Know Your Chairs
What are our names and last names?
Gabriel Melnik, Sara Dichi, Igal Rosemberg.
Describe the meaning of "country of origin", "country of destination", and "country of transit".
Country of origin: The country of nationality (place of birth) or of former habitual residence (current place of living) of a person or group of people who have migrated abroad (moved to a foreign country).
Country of destination: A country that is the destination (place one wants to go) for a person or a group of people. Regardless, they migrate regularly or irregularly. Country of transit: The country someone goes through and passes on their journey from their country of origin to their country of destination or the other way around, (from their country of destination, back to their country of origin).
What is forced disappearance?
When a person goes missing and the reason is because of a big organization that has influence in the country, or a really important person.
What does OAS mean?
Organization of American states
What is the procedure for a Motion to Challenge? And how does a motion to challenge work?
Motion of procedure: To open a challenge with the delegations of... against
the delegations of...
How it works: one vs one, two vs one, two vs two, three vs two, three vs three
Second
Voting
All delegations included must accept to take part in the challenge.
Time:
Delegation who proposed the motion and their alliance will give an
opening statement of 1 uninterrupted minute. Opposing alliance will
retaliate in the same time-frame.
Both alliances will go back-and-forth for 2 straight minutes.
Each alliance will give a closing statement of 1 uninterrupted minute, starting with the same alliance that began the challenge.
When is Sara’s Birthday?
February 10th 2005
What country is considered "the nation of immigrants"?
The United States. The US is the country that has the highest immigrant percentage in the whole world. Immigrants and their U.S.-born children make up 84.8 million or 26% of the U.S. population (2021 CPS).
What is the main reason of forced disappearance?
People that know about things they shouldn't.
When was OAS founded?
When do you open/close debate and when do you open/close session?
Debate is only opened/closed once in the whole debate) The debate is opened first session, after that, you don't open/close debate, you open/close session until the last session, only then you may close debate.
What is Gabriel´s favorite color?
Blue
Fill in the missing spot. "Approximately six million people from the country of… have fled to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, the Caribbean, and Argentina due to its economic and humanitarian crisis."
Approximately six million people from the country VENEZUELA have fled to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, the Caribbean, and Argentina due to its economic and humanitarian crisis.
Mention 5 countries with the most forced disappearances in Latin America.
México, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Brazil.
What is the main mission of OAS?
“To strengthen peace and security in the hemisphere; promote representative democracy; ensure the peaceful settlement of disputes among members; provide for common action in the event of aggression; and promote economic, social, and cultural development”.
Mention at least 5 orders that would follow a motion of procedure.
Open session/debate, open topic A/B, open speakers list, open extraordinary session of questions, open moderated caucus, open unmoderated caucus, motion to challenge read possible solution paper.
What is Igal’s favorite animal?
Owl
Around the countries that form part of the OAS, there are more than 75.5 million illegal immigrants spread out. What can cause citizens to want or need to flee their country of origin?
Citizens move in search of work, economic opportunities, family reunification, humanitarian protection, better living standards, and safety. Migrants want to escape conflict, food insecurity, human rights violations, economic inequality, poverty, significantly lower wages and search for a better, safer life.
With your team, propose a solution to this topic.
Open answer.
How many member states are there in OAS?
35
Besides point of personal privilege, what are the other 2 points one can make during a debate? Explain when one would use each of the three points.
Point of order and Point of parliamentary inquiry. Point of personal privilege: When delegate cannot listen/understand delegate, bathroom, brief preamble/follow-up, how do you say… in english.
Point of Order: When someone is not following protocol or when order is not being followed.
Point of parliamentary inquiry: What would be in order? When will ___ be in order?