Welcome to UNHRC!!!


Delegates,

 Welcome to UNHRC! I can't wait for you all to have a great BMUN 67. Our UNHRC dias has been working tirelessly to make this conference as educational and fun as possible, regardless of your prior MUN experience.

 The topics for this committee are Protection of Humanitarian Workers in Conflict Zones and Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. We have all become super passionate about the topics and have put in lots of work researching them. Hopefully by conference, you will have done the same!

 For access to the Executive Summaries, Position Paper Format, and Topic Synopsis, you can go to our committee page on the website by clicking this link. With such broad topics, it is crucial that you look the topic synopsis over! In it we have included the large ideas we would like committee to discuss, which will help give you direction when formulating solutions and conducting research. Also, be sure to check out the brand new position paper format. It has changed a lot since last year! 

 I hope you have fun researching these extremely important and relevant topics! Please let us know if you have any questions at all. You can reach us at unhrclxvii@bmun.org or me at afox@bmun.org.

 I am so excited to meet you all soon!

Yours sincerely,
Annalise Fox
Head Chair of UNHRC, BMUN LXVII




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