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Issues & Topics November 2025

November 2025: The issue of regulating lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) (GA1: Disarmament and International Security)
November 2025: The question of nuclear states and nuclear umbrellas (GA1: Disarmament and International Security)

Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) (UN Office for Disarmament Affairs) 

UNIDIR on Lethal Autonomous Weapons (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research) 30 July 2021

Emergence of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) and their necessary apprehension through European human rights law (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) 

The Call to Ban Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Where Do African Nations Stand? (Addis Ababa University International Humanitarian Law Clinic) 

Can Civil Society Succeed In Its Quest to Ban ‘Killer Robots’? (CFR) 17 November 2017

Nations meet at UN for 'killer robot' talks as regulation lags (Reuters) 13 May 2025

Shaking the Foundations: The Human Rights Implications of Killer Robots (Human Rights Watch) 12 May 2014 

Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Gamechanger Demanding Regulation (Geopolitical Monitor) 26 March 2024

UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) 

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

European Union (EU) – Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

World Bank – Nuclear Energy and Development

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - fragile states

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) analysis and recommendations on foreign policy issues

Catham House Neauclear Policy

BBC News - Nuclear Weapons

The Role of ANZUS in Australia’s Reliance on US Extended Nuclear Deterrence - Australian Institute of International Affairs

Amnesty International campaigns against the use of nuclear weapons and advocates for disarmament.

UN Member States' Positions on Nuclear Disarmament.

 

November 2025: The question of the right to seek an effective remedy due process (HRC) 
November 2025:  The question of the right to labour unions (HRC)

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (OHCHR)16 December 1966

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN) 

Access to remedy (OHCHR) 

Access to Justice (UNDP) 

Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law (2005, HRC, GA Reso)

Rethinking “Effective Remedies”: Remedial Deterrence in International Courts (NYU) 

Rethinking 'Effective Remedies': Remedial Deterrence in International Courts (UMICH, 2008) 

HRC59: Key issues at the Human Rights Council in June 2025 (ISHR)

Call for Input - Access to Justice and Effective Remedies in the Context of Toxics (HRC)

Overview of Remedy (UNEPFI)   


 

Freedom of assembly and of association (OHCHR) 

Joint Conclusion: South-East Asia Trade Union Conference (ILO) 11 October 2022

Trade unions welcome ASEAN guidelines on CSR, call for strong enforcement mechanism (ASEAN) 19 September 2017

Labor and Trade Union Rights Inter-American Standards (OAS) 30 October 2020

Labor Market Model Paints an Incomplete Picture (IMF) March 2024

Collaborating to Break the Cycle of Modern Slavery (CFR) 25 March 2011

271,500 workers went on strike in 2024 - Current labor law doesn’t adequately protect workers’ fundamental right to strike (EPI) 20 February 2025 

Nevada’s unions show how organized labor can flourish even after an adverse Supreme Court ruling (The Conversation) 28 June 2018

Ministry for Labour Employment and Migration (UNHCR) 27 October 2011

How do Labor Unions Affect Inequality and Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean? (UNDP) 30 March 2021

 

November 2025: The question of regional burden sharing for migrants and asylum seekers (PMC)
November 2025: The question of undocumented populations and legal identity (PMC)

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

UNHCR releases new resource on asylum processing (UNHCR) 4 May 2022

Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants (Amnesty International)

What is the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum? (IRC) 27 October 2023

What International Laws Protect Refugees? (Asylum Access) 27 August 2024

The 1951 Refugee Convention (UNHCR) 1951

Arab Convention on Regulating Status of Refugees in the Arab Countries (League of Arab States) 1994

Sharing the Burden of the Global Refugee Crisis (Brookings) 27 Jan 2020

The Failures of Refugee Burden-Sharing and the Diaspora’s Role (Shabaka) 28 February 2022

Migrant Global Trends (UNHCR) 6 April 2023

Percentage of Illegal Immigrants by Country (World Population Review) 2025

Counting the uncounted: 1.1 billion people without IDs (World Bank) 6 June 2017

UN Strategy for Legal Identity for All (UN) June 2019

Legal Identity In Forced Displacement Contexts (NRC)

Implementation of the UN Legal Identity Agenda (UN Country Team)

Legal Identity for Inclusive Development (Asian Development Bank) 2007

5 Rights of Undocumented Immigrants (ClearWater Law Group)

UN Legal Identity Agenda (UN)

Legal Identity and Why It Matters (Biometric Update) 28 September 2024

A Legal Identity At Birth, a Right for Every Child (IN Groupe)

Birth registration steadily increases worldwide, but 150 million children still ‘invisible’ (UNICEF) 10 December 2024

International Convention on the Rights and Protection of Undocumented and Documented Migrant Workers (UN) 18 December 1990

Comparative international approaches to establishing identity in undocumented asylum seekers (Lowy institute) 11 April 2018

A Register, A Future: Protecting Children Through Legal Identity (Integrated Biometrics)

 

November 2025: The question of the militarization of ASEAN (ASEAN)
November 2025: The issue of the Myanmar crisis (ASEAN)

UNODA, SIPRI, and the EU, Lead Dialogue on Responsible AI at UNGA First Committee Side Event 18 October 2024

ASEAN Cooperation to Combat Transnational Crime: Progress, Perils, and Prospects 15 February 2024

EU Eyes More Naval Visits Disputed South China Sea | Arab News 16 March 2023

ASEAN Regional Forum Annual Security Outlook 4 December 2024

The Revival of Military Rule in South and Southeast Asia | Council on Foreign Relations February 2022 

(PDF) ASEAN's Role in Enhancing Regional Security and Economic Stability through Defense Cooperation December 2024

Military expenditure (% of GDP) - East Asia & Pacific 2024

On its own terms, ASEAN is surprisingly effective 22 May 2025

Thailand and Cambodia Reinforcing Troops on Disputed Border After May Skirmish, Thai Minister Says | Reuters 7 June 2025

UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ human rights crisis in Myanmar as violence and economic collapse deepen (UN) 26 May 2025

Situation of human rights in Myanmar - Report of the UN High Comissioner for Human Rights (OCHR) 26 May 2025

Myanmar: UN report maps pathway to to fulfil aspirations for peace, inclusivity, and democracy (OCHR) 26 May 2025

UNHCR steps up aid for displaced in Myanmar as conflict intensifies (UNHCR) 11 February 2022

ASEAN Leaders statement on an Extended and Expanded Ceasefire in Myanmar (ASEAN) May 27 2025

Myanmar Economic Monitor: Compounding Crises - International Migration from Myanmar  (The World Bank) December 2024

Submission to the OCHR for the consideration of the Universal Periodic Review of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar during the 23rd session (UNPO) 23 March 2015

Just When things couldn’t possibly get worse in Myanmar, they do (Council on Foreign Relations) 28 March 2025

Myanmar’s Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic Conflict (Council on Foreign Relations) 31 January 2022

Finding an End to the Myanmar Crisis: ASEAN’s Massive Task (Observer Research Foundation ORF) 13 November 2024

 

November 2025: The issue of regional cooperation to combat food insecurity (AU)
November 2025: The question of the elimination of Official Development Assistance (ODA) (AU)

World Europe and Central Asia: Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2024 - Managing Water Resources Sustainably for Improved Food Security and Nutrition [EN/AR/RU/ZH] (OCHA), 2 Apr 2025

CHAPTER 5. REGIONALISM AND FOOD SECURITY (FAO), 20 February 2002

FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO join efforts to address child malnutrition affecting millions of children in the region (WHO), 29 August 2023

World Bank Action (WBG), 17 November 2022

Easing Guinea’s Food Insecurity: The IMF’s Food Shock Window (IMF), 20 June 2024

ADB announce food support for Asia-Pacific region will reach $40B by 2030 (The Phnom Penh Post), 7 May 2025

The African Union adopts ten-year strategy and action plan to transform Africa's agri-food systems and ensure food security (AU), Date: 13 January 2025

Ensuring global food supply and food security (EC), 7 April 2025

Mobilizing Climate Finance for Africa Infrastructure (AU) future

Navigating a World Where Democracy Falters: Empowering Agency through a Freedom-Centric Governance (UNDP) 29 February 2024

COVID-19 eroding social cohesion and triggering rise in civil unrest in crisis-affected countries, alert UNDP, g7+ (UNDP) 11 March 2021

Last Month, Over Half-a-Billion Africans Accessed the Internet (Council on Foreign Relations) 25 July 2019

The Tigray War & the African Union (Policy Centre for the New South) 11 August 2021

The African Union and the Tigray Crisis (Observer Research Foundation) 26 April 2021

FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO join efforts to address child malnutrition affecting millions of children in the region (WHO), 29 August 2023

The African Union adopts ten-year strategy and action plan to transform Africa's agri-food systems and ensure food security (AU), Date: 13 January 2025

Official Development Assistance and Africa Policy Brief

The African Union Commission and the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre Concluded the Training Programme of the AU Human Rights Observers (AU) 24 May 2016

 

November 2025: The question of strengthening the European defence industry (EU)
November 2025: The question of the right to secure borders and control migration laws (EU)

Projected Global Resettlement Needs (UNHCR) 2024 

Progress - Periodic Global Report on the State of Solutions to Internal Displacement (IOM) December 2024 

Temporary Reintroduction of Border Control (European Union)

Africa Strengthens Fight Against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants with Validated Continental Guidelines (African Union) 20 December 2024

Enhanced Migration Policies Can Help Drive Growth and Competitiveness in Europe and Central Asia (World Bank) 31 October 2024

Road to nowhere: Why Europe’s border externalisation is a dead end (European Council on Foreign Relations) 14 December 2023

Migration and Refugee Policies Steer People, and Economies, in New Directions (IMF Blog) 15 April 2025

Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch) May 2024

European court rules against Greece over migrant’s illegal deportation, calls practice ‘systematic’ (European Court of Human Rights via AP News) 7 January 2025

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (UN)

United Nations Charter (UN)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN)

The 1951 Refugee Convention (UNHCR)

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (OHCHR)

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OHCHR)

European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

Projected Global Resettlement Needs (UNHCR) 2024 

Progress - Periodic Global Report on the State of Solutions to Internal Displacement (IOM) December 2024 

Temporary Reintroduction of Border Control (European Union)

Africa Strengthens Fight Against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants with Validated Continental Guidelines (African Union) 20 December 2024

Enhanced Migration Policies Can Help Drive Growth and Competitiveness in Europe and Central Asia (World Bank) 31 October 2024

Road to nowhere: Why Europe’s border externalisation is a dead end (European Council on Foreign Relations) 14 December 2023

Migration and Refugee Policies Steer People, and Economies, in New Directions (IMF Blog) 15 April 2025

Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch) May 2024

European court rules against Greece over migrant’s illegal deportation, calls practice ‘systematic’ (European Court of Human Rights via AP News) 7 January 2025

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (UN)

 

November 2025: Security Council (SC) The question of peacekeeping efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 
November 2025: Human Rights Council (HRC) The question of labor rights for migrant workers

Crisis in the DR Congo (UNDP) February 26 2025 

Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (IOM) 7 February 2025 

UNICEF reaches 364,000 children daily in Goma with clean water and sanitation after escalation in DR Congo conflict (UNICEF) 3 March 2025 

Peace And Security Council 1256th Emergency Ministerial meeting held on the Recent Developments in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 28 January 2025 

The DRC Conflict Enters a Dangerous New Phase (AFRICA CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES) 26 February 2025 

Democratic Republic of Congo: World Bank Approves $250 Million to Improve Stability and Resilience in Conflict-Affected Eastern Provinces (World Bank Group) 22 December 2022 

What’s Next for the Democratic Republic of Congo? (Council on Foreign Relations) 19 March 2025 

War Returns to the Democratic Republic of Congo: What to Know (Council on Foreign Relations) 7 February 2025 

Pressure points: How Europeans could help avert a Third Congo War (European Council on Foreign Relations) 13 February 2025 

What's the fighting in DR Congo all about? (BBC) 2 May 2025  

United Nations Charter, Chapter VII: Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression (UN)  

Guide on Ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (ICRMW) April 2009

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (OHCHR) 18 December 1990

International Organization for Migration launching the International Recruitment integrity system (IRIS) 2016

Draft Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers (African Union) 04-08 April 2022 

Primer or Manual on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families (Organization of American States)

Responsible migration management from the business perspective: the case of human value chains (World Bank) 6 January 2024 

COVID-19, Migrant Labor, and the Case for Labor Recruitment Reform (Council of Foreign Relations) 10 June 2020

Govt says it will make modern slavery history – but experts warn the victim toll is rising (Institute of Employment Rights) 18 October 2019 

Human rights groups warn of 'surge' in migrant worker deaths in Saudi Arabia (BBC) 14 May 2025 

Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers Opens Thirty-Ninth Session (OHCHR) 2 December 2024

Dispatches: Remembering Labor Rights on Labor Day (Human Rights Watch) 29 August 2014

Protection of Migrants' Rights and State Sovereignty (UN Chronicle) 30 September 2013


 
November 2025: GA1 (Disarmament and International Security) The question of the enforcement of arms embargoes
November 2025: (AU) The issue of regional cooperation to combat food insecurity

Arms Embargo (Security Council) 2020

Haiti ‘awash’ with guns leaving population ‘absolutely terrified’ (Human Rights) 17 April 2025

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022) concerning Haiti (Security Council)

SECURITY SECTOR REFORM (SSR) AND SECURITY SECTOR GOVERNANCE (SSG) (UNDP) 2015

2024 Annual Coordination Meeting of the National Commissions for the Fight against the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (COMNAT-ALPC) of ECOWAS Member States (ECOWAS) 5 November 2024

Libya arms embargo ‘totally ineffective’ (UN expert panel) 17 March 2021

The African Union looks forward to the outcome of the ongoing joint AU-United Nations review of UNAMID operations (AU) 6 December 2024

Beyond ‘shadow-boxing’ and ‘lip service’ The enforcement of arms embargoes in Africa (ISS Africa) April 2007

Which countries have banned or restricted arms sales to Israel? (Guardian) 3 September 2024

UN Security Council must renew the arms embargo on South Sudan (Amnesty International) 28 May 2025

THE ARMS TRADE TREATY (ATT) 2014

Why Arms Embargoes Fail (SAIS) 2019

“Nigeria’s Northeast Risks Mass Hunger as UN Funding Dwindles.” (Reuters) 28 June 2024

Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity, November 2024 to May 2025 Outlook

Muslims look forward to the annual Eid feast. Many Africans are now struggling to afford it (AP News) 6 June 2025

Partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA)

African Union Commission Hosts High-Level Stakeholder Roundtable on the Cost of Food and Nutrition in Africa (AU) 16 December 2024

EU-CDB Regional Food Security Programme

WFP, Kuwait Fund announce partnership to strengthen global food security efforts

FAO and the UN Office for South-South Cooperation reaffirm joint commitments to further mainstream South-South and Triangular Cooperation (UN South)

Food Security Update (WorldBank), 16 May 2025

Regionalism and Food Security (Food and Agriculture Organization)

East Africa’s Growing Food Crisis: What to Know (Council on Foreign Relations) 16 March 2022

Ukraine/Russia: As War Continues, Africa Food Crisis Looms (Humans Rights Watch) 28 April 2022

Joint Statement by the African Union and the United States on Food Security 

Policy Support and Governance Gateway

 

Issues & Topics March 2025

March 2025: Addressing the Myanmar Tatmadaw conflict March 2025: Addressing integrity concerns regarding Iran’s nuclear program March 2025: Addressing the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis

 

March 2025: Addressing the Myanmar Tatmadaw conflict March 2025: Addressing integrity concerns regarding Iran’s nuclear program March 2025: Addressing the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis
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March 2025: Membership of South Ossetia and Abkhazia March 2025: Membership of Palestine March 2025: Membership of Somaliland March 2025: Membership of United Bengal

 

March 2025: Question of combating the use of chemical and biological weapons March 2025: Question of Reforming the UN Disarmament Machinery March 2025: Question of strengthening international cooperation on space security

 

March 2025: Question of promoting fair and equitable trade agreements March 2025: Question of combating Tax Evasion to Ensure Fair Resource Allocation March 2025: Question of combating corruption in Debt Relief Programs

 

March 2025: Addressing the role of governments in either protecting or perpetuating religious intolerance March 2025: Holding accountability on multinational corporations for human rights abuses in conflict zones, including forced labor, land grabs, and environmental harm March 2025: Question of rights of political prisoners and detainees

 

March 2025: Question of urbanization and challenges of internal migration March 2025: Question of border management and humanitarian response to sudden migration flows March 2025: Question of private military companies in migration management

 

March 2025: Question of mitigating exploitation of women in labor March 2025: Question of abusive forced marriage March 2025: Addressing economic inequalities for women in poverty

 

Question of digital division in technological advancements March 2025: Question of ethical standards in illegal trade March 2025: Transparency and integrity within infrastructure development among business corporations

 

March 2025: The question of AI replacement in jobs March 2025: The question of security resilience in rural regions March 2025: The question of food security in high conflict zones

 

March 2025: Question of data privacy and national security among refugees March 2025: Question of economic interest and ethical standards within trade relations March 2025: Integrity in NATO regarding security breaches and surveillance across national borders

 

March 2024: The question of the implications of cyber and ABC weapons defense research (GA1)

March 2023: The membership of Balochistan (UNMC)

March 2023: The membership of Scotland (UNMC)

United Nations International School, Hanoi