General Assembly III

The Third Committee of the General Assembly pertains to its Social, Humanitarian and
Cultural Affairs. The agenda items relate to the examination of human rights questions that affect people all over the world.

Violence against women in India

A 23 year-old women in Delhi who, in December 2012, was raped by six men in a moving bus, was the 636th victim of violence in that year and this crime was the spark that subsequently led to of a great outrage in the Indian society and worldwide. India has never been very safe for women. The swift changes, like globalization, in the Indian society seem to be intensifying the scale of this violence. Delegates are to find a solution on this unacceptable problem.

Child Labour

Nowadays child labor is one of the biggest threats to children’s rights and therefore its
eradication is an obligation for the international community. When we refer to the
term child labor, we mean precisely the work that children should not be doing because they are too young or the work that is dangerous or otherwise unsuitable for children who are old enough to work. Some of the numerous forms of child labor worldwide are: mining, agricultural labor, manufacturing, domestic service, construction, scavenging and begging on the streets. One of the main reasons why children work is that for many, working is a matter of survival.

Human trafficking

Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity. It comprises an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harbouring or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries
and abroad. Every country in the world is affected by trafficking, whether as a country of origin, transit or destination for victims.