UN Basics
This is the year the United Nations was founded.
What is 1945?
This declaration in 1948 outlined the basic rights and freedoms every human is entitled to.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This is the smallest continent by the land area.
What is Australia?
This island nation was the first to gain independence from Britain in the region and is a UN member.
What is Barbados?
This is the formal document representing a country's position on an issue in MUN.
What is a position paper?
The UN headquarters is located in this city.
What is New York City?
The 1992 UN agreement focuses on global environmental protection and sustainable development.
What is the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development?
The river is the longest in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This is the regional UN office that serves the Caribbean.
What is UN ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean?
This type of vote requires a two-thirds majority to pass.
What is a substantive vote?
This UN organ is responsible for maintaining international peace and security.
What is the Security Council?
This treaty aims to reduce the production and use of ozone-depleting substances.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
The UN recognizes this city as Israel's capital, though it's contested internationally.
What is Jerusalem?
This Caribbean country is known for producing a former UN Secretary-General of the Organization of American States.
What is Jamaica?
This MUN terms refers to amending a resolution clause by changing its wording without altering its meaning.
What is a friendly amendment?
This UN organ coordinates international economic and social cooperation and has 54 members.
What is the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)?
This convention, adopted in 1972, protects world heritage sites of cultural and natural significance.
What is the UNESCO World Heritage Convention?
This Caribbean country is the only one to have both the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean as coastlines.
What is Trinidad and Tobago?
This UN program helps Caribbean nations survive hurricanes, sea level rise, and climate chaos.
What is the Caribbean Climate Change Initiative (CCCI)?
This motion allows a delegate to challenge the Chair's ruling, requiring the committee to vote on whether the Chair's decision stands.
What is an appeal of the decision of the Chair?
The first UN peacekeeping mission was sent here in 1948 to monitor a truce.
What is Palestine?
This treaty, adopted in 2000, seeks to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women worldwide.
What is CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)?
These are the only two countries in the world that border both the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea region.
What is Russia and Iran or Azerbaijan?
This Caribbean country was the first SIDS to chair the AOSIS and has played a role in shaping international climate negotiations.
During voting procedure, this motion allows delegates to remove specific operative clauses from a draft resolution before taking a final vote on the document as a whole.
What is a division of the question?