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** Mrs. Mastromauro's Model UN wiki ** ** Greater Boston Model UN ** ** Malden High Model UN ** ** [|UN News Center] **


 *  Reminder : All material, activities and responses on this page should be placed in the Background of the United Nations section of your Notebook or page break section of your Model UN section of your wiki **

**Guide Questions**:
1. What is the mission of the United Nations? 2. To accomplish its mission, what do member countries agree to do? 3. How did the founders of the United Nations attempt to avoid the failures of the League of Nations? 4. Identify and describe the 6 organs of the UN and their functions 5. Explain how each of these organs helps the UN achieve its mission 7. What kind of occupational skills would a person need to be a staff member or diplomat at the United Nations? 8. Explain how the use of military action is in keeping with the UN mission and goals 9. What efforts has the UN made in protecting human rights? 10. Describe UN efforts in improving health care and expanding education around the world.


 * Opening Activities on the United Nations **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">:


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Place in this section of your wiki the summary of the article you read on actions of the UN that you found in paper or digital newspapers or magazines**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">UN must act to stop Syria violence, confernce told: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">On Sunday, an Arab League official stated that the UN must work to end the violence that exists presently in Syria. A "Friends of Syria" council has come into order to demand that the UN Security Council make a permanent decision to stop the violence. If the UN fails to make this choice, then the international community will "have no chance but to accept Syria's right to self-defense" stated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Also add a list of samples of other articles found by your classmates** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cigarette Smuggling <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Security Council/Syria


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Complete the Visual Discovery activity on the United Nations flag found here**....[[file:I+SEE+IT+MEANS+UN+SYMBOL.doc]]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Below are the words of the poem that became the lyrics of the song**:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Read about and listen to the Hymn of the United Nations here...[|United Nations Hymn]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Lyrics to United Nations Hymn**:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Eagerly, musician. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sweep your string, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">So we may sing. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Elated, optative, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Our several voices <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interblending, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Playfully contending, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Not interfering <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">But co-inhering, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For all within <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The cincture <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">of the sound, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Is holy ground <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Where all are brothers, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">None faceless Others,

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Let mortals beware <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Of words, for <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">With words we lie, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Can say peace <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">When we mean war, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Foul thought speak- fair <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">And promise falsely, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">But song is true: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Let music for peace <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Be the paradigm, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For peace means to change <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">At the right time, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">as the World-Clock <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Goes Tick- and Tock.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">So may the story <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Of our human city <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Presently move <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Like music, when <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Begotten notes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">New notes beget <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Making the flowing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Of time a growing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Till what it could be,

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">At last it is, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Where even sadness <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Is a form of gladness, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Where fate is freedom, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Grace and Surprise. media type="custom" key="13883216"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">** Notes on United Nations for Kids Video **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Started after Yalta ConferenceThree leaders shared common goal – peace and stability of world <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|United Nations for Students]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Oct 24, 1945-- San Francisco meeting where 50 states met
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">193 total member countries of UN today
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Keep peace
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Protect human rights
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Headquarters – New York
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">6 organs
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">General Assembly
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Security Conference – 15 seats, 5 permanent – China, France, Russia, UK, US
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Secretariat – secretary general, commander in chief of UN
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1 vote per country

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Opener: What Does it Mean to be Human ????**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Copy the words: **Human** and ** Rights ** in your wiki


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Under the word Human, brainstorm: What qualities define a human being?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What do you think is necessary to protect, enhance, and fully develop these qualities?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Human: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-a definitive structure (i.e. eyes, ears, mouth, heart, etc) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-emotions (i.e. sadness, happiness, anger, love) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-evolution <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-opinion/voice

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-decision making <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-intelligence <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-self-expression <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-loving people <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-morals & priorities <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-problem settling disputes <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-communication <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-accepting people for who they are <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-greed <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-the belief in a higher power (i.e. God) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-self-control <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-conscience <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-honesty <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What is is necessary to develop these qualities? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-free speech <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-freedom to assemble <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to be a citizen <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to be viewed equal in society <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to choose spouse, regardless of gender <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to life <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-pursuit of happiness <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to property <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to food and shelter <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-freedom to live where you want <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-freedom of the press <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to participate in the government/have a voice <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to vote in favor or against an idea <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-important that one's rights do not interfer with those of others <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-honor diversity

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-every man, women, child is born free, equal in rights <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-law the same for everyone <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to have privacy <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-freedom from prosecution <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to think how you want <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-practice religion freely <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-gov should be voted for <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to work and to a fair salary <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-right to an education
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The "universal rights" Eleanor Roosevelt is referring to are the simple rights all people are entitled to. They include equality, freedom of assembly, etc. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I think that there are way too many different views on universal values in order to come to agreement on one. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I think the UN chose to use the word universal over international because universal refers to a quality of everyone or everything while international refers more to (I think) the relationship nations have with each other. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Without citizens working to preserve their rights in their communities, they cannot expect them to be upheld in the world. These values should be practiced from the beginning of time. Eleanor Roosevelt is stating that every individual has the responsibility to preserve their rights. Eleanor Roosevelt concludes with that people need to know about and care about their rights in order to preserve them. By mentioning concerned citizens, Eleanor Roosevelt is talking about the people who know and care enough about their rights to ensure that they implement them in their communities.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What do you think Eleanor Roosevelt means by "universal rights"? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Some people feel that universal values or standards of behavior are impossible. What do you think? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Why do you think the UN chose the word universal instead of the word international when naming the UDHR? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Paraphrase the final sentence of the quotation. What does it say about individual responsibility for human rights? What do you think Eleanor Roosevelt means by "concerned citizen action to uphold" rights close to home? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Below is the original Declaration of Human Rights:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Universal Declaration of Human Rights] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Our rights need to be protected <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-We need our rights for happiness
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Read the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Identify the key reasons for the UDHR presented in the preamble**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Read through the UDHR and list what you believe to be the articles that most mirror our Bill of Rights?** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Bill of Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights both address that people should have the right to a fair trial. They both also say that people have the right to follow whatever religion they want to. Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security. Nobody is to be enslaved. All are equal before the law. Innocent until proven guilty. Everyone has the right to own property. Freedom of expression. Right to peaceful assembly.

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Corrupt government—hasn’t been working for about 20 years
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