without distinction as to sex, race, color, language,religion or conviction; political opinion; national, ethnic, or social origin; age; economic position;property; marital status; birth; or other status;

RECOGNIZING:

The continued commitment of the OAS to the protection of the human rights of migrantworkers and their families, as well as the substantial body of constructive work done by the OAStoward the goal of safeguarding migrant rights, as exemplified by, inter alia, the followingresolutions AG/RES. 1717 (XXX-O/00), AG/RES. 1775 (XXXI-O/01), AG/RES. 1898 (XXXII-O/02), AG/RES. 1928 (XXXIII-O/03), AG/RES. 2027 (XXXIV-O/04), AG/RES. 2130 (XXXV-O/05), AG/RES. 2224 (XXXVI-O/06), and AG/RES. 2326 (XXXVII-O/07);

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RECALLING:

That those nations that participated in the Third Summit of the Americas established thattheir governments would commit to the 1998 Santiago Summit: to “strengthen cooperationamong states to address, with a comprehensive, objective, long term focus, the manifestations,origins, and effects of migration in the region”; and

NOTING:

That closer monitoring of trans-national migrant populations, health of migrant workers,and the effects on woman migrants in the hemisphere would serve to ensure both that themigrants’ human rights are being respected and upheld as well as provide a counter-measureagainst members of criminal elements attempting to use migrant populations for cover;

That non-discrimination, together with equality before the law and equal protection of thelaw, are elements of a general basic principle related to the protection of human rights,

RESOLVES:

1. To praise and congratulate the Inter-American Program for the Promotion and Protection ofHuman Rights of Migrants, Including Migrant Workers and Their Families for effortstowards expunging mistreatment of migrant workers, and to applaud the governments ofmember states doing the same within their own borders.

2. To request the Secretary General call for a “Summit on Migrant Labor Conditions” and tosend invitations to experts in the field of migrant labor.

3. To request that this summit take place in Washington, D.C.

4. To request that this summit occur during the first three full weeks of July, 2008.

5. To further invite the media to the summit in order to for them to inform the public of theissues at the summit.

6. To request representatives to the summit to consider the following issues as a means toimprove health standards of documented migrant workers:

a. The rights and obligations of the migrant worker and the employer to have a contractof employment.

b. Laws involving safety and health of workers, and improving workplace conditionsc. Unfair and wrongful dismissal from work due to injury or illness.

7. To include a focus group on women charged with:a. Analyzing the main challenges associated with migration, labor conditions and the

promotion of integration of peoples.b. Requesting that the Secretary General to prepare a report that provides an analysis of

the routes, risk factors, causes, conditions, consequences, obstacles, and deficienciesin fighting illegal transportation of women.

c. Providing technical assistance to Member States that so request it, for thedevelopment and passage of political reforms to strengthen the law migrationsystem.

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8. To urge the national governments of member states to increase their efforts to monitor thebackground of migrant workers as an socioeconomic detriment, with the equally importantgoals of:

a. Ensuring that the human rights of migrant workers are being upheld by all elementswithin the host nation and,

b. Removing from migrant populations those members who perpetrate criminal acts,are suspected of working as part of a criminal element, or otherwise seek to use themigrant status as a cover or conduit for illegal activities.

c. Requesting the representatives of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism(CICTE) to present in this meeting its assessment of customs and immigrationsecurity of each country.

9. To finance the expense of the Summit with funding from Program 21B: Office ofConferences and Meetings, Chapter 2: Executive Office of the Assistant Secretary General,to seek funding from PAHO, ILO, WHO, World Bank, CIM, and to seek voluntarydonations from member and observer states.

10. To request that the Secretary General report on the Conference and its recommendations tothe General Assembly at the first General Assembly meeting following the Conference.

Approved for form and substance: ____________________________________(Signature of faculty advisor)

Cosignatories:

1. Grenada

2. Honduras

3. Argentina

4. Mexico

5. Ecuador

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PLAN OF ACTION TO ERADICATE HUNGER, ENSURE CLEAN WATER ACCESS,AND GUARANTEE BASIC HEALTHCARE IN THE HEMISPHERE BY 2025


Draft Resolution presented by the Delegations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and theRepublic of Ecuador


HAVING SEEN:

The Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS) (1948) which states as a goalin Chapter I, Article 2 g, “to eradicate extreme poverty, which constitutes an obstacle to the fulldemocratic development of the peoples of the hemisphere”;

Article 34, section (j) of the Charter of the Organization of American States outlining“Proper Nutrition” as a basic goal in the pursuit of “equality of opportunity, the elimination ofextreme poverty, equitable distribution of wealth and income and the full participation of theirpeoples in decisions relating to their own development”;

Article 25, section 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UnitedNations in General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948 stating that “Everyonehas the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of hisfamily, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services”;

Article 27, section 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirming that“Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the artsand to share in scientific advancement and its benefits”;

Article 10 of the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights inthe Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, “Protocol of San Salvador" (1988) whichproclaims that “everyone shall have the right to health, understood to mean the enjoyment of thehighest level of physical, mental and social well-being”;

Article 11 of the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights inthe Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, “Protocol of San Salvador" (1988) whichdeclares that “everyone shall have the right to live in a healthy environment and to have access tobasic public services”;

Article 12 of the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights inthe Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, “Protocol of San Salvador" (1988) whichasserts that “everyone has the right to adequate nutrition which guarantees the possibility ofenjoying the highest level of physical, emotional and intellectual development”;

AG/RES. 2204 (XXXVI-O/06), “Eradicating Illiteracy and Fighting Diseases that AffectIntegral Development” which proposes to “strengthen formal dialogue with the Pan AmericanHealth Organization (PAHO), through a strategic partnership between the two organizations, in

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order to coordinate respective efforts, in the area of competence of each, with regard to healthproblems in the Americas and their social impact”;

AG/RES. 2332 (XXXVII-O/07), “The Importance of Nutrition for Achieving HealthierPopulations and Integral Development” which supports “the Pan American Health Organization’simplementation of the Regional Strategy on Nutrition in Health and Development” and suggests“the implementation and dissemination in the Americas of a joint program aimed at reducing thehigh incidence of malnutrition and of poor nutrition due to overeating”;

AG/RES. 2347 (XXXVII-O/07), which promotes dialogue and cooperation with regard tomeeting the 2015 Millennium Development Goals for “halving the proportion of people who areunable to reach or to afford safe drinking water, on the basis of nondiscrimination, equality,equity, solidarity, and environmental sustainability”;

AG/RES 2349 (XXXVII-O/07) “Water, Health, and Human Rights” encouragingthe consideration of water as an indispensable resource and promoting the protection ofsafe drinking water for all citizens of the Member States;

Paragraph 13 of the Declaration of the Fourth Summit of the Americas which commits tofight poverty, with one of the goals being greater access to health care;

Paragraph 34 of the Declaration of the Fourth Summit of the Americas which proposesthe development of mechanisms within the World Health Organization (WHO) and the PAHO tofight chronic diseases; and

CONSIDERING:

Human rights are inalienable prerequisites to living a dignified life, and that one cannotlive such a life without access to potable water, food, and basic health care, therefore clean water,food, and health care are basic human rights;

The OAS as an organization that is committed to the eradication of poverty andadvancement of human rights in the Hemisphere;

Access to safe drinking water dramatically improves health and the economic status ofpeople yet, many people in the Hemisphere do not have access to potable water;

The previous and current work of Costa Rica in securing full access to improved drinkingwater sources in urban areas and increased access to improved drinking water sources in ruralareas;

That, despite producing more than enough food to sustain the region’s population, 16%of children in the Americas suffer from malnutrition;

The UN through its Millennium Declaration has resolved by 2015 to reduce by half thenumber of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, those who suffer fromhunger, and the incidence of disease on a worldwide basis, and to eradicate poverty by 2025,

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RESOLVES:

1. To commend Member States for their efforts in improving access to clean water, food, andhealth care.

2. To suggest that the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) extend aninvitation to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to create a working group toorganize a committee on the improvement of access to clean water, food security, and healthcare.

3. To urge the working group to invite experts in the fields of clean water, food, basic healthcare and sustainable development to advise the committee on new technologies and programswithin the aforementioned fields.

4. To recommend that the committee establish a Plan of Action with goals and standards to bemet each year to eradicate hunger, and provide clean water and basic health care by the year2025, said goals to be drafted to align with and to advance the United Nations MillenniumDevelopment goals, with the submitted Plan of Action to the General Assembly no later thanits thirty-ninth regular session.

5. To call upon Member States to put their efforts towards guarantee access to clean water

resources for all citizens.

6. To suggest that the committee consider inviting Member States, Non-GovernmentalOrganizations, and the United Nations to work in conjunction with the Plan of Action.

7. To suggest that the Special Multilateral Fund of the Inter-American Council for IntegralDevelopment (FEMCIDI) funds established by the Chapter II.3 of the Budgetary andFinancial Rules of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States as well asvoluntary donations by Member States and Permanent Observer States fund committeeactivities.

Approved for form and substance: _____________________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories:

1. Chile

2. Jamaica

3. Dominica

4. Argentina

5. Mexico

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IMPROVE WATER RESOURCE PRACTICES


Draft Resolution presented by the Delegations of Antigua & Barbuda and Trinidad & Tobago


CONSIDERING:

The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, which states, “The American peoples

have acknowledged the dignity of the individual, and their national constitutions recognize that juridical and

political institutions, which regulate life in human society, have as their principal aim the protection of the

essential rights of man and the creation of circumstances that will permit him to achieve spiritual and material

progress and attain happiness”;

The importance of health as an essential right of man established by the Additional Protocol to the

American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San

Salvador” which states in Article 10 that, “Everyone shall have the right to health, understood to mean the

enjoyment of the highest level of physical, mental and social well-being;” and furthermore in Article 11

that, “Everyone shall have the right to live in a healthy environment and to have access to basic public

services”;

The connection between one’s health and the environmental conditions established by the Plan of

Action of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia which reaffirms that, “Human beings are entitled to a healthy

and productive life in harmony with nature …Development strategies need to include sustainability as an

essential requirement for the balanced, interdependent, and integral attainment of economic, social, and

environmental goals”;

HAVING SEEN:

The 1972 Stockholm Declaration which first established the need to, “Shape our actions throughout

the world with more prudent care for their environmental consequences” and establish, “Fuller knowledge

and wiser action,” so that we may, “Achieve for ourselves and our posterity a better life in an

environment more in keeping with human needs and hopes”;

The AG/RES. 1819 (XXXI-O/01) Human Rights and the Environment that encourages the

“Collaboration with other organs of the inter-American system” in order to develop, “A study of the

possible interrelationship of environmental protection and the effective enjoyment of human rights”;

The Follow-Up of the Mandates of the Second Summit of the Americas that encourages

collaboration and transfer of knowledge between American States in order to, “Strengthen and improve

existing national and regional networks of health information and surveillance systems, so that

stakeholders have access to data to address critical health issues in the Region, in order to make

appropriate clinical and managerial decisions"; and

RECOGNIZING:

The commitment demonstrated by the Member States to improve environmental conditions in order

to encourage high quality of life for all individuals;

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The efforts of the Inter-American Program for Sustainable Development to establish strategic

priorities that include: "(i) Sustainable agriculture, the sustainable management of forests and other

natural resources; (ii) Water resources, land and health; (iii) Natural hazard risk management; (iv)

Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; (v) Coastal zone management and adaptation to climate

change; (vi) Renewable energy and energy efficiency promotion; and (vii) Capacity building and

institutional strengthening for sustainable development and environmental management”;

The Inter-American Program for Sustainable Development goal to mitigate the damages and health

hazards associated with natural disasters by the creation of the National Hazard Risk Management

organization that encourages the exchange of information and cooperation among Member States;

The Health and Environment Ministers of the Americas initial goals to prevent water pollution;encourage water supply and sanitation; explore the best practices and technologies for water sanitationand purification; and develop individualized response plans for emergencies and natural disasters in orderto mitigate health hazards to the populations,

RESOLVES:

1. To encourage member states to emphasize that water is a finite and vulnerable resource, whichperforms an environmental, cultural, social and economic function.

2. To recognize the importance of clean water and healthy environment as essential resources that allMember States may commit to provide and protect where resources and national legislation permit.

3. To encourage the development of Hazard Mitigation Plans that seek to mitigate the vulnerability of thepopulation; and in addition, endeavor to quickly respond to and recover from natural disasters such asHurricanes and Earthquakes through regional co-operation as well as policy and strategy coordination inresearch and development.

4.To encourage the research and development of new technologies for portable water purification thatmay be used if the existing water supply is compromised.

5.To facilitate the transfer of technology and promote the sharing of information so that all MemberStates may benefit from research and development efforts, for which access to such knowledge must bedemocratic and transparent.

6. To seek funding for said programs from contributions of Member States and the Organization ofAmerican States, Inter-American Program for Sustainable Development and Environment.

Approved for form and substance ___________________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories:1. Venezuela

2. Mexico

3. Jamaica

4. Canada

5. Grenada

6. Chile

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PROMOTING ACCESS TO DRINKABLE WATER AND HEALTH CARE IN THEHEMISPHERE

First Committee Topic No. 4 of the AgendaJoint Draft Resolution Presented by the Delegations of Guatemala and Honduras



Article 34, of the Charter of the OAS, calls for the “Protection of man's potentialthrough the extension and application of modern medical science”;

That the Declaration of Santiago on Democratic and Public Trust: A NewCommitment to Good Governance for the Americas created at the thirty-third regularsession of the OAS General Assembly, calls for states to “strengthen their publicpolicies and reinforce measures to address directly the grave problems of malnutritionand healthcare, which hamper the consolidation of democracy”;

CONSIDERING:

That the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Persons signed in1948 affirms every person the right to preservation of health and to well being;

That the First Summit of the Americas held in Miami in 1994, addressedequitable access to basic health services and called for state action plans andprograms for greater, non-discriminatory access to a stronger public healthinfrastructure;

That in the Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 1996, member statesaffirmed that:

a. Human beings are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony withnature and , as such, are the focus of sustainable development concerns,

b. Member states will establish or strengthen programs, policies andinstitutional frameworks in support of sustainable development objectives,and

c. Member states will provide adequate levels of nutrition, a greater degree offood security, and equitable and effective access to basic health care; and

HAVING SEEN:

That the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the GeneralAssembly in resolution 217 A (III)(1948), Article 25, states “Everyone has the right to astandard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and of his family,including food, clothing, housing, medical care, and necessary social services”,

RESOLVES:

1. To urge that all member states consider recognizing health care as a basic humanright.

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2. To suggest a joint program be created between the OAS and the Pan AmericanHealth Organization (PAHO) that will compile information on the conditions ofhealth care and clean water within each member state.

3. To request that a report be presented at the 39th meeting of the General Assemblythat gives recommendations for basic standards that each member state shouldstrive to achieve.

4. To use these recommendations to create a joint declaration at the 40th generalassembly to establish clean water and health care standards to encourage theirimplementation throughout the hemisphere.

5. To request that financing for the program be amended into next year’s budget forthe Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), along with voluntarydonations from member states, observer states, non-governmental organizations(NGO’s) and participating civil society organizations (CSO’s).

Approved for form and substance _________________________Signature of Faculty Advisor

Cosignatories

1. El Salvador

2. Bolivia

3. Venezuela

4. Nicaragua

5. Peru

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FOR THE PROMOTION OF VOLUNTARY BLOOD DONATION

First Committee Topic No. 1 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Uruguay

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY:

AFFIRMING:

That the constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) declares in

its principles that “Governments have a responsibility for the health of their

peoples which can be fulfilled only by the provision of adequate health and

social measures”;

RECALLING:

That the 41st Directing Council of The Pan American Health

Organization (PAHO) (1999), entrusts the Director to assist in the streghtening

of national programs for voluntary, nonremunerated, repeated blood donation;

CONSIDERING:

That the 41st Directing Council of The Pan American Health

Organization (PAHO) (1999), resolved to urge member states to promote the

development of national blood programs and transfusion services, based on the

voluntary, nonremunerated, and repeated donation of blood, as one indicator of

the human development of the population , and on quality assurance;

That the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in the Resolution

CD46.R5 (2005) resolved to urge member states to promote the participation of

the public and private sectors, ministries of education, labor and social

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development, and civil society in the international, national and local activities

undertaken to implement the Regional Plan;


That the number of voluntary donors in the Region of the Americas is still

limited as stated in the Regional Plan of Action for Transfusion Safety 2006-

2010 of the PAHO; and

HAVING SEEN:

Resolution CD46.R16 “Progress Report on the Global Safe Blood Initiative

and Plan of Action for 2006 – 2010”,

RESOLVES:

1. To urge the Member States to make of the Blood Donation Programs a

national priority.

2. To recommend that blood donation programs be considered not only as a

medical but as a social matter.

3. To advise the Member States’ Ministries of Health to help distribute the Red

Cross and Red Crescent Societies Manual “making a difference: recruiting

voluntary, non remunerated blood donors” (2002) in the schools and

universities of their countries, as a strategy to forward the PAHO Plan of

Action for 2006 – 2010.

4. To urge Member States to promote in the interior of these institutions the

creation of practical initiatives which promote voluntary, non remunerated,

and repeated donation of blood, based on the said manual.

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5. To encourage the Member States to collaborate with the PAHO and its

initiative of donating blood by means of the creation of a National Health

Campaign that includes blood donations as the main focus of the

populations’ contribution to the well being of all citizens.

Approved for form and substance _________________________

Signature of faculty advisor

Cosignatories:

1. Ecuador

2. Barbados

3. Peru

4. Costa Rica

5. Panama

6. Canada

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ADOPTION BY ALL OAS MEMBER STATES OF THE EIGHT CORE LABOR

CONVENTIONS SET FORTH BY THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION

1ST Committee Topic No. 3 of the Agenda Draft

Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Peru


CONSIDERING:

That one of the principles found in Chapter II of the OAS Charter states that, “Economic

cooperation is essential to the common welfare and prosperity of the peoples of the continent;”

BEARING IN MIND:

The lack of certain uniform labor standards in place for all member states of the OAS may give

some member states an economic advantage over others thereby decreasing economic

cooperation and placing the common welfare in jeopardy;

RECALLING:

That another OAS principle found in Chapter II of the OAS Charter states that, “The American

States proclaim the fundamental rights of the individual without distinction as to race,

nationality, creed, or sex;”

ACKNOWLEDGING:

That certain labor practices currently used to bring about increased profit margins violate the

fundamental rights of the individual worker;

HAVING SEEN:

The International Labor Organization (ILO) has identified four basic rights as "fundamental to

the rights of human beings at work" and developed conventions which have been ratified by

many nations including some OAS member states corresponding to these rights;

NOTING:

That these four basic rights and their corresponding conventions are as follows:

a. Freedom of association (Convention No. 87) and the right to organize and bargain

collectively (Convention No. 98),

b. Freedom from forced labor (Convention No. 29 and 105),

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c. Equal remuneration (Convention No. 100) and nondiscrimination in employment

(Convention No. 111),

d. Abolition of child labor (Convention No. 138 and 182); and

AWARE:

That once these conventions are signed, member nations have an obligation to have them

established and enforced as national law knowing that violations of these conventions are subject

to review by the supervisory system already established by the International Labor Organization;

RESOLVES:

To call upon all member states of the OAS to sign, ratify, and put into practice the above

mentioned eight conventions established by the International Labor Organization,

APPROVED FOR FORM AND SUBSTANCE ___________________________

COSIGNATORIES

1. Nicaragua

2. Uruguay

3. El Salvador

4. Panama

5. Argentina

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COORDINATED HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM TO ENSUREBASIC HUMAN RIGHTS

First Committee Topic No. 4 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Belize


CONSIDERING:

Article XI of Chapter One Rights in the American Declaration of Rights and Duties of Manstating “Every person has the right to the preservation of his health through sanitary and social measuresrelating to food, clothing, housing and medical care, to the extent permitted by public and communityresources;”

Article XII of Chapter One Rights in the American Declaration of Rights and Duties of Manstating that “every person has the right to an education that will prepare him to attain a decent life, to raise hisstandard of living, and to be a useful member of society;”

That all 35-member states of the OAS recognize that “education is key to strengtheningdemocratic institutions…;”

Article XXVI of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating “everyone has a right toeducation” and “shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to thestrengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;”

The mission of the Executive Secretariat of Integral Development-Department of Education andCulture which is “to improve the quality and equity of education and to enhance and highlight thecontribution of their diverse cultures to economic, social, and human development;”

RECALLING:

Article XXXIV of Chapter VII Integral Development in the OAS Charter stating that “TheMember States agree that equality of opportunity, the elimination of extreme poverty, equitabledistribution of wealth and income and the full participation of their peoples in decisions relating to theirown development are, among others, basic objectives of integral development. To achieve them, theylikewise agree to devote their utmost efforts to accomplishing the...Rapid eradication of illiteracy andexpansion of educational opportunities for all;”

Article XLIX of Chapter VII Integral Development in the OAS Charter stating, “Highereducation shall be available to all…;”

Article L of the of the OAS Charter VII Integral Development stating “The Member States willgive special attention to the eradication of illiteracy, will strengthen adult and vocational educationsystems, and will ensure that the benefits of culture will be available to the entire population…;”

HAVING SEEN:

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The strategies of Executive Secretariat for Integral Development-Department of Culture andEducation to assist “in knowledge transfer and capacity building through the design and implementationof multi-country projects in education and culture;”

The progress of the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education and Hispanic Associationof Colleges and Universities’ student exchange program; and

ACKNOWLEDGING:

AG/DEC. 46 (XXXXVI-I-O/06), specifically its call to the Secretary General to continue to “supportmeasures to increase access to schooling and the quality of education at all levels- essential factors inincreasing human productivity -particularly for the most vulnerable groups. As well as efforts to ensurethat inter-American action programs and horizontal cooperation strategies strengthen the quality of theteaching processes in formal education and continuing and adult education, retraining, and lifelonglearning, including the use of new ICTs;”

The progress made at the III Summit of the Americas addressing “their commitment to promotemore effective dialogue between society and institutions of higher education and facilitate access for all tothese institutions…supporting mobility,”

RESOLVES:

1. To create the Higher Education Coordination and Administration office within the OAS HigherEducation branch for coordinating institutes of higher education in the Latin American and the Caribbeanregion

2. The Higher Education Coordination and Administration office will organize an effective system ofmobility across all member states for higher education opportunities in order to restore all highereducation program’s social legitimacy and balance education enrollment across the region. The HeadCoordinator, decided by the Secretary General will keep records of all student exchanges, and encouragea renovation and constant update of curriculum.

3. Calls upon all member states to coordinate their own colleges and universities in an effort to provideopportunities for citizens in the Latin American and the Caribbean region to gain skills outside their stateborders in an effort to help maintain basic human rights to people within the region i.e. medical training,and avoid other developmental problems including the “brain drain” phenomenon, which may inhibitdemocratization.

Approved for form and substance:___________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Co-Signatories:1. Grenada

2. Dominica

3. Chile

4. Jamaica

5. Haiti

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ABOLISHING CHILD LABOR IN THE AMERICAS

First Committee Topic No. 3 of the AgendaDraft Resolution Presented by the Delegation of Haiti


RECALLING:

Article VII of the American Declaration of the Rights and duties of man, which states:“all children have the right to special protection, care and aid”;

Article thirty-four of the Charter of the OAS, which encourages member states to have“acceptable working conditions for all”, eradicate illiteracy, and expand educational opportunitiesfor all;

Article VI of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural rights, whichpromotes “policies and techniques to achieve steady economic, social and cultural developmentand full and productive employment under conditions safeguarding fundamental political andeconomic freedoms to the individual”;

FURTHER RECALLING:

AG/RES 951 (XXXIII-O/03), which urges member states to create international treatiesthat protect the rights of children “for the future of the hemisphere”;

AG/RES 1522 (XXVII-O/97) and its consideration of “other agencies in the inter-American system… pursuing activities that address, directly or indirectly, the problems describedas they relate both to the rights of children and to their social and economic development”;

CONSIDERING:

193 states have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child;

Over 250 million children around the world are “economically active,” with 120 millionof these children working on a full-time basis;

Over 705 of child labor is performed in agriculture, hunting, forestry, and fishing;

More than 4 in 5 children work without pay; and

ACKNOWLDEDGING:

The Inter-American Children’s Institute’s (IIN) pursuit to eradicate child labor;

The work already being done by the International Labor Organization’s InternationalProgramme on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-PEC),

RESOLVES:

1. To reiterate the necessity of the IIN in the protection of children

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2. To direct the Secretary General to call a conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in May of2009, with the purposes of:

a. Bringing together multiple international organizations, civil society groups,governments, and industries concerned with the protection of children

b. Discussing prior resolutions aimed at protecting children in the workforce andtheir implementation

c. Discovering ways to eradicate child labor by 2020 via:i. Broadening the access of free education to children with the support of

governments, the IIN, and donations from member statesii. Broadening education in agricultural technology in order to lessen the

need of child labor on farmsiii. Appealing to non-profit organizations to increase the number of civil

society groups aimed towards the interaction of childreniv. The development or reformation of income-assistance programs within

member states, at the discretion of their governmentsv. Opening discussion of additional ways to eradicate child labor

d. Improving conditions of the workplace for adults in order to reduce the cyclicalpatterns involving child labor.

3. To request that the Conference be funded by the IIN, ILO, World Bank, NGOs, andINGOs, as well as voluntary donations from member and observer states.

Approved for form and substance: ___________________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Co-Signatories:

1. Panama

2. Guyana

3. Dominica

4. Chile

5. Mexico

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STRENGTHENING OF THE WHITE HELMETS COMMISION THROUGHTHE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WHITE HELMETS MEDICAL COLLECTIVE

First Committee Topic No. 1 of the AgendaDelegation of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas


AWARE OF:

That the Universal Declaration of Human Rights evokes on its Article 25 “theright to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of every man and ofhis family” and the right to count with the “medical care and necessary social services”;

RECOGNIZING:

That under the constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) everyMember State in the world has agreed to recognize the right to health as well as otherrights that relate to conditions necessary for health as a human right;

CONSIDERING:

The new amendment proposed by Canada to Chapter III to the Social Charter ofthe Americas which states that “Member states recognize that health is a fundamentalprerequisite to social cohesion and citizenship, equitable economic growth and socialdevelopment. In the absence of health, the full potential of individuals as active,productive and responsible members of society cannot be realized”;

RECALLING:

The unfortunate natural events that had harmed the peoples on our hemisphereand the increasing number of tragedies occurring in our Western Hemisphere such ashurricanes, floods, the variable extreme changes of temperatures that affect the sea levelsof water and what we have learned from those same events in order to control or preventany kind of epidemics;

RECALLING ALSO:

The document that was signed during the annual meeting of the Pan AmericanHealth Organization (PAHO) in Panama City and presented before the opening of the37th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), on which it wasestablished the Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017;

DESIRING:

That the recent agreement of understanding and strengthening efforts signed bythe Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the White Helmets commission of

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Argentina, would provide assistance to those member states in need of medical andhumanitarian aid;

BEARING IN MIND:

The vision of a Hemisphere with a immediate medical response force can not beachieve with the present lack of medical assistance in some regions especially duringemergency situation; and

RECOGNIZING:

The worldwide recognized medical institutions and services that Cuba hasdeveloped as well as its excellence performance of the doctors, nurses and medicalassistants who have served when requested after natural major disasters have impactedour hemisphere and other regions worldwide,

RESOLVES:

1. To request ten medical students or practitioners be designated per member stateand to sponsor them during their medical formation in any of their ownUniversities recognized as World Health Organization Collaborating Centres.

2. To allow, if desired by the Member States, that the medical students orpractitioners may be sent to the Universidad Medica de Santiago de Cuba or to LaEscuela Latinoamericana de Medicina in the city of La Havana, Cuba, with theexpenses of their education being covered by the medical scholarships that thegovernment of Cuba is offering to those interested in participating in thishonorable social cause, and sponsoring Member States who would decide to doso, would cover the living expenses and needs that the students may have in Cuba.

3. To serve, upon completion of Medical School in Cuba or in their own state, for aperiod of two years as a social service for The Medical Collective Branch of TheWhite Helmets.

4. To allow the appointment of a new generation of medical students in a cyclicalperiod of two years, in order to participate in this honorable social cause with therespective support of each willing Member State.

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5. To encourage the World Heath Organization (WHO) as well as the Pan AmericanHealth Organization (PAHO) to supervise, recommend and provide with especialinstruction over appointees over discretion of this organizations.

Approved for form of substance: ___________________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Cosignatories:

1. St. Lucia

2. Dominica

3. Haiti

4. Belize

5. Suriname

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