Harvard National Model United Nations International Photography Contest

Sign up for HARVARD NATIONAl MODEL UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST
(For students of Universitas Airlangga only)
Theme: Tradition and Innovation Accross Nations

Deadline: 20 JANUARY 2014
Send your photos to airlanggamunclub@gmail.com with the subject: “HNMUN Photo Competition – <your full name>”
Content: Photo attachment, photo caption (Title and where the photo was taken)

Terms and conditions: 
– Max 2 photos per person
– Resolution must be NO LARGER than 1 MB per photo
– Participants MUST HAVE the original size of the file
– Only simple and basic editing is allowed

Winners will get a GOLDEN TICKET to EXHIBIT your photos at HARVARD NATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS 2014 in BOSTON next February. Photos will be contested with MORE THAN 3000 pairs of eyes from all continents, all over the world!

Send your masterpiece and let the world be mesmerized by your fantastic photographs!!

(For students of Universitas Airlangga only)

CP: Salma 0838 54355530, @unairforhnmun, airlanggamunclub.wordpress.com

PRESS CORPS ONLY!

Dear Reporters,

Welcome to the Press Corps Program of Airlangga Model United Nations 2013! It is my honor to have you all in one of the most innovative committees at AirMUN. Having read all of your Special Applications, I am confident that not only will you bring creativity and passion to the conference, but you will also enjoy your tow days here as Press Corps reporters.

The Press Corps at AirMUN is truly a unique committee. You will get the opportunity to interact with every other committee, use cutting technology to create videos and blogs, and get to know the staff behind the scenes of AirMUN 2013. There is no comparison in terms of committee dynamism. From interviewing delegates and directors, to holding press conferences, to writing up opinion and news pieces, to photography, Press Corps has it all.

But most importantly, you will provide the media coverage for the entire conference. Through the Press Corps website, all the delegates, staff, and faculty advisors will be able to follow the most recent events.

The Press Corps staff has also been working tremendously hard over the past months to make the delegate experience truly spectacular. They bring their own experience and passion to Press Corps and are fully committed to making this year’s Press Corps the best Press Corps.

This link will help you prepare for tomorrow. I urge reporters to go beyond in terms of scope – be it researching a committee beforehand or staying on top of the current news. As always, please feel free to ask me any questions before the conference. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Sincerely,

 

Nadia Hartono


Director of Press Corps

nadiahartono@aol.com

 

Please click HERE to download.

Press Corps Guide

Dear Reporters,

My name is Nadia Hartono, and I am pleased to have the honor of welcoming you to Airlangga Model United Nations 2013, and to the AirMUN Press Corps. I am looking forward to an exciting and enriching experience at conference in November.

Before we begin, a bit on me: I am a junior at Unair, and am studying International Relations. I have been participating in MUN since my freshman year of high school. Beyond AirMUN, I am the head delegate of Unair for HNMUN 2014. I am particularly delighted to be the director of press corps this year since I consider myself a “news junkie” and I am truly inspired by CNN’s news anchor, Anderson Cooper.

Though all committees at AirMUN are exciting, the Press Corps is going to be one of the best experiences imaginable. I am particularly excited to run the Press Corps this year as we are deeply integrating technology into the Press Corps, and the Press Corps into conference. As a reporter, you are promised an unparalleled experience in the subtle sciences of communication and persuasion. The work that you produce will be read or viewed instantly across conference. With the choice of creating written, photographic, drawn, or video content, you have the flexibility to catch and hold people’s attention. You will be able to interview delegates, interrogate delegates at press conferences, pry secrets from delegates and leak them to the public, and spy on unmoderated caucuses to get the latest news possible. Your substantive role is tremendous. With one well-written stroke of the pen and an artfully framed press leak, you can single-handedly change the outcome of debate in a committee.

But it’s not all work and serious matters. In between driving debate across conference, you will be able to write for AirMUN’s blog, “UnMod 360°,” and discuss everything from delegate fashion to creative ways to circumvent the rules of procedure.

Before we begin, it is helpful to come into conference with a basic idea of what is expected. In this guide, you will find information on how committee will be run, which beats you will have the option of covering, and what media will be used by the Press Corps during the conference. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to email me at nadiahartono@aol.com, and I will be happy to assist. I look forward to meeting you at conference!

Best,

Nadia Hartono

Director of Press Corps

nadiahartono@aol.com

Press Corps Guide (Click to download)

19th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19) Study Guide

Honorable Delegates,

My name is Satria Nur Sya’ban. I am in my third year studying in Med School Univeristas Airlangga. I hail from where my biases have convinced me to be the greatest city that is Jakarta. My interests range from reading the first 20 pages of an interesting book in a bookstore, to wandering in neighborhoods in hopes of discovering new cafes, to bonding with friends over complaints about how many papers there is to write. But seriously, I also really enjoy photographing.

My involvement in Model UN dates back to the beginning of my last year of high school when I was in Jakarta, and my enthusiasm for MUN has only grown ever since. Now, a college student, I continue to involve myself in Model UN. In addition to that, I am also a member of Standing Committee on Research Exchange Center for Indonesian Medical Students’ Activities (SCORE CIMSA) Universitas Airlangga.

It is with distinguished honor that I welcome you to the 19^th conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. I foresee a great, lively, engaged, stimulating, and perhaps even at times heated, debate ahead of us in the 19^th Conference of Parties in Warsaw this upcoming November as we gather to address what is perhaps one of the most defining issues of our community, climate change.

As the Kyoto Protocol expires, the need to generate a new agenda for our environmental effort is upon us again. We must draw useful lessons from the our previous efforts, apply them to our changing world, and confront the challenges to development that lies ahead of us. The future of our environmental effort lies in your very hands and minds. It is altogether timely and necessary that we gather to evaluate the past actions and re-imagine our community and our world that is ahead of us.

I cannot wait to meet you.

Yours,

Satria Nur Sya’ban, Director

COP19-UNFCCC

Email satriansb@gmail.com

19^th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19)

The United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) establishes an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to address climate change. The Convention’s ultimate objective is the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that will prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference with the climate system. The Convention itself does not establish binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions for individual countries and contains no enforcement mechanisms. Rather, it provides a framework for the negotiation of specific protocols, which may then establish binding limits. The most relevant of these is Kyoto Protocol.

The UNFCCC’s Conference of the Parties (COP), which currently comprises 194 state parties, meets annually to progress implementation of the Convention. Each party has one vote and regional economic integration organisations (e.g. the European Union) are able to vote collectively. The 19^th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19) will exclusively address the issue of the Post-Kyoto Protocol that, per the Durban 2011 Platform, is intended to be developed by 2015 and in force by 2020.

Topic: The Questions of a Post-Kyoto Protocol Framework Addressing Climate Change

As greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, we have embarked on an unprecedented experiment with an uncertain outcome for the future of the planet. The Kyoto Protocol serves as an initial step through 2012 to mitigate the threats posed by global climate change. A second step is needed, and policymakers, scholars, business people, and environmentalists have begun debating the structure of the successor to the Kyoto agreement. COP19 aims to discuss a wide-ranging menu of options for post-Kyoto climate policy, with a concern throughout to learn from past experience in order to maximize opportunities for future success in the real, “second-best” world.

The Social Cultural and Humanitarian (SOCHUM) Committee Study Guide

Dear Delegates,

Welcome to the Airlangga Model United Nations 2013! My name is Mytha Eliva Veritasia and I am both honored and excited to be directing the Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian Committee. I am a third year student at Universitas Airlangga, majoring in Communication Studies. My interests vary from media and cultural issues to gourmet dishes to human rights.

This year’s Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian Committee (commonly referred to as SOCHUM) deals with one area of human trafficking, a modern form of slavery that has persisted despite past efforts to combat and prevent it. Although the topic, human trafficking for organ removal can sound daunting, this background ground, as well as further research and your enthusiasm and passion for the issue at hand will make the conference experience enjoyable and meaningful.

Human trafficking for organ removal, require an international, national and regional perspective and solutions in terms of prevention, prosecution and protection. Globalization is reshaping the face of modern slavery by reducing the cost and effort required for transportation; capitalism drives the supply and demand of organ market; technology, especially the internet, is diversifying the means of recruitment and control by the traffickers; medical enhancements have increased the life span, and made the organ transplantation surgery more safe, adding to the demand for organs.

These are some of the evolving changes that the Committee can and should address, and require innovative thinking. Think outside of the box of the given international frameworks and instruments, and think practical for the implementation of such. The discussion should be focused primarily on their social, cultural, humanitarian aspects. If you have any questions about anything on the two topics, the background guide, or the committee, or if you want to introduce yourselves, please do email me! I look forward to meeting all of you at SOCHUM in November 16^th!

Sincerely,

Mytha Eliva Veritasia

Director, Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee

Airlangga Model United Nations 2013

mitta.minthus@yahoo.com

The Social, Humanitarian and Cultural (SOCHUM) Committee 

Established in 1945, the United Nations General Assembly is one of the five main bodies of the UN. The Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (commonly referred to as SOCHUM) is the third committee of the six in the General Assembly, and was chartered in 1948.

Since then, SOCHUM has played an essential role in the human rights arena. At the 64th session of the General Assembly, the committee considered 64 draft resolutions, more than half of which were submitted under the human rights agenda alone, including the country-specific resolution on human rights situations.

The committee discusses issues including but not limited to: the advancement of women, the protection of children, indigenous issues, the treatment of refuges, the promotion of fundamental freedoms through the elimination of racism and racial discrimination, the promotion of the right to self-determination, social development questions regarding youth, family, ageing, persons with disabilities, crime prevention, criminal justice and drug control.

The Committee works in conjunction with the with the other committees of the United Nations, such as United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Development Fund for women, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, and with the government agencies and non-government organizations as necessary.

Topic: Organ Trafficking (click to download)

Human trafficking in general is underreported, and its clandestine nature makes it difficult for the public to obtain an accurate picture. This is even truer for organ trafficking. Much of what we know revolve around the urban myths, stories in which the newlyweds on a honeymoon trip to India ride an unknown taxi, wake up in a hotel, and find a note on the desk saying that the kidney has been removed, please contact the hospital.

These urban myths gain strengths from the lack of accurate, specific statistics. This is one of the areas for future action: to obtain data in order to analyze the flow, trend, problems and weaknesses. Organ trafficking involves complex sectors varying from the patients in need of organ transplants, doctors performing the surgeries to the organ donors or victims, to the intermediaries who provide the facilities and means of transportation.

The growing demand for organs due to the desire for longevity and improved medical safety continues to fuel the black market of organs and human trafficking for organ removal.

World Health Organisations Study Guide

Dear Delegates,

Welcome to the AirMUN 2013 WHO committee! My name is Olivia Listiowati and I am thrilled to be your director for this committee.

To give you a brief overview about me, I am currently a senior at Medical School of UniversitasAirlangga. Outside of MUN, I am also an active member of the Asian Medical Student Association as well as Forum Ilmiah dan Studi Mahasiswa (FORISMA). When not in class, I can usually be found sitting by the river reading novels.

Model United Nations was unfortunately nonexistent in my school district, so I did not participate in my first MUN conference until college. Over the course of my first conference, I became completely hooked onto MUN as a result of eavesdropping in on informal caucusing, checking resolution drafts, and working with students who were earnestly passionate about international affairs.

This committee will be deliberating a topic that is very near and dear to me—The Questions of Global Environmental Change in Disease Dynamics. Communicable disease treatment is still dangerously lacking in many nations and, in some cases, is virtually nonexistent and remains unenforced. In extreme circumstances, the victims of these illness have been degraded to the point where they are deprived even of the recognition of being human. The dire situation of Global Environmental Change in Disease Dynamics demands the attention of this committee and the United Nations, and I sincerely hope that this committee and conference will raise awareness and evoke action on the topic.

If you have any questions, concerns, or if you would just like to reach out and introduce yourself, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to meeting each and every one of you at AirMUN!

Sincerely,

Olivia Listiowati Prawoto

Director, World Health Organisation

Airlangga Model United Nations 2013

olivia_sb@yahoo.com

World Health Organisation (WHO)

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is the overarching authority for health within the UN. As well as providing leadership on global public and private health matters, shaping the health research agenda, creating policy solutions, and monitoring health trends, the organisation also works to provide direct technical support to countries. Through its six point agenda it aims to address international health challenges through promoting development, fostering health security, strengthening health systems, harnessing research and information, enhancing partnerships and improving its own performance.

Topic: The Question of Global Environmental Change in Disease Dynamics

While the international community largely expected human successes in dealing with infectious diseases such as smallpox, malaria, polio and yellow fever, recent evidence has shown an a reversal in declining death rates due to infectious diseases. Environmental change is an explanation for this phenomenon. Despite the reality of climate change still being doubted in some quarters, studies have shown that human-induced environmental change can cause significant increases in disease amongst both human and wildlife populations. Environmental change — which consists of climate change, deforestation, urban sprawl amongst others — has been linked to the increasing prevalence of malaria, West Nile virus dengue fever, and over 40 other infectious diseases. Transmitters of disease to humans (food, water and animals) are all being affected by human-induced environmental change. The World Health Organisation has been collecting research on increasing infectious disease prevalence, making it the ideal body to discuss the role of environmental change in disease dynamics. The deadly reality of human-induced environmental change means its discussion can no longer be limited to bodies of the UN that are environmental in nature.

Airlangga MUN Club is looking for NGOs and Press Corps!!!!

We are looking for 18 young eager delegates to represent various NGOs and Press for our annual Airlangga Model United Nations held on November 16th-17th.

News agencies and NGOs represented at AirMUN 2013 are:

1. Amnesty International (NGO) [2 delegates]
2. Médecins Sans Frontières (NGO) [2 delegates]
3. The World Resources Institute (NGO) [2 delegates]
4. Agence France-Presse
5. Al-Jazeera
6. 
Baltic News Service
7. 
BBC News
8. CNN
9. Deutsche Presse-Agentur
10. Der Spiegel
11. Folha de S. Paolo
12. Komsomolskaya Pravda
13. Reuters
14. The Daily Beast
15. The Times of India Group
16. Wall Street Journal
17. Xinhua News Agency
18. Yomiuri Shimbun

Submit your cv to airlanggamun@gmail.com by November 7th 11:59pm

Food and drinks provided, get certificates + SKP international, special discount and a chance to interview and work with real diplomats!!

NGOs and Press Corps recruitment is only available for those who live in Surabaya

For inquiry please contact Raisa Selena 081249999718

Pre-Conference Handbook Released!!

Dear Delegates,

 It is our pleasure to congratulate you on registering for AirMUN 2013. The fact that AirMUN 2013 is now just three weeks away is tremendously exciting and we cannot wait for you to arrive in Surabaya for what promises to be a truly fantastic week of debate and diplomacy.

Over the next few weeks, your preparation for the conference will really begin in earnest so to assist you, we have prepared a pre-conference handbook which you can download here. It contains an overview of everything you need to know so that you arrive in Surabaya ready to make the most of your AirMUN 2013 experience.

We will continue to stay in touch between now and the conference. In the meantime do not hesitate to contact us or any of the Secretariat if there is anything we can help you with.

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Warm regards,

AirMUN 2013 Secretariat