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Straw Poll: Cocktail Hour Popular, Draft Resolutions Lamentably More Popular

Straw Poll: Cocktail Hour Popular, Draft Resolutions Lamentably More Popular

By JOHN SUNUNU, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Reporters at Agence France-Presse were surprised that the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel lacked its usual crowd of suit jackets and bow ties yesterday evening as…

Should Censorship be Introduced for the Sake of Peace?

Should Censorship be Introduced for the Sake of Peace?

By SUSAN BINCHY, HAARETZ The Social, Humanitarian and Cultural  Committee has chosen to focus on the responsibility of journalists. When their exercise of the right to free expression clashes with the…

Terrorism, What Does it Mean in the Legal World?

Terrorism, What Does it Mean in the Legal World?

By STEPHANY MUÑOZ DOT, PEOPLE’S DAILY The Legal Committee at the HNMUN has voted for “terrorism” as its topic for the conference, hoping to reach an agreement on such a…

DISEC Stalls in Debate

DISEC Stalls in Debate

By DIVJOT ANAND, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE World War 2 made disastrous changes in the behavior of the countries worldwide. Trust was now at the bottom of the page; it was now…

Push for journalistic freedom in unexpected ways

Push for journalistic freedom in unexpected ways

By THE GUARDIAN, ANAÏS VOSKI   Following tonight’s SOCHUM press conference, some developing countries are pushing multiple working papers in hopes of addressing journalistic freedom and national security from a…

Amnesty International raises questions about freedom of expression in SOCHUM

Amnesty International raises questions about freedom of expression in SOCHUM

By YENA SEO, THE WASHINGTON POST Following heavy debate regarding the freedom of expression and protection of journalists in the Social, Cultural and Humanitarian committee (SOCHUM) at the 61st session…

Amnesty International Attempts to Tackle Arms Trade

Amnesty International Attempts to Tackle Arms Trade

BY JESSE JAMES STEELE, AL JAZEERA The representative from Amnesty International (AI) has been working with members of the Disarmament and International Security (DISEC) to discuss the issues surround ethnic…

Why Healthcare Technology is important

Why Healthcare Technology is important

By YIWEN DONG, THE GUARDIAN Today is the second day of Harvard National Model United Nations 2015 (HNMUN 2015), and the conference of Special Summit on Technology (SST) is still…

UK dodges question on government spying at press conference

UK dodges question on government spying at press conference

By ANAÏS VOSKI, THE GUARDIAN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tonight’s SOCHUM press conference produced some interesting results at the sixty-first session of the Harvard National Model United Nations conference. The committee…

Tension and resolution overlap in the Historical General Assembly

Tension and resolution overlap in the Historical General Assembly

By YENA SEO, THE WASHINGTON POST With the dawning of a new millennium, member states of the United Nations gathered at the Harvard National Model United Nations conference to discuss…

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