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Last February 1, 2016 TEAM SUPERPOWER had successfully presented a Model United Nations (MUN) simulation and infomercial with the chosen global governance issue on human rights focused on the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Rights. Found below are the different viewpoints of the International Organizations and the representing country with the best explanatory theory from the chair and the delegates respectively. |
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Two-part Presentation
The team has chosen ‘working backwards.’ Thus, the presentation was divided into two parts. The first part was a short role play as to how our Global Governance Issue (GGI), Human Rights focusing on the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender rights started from the national, transnational and eventually in the international social and legal changes. The chosen focus was on LGBT instead of Women Empowerment because the needed information were provided on the references our team used and the resolutions where easier to find unlike the latter. The team chose important events and statements made by certain individuals that made a big difference in this GGI focus. This way the team are able to lay down a concise and smooth flow of events as to how it ended up from being a legal reform that created public debates until it was recognized by the like-minded states in the early 2000s.
The second part was about the process of making a resolution of the GGI and the countries that actively participated in its creation through a United Nations (UN) general assembly enacted in a Model of United Nations (MUN) simulation. In the end of the simulation, the team showed the final output of the resolution which was presented on the 69th session by the Third Committee, adopted on November 14, 2014. With a result of 93 in favour, with 55 countries voting against and 27 abstaining.
The team has chosen ‘working backwards.’ Thus, the presentation was divided into two parts. The first part was a short role play as to how our Global Governance Issue (GGI), Human Rights focusing on the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender rights started from the national, transnational and eventually in the international social and legal changes. The chosen focus was on LGBT instead of Women Empowerment because the needed information were provided on the references our team used and the resolutions where easier to find unlike the latter. The team chose important events and statements made by certain individuals that made a big difference in this GGI focus. This way the team are able to lay down a concise and smooth flow of events as to how it ended up from being a legal reform that created public debates until it was recognized by the like-minded states in the early 2000s.
The second part was about the process of making a resolution of the GGI and the countries that actively participated in its creation through a United Nations (UN) general assembly enacted in a Model of United Nations (MUN) simulation. In the end of the simulation, the team showed the final output of the resolution which was presented on the 69th session by the Third Committee, adopted on November 14, 2014. With a result of 93 in favour, with 55 countries voting against and 27 abstaining.
International Organizations and LGBTIQ Rights
Over the years, global attention has been paid to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual Community, especially where human rights are concerned. In the United States of America, pre-war gay life flourished in areas such as the Greenwich Village and Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, but it wasn’t after World War II when advocacy groups were established to support gays and lesbians in general. |
The Republic of Jamaica has always condemned the idea of accepting homosexuality for it would alienate the Jamaican culture with its traditional religious and gender attitudes and would be a form of Cultural Imperialism. Cultural Imperialism means imposition of a foreign view point or a civilization on a people. |
For the past few years the LGBT community have tried to fight against discrimination all around the world, the LGBT banner of the year 2015 was raised as it made history. The Cuban novelist, poet and essayist Reinaldo Arenas whose work focused on political and social injustice. He was persecuted during Fidel Castro’s time for having an openly gay lifestyle and most of his works were not published in Cuba, even though he was imprisoned he continued to fight not just a writer but as a person who can live freely with his life. |
Finland chooses to be open to the LGBTI community because time and history have shown to their country that ignoring the existence of this community would definitely mean ignoring the existence of a reality. Before the LBGT rights were given much priority in Finland, the LGBTI community have suffered numerous abuses and crimes against them. In fact, gays in Finland back then were illegal until 1971. Hence, gay men often meet in parks after dark and hide themselves away from the crowd in fear of being rejected. |
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The document above is the final resolution of the MUN simulation. Watch TEAM SUPERPOWER infomercial below and enjoy!