The committees listed below are being
represented in the 36th Session of GEMUN, May, 2025.
Each section on this page has a collection of links for the respective
committee, which we are always in process of updating.
If you find a link that is expired, or a
good one that needs to be added, please send an email to GEMUN's staff
at gemunstaff at gmail.com
NOTE: These issues are real-world issues and some students may have
trouble understanding some of the content. Please make sure parents are
aware of the topics to be covered in each committee.
GEMUN 2025 Committees and topics lists
Main Resource page
United Nations home page
-- On September 25th 2015, 193 world leaders committed to 17 Global
Goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality & injustice. Fix climate change. The Global Goals for sustainable development could get these things done. In all countries. For all people.
Some Sustainable Development Goals links:
Sustainable Development Goals - United Nations:
The Global Goals for Sustainable Development, the World's largest lesson
One Earth Climate Model
Solutions Project, making renewable energy a reality for everyone
Teaching Sustainable Development Goals - Microsoft in Education
UNU Sustainable Development Explorer - United Nations University
17Goals (an independent global partnership in over a dozen countries)
Mission 2020 - Urgent Climate Action
Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy
SDG Book Club
Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform: Topics
Comics Uniting Nations -- making the Sustainable Development Goals accessible to the citizens of the world through comics
How to teach the UN's development goals, and why - British Council
Sustainable Goals UNA-UK
Child friendly learning materials | 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development | UNICEF
Global Weirding with Katherine Hayhoe YouTube
Nine charts to show why the G20 matters for climate change.
Our Work, The Elders (an independent group of global leaders working together for peace and human rights)
Global Citizen
UNIDO | United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Topics: Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform -- Topics
The World We Want - A Future For All - A child-friendly version of the
Open Working Group proposal for Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals | All you need to know | The Guardian
United Nations Development Programme - UNDP has published a great overview booklet on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals!
Download this educational tool at http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/corporate/sustainable-development-goals-booklet
Sustainable Development Goals: Changing the World in 17 Steps - interactive | Global Development | The Guardian
Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform
Dollar Street - See How People Really Live
David Suzuki Foundation Home, One Nature
SDG Knowledge Hub - Daily SDG News
UN and Climate Change
UN Climate Change Newsroom
Sustainable Energy for All Forum
UNDP: Sustainable Development Goals
MY World: The United Nations Global Survey for a Better World
UN Foundation -- What we do -- Post 2015 Development Agenda
IPS -- Inter Press Service News Agency
DEVEX -- International Development News
Sustainable Business | The Guardian
Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming
The following Committees will be role-played at GEMUN 2025:
Please note that the order of precedence of the topics is not indicated
by the order in which they are listed. All topics are equally deserving
of the attention of the committees. It makes the debate MUCH more
interesting if all topics are covered. There have been times where half
or most of the resolutions submitted are on the same topic, and after
one or two of these resolutions are debated, the others receive little
interest from the committee. Try to make your resolution an interesting
and creative solution.
General Assembly (Topics in GA: Child Marriage,
Protection of Civilians in Conflict,
Conflicts in the Middle East,
Water Security,
Disarmament,
Ukraine,
Human Trafficking,
Clean Energy,
Open agenda)
Security Council (SC Topics: The Situation in Ethiopia,
Counter-Terrorism,
Piracy,
Conflict Prevention and Mediation,
Terrorism Risk in Iran,
Combating Drugs and Crime,
Kashmir Territorial Dispute,
Armenia-Azerbaijan Border Crisis,
Open Agenda -- all issues of security and international peace)
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC Topics: Economic Effects of Climate Change,
Decreasing Corruption,
Creating and Maintaining Sustainable Infrastructure Systems,
Increasing Economic Stability in Developing Countries,
World Heritage Sites and Climate Change,
Quality Public Education in Developing Countries,
Combating Poverty,
Wrongful Incrimination,
Open agenda)
United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP Topics: Habitat Loss,
Environmental Effects of Single-Use Plastic,
Wetland Degradation,
Light Pollution,
Invasive species,
Wildfires,
Natural Disasters,
Air Quality,
Open Agenda)
World Health Organization (WHO Topics: Drug and Alcohol Abuse,
Cardiovascular Health,
Access to Healthcare in Underdeveloped Regions,
Safe Transportation and Distribution of Medicine,
Suicide Prevention,
Malaria,
Antimicrobial Resistance,
Access to Care for Disabled Individuals,
Open Agenda)
Human Rights Council (HRC Topics: Rights of Indigenous People,
Weaponization of Hunger in Conflict Zones,
Protection Against Sexual Abuse in War-torn Countries,
Rights to Privacy Online,
Reprisals Against Human Rights Activists,
Violent Extremism,
Race-based Discrimination,
Internal Displacement,
Open Agenda)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF Topics: Mental Health in Refugee Children;
Childhood Malnutrition;
Increasing Access to Prenatal Care;
Children in the Sudan Crisis;
Childhood Immunization;
Ending Violence Against LGBTQ+ Children;
Strengthening Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Systems to Promote Healthy Childhood Development;
Equal Education Access for Girls;
Open Agenda)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO Topics:
Food Safety,
Developing Sustainable Agriculture,
Combating Food Insecurity,
Factory Farming,
Unfair Labor Practices in Agriculture,
Environmentally Harmful Chemicals in Agriculture,
Food Waste,
Livestock Emissions,
Open Agenda)
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW Topics: Domestic and Gender-based Violence,
Aiding Women Living in Humanitarian Crisis,
Economic Empowerment for Women,
Preventing Workplace Discrimination Against Women,
Reproductive Rights of Women,
Female Representation in Politics,
Menstrual Product Availability for Women,
Promotion of Women in Athletics,
Open agenda)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA Topics:
Nuclear Power as Clean Energy,
Radiation in Cancer Treatment,
Radioactive Cleanup,
Atomic Energy and Artificial Intelligence,
Regulation of Nuclear Energy,
Decreasing Nuclear Arms,
Nuclear Terrorism Prevention,
Nuclear Energy as a Solution in Agriculture,
Open Agenda)
Country Information/News/Miscellaneous
General Assembly (GA)
- General Assembly Home Page
- General Assembly Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
- Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure
- Why infrastructure development in Africa matters
- Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR)
- Children in conflict
- Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- Refugees
- Ukraine
- Syria Regional Refugee Response
- United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)
- UNHCR Home Page
- UNHCR Facts and Figures about Refugees
- UNHCR -- What we do
- Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
- UNHCR -- Internally Displaced People
- UNHCR -- Resettlement
- UNHCR -- Local Integration
- USA for UNHCR
- ICRC - Refugees and IDPs
- Refugees International
- Refugees Human Rights Watch
- Amnesty International Refugees
- Migration Information Source -- Refugees
- Amnesty International Refugees and Migrants
- United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
- UNU: United Nations Security Council Reform
- GPF: Security Council Reform
- Changes needed in the composition and working of the UN Security Council, proposed by The Elders
- United Nations Security Council Reform
- History of the Question of Palestine
- The Question of Palestine and the United Nations
- Strengthening the United Nations
- Gender equality | UNDP
- UN gender equality news feed
- Sustainable Development Solutions Network | Goal 4: Achieve Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, and Human Rights for All
- Education for health and well-being | UNESCO
- UNICEF publication - Girls, HIV/AIDS and Education pdf
- United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Death Penalty
- The Question of Palestine & the United Nations - Booklet
- UNRWA Gaza Strip
- Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs -- occupied Palestinian territory
- The Elders: Israel-Palestine: The politics of planning control
- Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories (Global Policy Forum)
- UNEP -- Environmental Governance
- Sustainable Energy for All
- Migration and Development | Global Development | The Guardian
- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Green Infrastructure Finance, a World Bank study
- Water and the Green Economy
- Land, Natural Resources and Conflict Prevention
- Deep Decarbonization Pathways
- UNEP's Disasters and Conflicts programme
- The Dark Side of Natural Resources
- UNEP -- Climate Change home
- What We Know (AAAS) -- American Association for Advancement of Science
- Climate Change and Global Warming
- NRDC -- Climate Change Facts, introduction
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- NASA -- Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
- Sustainable Development 2015
- Sustainable Development Goals
- United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
- UN Economic Commission for Africa
- Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
- Education for sustainable development (ESD)
- BIO -- Biotechnology healing, fueling and feeding the world
- Statistics of the Human Development Report
- A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -- Overview and full text
- International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea
- Oceans and Law of the Sea
- UNFPA Assisting in Emergencies
- International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- ISDR: Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning
- ReliefWeb
- STOP DISASTERS! A disaster simulation game from the UN/ISDR
- Committee against Torture
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Security Council (SC)
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Human Rights Council (HRC)
United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
- UNEP Home Page
- UNEP News Centre
- UN-Water: Home
- UNESCO - World Water Quality
- UNEP: Ecosystem Management
- Great Green Wall Initiative
- Climate and Clean Air Coalition
- Think, Eat, Save
- Why World Leaders Dined on Trash at the UN
- UNEP Resource Efficiency
- UNEP Disasters and Conflicts
- UNEP Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)
- UN News story: UN urges meaningful action on future health of oceans
- World Oceans Day Home
- Oceans and Law of the Sea
- UNEP: Microplastics
- UNEP | Chemicals and Waste
- UNEP | Waste
- UNEP :: Regional Seas Programme
- UN Chronicle - Climate Change in the Arctic: An Inuit Reality
- UNEP Climate Change
- Goal 13 -- Taking Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change | UN Chronicle
- Powering the Future We Want .:. United Nations
- IRENA - The International Renewable Energy Agency
- David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef, an interactive journey
- Nature Conservancy
- An Introduction to Carbon Pricing
- UNEP Forests Home
- Featured Initiatives - UNEP Forests
- UNEP - New Lending and Investment Tool for Sustainable Development
- UNEP - Resource Efficiency - Home
- UNEP - Climate Change Mitigation
- Climate Change - UN Sustainable Development
- UNEP Our Planet Magazine
- UN-REDD Program (UN - Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & Degradation)
- UN System-Wide EARTHWATCH - Biodiversity
- Promoting Biodiversity Conservation
- Bringing Climate to the Classroom, Years of Living Dangerously, National Wildlife Federation (grades 6-8 and 9-12)
- Climate Classroom Kids, National Wildlife Federation (grades K-5)
- Global Ocean Commission
- Convention on Biological Diversity Home Page
- IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature Home Page
- UN Atlas of the Oceans
- World Oceans Day
- United Nations World Ocean Assessment
- Planet Ocean - Movie
- Protecting the Ocean - National Geographic
- Our Planet -- Magazine of UNEP
- Climate and Clean Air Coalition
- Ecosystem management
- Resource Efficiency
- Water Resource Management
- UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
- UNEP About Forests
- UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet
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Consequences of increased global meat consumption on the global environment
- Oceans and Seas
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
- UNEP - Energy Security
- UNEP - Urban Environment Unit
- Center for Biological Diversity
- What is Missing? -- a project to create awareness about mass extinctions currently underway
- Project SunShine -- The science behind food & energy sustainability.
- guardian.co.uk -- environment
- Natural Resources Defense Council -- Global Warming
- National Geographic Global Warming Effects Map
- Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Climate Change & UN System
- OneWorld -- News (search for Climate Change)
- Global Environment Facility
- UNEP -- TUNZA ("TUNZA" means "to treat with care or affection" in Kiswahili)
- UNEP -- Environmental Governance
- UNEP -- Green Economy Initiative
- UNEP -- Ecosystem management key to long-term climate change adaptation
- UNEP Energy Branch
- Alternative Energy News
- Apollo Alliance -- Good Jobs, Clean Energy
- energy [r]evolution, a sustainable world energy outlook
- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Crisis Guide: Climate Change Council on Foreign Relations
- Climate Action, Assisting Business Towards Carbon Neutrality
- Earth Charter Initiative
- Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change -- wikipedia
- Repercussions of a Melting Planet
- PBS--Global Warming for Educators
- PBS--Climate Change
- Climate Change -- Science and Development Network
- People and the Planet -- Climate Change
- Ozzy ozone
- UNEP -- Ozone Secretariat
- Biodiversity -- Global Issues
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- Biodiversity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- Agenda 21 -- Combating Deforestation
- United Nations Forum on Forests
- National Geographic: Eye in the Sky--Deforestation
- Biofuels Boom Spurring Deforestation
- UNEP -- Billion Tree Campaign
- Global Forest Watch
- UN Division for Sustainable Development -- Agriculture
- What is Sustainable Agriculture? University of California
- Agriculture UN resources
- People and the planet -- Food and Agriculture
- UN Division for Sustainable Development -- Consumption and Production Patterns
- Greendex: Consumer Choice and the Environment--A Worldwide Tracking Survey
- Ocean Acidification
- Water Resources Management
- Water Supply & Sanitation
- UNEP -- Vital Water Graphics
- UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme
- Global Action Required to Avert Water Crisis, Say Reports
- Global Water Partnership
- NOW: Science & Health - Leasing the Rain - Water Facts
- UNEP -- World Environment Day
- A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
- WWF: Living Planet Campaign
- Sea Turtle Survival League
- Facts About Water Pollution
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World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country Info/News/Miscellaneous
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