Committees

Government regulation of healthcare prices can improve affordability and access, but it can also reshape black market activity and the availabilty of counterfeit drugs. Delegates will grapple with competing priorities surrounding drug pricing, manufacturing costs, substance abuse, and international involvement in healthcare markets.

Climate change affects the entire world, but its consequences are often the most severe in nations with the fewest resources to respond. This committee will focus on how the international community should share responsibility, including the role of wealthier countries, funding for vulnerable populations, and determining which nations should contribute most to global climate action.

As infectious diseases continue to pose threats across borders, gaps in global preparedness leave underprivileged regions especially vulnerable to outbreaks. Delegates will explore international cooperation on disease surveillance, resource distribution, health infrastructure, and early intervention to prevent local outbreaks from developing into global pandemics.

This Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee (SOCHUM) session will come together to address one of the most urgent international human rights crises of our time, modern slavery and human trafficking. This appears in networks of forced labor, sexual exploitation, child trafficking, and the abuse of migrants. Delegates will have to discuss and research victim support, supply chains, forced labor, border control, and organized crime.

When members of the American embassy to Mexico are taken hostage, four groups must navigate a rapidly evolving national crisis: the US government, Mexican government, news media, and a private military contractor. With each faction pursuing its own interests, delegates must race to secure the hostages before time runs out.

In June 1991, the USSR remained a nation, but was showing hints of full collapse. A few republics, such as the Baltics, had already left the Union, but there was hope: many sought a reformed but still united USSR, as seen through a March 1991 referendum. Should the nation be kept conservative and united, or be completely dissolved? What specific reforms will be made to keep it united? Why should the nation disassemble instead? The fate of the world superpower at the end of the day is within the delegates’ hands.

As World War II draws to a close, the Allied powers face the challenge of deciding what the postwar world will look like. Delegates will represent leaders, diplomats, and officials from the major powers as they negotiate the future of Germany, reparations, political influence in Europe, war crimes, and the creation of a new international order. With tensions already emerging between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, every decision could reshape Europe and alter the course of the coming Cold War.