Your Country Policy Paper merges the most important elements of the traditional Country Profile and Position Paper into one comprehensive document, which helps you better understand your assigned Member State’s background, interests, and policies, so you can accurately represent it during our debate.

Full instructions: How to write your Country Policy Paper? 

Links to useful articles:

Security Council

Issue 1: ⁠The International Community’s Response to Gang Violence in Haiti

• Rights group urges rapid international intervention to end spiraling gang violence in Haiti | PBS News

• Haiti crisis at breaking point as gangs tighten grip ahead of transition deadline | UN News 

• Gang violence in Haiti - Amnesty International

• Explainer: Organized crime and gang violence in Haiti  

Issue 2: Addressing security and humanitarian consequences of economic sanctions on Member States

• Cuba: UN warns of possible humanitarian ‘collapse’, as oil supplies dwindle | UN News 

• Sanctions are not a humane alternative to war | Health | Al Jazeera

• Sanctions can kill as many people as wars 

• Collateral damage: The humanitarian consequences of Western sanctions on Afghanistan  

Issue 3: ⁠The Situation in Syria 

• Islamic State declares war on Syria's new government | MEO

• Ceasefire in Syria: a challenging outlook  

• Syria: Civilian Protection Lacking in Northeast Escalation | Human Rights Watch 

• Security Council Speakers Welcome Ceasefire Agreement in Syria, Call for Inclusive Political Transition with Full Participation for Women, Kurdish Minority 

General Assembly 3 (Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Issues)

Issue 1: Protection of Civilians from Drone and Air Strikes

• How drones killed nearly 1,000 civilians in Africa in three years | Drone Strikes News | Al Jazeera

• Civilians Killed & Displaced | Costs of War

• US airstrikes killed at least 22,000 civilians since 9/11, analysis finds | Global development | The Guardian   

Issue 2: Femicide and violence against women as a result of growing extremism

• Why a woman is killed every 10 minutes: global femicide

• What is the manosphere and why should we care? | UN Women – Headquarters

• The Dark Influence ofthe "Manosphere": Misogyny, Manipulation and Violence - News - Gender Concerns International   

Issue 3: Combating child exploitation in online gaming communities

• Roblox sued by Los Angeles over claims platform ‘makes children easy prey for pedophiles’ 

• Protecting Children in Online Gaming | Office of Strategy and Evidence Innocenti

• The Dangers of Online Gaming and CSAE