Past conferences

Committees and issues

ILYMUN 2024: Rights and freedoms

General Assembly

  • Eradicating discrimination: valuing diversity and promoting inclusion

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

  • Child soldiers

  • Right to education

Technology Committee

Eradicating discrimination: valuing diversity and promoting inclusion

Special conference

  • Freedom of Press

  • Freedom of Speech

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

  • Exploitation and trafficking

  • Rights of prisoners

Historic Security Council

  • Freedom of Press

  • Freedom of Speech

World health organization (WHO)

  • Access to sexual and reproductive health-care services

  • Newborn health

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR

  • Freedom of movement

  • Resettlement and Integration

Action Assembly

  • Access to sexual and reproductive health-care services

  • Newborn health

Security council

  • Israel-Palestine conflict

  • China-Taiwan conflict

United Nations Women

  • Violence against women

  • Equal opportunities for leadership

International Court of Justice - ICJ

ILYMUN 2023: Rights and freedoms

General Assembly

The United Nations: is our common assembly relevant today and how will it be so tomorrow?

Special Conference

What is Sovereignty in a Globalised World?

Youth Conference

Sovereignty and the United Nations

Security Council

The militarization of Atolls in the South China Sea

The Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Economic Committee

Regulating GAFAM and Multinational Organisations

The Pollution Market

Arctic Council

Territorial Disputes in the Arctic

Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples and Sharing Resources

Historic Security Council

Kosovo War: Reaction to the Gornje Obrinje Massacre (October 1, 1998)

East Timor Conflict (December 8, 1975)

Iran-Iraq War (September 24, 1980)

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Claiming Territory in Outer Space

Space Race: the Role of Public and Private entities

Action Assembly - AA

Transnational Corporations in a Globalized World

Sovereignty and Transnational Corporations

UNHCR

Migration due to Rising Sea Levels

Integration while Maintaining Ethnicity

African Union

Breaking the Cycle of Dependency

Foreign Interests and African Resources

International Court of Justice - ICJ

Alleged Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea: Nicaragua vs Colombia

ILYMUN 2021

General Assembly

  • Protecting the Democratic Process

  • Technology: Both Propagating and Fighting Extremism

Historical Security Council

  • Gulf War

  • Revelations of Edward Snowden

  • The Rwandan Genocide: April to July 1994

Council of the European Union

  • GAFAM: Protecting Europe’s digital sovereignty and integrity

  • Connectivity: The challenge of creating a 5G wireless network, targeting areas with little or no network coverage

UNESCO- Focus on Press

  • Protection of Whistleblowers and Journalists

  • Free and Fair Press

Human Rights

  • Censorship and Misinformation

  • Control of Personal Information

Environmental

  • Invisible Pollution of Cyber Activity

  • Materials for Cyber Activity: Resources and Waste

Technology

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Cybersecurity

World Health Organisation

  • Health and the Cyber World

  • Data: Strengthening Collection, Accuracy and Diffusion

Social

  • Ethics of Internet

  • Equity and Empowerment in/through the Internet

Economic

  • Transparency and Accountability in Cyber Finances

  • Work in the Cyber World: Inclusive, Sustainable and Decent

Action Assembly

  • Action Assembly

  • Internet relationships

  • Activism on social media

  • The relationship between between digital press and the public opinion

ICJ

  • Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections:

    USA vs Russian Federation

  • Execution of the Iranian General by a U.S. drone strike:

    Iran vs USA

Youth Committee

  • AI

  • Cyber Security

  • Invisible Pollution of Cyber

  • Materiels for cyber activity Resources and Waste

ILYMUN 2020

General Assembly

  • Marine Biodiversity

Security Council

  • Tackling Organised Crime at Sea

  • The South China Sea

  • Water Scarcity

Historical Security Council

  • Suez Canal Crisis: 1956

  • Turkish Invasion of Cyprus: 1974

  • Falkland Islands War: 1982

Territorial

  • Arctic Waters

  • Transboundary Waters

Environmental

  • The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

  • Conservation and Management of Freshwater Sources

Science and Technology

  • Improving Ocean Health

  • Water as a Sustainable Resource

Human Rights

  • Embedding Gender Equity in Water Policies

  • Governance of Indigenous Peoples Water Supply

UNDP

  • Disaster Relief

  • Extraction, Trade and Allocation of Water Sources

  • Prevention and Management of Droughts

World Health Organisation

  • Guaranteeing Water Safety

  • Water Scarcity

Action Assembly

  • Water Over-Consumption; Water Pollution; Sanitation

Special Conference: Focus on Islands

  • Special Conference: Complete Research Report

ILYMUN 2019

General Assembly

  • The Respect of the Fundamental Rights endowed to all by the charter of the United Nations

Security Council

  • The issue of the Rohingya people

  • Working towards a unified Bosnia Herzegovina

  • The right of nations to have nuclear arms

Historical Security Council

  • The recognition of the state of Israel and its membership in the UN; May 1948

  • Drafting the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty; August 25, 1967

  • Rwandan genocide; April 30, 1994

Territorial

  • Sharing global resources

This committee will work towards the creation of multiple resolutions regarding specific resources (water, minerals, forests, oil, etc.)

Environmental

  • The pollution “market”

  • Sustainable development: a balance between economic growth and the protection of natural resources and ecosystems

Economic

  • Equality in the workplace

  • Reducing poverty as a step towards equity

Social

  • Reducing discrimination

  • Universal healthcare

Human Rights

  • Police brutality and discrimination of minorities

  • The protection and the rights of migrants

Special Conference: Focus on Children

  • Healthcare and mortality rates

  • Protecting the rights of the child

  • Education

Action Assembly

  • Gender inequalities

  • Unequal access to culture

  • Unequal access to health

Special Conference: Focus on Women

  • Reducing gender inequalities

  • Empowering women

ILYMUN 2018

General Assembly

Security Council

Historical Security Council

Cultural

Development

ECOSOC

Environmental

Science and Technology

Special Human Rights Conference

International Court of Justice

Action Assembly

ILYMUN 2017

General Assembly

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Security Council

Cultural Memory

Resource Management

EcoSoc

Cultural Identity

Migration

Human Rights

Science and Technology