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BUSUN 2009 Committees and Topics

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Preconference Delegate Guide

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Regular Committees

Our featured historical and joint crisis committees can be found at the bottom of this page.

GA Plenary
Arctic Resources and the Law of the Sea
Targeting Terrorism in Sovereign States
The Question of Palestine

GA 1: Disarmament and International Security
Biochemical Terrorism
Privatization of War: Global Ramifications
Consideration of Antipersonnel Land Mines

GA 2: Economic and Financial
External Debt Crisis
The Role of Microcredit in the Eradication of Poverty
Financing Economic Development Projects

GA 3: Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural
Humanitarian Aid in Somalia
Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Peacekeeping Forces and Sexual Assault

GA 4: Special Political and Decolonization
Protection of Civilians in O.T Palestine during Times of War
UN Membership: Kosovo and Taiwan
The Question of Western Sahara

United Nations Development Programme
Rethinking the Human Development Index
Food Aid Programs and Local Development
HIV/AIDS and the Work Force

United Nations Environmental Programme
Basel Convention: Hazardous Waste Trading
Deforestation
Energy: Feasibility of Ethanol

UN Security Council
Piracy in Somalia
Crisis in Sri Lanka
Iran's Nuclear Program

World Trade Organization
Effect of Protectionism on Trade
WTO and the Environment
Revaluation of the TRIPS Agreement

European Union
The Asylum Process
Turkey's Membership Bid
Promoting Economic Stability in Eastern Europe

World Health Organization
Compliance with the Report of The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) as the International Standard
Reducing the Burden of Garbage in the Developing World

Icelandic Cabinet
Domestic Economy
Review of the Educational System

United States Presidential Cabinet
"Don't Ask Don't Tell"
Iraq and Afghanistan: A long term solution
Cuban Trade Embargo

African Union Peace and Security Council
Governance in the Congo
Illegal Diamond Trafficking
Crisis in Sudan

Six-Party Talks

Press Corps

Historical Committees

Congress of Vienna

La Signoria of the Most Serene Republic of Venice 1509
Papal-Venetian in regards to the situation in Rome
French and Imperial Interests in Lombardy
Turkish Expansion in the Mediterranean

The Third Crusade

Indo-Pak Crisis

Indian Cabinet

Pakistani Cabinet

Joint Crisis Committees

United States National Security Council

Serbian Cabinet

Kosovar Cabinet

Bosnia and Herzegovina Council of Ministers

European Union Council of Ministers

Russian Federation Security Council