Motion to close the debate
4 febrero 2022
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The last day of URJCmun X edition was expected to be a relaxed session. However, all the delegates still willing to discuss, offer their proposals and even reach crucial agreements.
The debate continues, the countries talk about terrorism and global security matters, the visibility of this issue through social media as Tik Tok, the accusations to China of their concentration’s camps and the controversy about face covering in public places. They end up discussing about motorcycle helmets! Two unmoderated caucus helped the delegations elaborate a quick draft resolution composed by eleven clauses. This working paper to fight against islamophobia is been voted by nominal vote. All the clauses are voted together except the points eight and eleven, which are voted in a different voting due to several reasons. An unanimity approves the first one. Nevertheless, the second one doesn’t pass: it has six votes in favor and five votes against. As a result of the decision of the representatives, the resolution is approved without the two clauses named previously. Th debate is closed and it’s time for an informal session. A lot of interesting as well as funny gossips are read and some carnations with beautiful dedications on them are delivered. The formal awards were to: Australia with an honorable mention, China as the best delegate and Saudi Arabia is awarded as the best delegation. These prizes are well-deserved, although every representative made an outstanding work. The HRC’s committee also gives jokingly awards such as the “ghost delegate” or the “best dressed”. Moreover, it’s been decided Russia is the most likely to start a war and Australia will probably become the United Nations General Secretary. A lot of laughs and applauses take place, some other good-byes to all the amazing international delegates that came for all over Europe. And to conclude, the photographer takes some photos to have a memory of these marvelous four days. We will look at them and remember how lucky we were to be part of the Human Rights Council. We are looking forward next URJC Model United Nations. |
Marina Martínez
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RESOLUTION IN THE HRC’S COMMITTEE
3 febrero 2022
Today is an intense day. First time in the morning, the chairs read the two draft resolutions the delegates worked in during the previous sessions. After both proposals are presented, the countries defend their positions with strong speeches that encourage the rest of delegations to vote for their resolution.
The first one is sponsored by Russia, China and Saudi Arabia, the eastern block, which ensures the protection of their values and culture, the key aspect for this coalition. This working paper doesn’t recognize that people have different needs. And they insist in the reassignment of intersexual people into women or men.
The second draft resolution, sponsored by Norway, Australia and France, proposes the creation of the Gender Refugee Programme to protect the LGBTQI+ community members’ rights. It also expresses the necessity of adapt the health system to transexual people´s issues. Furthermore, they condemn the hate crimes base on transphobic matters.
After the proposals are presented, China, Russia, United Kingdom and the Netherlands introduce their amendments. This leads to an energic debate about some of the clauses. Most of the delegates deny Saudi Arabia as the representative of Muslim people. The eastern countries complain the majority of the delegates are from Occidental places. Moreover, they discus about their conception of the word “equality” and Australia even accuse Saudi Arabia of not wanting to change things and progress. Some of the amendments pass and some others are rejected.
Finally, the “resolution two” is voted first. China alleges “this resolution only solves problems in the west”. However, France says “we intent to represent all the people in the world”. And the Netherlands, as a signatory of this resolution, express their objective to reach a common ground for all the countries, values and cultures. The delegations close the debate and the second proposal, the Occidental countries´ one, is accepted with nine votes in favor, two votes against and one abstention.
In the afternoon session, they open the debate with the following theme: islamophobia and discrimination to religion minorities. The chairs introduce this subject and the countries express their positions about it. They discuss about freedom to believe, which motivate the break of the alliance between China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. The Saudi delegate keep claiming to be the only Muslim representative in the committee. Education about cultural and religious values and extremism are also tackle in the last meeting of the day. It ends with some laughs of the delegates, the staff girls and the chairs due to the tiredness of their hard work.
The first one is sponsored by Russia, China and Saudi Arabia, the eastern block, which ensures the protection of their values and culture, the key aspect for this coalition. This working paper doesn’t recognize that people have different needs. And they insist in the reassignment of intersexual people into women or men.
The second draft resolution, sponsored by Norway, Australia and France, proposes the creation of the Gender Refugee Programme to protect the LGBTQI+ community members’ rights. It also expresses the necessity of adapt the health system to transexual people´s issues. Furthermore, they condemn the hate crimes base on transphobic matters.
After the proposals are presented, China, Russia, United Kingdom and the Netherlands introduce their amendments. This leads to an energic debate about some of the clauses. Most of the delegates deny Saudi Arabia as the representative of Muslim people. The eastern countries complain the majority of the delegates are from Occidental places. Moreover, they discus about their conception of the word “equality” and Australia even accuse Saudi Arabia of not wanting to change things and progress. Some of the amendments pass and some others are rejected.
Finally, the “resolution two” is voted first. China alleges “this resolution only solves problems in the west”. However, France says “we intent to represent all the people in the world”. And the Netherlands, as a signatory of this resolution, express their objective to reach a common ground for all the countries, values and cultures. The delegations close the debate and the second proposal, the Occidental countries´ one, is accepted with nine votes in favor, two votes against and one abstention.
In the afternoon session, they open the debate with the following theme: islamophobia and discrimination to religion minorities. The chairs introduce this subject and the countries express their positions about it. They discuss about freedom to believe, which motivate the break of the alliance between China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. The Saudi delegate keep claiming to be the only Muslim representative in the committee. Education about cultural and religious values and extremism are also tackle in the last meeting of the day. It ends with some laughs of the delegates, the staff girls and the chairs due to the tiredness of their hard work.
“IT’S TIME TO REACH AN AGREEMENT”
2 febrero 2022
The Netherlands’ delegate has expressed the main idea of today: the purpose to find a resolution for the protection and recognition of transexual people.
The second day starts and the delegates are as enthusiastic as they were in the previous session. All the countries are willing to find a resolution to their first topic: Protection and recognition of transexual people.
The debate begins with a moderated caucus to find common grounds between the delegations. However, after some time discussing and expressing their positions, the debate about transgender people turns into an argument about the cultures and values of the different countries. The States are clearly biased: a coalition composed by Russia, China and Saudi Arabia defend the eastern traditions and criticize the Occident’s. This alliance is faced the rest of delegations, which support each other.
The lack of agreement continues while the representants talk about prohibition the discrimination in education, workplace and justice for transexual people. During the discussion, Russia says that in their country, transgender people can’t be visible in propaganda. China claims equality, which supposes no collective can have privileges or special treatment. And the Netherlands declares their objective is to do transgender people life better.
After pointless talk, there is an unmoderated caucus, in which the delegates have brought their positions closer and all the countries start to cooperate. The committee works to find a solution even if there are some aspects they don’t agree. Germany remarks “it is only achievable if we focus in the things we agree”, besides France shows their fear about the impossibility of reaching any resolution, because the representants have found points in common but their purposes are still different.
In the afternoon session, all the delegates work in their working papers, a several clauses with politic reforms and proposals. The countries that compose the HRC are divided in two blocks and both of them prepare their suggestions about the first topic, transexual and intersexual people’s rights.
The delegations work really hard during the whole day to progress in their negotiations and their effort has been successful. They are nearer to reach an agreement and approve a resolution to protect and recognize LGBT people. We must wait until tomorrow to see if the Human Rights Council can accord with each other or if they aren’t able to agree about the cause they are debating.
The second day starts and the delegates are as enthusiastic as they were in the previous session. All the countries are willing to find a resolution to their first topic: Protection and recognition of transexual people.
The debate begins with a moderated caucus to find common grounds between the delegations. However, after some time discussing and expressing their positions, the debate about transgender people turns into an argument about the cultures and values of the different countries. The States are clearly biased: a coalition composed by Russia, China and Saudi Arabia defend the eastern traditions and criticize the Occident’s. This alliance is faced the rest of delegations, which support each other.
The lack of agreement continues while the representants talk about prohibition the discrimination in education, workplace and justice for transexual people. During the discussion, Russia says that in their country, transgender people can’t be visible in propaganda. China claims equality, which supposes no collective can have privileges or special treatment. And the Netherlands declares their objective is to do transgender people life better.
After pointless talk, there is an unmoderated caucus, in which the delegates have brought their positions closer and all the countries start to cooperate. The committee works to find a solution even if there are some aspects they don’t agree. Germany remarks “it is only achievable if we focus in the things we agree”, besides France shows their fear about the impossibility of reaching any resolution, because the representants have found points in common but their purposes are still different.
In the afternoon session, all the delegates work in their working papers, a several clauses with politic reforms and proposals. The countries that compose the HRC are divided in two blocks and both of them prepare their suggestions about the first topic, transexual and intersexual people’s rights.
The delegations work really hard during the whole day to progress in their negotiations and their effort has been successful. They are nearer to reach an agreement and approve a resolution to protect and recognize LGBT people. We must wait until tomorrow to see if the Human Rights Council can accord with each other or if they aren’t able to agree about the cause they are debating.
URJCMUN STARTS AGAIN
1 febrero 2022
After some technical problems and a little bit of delay, URJCmun has started. The HRC chair, Miguel, and the co-chair, Adriana, explain the rules of the model. Then, the guest speaker, Johanna M. Lems, introduce the topic: Islamophobia and the discrimination of religious minorities, and give an interesting lecture about how some groups are excluded due to racial and religious reasons. To break the ice, the delegates make a mock debate about cereals and milk, where each country defended their position.
The formal debate starts with a motion to set the agenda. All the delegations decide to approach the subject: Protection and recognition of transexual people. First of all, the delegates discuss about the definition of transexual people. However, they don’t reach any agreement so they move to another topic: education children in transgender issues.
Two different blocks are defined: Eastern countries and western countries. The first one, composed by Iceland, Greece, France, Norway, Australia, Netherlands, Colombia and United Kingdom, is in favor of educating about LGBT rights. Iceland says “education is the best way to eradicate this people discrimination”, referring to transgender people. The second block, composed by China, Russia and Saudi Arabia delegations, opposes to this and explains that the visibility of transexual people is negative for kids’ outbringing.
Australia claims that every country has to accept that the discrimination of transgender people is a fact that shouldn’t be deny. An unmoderated caucus take place and all the delegates can discuss their positions in an informal way. These are expressed in a Tour the table, where every country has a minute to defend their point of view.
The debate moves to another subject, transgender people and health system. The delegations talk about equality, who must have access to the health system and who mustn’t, and also comment the mental issues that transexuals or LGBT people suffer from. The two opposite blocks maintain their positions.
To finish the day, the staff girls as well as the chairs read the gossips and have some laughs. The delegates keep on with an informal debate, nevertheless, no resolution is reach by the HRC committee. Hope the next days the different delegations agree in the topics that they discuss.
The formal debate starts with a motion to set the agenda. All the delegations decide to approach the subject: Protection and recognition of transexual people. First of all, the delegates discuss about the definition of transexual people. However, they don’t reach any agreement so they move to another topic: education children in transgender issues.
Two different blocks are defined: Eastern countries and western countries. The first one, composed by Iceland, Greece, France, Norway, Australia, Netherlands, Colombia and United Kingdom, is in favor of educating about LGBT rights. Iceland says “education is the best way to eradicate this people discrimination”, referring to transgender people. The second block, composed by China, Russia and Saudi Arabia delegations, opposes to this and explains that the visibility of transexual people is negative for kids’ outbringing.
Australia claims that every country has to accept that the discrimination of transgender people is a fact that shouldn’t be deny. An unmoderated caucus take place and all the delegates can discuss their positions in an informal way. These are expressed in a Tour the table, where every country has a minute to defend their point of view.
The debate moves to another subject, transgender people and health system. The delegations talk about equality, who must have access to the health system and who mustn’t, and also comment the mental issues that transexuals or LGBT people suffer from. The two opposite blocks maintain their positions.
To finish the day, the staff girls as well as the chairs read the gossips and have some laughs. The delegates keep on with an informal debate, nevertheless, no resolution is reach by the HRC committee. Hope the next days the different delegations agree in the topics that they discuss.
