The General Assembly in session at BalMUN 2013

Twelve members of the Schiller Model United Nations group participated in their first “away” event from May 23 to 26. The Baltic Model United Nations conference, BalMUN, took place at the Innerstädtisches Gymnasium in Rostock. About 200 students from schools in Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic spent three days debating on issues surrounding the central theme, “Framework for Freedom.” Our students represented Argentina and the Republic of Korea. The committees and their issues were as follows:

Disarmament Committee

Finding innovative solutions for the reduction of the trans-boundary exchange of arms and war technology.

Finding ways to reduce the worldwide amount of weapons of mass destruction.

Environmental Committee

Encouraging measures against the deforestation of the tropical rainforest with special regard to damaged peatland areas.

Setting global guidelines for adequate prices, storage and a better distribution of food.

Human Rights Committee

Preventing migrant smuggling to reduce human trafficking.

Reviewing the integration of religious minorities as a means of cultural diversity.

Political Committee

Ensuring liberty through the unlimited flow of information and the freedom of speech.

Preventing a further increase of the worldwide crisis and its consequences for the economic relations between the member states.

Security Council

The Arab spring and the consequences for the global security architecture.

Special Conference

Providing measures against youth unemployment as a consequence of the global crisis.

Raising the awareness for the protection of children and adolescents and setting guidelines for the prohibition of child labour and child prostitution.