Topics
Censorship, Water Scarcity, and Women's Rights to Maternal Health and Workforce Equality
The Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural committee was created to protect basic freedoms and strives to assist struggling regions and communities in need to ensure everyone receives the basic necessities deserved such as food, water, and education. This requires all member nations to work together to promote peace and unity around the world. Without collaboration between countries, citizens will stay divided and steadfast inequalities will continue to bridge a gap between communities.
Committee Type
Topic-based
Committee Size
Medium
Topic Intros
Women's Rights to Maternal Health and Workforce Equality
Gender inequality underpins many issues which disproportionally affect women's rights. With a focus on maternal, reproductive health rights and employment and wage fairness, the elimination of gender disparities can be aided.
Water Scarcity
As global population and resource-intensive economic development expands, numerous nations' water resources and infrastructure are failing to meet the accelerating demand. Water becomes unpredictable with the impacts of a changing climate, feeding a global water crisis that challenges people's access to the quantity and quality needed for drinking, bathing, cooking, and food growth.
Censorship
Global censorship is a direct offense of a citizen's ability to basic freedoms, particularly of expression and information, and with journalists increasingly facing threats of censorship, it is imperative for the UN to protect these freedoms and occupations. This topic will additionally concern governments' use of censorship as a method of strengthening their populace control while threatening democracy and transparency.