Changing the world

Den Haag 2016 #5:  The Hague Model United Nations Conference


A long, long eight hours of committee and sub-commissions debate.   I spent the day visiting and observing my student delegates.  My fitbit clocked up the first 10,000 steps early afternoon.  Pictured is the vote at the end of the Disarmament sub Commission's debate of the resolution proposed by Spain - my student.  (At Model United Nations conferences, every school delegation represents a different country from their own. This year we are Spain and International Red Cross) The joy on the face of the "Spanish" delegate is because he knows at this point from the number of delegate placards held aloft that he has the majority and therefore his resolution has just passed.  The topic was the mining of minerals such as tin, tungsten, tantalum, gold and diamond in areas where there is conflict in Central Africa and the resolution proposed and passed dealt with the establishment of a UN international treaty to establish global guidelines and standards for legal mining and trading in that area - wrapped up in  authentic UN-speak vocabulary in both perambulatory and operative clauses - all nine pages that consists of ten clauses and a zillion sub-clauses and no full stops as it is technically, all one sentence,  and of course, all in English.  
*proud*  

Last day tomorrow.