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School:

Country: Oriental Republic of Uruguay

Committee: UN-HRC

Topic: The Elimination of Religious Intolerance

Religious Intolerance is an existing problem which covers numbers of domains. It goes against the Charter of the United Nations and other articles on the freedom of religion. As a country that commits to the advancement and protection of human rights, Uruguay gives strong backing to the elimination of religious intolerance.

The international community has long paid attention to the problem of intolerance. There have been a number of UN’s declarations that affect the situation, such as Elimination of All Forms of Religious Intolerance (1993). Besides, in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, many states have reached an agreement that regard the freedom of religion as a part of human rights to protect.

Uruguay is among the countries that are signatories to the widest range of human rights conventions and has signed the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,

Social and Cultural Rights. In November 2004, the Third Committee approved Draft Resolutions on Extrajudicial Executions, Elimination of Religious Intolerance. We attended it with initiative.

Uruguay affirms its intention of discussing with other countries to find a peaceful solution. We appeal for system perfection of religious control. To sum up, Uruguay encourages cooperation while maintaining respect for international law and human rights. We are convinced that with more tolerance and cooperation, religious tolerance will be achieved.

 

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Delegate: WANG TONG，CHENG MENXUE

School: ZHENGZHOU FOREIGN LANGUAGE SCHOOL, CHINA

Country: MALAYSIA

Committee: ECOFIN

Topic: INTERNATIONAL LABOR MOBILITY

Whilst economic globalization has been occurring for the last several thousand years (since the emergence of trans-national trade), it has begun to occur at an increased rate over the last 20-30 years in nearly every market of economic activity except for labor markets. The boom of labors in developing countries and the fact that population of developed countries will likely remain at around 1.25 billion until 2025 also magnified push and pull factors in favor of immigration. While goods and money can move across international borders easily and with nearly no restriction, workers cannot move across borders as easily, and governments continue to restrict and regulate immigration closely. The essence of international labor mobility is to provide sufficient workers to countries with low labor force and to release the pressure of source countries. Although increasing and maintaining a high level of labor mobility allows a more efficient allocation of resources, some problems as illegal human trafficking, mistreated or exploitation of migrant labor, unemployment and brain drain play negative roles in the issue. According to the report of ILO in 2008, Southeast Asia lacks of professional workers and is willing to transfer surplus rural labor.

As mainly a destination country, Malaysia demands more migrant workers to alleviate such shortage of the labor force in the economic development. The government of Malaysia is to set up new policies to attract foreign workers to sustain the burgeoning construction industry. Malaysia’s total population stands at approximately 25.27 million, and is steadily aging with an estimated 13.2% over 50 years of age in the year 2000. 1 The size of the work force is estimated at 11.09 million in 2008.2 Many Malaysians are no longer willing to perform jobs that they consider as 3-D (dirty, difficult and dangerous), creating demand for migrants in sectors like plantations/agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and some service occupations. The number of documented migrant workers now in the country is 2.1 million persons, meaning that 25% to 30% of the work force is composed of migrants. When combining the unknown yet significant number of undocumented migrant workers, observers from NGOs, migrant support organizations, and the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) estimate that there are between 1 to 2 million undocumented migrant workers. And the circumfluence of highly-skilled citizens is also essential. Malaysia is a signatory to the UN Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and has ratified five of the eight core ILO Conventions.

The United Nations has convened High-Level Dialogues on the subject of International Migration before. At one of these High-Level Dialogues in 2006, Belgium agreed to host the first Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in 2007.3 At the 63rd session of the Second

Committee in 2008, Resolution 63/225 was adopted. expressed its hope that more countries would accede or sign and ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All

Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. This convention was negotiated in conjunction with the International Labor Organization and was adopted by the General Assembly in 1990.4

Inter-state cooperation in managing labor migration is manifested at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels. But efforts by the international community to develop norms on labour migration through legally binding conventions have had limited success.

Malaysia affirms its intention of cooperating with other countries on the issue of international labor mobility. International treaties that have been negotiated to protect migrant’s rights need reconsidering and ratifying. The government of Malaysia aims at helping establish offices and services to help migrants with grievances to gain access to legal counsel and services together with the UN. Building support networks, both social and financial, for migrants and their families in both destination and source countries is also essential. Malaysia urges that a comprehensive program to be launched to promote education and training of migrant workers in labor-exporting countries, organized by both source and destination countries. A framework of multi-lateral cooperation that involves government, IGOs, NGOs, civil societies, private sectors and companies is to be developed at international, national and local levels, acknowledging the fact that the promoting of greater migration also involves other socioeconomic issues such as illegal human trafficking, unemployment, international remittances, xenophobia. Malaysia also requests UN can regulate the labor mibility and organize more High-Level Dialogues on the subject of International Migration.

1 Watson Wyatt Worldwide survey

2 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/my.html

3 Global Forum on Migration and Development, “Report of the first meeting,”13.

4 Nayyar, “International Migration and Economic Development,” 295.