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Author Topic: Repeal "UN Educational Committee"  (Read 1179 times)

Offline Eluvatar

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Repeal "UN Educational Committee"
« on: January 27, 2007, 04:51:03 AM »
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Repeal "UN Educational Committee"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal
Resolution: #54
Proposed by: David6

Description: UN Resolution #54: UN Educational Committee (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The United Nations,

Strongly identifying with the principles of promoting quality in education espoused in UN Resolution #54, "UN Educational Committee",

Taking note of the passage of UN Resolution #171, "UN Educational Aid Act", and specifically its creation of a UN Educational Advancement Fund,

Recognizing that while committees can serve useful functions, assigning two to oversight of UN educational projects is not only excessive, bureaucratic and wasteful, but further poses the risk of creating confusion and inefficiency,

Believing the UNEAF to be a generally better model than the UNEC, given the latter's powers are poorly delineated, and no provision is made for funding of its projects,

Realizing that UNEC's functions are more than sufficiently performed by UNEAF,

Thereby considering that UNEC has been relegated to the status of another useless committee,

Wishing to clarify the UN's objectives, increase its efficiency and streamline its operations, through the elimination of committees that serve no purpose other than to drain member resources,

Repeals "UN Educational Committee".

Authored by the members of ACCEL

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Quote from: UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #54
UN Educational Committee
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
 
Category: Human Rights
   
Strength: Strong
   
Proposed by: Hersfold

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And, schools do not have sufficent funds to purchase better equipment to replace old, broken and/or out-of-date materials;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

Quote from: UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #171
UN Educational Aid Act

A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.

Category: Education and Creativity

Area of Effect: Educational

Proposed by: Gruenberg

Description: The United Nations,

Firmly convinced that a high quality of education is worth securing for all people,

Acknowledging that some nations, especially those with developing economies or poor infrastructure, or these experiencing problems of internal stability, may experience understandable difficulties in providing such services,

Determined to help all people achieve access to education, and to work with, rather than against, nations and institutions encountering particular problems in this regard:

1. Proclaims it the duty of nations to ensure opportunities for education and training are reasonably accessible for all their nationals, and especially for children and young adults;

2. Declares its support for all projects aimed at increasing the availability of good, free or affordable educational services;

3. Condemns all forms of unfair and unreasonable discrimination with national educational systems, and motions for effective remedies to such;

4. Promotes schemes such as distance learning courses, part time adult education universities, and opportunities for deferred study, to ensure that those with jobs, young children or other responsibilities are able to benefit from the opportunities of education;

5. Establishes the "UN Educational Advancement Fund" (UNEAF) to:
- solicit voluntary donations from national governments, charitable and other organizations, and individuals;
- organize international conferences on educational methods, relevant technologies, academic subjects, and any other relevant topics;
- act as a point of liaison for any international academic or educational projects seeking assistance in the acquisition of funding, resources or membership;
- provide funding for research projects, infrastructure development programs, academic journal distribution and any other approved academic or educational programs, where approved by both an independent advisory council to the UNEAF, and the national government(s) of any nation(s) receiving such aid;

6. Entrusts nations with the right and responsibility to decide on the structure of their public education systems and the role of private institutions, mandatory, encouraged and prohibited subjects, skills and course elements in educational institutions, and the financing of educational programs, subject to previous UN legislation still in effect;

7. Encourages nations to ensure a sustainable supply of good teachers, educators, instructors and other educational professionals, through:
- providing small bursaries and grants to those seeking to train as educational professionals;
- ensuring reasonable pay and benefits for those working in the public education sector;
- engaging in the creation of opportunities for those in other industries to retrain and enter the educational profession;
- rigorously checking such applicants for history of violent or sexual abuse, especially involving children, and prevent any applicants who are considered a significant risk to children from obtaining teaching posts;

8. Also recognises that education is not solely an institutional prerogative, and as such requests that nations respect the importance of family and community education programs and teaching systems, formal or otherwise.

Votes For: 11,250
Votes Against: 2,307

Implemented: Sun Aug 20 2006
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Offline Bustos

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Re: Repeal "UN Educational Committee"
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2007, 07:44:46 AM »
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Re: Repeal "UN Educational Committee"
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2007, 07:48:53 AM »
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Re: Repeal "UN Educational Committee"
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2007, 05:16:37 PM »
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Re: Repeal "UN Educational Committee"
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2007, 07:31:37 PM »
For.

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Re: Repeal "UN Educational Committee"
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2007, 08:39:32 PM »
Against. (Please dont shoot me on this one, i have to play to a conservative religious ticket with certain criteria ><)

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Re: Repeal "UN Educational Committee"
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2007, 06:29:06 PM »
Against, Please see this post From the UN forums.

I wish that some one would submit an amendment to  Free Education, rather than a complete repeal.

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Re: Repeal "UN Educational Committee"
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2007, 06:45:20 PM »
Unfortunately, they can't do amendments.  If a law on the books needs changing, they have to repeal the old law and (hopefully) pass a better one to replace it.

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Re: Repeal "UN Educational Committee"
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2007, 08:40:19 PM »
Oops... Then I support the repeal in hope of better legislation to come.

(I feel silly not know that. I am new to NS, I just pretend not to be.)