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For each of your topics, you are required to write a paper following these specs:
Country
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COMMITTEE:
TITLE OF TOPIC:
1ST PARAGRAPH: Worldwide situation concerning the topic ( this would serve as an introduction, to know what kind of problem we are facing and effects or consequences this problem brings in a big scheme).
2nd PARAGRAPH: Regional situation. This has to do with what neighbors of your country also face the same (or similar) problem, and whether they are part of the solution or they are making your life more difficult. If there are good political relations or if there is some hostility issues that make the problem more complex. It helps to know which are your geographical limits…..
3rd PARAGRAPH: Country’s position & possible solutions. This is your real position paper (well, paragraph actually….) and here is where you should tell what measures is your country adopting, or rejecting, or laws passing, or whatever your country is really willing to do in reference to the problem. This info should be very clear because this is the key to alliances, wars, misunderstandings, and congruence with your country characteristics. You cannot be proposing something that goes against your country. Here you also need to include some possible solutions that may benefit the real situation of your country.
Each paragraph should ideally be 10 lines long.
Try to use your best English, with nice words, without being repetitive.

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UNICEF
The United Nations International Children´s Fund (UNICEF) was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. Originally it was created to provide food and take care of the European children after the World War II. In 1953 it became a permanent part of the United Nations System. After this inclusion the UNICEF´s objective is providing humanitarian and developing assistance to children and mothers in developing countries, also it is responsible for protecting the rights of children all around the world.
UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors and UNICEF's total income for 2006 was $2,781,000,000. Governments contribute two thirds of the organization's resources; private groups and some 6 million individuals contribute the rest through the National Committees on 7 September 2006, an agreement between UNICEF and the Spanish association football club FC Barcelona was reached whereby the club would donate 5,000,000 euros per year to the organization for five years. As part of the agreement, FC Barcelona will wear the UNICEF logo on the front of their shirts, which will be the first time a football club sponsored an organization rather than the other way around. In January 2007, UNICEF struck a partnership with Canada's national tent pegging team. The team was officially re-flagged as "UNICEF Team Canada", its riders wear UNICEF's logo in competition, and team members promote and raise funds for UNICEF's campaign against childhood HIV-AIDS. When the team became the 2008 tent pegging world champions, UNICEF's flag was raised alongside the Canadian flag at the games, the first time in the history of international Grand Prix equestrian competition that a non-state flag has flown over the medal podium. The Swedish club Hammarby IF followed the Spanish and Canadian lead on 14 April 2007, also raising funds for UNICEF and displaying the UNICEF name on their sportswear. The Danish soccer club Brondby IF will do likewise from the summer of 2008.Race driver Jacques Villeneuve has occasionally placed the UNICEF logo on the #27 Bill Davis Racing pickup truck in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.UNICEF recently announced a landmark partnership with Scotland's Rangers F.C. UNICEF will partner the Rangers Charity Foundation and have pledged to raise £300,000 by 2011.UNICEF's programs emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in 2006. Because if their continuously efforts to give the children all around the world a better life and assisting with the better recourses that UNICEF has in order to accomplish this objective. Nowadays the topics that are being discussed are the ones that includes the recently earthquakes around the world like the ones on Haiti, Chile and China in order to try to help the children in those countries also the topic of the children with Aids that had to be assisted and the support for Afghan girls because the y don’t have been treated with justice because of the old manners that exists in Afghanistan.

TOPIC A: Homosexual people adopting children
Nowadays there have been a lot of changes of the culture because of the inclusion of the people that have different preferences with people of the same gender, many people are against that but others are in favor but beside, but the main controversy has been that if the homosexual people would be allowed to adopt children. Would affect the children´s education? or would be the same education besides having two male or two female parents.
Many gay and lesbian people are choosing to become parents. Some bring children with them from previous relationships or some couples impregnate through artificial insemination. Others are finding adoption to be their preferred method of bringing a child into their family. Since state laws vary on adoption rights, not every gay and lesbian person has the same ability to adopt. Adoption requires healthy adults who wish to give love, care, respect, positive projects to life children who would otherwise be subsumed in the social and psychic death. Not all heterosexuals or homosexuals are emotionally prepared for the difficult task of raising a healthy child. It requires those involved to diagnose the prospective adoptive parents must do this from a scientific and professional knowledge and not from their prejudices and discriminatory values.
The possible solution could be that the homosexual people should undertake to give the best situation of life to the children they would like to adopt, to the society would be hard to accept it because it is going to be a new way of life to education matters but taking into account that the homosexual people and all the people doesn’t matter their preference their color or their sickness should be treated as the same the decision should relay on the parents not on the society.

http://lesbianlife.about.com/cs/families/a/adoption.htm
http://www.youdebate.com/DEBATES/gay_adoption.HTM
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-20-gay-adoption-foster_x.htm
http://www.enplenitud.com/nota.asp?articuloID=2523

TOPIC B: Children Disposal for economical or laboral benefits
Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries. Child labour was utilized to varying extents through most of history, but entered public dispute with the advent of universal schooling, with changes in working conditions during the industrial revolution, and with the emergence of the concepts of workers' and children's rights.
In many developed countries, it is considered inappropriate or exploitative if a child below a certain age works (excluding household chores or school-related work). An employer is usually not permitted to hire a child below a certain minimum age. This minimum age depends on the country and the type of work involved. States ratifying the Minimum Age Convention adopted by the International Labour Organization in 1973, have adopted minimum ages varying from 14 to 16. Child labor laws in the United States set the minimum age to work in an establishment without restrictions and without parents' consent at age 16.
The incidence of child labor in the world decreased from 25 to 10 percent between 1960 and 2003, according to the World Bank. Child labor is still common in some parts of the world, it can be factory work, mining, prostitution, quarrying, agriculture, helping in the parents' business, having one's own small business (for example selling food), or doing odd jobs. Some children work as guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants (where they may also work as waiters). Other children are forced to do tedious and repetitive jobs such as: assembling boxes, polishing shoes, stocking a store's products, or cleaning. However, rather than in factories and sweatshops, most child labor occurs in the informal sector, "selling many things on the streets, at work in agriculture or hidden away in houses—far from the reach of official labor inspectors and from media scrutiny." And all the work that they did was done in all types of weather; and was also done for minimal pay. As long as there is family poverty there will be child labor. According to UNICEF, there is an estimated 158 million children aged 5 to 14 in child labor worldwide, excluding child domestic labor. This have been a international problem for many years since the industrial revolution or even before now are different kind of laws to protect the children for working but there are counties were the children still work the possible solutions are that the companies where children are working should be banned or that if the children from 14 years old and older should have the permission of their parents to work. If the children don´t want to or if their work younger than 14 the people that are employing them should be penalized

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour
http://www.worksmart.org.uk/rights/viewsubsection.php?sun=75
http://www.checkwwc.wa.gov.au/checkwwc
http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_childlabour.html

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