UN Educational Committee
Resolution Text
| Category: | Human Rights | Strength: | Strong | Proposed By: | Hersfold |
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Description:
NOTICING, that the condition of many educational facilities worldwide lack the ability to properly teach thier children, in that:
- Classrooms are falling into disrepair;
- Teachers are unable to properly educate their students due to poor training:
- And, schools do not have sufficent funds to purchase better equipment to replace old, broken and/or out-of-date materials;
SEEING that a student's mental welfare and self-esteem can be greatly improved through extra-curricular activities, which many schools can not afford or do not fund sufficently;
FINDING that the food served in many school cafeterias is not healthy, and tastes revolting besides;
SHOCKED by the fact that many school systems lack sufficent security systems to keep their students safe from dangerous trespassers and, in some cases, themselves;
HEARING that many countries cut the budget for education before anything else to aid funding for other programs;
HAVING PASSED the resolution "Free Education" on August 19th of the year 2003;
AND REALIZING that today's children are tommorrow's future, and without proper education of these children, our future will fail;
THE NATIONSTATES UNITED NATIONS shall form the United Nations Educational Committee, or UNEC, which shall resolve all of these problems in our nation's educational systems by providing funding to these systems, so they may repair unsafe schools, purchase security systems to protect our students from harm, provide extra-curricular activities to help our children's mental and physical state of being, provide them with healthier school lunches, provide a better learning environment for our children by training teachers and purchasing more up-to-date materials for the students, and overall ensuring our world's future to be a prosperous one.
- Votes For: 11,237
- Votes Against: 7,167
- Implemented: Fri Apr 9 2004
Gameplay Impacts
This resolution reached the United Nations floor at a time when the proposal rule set prohibited resolutions from targetting specific nations. However, the final text of the resoluion included a minor typo that became one of the main points of the early debate. Instead of granting aid to "nations'", the text accidently read "nation's". Opponents to the resolution called upon the game moderators to delete the resolution as they argued the resolution violated the current rule set, however, the moderators pointed out that once a resolution reached the UN floor that they do not have the ability to delete resolutions. If they had caught the typo prior to when the resolution reached the UN floor (even after it had achieved quorum), they could have deleted it. However, it is not clear if the moderators at the time would have done so. It was an obvious typo, and thus it was ruled that the resolution was legal and the typo should be ignored.
