A Zoom into the Human Rights Committee

The ASMMUN officially started and after the inspiring opening ceremony, during lobbying time our delegates got the opportunity to enter their committees and meet the chairs as well as the delegates and the respective countries that are going to debate with.

The press took the opportunity to ask our delegates some questions, interested to know how they felt about the beginning of the awaited event. I interviewed delegate Jessica Ejike, the representative for India in the Human Rights Committee, who showed immense excitement to, after so many years, be participating in a live, held in-person conference.

Jessica’s face enlightened with joy as the Press Corps interviewed her by asking if was their first time traveling to participate in an MUN conference. She explained that it was the first time she had traveled to attend such an event and reported, “I am definitely very impressed by this school. it is really big and very different from mine. As we are a school in Europe, we focus on Erasmus, but it is not like this, it is not an international school. The city itself is obviously beautiful when we arrived around the main square yesterday, and just walked around, and the first thing I noticed was that the architecture is beautiful, the weather is of course nice it’s obviously better than in Germany in this time around.”

She was also asked how she felt about being part of the Human Rights Committee, and her opinion on the topics that are going to be debated throughout the conference, to which she answered:

“I was also in the Human Rights Committee last time, and it was very relaxed, you can talk about topics in a multitude of ways. I do not have experience in other committees, but I feel like in the Human Rights Committee the discussion is way broader because it is not specifically about disarmament or environment, and we can include all these things into the debate, so I just find this committee to be very welcoming and open to conversation. I also think that its a committee that everyone should have the ability to engage in at least once because it is truly amazing. The topics are interesting. I think the Yemen crisis is a complex but insightful topic as it is very long, and you need to include the partnering of countries that are at play here, like the USA backing specific countries that are involved. The indigenous people’s rights are also really interesting because there are countries who do not have legislation on that, and most European countries do not really have the division between indigenous and normal people. But countries like India and many countries in Asia and Africa have issues like that, so it will be very interesting to see different perspectives.

She also added that “the additional topic of Human Trafficking is just a global issue that should be discussed on, and although I do not want the other debates to be rushed through to reach that topic, it would be a topic that I would like to discuss on.”

As the conference continues, we hope to find out more about the delegates' experience and expectations and we ultimately wish the delegates good luck for the upcoming debates!