[Lawtonia]

Just a quick note as I am not presently in my nation's capital. I decided to split my ideas up between two resolutions. One on genetic discrimination and another on genetic rights. While I am new, i have been doing a lot of reading on the forums and realise how jaded nations seem to be with "discrimination" resolutions. although most discrimination issues are already covered, they do not cover discrimination based on genes.

In real life genes have already been mapped which show a person's tendancy to anti-social aggresive violent behaviour, depression not to mention genes for downe syndrome, etc. would anyone here like to be refused education or health insurance because somewhere in their own genome they carry a gene for depression or cystic fibrosis?

I feel its an important issue - however, i'm not in this for the glory of writing a resolution, its only a proposal at this stage - I'm quite happy for it to sit in the development stage until the rest of the UN is ready for another discrimination issue.

The issue of people's individual Rights over their own genes and to protect people should be a completely different resolution. (it will probably be more successful than a "discrimination" resolution)

Thanks everyone for your input - i really value your experience

I will write more on the rights issue when I get back to my capital

Cheers