BGA/10/14
Sponsored by Raha Hassan, Camryn Alley, Elizabeth Jackson, Chloe Zheng of Cookeville High School
The delegates above represented the Delegation of Guinea-Bissau.
This legislation was filed in the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural category
Presented as part of the MUN B 2023 conference
| 1 | To the General Assembly: |
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| 3 | Noting with concern the inhuman environmental conditions, including lack of healthcare, poor |
| 4 | sanitation, and drastic overcrowding of jails housing detainees and prisoners, |
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| 6 | Fully alarmed with our poverty rate being 64.4% of our total population with citizens living off USD |
| 7 | 2.15 per day restoring to crime such as human trafficking to make a profit, |
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| 9 | Acknowledging that 90% of our exports are cashews, a sustainable source of nutrition, providing |
| 10 | jobs, |
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| 12 | Recognizing that our prisons are at 102.2% capacity, which results in inhumane conditions and |
| 13 | overcrowding, |
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| 15 | Aware that the literacy rate is 53% and only 30% of children receive the required early |
| 16 | childhood education, |
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| 18 | Keeping in mind the child labor and the number of children already working as early as 5-19. years |
| 19 | old, |
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| 21 | Emphasizing the importance of providing opportunities to keep or to steer our citizens out of crime |
| 22 | and improve their quality of life, |
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| 24 | We the delegation of Guinea-Bissau do hereby: |
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| 26 | 1. Calls upon the United Nations to end this abuse and improve living conditions for criminals and |
| 27 | ex-convicts; |
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| 29 | 2. Encourages organizations like the World Bank and UN Congress On Crime Prevention and |
| 30 | Criminal Justice to help fund our nation’s fight for equal opportunity; |
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| 32 | 3. Requesting $50 million in order to reform our jails and prisons: |
| 33 | a. Larger, more sanitary buildings, |
| 34 | b. More sustainable, livable environments, |
| 35 | c. Create a factory that will produce, package, and export cashews and other grown products: |
| 36 | i. To create jobs to keep our citizens out of poverty and therefore out of crime, |
| 37 | ii. To allocate 20% of the job positions to ex-convicts to rehabilitate them into society, |
| 38 | iii. To support local farmers by purchasing their crops for our processing and exporting, |
| 39 | iv. To restore our annual GDP rate after the harsh decline seen from the Covid-19 pandemic; |
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| 41 | 4. Requests free educational resources provided by the UN to improve literacy rates and provide |
| 42 | opportunities for current and future generations of Bissau-Guineans; |
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| 44 | 5. Urges the United Nations to see the need for our resolution to be fulfilled for the better help of |
| 45 | our growing nation. |
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