Parliamentary
Procedures
Procedures
The person leading the committee, responsible for maintaining the structure of debate.
What is the chair?
The only organ that has the power to impose economic sanctions on a member state.
What is the Security Council?
A specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
What is the World Health Organization?
The number of member states the United Nations has today
What are 193 member states?
The war that the United Nations was founded after.
What is World War II?
The first chance a delegation has to speak in committee.
What is the speakers list?
The main judicial power of the United Nations.
What is the International Court of Justice?
The food assistance branch of the UN
What is the World Food Program (WFP)?
The current Secretary General of the UN
Who is Antonio Guterres?
The location of the UN headquarters.
What is New York City?
Unstructured debate when delegates can speak informally to each other for a set amount of time.
What is an unmoderated caucus?
What is the General Assembly?
The UN agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice through setting international labor standards.
What is the International Labour Organization?
The six recognized languages of the UN
What are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish?
The preceding organization to the United Nations
What is the League of Nations?
A delegation that wishes a draft resolution/working paper to be put on the floor for debate and eventually voted on.
What is a signatory?
The organ responsible for the administrative work of the UN, led by the Secretary-General
What is the Secretariat?
A specialized agency of the United Nations aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences, and culture.
The primary drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The power that permanent members of the Security Council have
What is veto power?
A right to speak in reply to a previous speaker's comment when a delegate feels personally insulted by another's speech
What is a right of reply/response?
All six organs of the United Nations
What are the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Secretariat, and the Trusteeship Council
An international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
What is the World Bank?
The two permanent non-member observer states
What is Palestine and the Holy See?
The city in which the United Nations was created
What is San Francisco?