Bulgaria General Assembly Position PaperEssay Preview: Bulgaria General Assembly Position PaperReport this essayBulgaria General Assembly Position PaperDelegation fromBulgariaPosition Paper for the General AssemblyThe topics before the General Assembly are: 1) Trafficking in Women & Girls in the blank, and 2) Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. Bulgaria is committed to increasing international cooperation on these two issues in order to aid those who have suffered so wretchedly to these tragedies.
I. Position Paper for the Trafficking in Women & GirlsHuman trafficking is a tragic and important issue that the international community needs to involve itself in more so than it has previously. Specifically, the human trafficking of women and girls needs to be addressed, as they constitute a substantial proportion of those who are being trafficked. We think that it is important to improve and revamp the implementation and enforcement of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. This is a global issue that needs to be addressed more seriously on an international cooperation scale. Furthermore, due to the Syrian Civil War, we are afraid that unless we assist the Syrian refugees in the neighboring countries to Syria, the women and girl refugees may be subject to human trafficking that is facilitated in places of chaos and crisis. We see how these two issues intertwine, and find it imperative that we address both issues together in aiding the Syrian refugees.
We fully support the Global Plan of Action Against Human Trafficking that was adopted by the General Assembly in 2010, and we think that we need to increase our international support and cooperation in enforcing and facilitating the security of women and girls across the globe that are subject to human trafficking. We need to accomplish this by aiding the governments of countries that are especially affected by human trafficking, such as the countries in northern Africa. We need to help those who have been subjected to human trafficking by providing medical treatment to them and helping them deal with the physical and psychological trauma that they have endured.
We ask that the General Assembly writes legislation that increases the international commitment to stopping human trafficking, primarily focusing on women and girls who are primarily targeted, but also men and boys as well. We need to harbor safe havens for those who have been subjected to human trafficking as well as preemptively stopping future trafficking by assisting the governments who are primarily affected by human trafficking. We must help these countries police their country in search of those criminals who are dealing with human trafficking in order to stop the human trafficking from happening in the first place. Because there are economic incentives in human trafficking, our aid that is sent to those countries whose governments cannot afford to police and deal with human trafficking will help alleviate the economic conditions that foster the black market of human trafficking. We need to help increase the legitimacy of these governments so that they can eventually police human trafficking on their own without overwhelming international support.
II. Situation in the Syrian Arab RepublicThe Syrian Civil War has escalated over the summer of 2013. We think that this is a crucial time for international cooperation in order to help the Syrian people in this catastrophic humanitarian crisis. On March 15, 2011, protests erupted in Syria calling to oust the Bashar al-Asad regime that was apart of the wider Middle Eastern protest movement called the Arab Spring. Later in April of 2011, the Syrian Army was deployed to stop the uprisings and protestors were killed across the country. Since then, there has been an armed conflict between Syrian forces loyal to the Baath Party and those who want to oust it, which is known as the Syrian Civil War. There are many armed groups within Syria and outside Syria that are all vying
and the majority have their own agendas of terrorism. When the two major political parties (the “Right” and “The”] were formed nearly two years ago, this conflict was characterized as a revolution of the people divided into “political parties” (mostly from the People’s Protection Units) and the “State of Forces”. A majority of activists were part of the military and its supporters. However, it appears that some factions of activists still have a political agenda that they are against. They are still trying to kill Syrian regime forces, as well as the civilians, but the violence is growing and there are few more people available than there was in March, 2011. The opposition is not only an important factor in the conflict, it is also an even bigger issue to us.We think that the Syrian Arab Republic is a crucial time to international cooperation. It has been a tough place to fight with no outside force. On the one hand, the Syrian government wants the international community to have a say in the decision of the National Coordination Committee in the Syrian Republic. On the other hand, it is still trying to destabilize a strong part of Russia. As one example of this, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in 2013 gave a speech titled “A Plan of Action for Supporting a New National Coordination Group”. It called for the creation of a new national coalition to combat and stabilize the civil war. According to ISAF’s director General Faysal Abdel-Arabi, there are many reasons why a joint campaign was chosen, but there is no guarantee these would happen. For example, some opposition supporters claim opposition forces are trying to break through the government forces in the Aleppo countryside. In fact, we are still fighting with the People’s Protection Units for control in the Aleppo countryside and the nearby Deir ez-Zor countryside. There is an increasing trend towards the creation of a political and military alliance with these other groups, which helps to stabilize the situation. The political and military alliance is very effective, especially if the opposition does not agree to the conditions of cooperation. Even though the US has been criticized for its assistance to the Syrian government in its role of proxy in the war, we believe the US has done its part to help the people of Damascus to take back Syrian government’s right to govern themselves.This is why our group’s project is focusing on taking the civil war to the national arena in the country. This means helping out with information sharing and developing a political agenda on the people in Syria to achieve a political consensus on the needs of the Syrian electorate.We want to make international contributions to Syria to help the people of Damascus to take back their right to govern themselves. This is what we intend to do, so in the weeks to come we are also working on supporting the Democratic Coordination Committees (DCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), both of which are supported by the EU, as well as the Syrian National Council (SNC). We plan to use the US military to provide funding to them and other countries involved in this process like Iran, Ukraine, Sudan,