From 00ec5f67fdec97c48aabf588f2394bf8d10f2266 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:14:37 -0500 Subject: added first position paper --- gsumun_unhrc_peru | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 gsumun_unhrc_peru (limited to 'gsumun_unhrc_peru') diff --git a/gsumun_unhrc_peru b/gsumun_unhrc_peru new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3be6dbb --- /dev/null +++ b/gsumun_unhrc_peru @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +I. Access to reproductive healthcare for migrant women, refugees and children +------ + +Humanitarian aid, especially reproductive healthcare, must be provided to the now 30 million women and girls suffering from a crisis---be it civil war, natural disaster, or terrorism. +These events block the reach of NGO or UN nutrition support and the provision of safe abortions and contraception by medical professionals, requiring innovative solutions to rapidly address new emergencies. +In line with Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 5, the Republic of Peru urges the international community to practice haste in providing the necessary aid within their regions and across the globe. +The first step to giving aid is residency: direct medical aid is easier to provide when migrants and refugees are “in the system.” Peru and its Latin American neighbors already achieve this with open-door policies built to improve regional economies and to target situations such as the Venezuelan Crisis without undue burden on any country. +This isn’t mirrored globally, but many nations are moving towards a more open, quick, and efficient immigration program. +However, streamlining such processes is difficult to achieve without losing accuracy in rejection decisions, so Peru would appreciate international work to create guidelines and frameworks for efficient and accurate asylum-seeking systems. +The second step is direct medical, nutrient, and delivery assistance. +Particularly important for impoverished and pregnant women, it is necessary to create the World Health Organization’s “bare minimum” of an “absence of disease [and] infirmity,” and many nations, including Peru, fail to fully provide this to migrants and refugees, despite the efforts made to combat the issue. +To a degree, refugees have access to Ministry of Healthcare services, at a price which they sometimes can afford through the formal and informal economies. +In an effort to resolve problems like these, Peru encourages Regional Research and Financing Framework (RRaFF), where nations to cooperate for equitable and accountable distribution of refugees and aid resources (such as NGO legal or nutritional aid or UN monetary aid). +Peru simultaneously acknowledges the value of existing innovation such as handbooks and community teachers---encouraging further research in syndicated regional organizations (included in the RRaFF to allow systems which address different needs). +The RRaFF would also create a singular body to which the United Nations could contribute aid, reducing overhead and creating ``a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being'' + +II. Protection of refugees and migrants from tracking and exploitation +------ + +As conflict continues to embroil the globe, it becomes imperative that the international community addresses those affected most by these conflicts, chief among them refugees and migrants. +In 2018, there were 70.8 million forcibly displaced persons---and that number is growing. +Instability in countries makes residents easy targets for labor exploitation and sex trafficking, which forces them to endure harsh, unfair conditions, so it is imperative that vulnerable groups are protected from harmful situations, especially for the women and children most impacted by human trafficking. +This issue could not be closer to the lives of more people, so the Republic of Peru is committed to preserving migrant rights, apparent in both its national and its foreign policies. +Peru has realized this by accepting over 700,000 Venezuelan refugees and improving its legislation by combatting loopholes for traffickers and strengthening enforcement of anti-trafficking legislation. +For example, Law 28950 was recently passed, prohibiting all forms of human trafficking and prescribing penalties of eight to 25 years’ imprisonment depending on the circumstances, mandating increased police enforcement, and developing public awareness campaigns against such heinous acts. +Peru has pursued international agreements and coalitions beyond conventional treaties to eradicate human trafficking beyond its borders, such as the United Nations Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea, and Air. +However, it still persists, which is why the international community must act decisively to protect trafficking victims. +This is why Peru is introducing The FixIt Plan. +This plan comprises three pillars: legislation, prosecution, and protection. +The first pillar aims to ensure that human trafficking is illegal in all parts of the world, as trafficking loopholes unfortunately still exist and existing laws go unenforced. +The second pillar aims to prosecute human traffickers at an international level, ensuring a fair and complete trial as well as an inescapable trial, as a huge obstacle to combating human trafficking if provideng a means to address it in international courts. +The final pillar aims to protect current and possible victims of trafficking and exploitation by funding organizations that find, secure, or provide relief to victims of human trafficking. +This approach notably respects national sovereignty because individual nations choose specific NGO’s and inter-/intra-governmental organizations to protect displaced persons, meaning increased flexibility. -- cgit