Law Proposal Presentation for United Nations: A Delegate's Guide

Presentation Preamble

Each one of you students will be a “delegate” for your member state (the country you researched and drafted the law proposal letter for), and will attempt to rally support from other member states in class in order to get your law passed by a majority of your classmates. Presentation Preamble ? State the law you are proposing. ?

Give a short history of the problem:

Use graphs, statistics, pictures to support your claim. ?

Explain why it is important to pass your law and persuade your classmates to vote for you.?

If you use your law proposal letter you turned in last week, most of this information is already done for you! Operations/Logistics ?

How much will it cost?  What will you need other countries to contribute?

Ex: On the topic of human trafficking, will you need a world army/police force consisting of people from different countries?

How many people are needed to implement this? Will you need a loan from the World Bank or donations from other countries? 

Who will be in charge and what will be the chain of command?

o Ex: A head committee, president or board of trustees? Will there be regional and local governors? In regard to human trafficking, is each nation in charge of running the program within their own borders or is it the UN’s responsibility?

o Use graphs, statistics, and charts to support your proposal. It is ok to have “imaginary/made up” costs and logistics. Questions and Answers ? After going through your presentation, you will be opened up to questions by delegates from other member states.

REMEMBER, not all Latin American countries are close allies. Be prepared to have delegates ask you specific questions about your presentations that you may not have explained in enough detail. This is your last chance to persuade other member states to vote for your law!! Meeting Procedures ? At the beginning of each class the President (Mr. Reif) will call the General Assembly to order and proceed with the agenda for the day.

o Ex: “Welcome delegates of the General Assembly on this date of May 10, 2020. Today will be session one of this assembly. I would now like to welcome to the floor the delegate from Argentina. Mr./Mrs. Delegate, you have 15 minutes to present your case. The floor is yours.” ? Each delegate has no more than 15 minutes for their presentation and a 5 minute Q & A session.

If you wish to ask a question, you will raise your voting flag and Mr. Reif will call on you. ? Each session then ends with a floor vote, in which each delegate holds up their countries flag (you will draw them on a piece of computer paper) and Mr. Reif will count the votes. If the majority of the class votes for your law, it passes. We will then move on immediately to the next presentation.

If you are called upon and you are not prepared to present, you will lose 10 points each day you are unable to present when called upon (100 to 90, etc.). Resources ?

The following link will give you excellent resources on words to use in your presentation, ways to persuade others, and help you identifying allies or countries with similar interests as you. On the left is a table of contents (I will go over this with you in class as well) that you can click on several subtopics to help you out.