The Guardian MUNCh XIX #1

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Original draft resolution of the Punishment, Education, Training, and Rehabilitation (PETR) plan of Liberia,
Latvia, and Japan. 21 Feb 2019.
In UN Women, the problems of sex
trafficking are explicit
From arguments in favor of stronger advocacy and enforcement, to claims
holding a sense of governmental laziness, all forms of sex trafficking are out on
the table. Resolutions and their origins are exposed.
Heated tensions are rising in the UN Women committee, as the costs and benefits
of sex trafficking preventatives or conservatives are being weighed in assembly.
Both proponents and opponents of sex trafficking awareness and prevention are
debating about the future of women’s safety and livelihoods on a global scale. Diversified
plans of contradicting ideologies are being shared among nations to come to consensual
agreements on the matter.
After a couple of hours of moderated and unmoderated caucuses, initial sponsors
Japan, Liberia, and Latvia created the Punishment, Education, Training, and
Rehabilitation plan, also referred to as PETR. Afghanistan, after further persuasion and
convincing of the original sponsors, also joined onto the plan.
PETR provides mandatory courses, funded by the central governments of involved
nations, which educate law enforcement on the current methods of sex trafficking.
Rehabilitation and awareness of sex trafficking victims would also be offered.
Delegate Bella Riley of Japan, when asked about the origin and reasoning of
PETR, stated, “PETR was created to reduce the rates of sex trafficking in numerous
nations within the international community. Japan, specifically, wanted to focus on the

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betterment of victims, while at the same time, improving how the government prevents
sex trafficking.”
Later, a very similar resolution was proposed by United States and United
Kingdom, titled Justice Education and Funding (JEF). Upon introduction of these two
resolutions to one another, the delegations of both working papers made an executive
decision to merge their relating ideas and are approaching an accord.
JEF focuses on education about sex trafficking by means of advertisement and
education in schools. An increase of punishment in sex traffickers is also in order, to
ensure a fair trial.
John Barnes of the United States, when asked about the motives of JEF, directly
stated, “JEF is mainly focused on educating people about sex trafficking, while also
bringing justice to the victims and getting adequate funding for the safety of the plan.”
Rebuttals of PETR and JEF embody the fact that the
plans are far too broad, and do not appeal to the specific
needs of the individual member states of UN Women. Sex
trafficking appears in various mediums and methods,
including, but not limited to, the Internet, and
relationships attributed to stalking, pedophilia, and abuse,
in general.
EEQ, also known as Efficient, Effective, and Quick,
is a third resolution plan sponsored primarily by Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Honduras, and India. Focusing on a
division of sovereignty in the international community,
EEQ allows the UN Women to have power over funding
transfers to nations, but gives control to the individual
nations over what it accomplished with the money. Law
councils, additional housing, and education centers are in
the works to be established with these funds.
In a direct interview with Kazakhstan’s stances
towards EEQ, the delegates stated that the core purposes
of the resolution are to educate and rehabilitate. The
Delegates Bella Riley (left) and Sarah
Busse (right) review the recent clauses
discussed on PETR. 21 Feb 2019.
Subcommittee of Efficient, Effective, and Quick, also referred to SEEQ, will serve as a
short-term plan to remove immense amounts of women from areas with prevalent sex
trafficking rates, and then relocate the women to safer spaces.
The overall funding for the EEQ proposal is partially being requested from
countries who would voluntarily want to donate or advocate for the cause, but it is not
mandatory for member states of the United Nations. Nonprofits are the optimal goal for
monetary value.
On the contrary, the Don’t Do Anything (DDA) resolution was being delegated and
forced upon by Yemen, but is now deemed to be dissolved. The essential element of this
paper was that countries should keep their hands off of the interpersonal connections
with others, even including acts of sex trafficking. “Physically and economically we

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cannot do anything,” says the delegate from Yemen. “It is impossible to fix sex
trafficking. Social traditions would have to change.”
Member states of Efficient, Effective, and Quick relay their presented message to fellow delegates, in hopes of gaining
support for passage. 22 Feb 2019.
Besides the documented signatories that agreed with these claims, Romania,
Somalia, South Africa, and Egypt, the DDA was widely disliked in the room. United
States called out Yemen Saturday afternoon for not fully participating in the session, and
Yemen simply replied with, “DDA stands for Don’t Do Anything… and what are we
doing? Absolutely nothing.”
In all likelihood, the only resolution that was passed was JEF. The Justice
Education and Training plan received widespread accolades and support in the Question
and Answer session, and is now considered a pliable option for the hopeful eradication
of sex trafficking. The overall reasoning of the UN Women is to increase the betterment
of our posterity, and the JEF seems like it will be able to easily achieve this goal.