Friday, February 22, 2013

GA3: A Committee to Remember

By Katerina Christodoulidou, Vasso Kourtoglou and Katerina Tsortanidou

Welcome to the Social and Humanitarian committee, a committee in which topics of Human Rights are discussed. The topic that was discussed refers to Child Sex Tourism which is a very crucial issue. The committee was very active and there was a long list of speakers. Especially the delegates of Libya and China made lots of points of information which helped the debate to gain interest and become fruitful.

Almost all of the countries suggested that measures should be taken such as increasing public awareness and asking for financial aid and NGOs to cooperate with each country’s governments. We have noticed there are some developed countries that haven’t suffered at all from Child Sex Tourism and others that have already taken some measures such as China but they weren’t sufficient enough.

The committee entertained a lot of time for unmoderated caucus and during this time the delegates made three alliances. The first one consisted of only developing countries whereas the two others consisted of developed countries.


We would also like to mention that DPRK made a very emotional and poetic speech. To make a long story short we find the social and humanitarian committee one of the most interesting ones and we are looking forward to finding out which the final resolutions will be.

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