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The 10th Annual UNA-USA MUN Conference

Committees and Background Guides

Below are the committees and topics that will be simulated at the 2009 UNA-USA Model UN conference. Background guides will be posted for each committee when country assignments are released.

Committee	Topic
General Assembly 1st Committee (Disarmament and Security)	Illicit Trafficking of Small Arms
General Assembly 6th Committee (Legal)	Separatist State Movements
United Nations Climate Change Conference	The Road to Copenhagen
World Health Organization	Medical Tourism and the Illicit Trafficking of Human Organs
International Atomic Energy Agency	Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
Economic and Social Council	Violence Against Women
Food and Agriculture Organization Council	Biofuels
Human Rights Council	The Right to Primary Education
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Board	Children in Armed Conflict
UN Development Program (UNDP) Executive Board	Economic Effects of HIV/AIDS
World Bank Board of Executive Directors	Microloans
Security Council	The Situation in Myanmar
Historical Security Council (1999)	The Situation in Kosovo
Historical Security Council (1993)	The Situation in Somalia

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