08-24-2005, 09:33 AM
In general reply:
The high proportion definitely is, as Sober Thought showed. It's also a common error in Dutch, so no worries.
Section one is vital in that it makes this a UN issue, by calling for international aid and cooperation. It's "urges", so no force and no forced taking. I don't think I need to make that clear in this resolution.
Secondly, on clause 4. In the real-life UN, there are 4 "basic goods": food, shelter, education and healthcare. Each human being should have those. Now, I'm not mandating what kind of housing. Just "adequate". A leaking piece of cardboard for a family of 10 is not adequate, so the government has to provide something for those people. It could even cost a bit: a lot of people in slums are not actually below the poverty line. So set the same poverty standard throughout the UN would be silly, but what we can give is a generic bottom line: every citizen needs food, shelter, education and healthcare. The last two are already covered by the NS UN. Now it's for us to go for the first two.
In short, this resolution prescribes nothing too specific not to be able to implement it in every nation.
(OOC: I got the idea from an article on the Bombay slums, which made me remember some astonishingly easy ways of helping people in slum areas by simply providing running water and sewerage, or by building roads. They can greatly improve living conditions in slum areas and aren't all that expensive compared to building thousands of houses)
The high proportion definitely is, as Sober Thought showed. It's also a common error in Dutch, so no worries.
Section one is vital in that it makes this a UN issue, by calling for international aid and cooperation. It's "urges", so no force and no forced taking. I don't think I need to make that clear in this resolution.
Secondly, on clause 4. In the real-life UN, there are 4 "basic goods": food, shelter, education and healthcare. Each human being should have those. Now, I'm not mandating what kind of housing. Just "adequate". A leaking piece of cardboard for a family of 10 is not adequate, so the government has to provide something for those people. It could even cost a bit: a lot of people in slums are not actually below the poverty line. So set the same poverty standard throughout the UN would be silly, but what we can give is a generic bottom line: every citizen needs food, shelter, education and healthcare. The last two are already covered by the NS UN. Now it's for us to go for the first two.
In short, this resolution prescribes nothing too specific not to be able to implement it in every nation.
(OOC: I got the idea from an article on the Bombay slums, which made me remember some astonishingly easy ways of helping people in slum areas by simply providing running water and sewerage, or by building roads. They can greatly improve living conditions in slum areas and aren't all that expensive compared to building thousands of houses)