"Half our world is female. Half our world is under 25 years of age. We cannot meet the Sustainable Development Goals without drawing on the power of women and the enormous energy of young people." Secretary-General António Guterres, addressing the UN General Assembly on 19 September 2017.The Sustainable Development...
Exciting news! Research materials written by NHSMUN staff members will soon be published in a new Brazilian textbook. Editora do Brasil S/A, a publishing company in Brazil, contacted NHSMUN and requested permission to use three separate NHSMUN publications in a new collective work being assembled for South American schools....
Click here to download the NHSMUN 2025 Assistant Director Application. NHSMUN 2024 was an incredible experience, and the creativity, ingenuity, and eloquence of our delegates were on full display. Although the conference only just ended, we are already planning for NHSMUN 2025. To make next year’s conference possible, we are...
On International Youth Day, we celebrate and recognize the role of the young population as absolutely essential to achieve change in the world. This year’s theme for International Youth Day is Green Skills for Youth, which the UN explains will raise awareness of green skills by "highlighting initiatives at...
On Thursday, January 27, the World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued an urgent call for humanitarian action in 2022, reporting that food insecurity was soaring across 20 hunger “hotspots.” The agencies warned that millions of people are at high risk of falling into crisis-level...
Just like that, 2021 is coming to an end. After a year filled with uncertainty, physical distance, and many surprises, we remain as proud as ever to be a part of the Model UN community. The ongoing commitment to learning and global citizenship that we have witnessed in our...
From October 31 to November 12, global leaders converged in Glasgow for the COP26 summit. This meeting was the direct successor to COP25, which resulted in the famed Paris Agreement, or the Paris Climate Accords. However, after six years of implementation, the situation with our global climate remains dire....
The official NHSMUN 2022 Background Guides are here! After a rigorous months-long process of vetting, researching, and writing about the NHSMUN 2022 topics, we are proud to announce that our final background guides (BGs) are ready to be viewed. This year’s topic slate and committees feature some of the...
“We need your help to prevent UNGA 76 High-Level Week from being a super-spreader event.” -Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in a letter to UN Member States on August 13th 2021The 76th Session of the UN General Assembly is set to open on Tuesday, September 14th,...
“No country in the world has yet uprooted the deep systems of racial inequity burdening communities of African descent — the result of centuries of discrimination, dispossession, and enslavement.” -Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund on August 4, 2021 After years of deliberation, on August...