FORUM: General Assembly I

FORUM: General Assembly I

QUESTION OF: Developing more immediate and sustainable forms of aid in times of humanitarian crisis and conflict in the Middle East

MAIN SUBMITTED BY: Thailand

CO-SUBMITTED BY: Syrian Arab Republic, Eritrea, Israel, Iran, Central African Republic, Maldives, Italy, India, Egypt

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY I,

Bearing in mind the Article 25 (1) of the Declaration of Human Rights stated that everyone has the rights to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control,

Acknowledging the Syrian Civil War, Iraqi Insurgency, Sinai Insurgency, Yemeni Crisis, and various conflicts in the past as being the causes of the current million-scale displacement and damage of civilians in the Middle-East,

Alarmed by increasing presence of terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the conflict zones and the implications they have for the future peace of the Middle East,

Deeply concerned that in 2016 the World Health Organization reported an estimation of over 8.6 million in urgent need of medical help whereas there has not been enough funding or medical provision to adequately provide the sufficient aid and the escalating level of violence and the death of well over 100,000 people in Syria from the UNHCR,

Commending any and all efforts performed to this day by numerous nations and organizations in attempt to assist the Middle-East in battling its humanitarian crisis, such as resolutions A/RES/253 B and S/RES/2139, and the START network,

Taking into account nations and organizations currently have trouble in reaching civilians in need due to reasons such as the lack of resources, transportation, and safety,

Affirming all member states must contribute in the attempts of stabilising the crisis in order to achieve settled peace among civilians globally,

1. Requests More Economically Developed Countries (MEDC) of all member states to correctly implement procedures for the funding and distribution of humanitarian resources to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and malnutritioned individuals in the Middle-East through ways such as but not limited to:

a. promoting all UN-related organizations of humanitarian assistance such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other global humanitarian operations such as Doctors Without Borders, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), International Rescue Committee (IRC), and Save the Children International by the uses of:

i. posts on social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram,

ii. occasional public service announcements on televisions, computers, and radios,

iii. campaigns promoting the need of support on walls of buildings, subway stations, elevators, and other places where citizens gaze upon daily,

b. checking on the transparency of humanitarian organizations or holders of donated funds in ways such as:

i. encouraging Interpol and/or NGO’s such as Transparency International to conduct annual reviews of the organizations with the authority to access donations gathered by the organization in question,

ii. sending inspectors of the national or international police to supervise all activities of large sums of money related to humanitarian funding,

iii. attempting to ensure that donation funds are allocated to the appropriate causes addressed by the organizations in question,

c. properly allocating aid so that the attempts to reach IDPs and those are not futile by:

i. designating areas confirmed to have civilians requiring humanitarian aid to be areas of reception for aid,

ii. utilising methods such as heavy transport helicopters (ex. Mi-26T) and lightweight transporter planes,

iii. facilitating the distribution of humanitarian aid to conflict zones through air drops,

d. fairly distributing all resources to each and every civilian in dire need of healthcare by thoroughly analyzing and regulating air drops and allocation of aid by UNO’s and NGO’s responsible;

2. Further Requests for the foundation of medical facilities for IDPs and refugees by ways such as:

a. constructing medical infrastructure at refugee camp sites by requesting help from organizations such as, but not limited to:

i. prominent UNO’s and NGO’s such as UNDP or Doctors Without Borders willing to participate in such construction works,

ii. MNC’s related to construction and willing to take part into the refugee work,

iii. government agencies in the vicinity willing to assist

b. encouraging prominent NGOs such as the Red Cross to provide first aid kits to refugee camps,

c. enlightening IDPs and refugees basic knowledge of medical treatment;

3. Encourages nations to boost the number of humanitarian workers and transportation deployed in the Middle-East through ways such as:

a. initiating campaigns such as “I Want You to Join the ...” that encourage physically fit citizens to participate in transporting goods and healthcare to areas determined to be in need of aid,

b. providing funds for volunteers for humanitarian aid to encourage a bigger mass of individuals to join,

c. ensuring the safety of the prospective workers by instituting strict security protocols and strongly encouraging UNOs and NGOs that dispatch workers to conduct thorough safety training and giving them adequate support on the ground,

4. Calls Upon all member states for an immediate establishment of a joint operation under the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) between prominent NGOs, Humanitarian agencies and government institutions of member states called the Committee of Middle Eastern Aid Funding (COMEAF) with procedures to efficiently share information and develop their full potential in such ways as::

a. gathering participants of COMEAF on a biannual basis, where representatives from each COMEAF member state will attend and revise current financial aid models in ways such as but not limited to:

i. appealing to non-state entities, private funding, and donors around the world,

ii. use of the funds such as implementing infrastructure and security,

b. promoting the main purpose and goal of COMEAF as a committee that consistently develops different financial models to maximize the funding and aid to the Middle East,

c. setting the focus of the COMEAF to long-term provision of aid, taking into account the ongoing crisis and massive refugee exodus, in ways such as but not limited to:

i. shaping the financial model to consider the immediacy, resolution and aftermath of the problem,

ii. investing adequate funds in areas of need,

d. requesting the member states of the COMEAF to collaborate with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in ways such as but not limited to:

i. withdraw loans from the IMF to support the current financial model that COMEAF has developed in the form of aid,

ii. make sure that above policies are designed so that they are credible, will provide long-term price sustainability, and implemented as broadly and equitably as possible;

5. Urges nations of the COMEAF to work with Transparency International by participating in this initiative to take measures to foster transparency in the movement of aid by:

a. mandating a party to identify the use of financial aid,

b. ensure the funding is used appropriately, and in the case in which it is not, the party will:

i. enforce appropriate use of the funding,

ii. implement regulations to prevent following altercations,

c. monitoring cash flow of:

i. funds,

ii. investments,

iii. technological loans;

6. Strongly Encourages more economically developed countries (MEDCs) to cooperate with relevant Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the parties of the United Nations (UN) to raise public awareness on the topic of the crisis in the Middle East in ways such as but not limited to:

a. using mass media to spread information about Middle Eastern crisis throughout the last decade through ways such as but not limited to:

i. educational television documentaries that touch the issue of Middle Eastern countries that have been largely affected by Arab Spring,

ii. the use of social media websites with easily accessible pictures and videos related to the issue with the purpose to encourage citizens support to the issue,

iii. Public Service Announcements (PSA) to educate communities on the global effects due to the Arab spring;

8. Expresses its hope that this resolution would augment contribution to alleviate the harmful consequences of violence in the Middle East towards innocent citizens and refugees and provide realistic and effective solutions to the humanitarian organisations.