Committees & Agendas

UN Human Rights Council

Beginner

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is the principal intergovernmental body within the UN system responsible for the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. It serves as a forum for dialogue, accountability, and cooperation on human rights issues, addressing situations of violations and thematic concerns while advancing international norms and mechanisms to uphold human dignity and fundamental freedoms.

AGENDA 1: Protecting the Human Rights of Indigenous Climate-Displaced Persons

This tackles the legal void facing indigenous peoples forced from their lands by climate change. The debate centers on responsibility: Who is obligated to protect their right to return, culture, and land when these are erased by rising seas or desertification? It’s about legal recognition in the absence of a direct legal framework.

AGENDA 2: Enhancing Technical Assistance and Capacity Building in the Area of Human Rights

This questions whether current support models—sending foreign experts, running workshops—genuinely build resilience or perpetuate dependency. The core tension is between top-down training and directly funding local defenders. The real debate is about shifting power, not just providing aid.

UNGA 6 Legal Committee

Intermediate

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the main policy-making organ of the UN that provides a forum for multilateral discussion and consensus-building of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations. The UNGA Sixth Committee is the primary forum for the consideration of legal questions within the United Nations system. It addresses issues related to international law, including its codification, progressive development, and interpretation, while fostering legal cooperation among states to strengthen the rule of law at both the international and domestic levels.

AGENDA 1: Upholding State Responsibility for Transboundary Climate Harm Caused by High-Emitting Development Policies

The area of international law which deals with climate consequences, especially transboundary climate consequences, is still minimal. Delegates in this committee must debate whether the “no-harm rule” can be applied to the complex crisis that is climate change.

Commission on the Status of Women

Intermediate

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global body dedicated to advancing gender equality, women's rights, and empowerment. It monitors progress on global gender equality standards and guides efforts to ensure a gender perspective across UN activities and initiatives.

AGENDA 1: Combatting The Rise of Technology-Facilitated Gender-based Violence Against Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD)

This topic deals with the use of digital tools—doxxing, deepfakes, coordinated online harassment—to intimidate and silence women human rights defenders. It forces a debate on platform accountability, cross-border legal jurisdiction, and the balance between protection and digital privacy. At its core, it's about whether multilateral bodies can uphold rights in digital spaces that are increasingly controlled by sovereign, often hostile, state interests.

AGENDA 2: Addressing the Trafficking of Women and Girls in Fragile and Conflict-affected States

This focuses on how state collapse and lawlessness fuel trafficking for sexual exploitation and forced labor. The debate centers on practical, gritty questions: how to integrate anti-trafficking into humanitarian and peacekeeping responses, how to create safe migration pathways to undercut smugglers, and what mechanisms—like targeted sanctions—can work when legal systems have broken down. It directly confronts the international neglect of forgotten crises and their most vulnerable victims.

International Court of Justice

Advanced

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the UN. Also known as the World Court, the ICJ settles disputes between states per international law and gives advisory opinions on legal questions referred to by UN organs and specialized organs.

AGENDA 1: The Republic of Sudan v. The United Arab Emirates: State Responsibility for the Alleged Provision of Military Support to Non-State Armed Actors

Sudan accuses the UAE of complicity in genocide through alleged support to the Rapid Support Forces of Darfur. The debate will call for delegates to examine the legal framework and systems that hold these member states accountable, ultimately recognizing and defending their respective member states under the eye of international law.

AGENDA 2: The Republic of Armenia v. The Republic of Azerbaijan: Re-examining Alleged Violations of CERD and Cultural Heritage Obligations in Nagorno-Karabakh

Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of violations against the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) citing alleged systemic discrimination, racism, and violence against Armenians. This topic requires delegates to examine the allegations in the context of the cultural heritage conflict and in accordance with CERD.

ASEAN Emergency Council

Advanced

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Emergency Council is a specialised, crisis response team within ASEAN to address regional emergencies that threatens the peace, economic stability, and humanitarian order of the member states. The Council operates as a forum and is only activated upon urgent matters and the need for coordinated action is dire.

AGENDA 1: ASEAN Economy Crash Amidst Liberation Day Tariffs

How will ASEAN states respond to escalating diplomatic and economic pressure from the Trump administration as tariff hikes stall regional economic growth, trigger stock market declines, and plunge major metropolitan centers into social and economic instability? Delegates would represent foreign ministers whose concern would focus on issues such as but not limited to supply chain paralysis, stock market crashes, social unrest, and coercive offers from both the US and China to split the Bloc. Here, delegates can decide whether to pursue a more united front of retaliation, cooperation, or pursue more backdoor bilateral relations.

UN Security Council

Advanced

The UN Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six organs of the UN, with the primary responsibility of maintaining peace and security. While the Council consists of only 15 members–10 non-permanent and 5 permanent–all UN Member States are obliged to comply with UNSC decisions, to promote international peace and order.

AGENDA 1: Establishing a Comprehensive Framework for International Support to Haiti's War on Gang Violence

Although the UNSC has taken more direct actions regarding this situation recently, critics argue that there should be more done for the UNSC to assist Haiti. This debate on this topic would focus on balancing intervention with sovereignty, ensuring police—not just military—approaches, and creating accountability to avoid past failures. It tests whether the Council can build lasting institutions in a vacuum of governance.

AGENDA 2: Ensuring Civilian Protection and Humanitarian Access Amidst the Sudanese Conflict

The debate on this topic would focus on two core imperatives: the immediate protection of civilians from violence and the need for unimpeded humanitarian access. Delegates must navigate geopolitical divides and propose resolutions that would go beyond statements to create actionable solutions, balancing sovereignty with the responsibility to protect human life.

UN Human Rights Council

Beginner

AGENDA 1: Protecting the Human Rights of Indigenous Climate-Displaced Persons

AGENDA 2: Enhancing Technical Assistance and Capacity Building in the Area of Human Rights

UNGA 6 Legal Committee

Intermediate

AGENDA 1: Upholding State Responsibility for Transboundary Climate Harm Caused by High-Emitting Development Policies

Commission on the Status of Women

Intermediate

AGENDA 1: Combatting The Rise of Technology-Facilitated Gender-based Violence Against Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD)

AGENDA 2: Addressing the Trafficking of Women and Girls in Fragile and Conflict-affected States

International Court of Justice

Advanced

AGENDA 1: The Republic of Sudan v. The United Arab Emirates: State Responsibility for the Alleged Provision of Military Support to Non-State Armed Actors

AGENDA 2: The Republic of Armenia v. The Republic of Azerbaijan: Re-examining Alleged Violations of CERD and Cultural Heritage Obligations in Nagorno-Karabakh

ASEAN Emergency Council

Advanced

AGENDA 1: ASEAN Economy Crash Amidst Liberation Day Tariffs

UN Security Council

Advanced

AGENDA 1: Establishing a Comprehensive Framework for International Support to Haiti's War on Gang Violence

AGENDA 2: Ensuring Civilian Protection and Humanitarian Access Amidst the Sudanese Conflict

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