Model United Nations

This article was published in the printed version of the GIMUN Chronicles, the newspaper of GIMUN’s Annual Conference 2016, two months ago.  We thought we’d give you a chance to rediscover it! 

By Ashli Molina

The Sahel Zone, home to 17 African countries such as Mali, Liberia, Niger, and Chad, has severely felt the effects of climate change.  And its people are suffering the irrevocable consequences.  Read the rest of this entry »

This article was published in the printed version of the GIMUN Chronicles, the newspaper of GIMUN’s Annual Conference 2016, two months ago.  We thought we’d give you a chance to rediscover it! 

By Michelle Bognuda

In today’s world, people are forced to leave their homeland because of wars.  January and February are particularly special months for Ticino’s young people because this is the time when carnival celebrations take place.  Although these two statements do not seem to be linked, this year there was a logical connection.  Swiss cantons which border other countries, such as Ticino or Geneva, are particularly touchy about immigrants, people in search of political asylum and, last but not least, cross-border workers.  Read the rest of this entry »

This article was published in the printed version of the GIMUN Chronicles, the newspaper of GIMUN’s Annual Conference 2016, two months ago.  Has Fiji had time to recover? 

By Ashli Molina

Super-cyclone Winston, a category five storm, hit Fiji on Sunday, February 21, wiping out entire villages and leaving as many as 42 individuals dead.  With winds blasts reaching 325km/h and waves up to 12m high, it has been described as the strongest cyclone in Fiji’s history.  Read the rest of this entry »

The GIMUN 2016 Annual Conference, held from March 7th to 11th at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva, gathered around 200 students for a model UN.  Yes, it was a month ago, but it turns out the GIMUN Chronicles journalists had not said their last word!  When the conference ended, they still had a few more articles left for us…

Michelle Bognuda

About one month ago, Germany had an important weekend.  Three state elections happened, and now that the results are published, it is official: radical right-wing parties are gaining more and more power.  On March 13th, the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg cast their ballots.  This is an important test for Angela Merkel and her Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (“Christian Democratic Union of Germany”, CDU) party, because, even though the three states have different political scenarios, polls predicted that radically right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (“Alternative for Germany”, AfD) would have had the best of the race.  Read the rest of this entry »

The GIMUN 2016 Annual Conference, held from March 7th to 11th at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva, gathered around 200 students for a model UN.  Yes, it was a month ago, but it turns out the GIMUN Chronicles journalists had not said their last word!  When the conference ended, they still had a few more articles left for us…

As the peace talks are gearing up in Geneva, major changes have been recently taking place in Syria.  The cessation of hostilities has been holding, by and large, for two weeks now, which enabled humanitarian aid to reach hundreds of thousands of Syrians.  During a press encounter on March 9, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, informed the world about what has been achieved so far on the ground.  Read the rest of this entry »

As GIMUN’s Annual Conference 2016 is taking place this week, we will be giving you exclusive access to one article a day published in the conference newspaper, at the same moment as the participants and in both of our languages.  Check out GIMUN’s website for the full version of the GIMUN Chronicles! 

Current Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega owns most of the country, controlling elections, Congress, the police, the media, and fuel companies.  But Mr. Ortega was once a regular man.  He was once a revolutionary, a part of the Sandinistas who helped topple the Somoza dictatorship during the 1960s and 1970s.  Now, he is compared to the Somoza government he vehemently criticized in 1979.  Read the rest of this entry »