Back from ILYMUN 2016!

The dashing team from Saint Charles!

MUN - ONU

 

Dear Charlie,

On Saturday morning, from nine to twelve thirty, we went to Aix-en-Provence for a debate in english about a great subject: Youth, Unemployment, Criminality: How to Combat the Impoverishment of the Young Population?

It was organised by the Aix Model United Nations (MUN)

Lots of different deleguates were there to put themselves in the shoes of their countries such as the UK, Germany, Chile, South Korea, Greece, France, or Argentina who was embodied by Loïc, student from première OIB.

The flags of the countries were at the back of the room and there was as you can see some drinks and biscuits.

LoÏc representing Argentine.

All the morning, the delegates discussed about many subjects, expressing the opinions of their country. They had fifteen minutes to choose and agree on new subjects to talk about, but at the same time, it had to be linked to the main subject. All of them were voted.

The first subject was International Crisis of Education.

The countries had one minute and thirty seconds to express their opinions during thirty minutes.

This screen informed us about the time left to talk for the deleguates and the subject debated.

The second subject chosen was: Plan of Action to Slove Youth Unemployment. Each country had three minutes to talk and the subject lasted twenty minutes.

After an unmoderated caucus, the deleguates had the time to discuss about  new subjects. The chosen one was Labor Market. They discussed during twenty minutes with sixty seconds per country (which is really quick).

An other subject the deleguates debated on was International Program for Education and Training. It lasted twenty minutes with sixty seconds of talking per country.

and the last debate lasted eight minutes with sixty seconds per countries; it was on Promotion of Education to Children.

This photo was taken during an unmoderated caucus.

  We have found this conference really ineresting and informative about the problems that the countries are facing nowadays. We learned about their situation, their needs and their opinions about this year main topic: Youth, Unemployment, Criminality: How to Combat the Impoverishment of the Young Population?

We also wanted to thank Mr. Lévêque for telling us about this debate.

Carla, Amina, King  :)

Debating in Aix en Provence

The annual AixMUN sessions are taking place this weekend in the city hall of Aix en Provence.

They are a good way to  get involved in some of the most important current global debates, discover new ideas and points of view... and also learn how to defend your own!

This year's main topic is: "How to fight the impoverishment of youth", a critical issue indeed.

Education, poverty, immigration, labor market evolutions and foreign investments were among the most disputed talking points today, by more than 25 different states.

la salle des Etats de Provence, a pretty nice backdrop!

some intense debating going on, during an unmoderated caucus.

Thanks to the IEP students for the organisation; we'll definitely come back next year!

And special congratulations to Loïc, the Argentine!

Debate Club and MUN

Dear Charlie,

   On Wednesday, we had the first session of the debate club, which is organised by Mr Leveque. It was really entertaining and interesting. I believe we were about ten persons, working by pairs and each group represented a country ; Alicia and I were the US (YAAAAAYYYYY). The subject was : “ Should Scotland become independent ?”, and we had to argue with each other about that. Some countries didn’t agree at all, and it was really interesting to hear them debating. Thanks to that, I learnt a lot about the countries that were represented. 

  I didn’t know there were so many rules and specific vocabulary to know. I had to do a lot of research to participate a little in this club, but it was worth it because I  had a really good laugh, especially when Céline was representing Switzerland !

  At the end of the year, we are going to have an official MUN ( Model United Nations ), which will take place at the Lycée George Duby in Luynes. I’m looking forward to it. Creating this club was an awesome idea and I can’t wait until the next session.

Tiphaine (my account wouldn’t work so my amazing friend Alicia sent it for me and did it also for the comments)

Children's rights are not respected in the whole world

The democratic countries are defending child's rights. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty which was signed in 1989. Currently, 194 countries are party to it. Even though nations that ratify this convention are bound to it by international law there are some countries where those rights are not respected.

Today we are in the 21st century and even if in our country children's rights are respected, there are still a lot of countries where child labor is not eradicated. The two continents where the situation is the most serious are Africa and Asia.

Most of children's mornings look the same. They wake up and get out of their bed. They eat whatever they want for breakfast. After that they put there clothes on and go to school. During that time thousands of children are exploited in the world. They get up earlier. They eat just enough to survive and go straight to work. They work all day but they will never have the quality of life that those other children have got without working.

Child labor means not having family, friends, life and fun. It is harmful to physical and mental development.

Some charities like the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) created in 1946, aim at eradicating child labor. You can get involved in that kind of charity by becoming a donor, raising money or voluntering.

Education is also one of the children's rights. But like the law against child labor, it is not respected. In some poor countries where there are wars, children don't have access to education and especially girls.
However, according to UNICEF, education is a tool that has proven that it is improving living conditions. That's why there are people who are struggling for girls' education like Malala Yousafzai.

Malala Yousafzai is a seventeen years old Pakistani activist for right to education to women. She wrote a blog for BBC about her life under the Taliban occupation, her hope to keep going to school and her fears for the future at the age of eleven. "For my brothers it was easy to think about the future," "They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge”.

In 2012, Talibans attempted assassinating Malala by shooting on her when she was in her school bus. She was transferred to an hospital in the UK.

On her 16^th birthday, nine months after the shooting Malala stood up at the UN headquarters in New York and addressed to a specially convened youth assembly. Her speech was broadcast around the world. In 2014, she was nominated to the children's Nobel Prize. The Malala fund raises money for girls education.

By Loredana Craciun

what is IS ?

For the ones who are interested in news here is a little sum up of what the islamic state  is.

IS

The Islamic State was created in 2004 by a two terrorist group: Al Quaeda in Iraq and Al Nosra.

They are claiming that almost all Syria and the northern part of Iraq belongs to their Caliphate, a state (which is not recognized as a real state in this case) which is ruled by a Caliph, Ibrahim, who applies the Sharia a text of Muslim laws.

This terrorist group is very popular because more than a group of people acting in the shadow, the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, DAECH, IS, ISIL) has created a real country with its land, its army and its huge amount of money (thanks to oil and gas fields plus a bank storming). They have shown many time what they were able to do on a large scale thanks to internet (like the decapitations of three journalists). They are nowadays fighting, to take over what they claim to be their lands, against the armies of Iraq and Syria, the others terrorists groups and the US planes. Their power is still big but decreasing because they have lost much men and money