Western Carolina University - Model United Nations

11/24/2019

11/06/2019

Unmoderated Caucus in Model UN today. The topic: Challenges of Eliminating Forced Labor

10/07/2019

We are getting close to voting procedure on Friday, before we head into Fall Break. Two to three working papers are in the works. The topics vary from developing medical mobile units, to vaccine access and providing supplies in events of natural disasters.

09/11/2019

Work for 2019 SRMUN Atlanta has begun. Students are discussing Improving Access to Quality Healthcare for Children this week.

12/21/2017

Global News of the Day:

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein said that staying on would be "bending a knee in supplication."

12/10/2017

Global News of the Day:

The U.S. ships a big chunk of its recycled goods to China. But China doesn't want them anymore, and that's leaving the recycling industry in turmoil.

12/05/2017

Global News of the Day:

A Northern Irish party scuppered a deal Prime Minister Theresa May had reached with the E.U., denying her a much-needed breakthrough in the stalled talks.

12/04/2017

Global News of the Day:

In the 1970s, Sweden shipped Volvos to North Korea as part of an ill-fated trade deal. North Korea never paid for the cars. But Sweden remains an important Western diplomatic presence in Pyongyang.

11/30/2017

Global News of the Day:

E.U. and African policies that helped create these conditions will go unchanged.

11/27/2017

Global News of the Day:

The world produces more than 3.5 million tons of garbage a day — and that figure is growing.

11/22/2017

Global News of the Day:

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia found the former Bosnian Serb general guilty of multiple counts of crimes against humanity and one count of genocide.