| WELCOME TO MODEL UNITED NATIONS! | ||
| Meetings are Fridays 12:40-1:25 in Room E133 |
| Welcome Letter... |
| IMPORTANT CHANGE... Dates for HAMUN have been changed TO Mon. Feb. 4 and Tues. Feb. 5, 2008 |
| IMPORTANT DATES for Houston Area Model United Nations (HAMUN)... 2007-2008 | |||||
| 1. September 19... FIELD TRIP to Bellaire High School for Houston World Affairs Council program on Africa and Malaria; see Houston World Affairs Council website for more information http://wachouston.org/0/357827/0/1175/ | |||||
| 2. October 13... DRW 1 at Jersey Village High School... begins 9 am; ends at noon | |||||
| 3. After DRW 1... Policy Statements due October 29 | |||||
| 4. November 17... DRW 2 9 am to 11:30 am Hastings High School in Alief | |||||
| 5. November 28... Due date for Policy Statements | |||||
| 6. Thursday, November 29 7 pm to 9 pm... Debate practice at Stratford High School Library... purpose is to practice parliamentary procedure... do NOT need to bring a resolution | |||||
| 6. February 4 & 5, 2008... HAMUN XXXIII at the University of Houston |
| ASSIGNED COUNTRIES FOR HAMUN XXXIII |
| 1. Ghana |
| 2. Kenya |
| 3. Slovenia |
| 4. Bulgaria |
| 5. Bosnia & Herzegovina |
| IMPORTANT DATES for Rice Model United Nations Conference (RUMUN) 2007 |
| October 24... turn in policy statements (all committees EXCEPT World Food Programme) either by directly e-mailing it to your committee chair or posting it on the website. |
| October 26-28, 2007... RUMUN II at Rice University |
| See their website for information about issues and the conference... http://www.freewebs.com/ricemodelun |
| ASSIGNED COUNTRIES FOR RUMUN II |
| 1. Ghana |
| 2. Kenya |
| 3. Ethiopia |
| 4. Bulgaria |
| 4. one student on US National Security Council... Michael Tindal... Secretary of State |
| USEFUL WEBSITES |
| http://www.un.org |
| http://www.un.int/index-en/webs.html site to find individual country's UN Mission website |
| http://www.hamun.org organizers of the MUN conference in Houston |
| http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/untour/index.html gives an Internet "virtual" tour of the UN in New York City |
| http://www.un.org/documents/index.html location for official UN documents, including resolutions and press releases |
| http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/modelun/index.asp MUN Headquarters... information about how MUN works |
| http://www.unfoundation.org a great source of news and information taken from newspapers around the world sign up for UN Wire news |
| http://www.un.org/News/ossg/hilites.htm highlights from UN newsbriefings |
| http://www.un.org/members/growth.shtml list of UN countries... when they joined, list of countries in UN organs |
| LAST UPDATED ON... Nov. 20, 2007 |