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Issues for the 15th Annual BERMUN Conference

Disarmament Committee

• Combating the illicit trade of small arms and light weapons
• Promoting peace and development through disarmament

Environment Committee

• Promoting measures for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, with special regards to civil society
• Realizing “target ten” of the Millennium Development Goals to reduce by half by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinkingwater and basic sanitation

Human Rights Committee

• Protecting civilians in areas of armed conflict
• Combating preventable diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria

Political Committee

• Developing and implementing strategies for decent and productive work for youth
• Promoting good governance to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

ECOSOC

• Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child, especially in regard to the practice of child labor
• Preventing the further spread of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Promoting development by further strengthening south-south cooperation

Special Conference on the Millennium Development Goals

• Achieving the Millennium Development Goals through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
• Poverty eradication through greater access to services for family planning
• Engaging youth in promoting and implementing the Millennium Development Goals
• Eliminating gender disparity in primary and secondary education

Security Council

The role of diamonds in fuelling conflicts
• The situation in Sudan
• Poverty as a threat to international peace and security
• Reviewing the use of sanctions to promote international peace and security

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