Name:

Jos Antonio Rivera Canchola

committee: Human Rights Council
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Generalities
Total Area: 242,495 km2
Boundaries: North; Atlantic Ocean & North Sea. South; English Channel

Population: 64,511,000 (2014)

Ethnic Distribution: 87.1% White, 7% Asian, 3% Black, 2% Mixed, 0.9% Others
Religion: Christianity (42%), Other religions (8%), No religion (49%), Not stated (1%)
Language: English
Government system: Unitary parliamentary & constitutional monarchy
Law system: Common Law
History: as a unified sovereign state began in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms
ofEngland and Scotland, into a united kingdom called Great Britain. On this new state the
historian Simon Schama said "What began as a hostile merger would end in a full partnership in
the most powerful going concern in the world... it was one of the most astonishing
transformations in European history." A further Act of Union in 1800 added the Kingdom of
Irelandto create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The early years of the unified kingdom of Great Britain were marked by Jacobite
risings which ended with defeat for the Stuart cause at Culloden in 1746. Later, in
1763, victory in the Seven Years War led to the dominance of the British Empire, which
was to be the foremost global power for over a century and grew to become the largest
empire in history. As a result, the culture of the United Kingdom, and its industrial,
political, constitutional, educational and linguistic legacy, is widespread.
In 1922, following the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Ireland effectively seceded from the United
Kingdom to become the Irish Free State; a day later, Northern Ireland seceded from the
Free State and became part of the United Kingdom. As a result, in 1927 the United
Kingdom changed its formal title to the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland," usuallyshortened to the "United Kingdom", the "UK" or "Britain". Former parts of
the British Empire became independent dominions.
In the Second World War, in which the Soviet Union, Nationalist China and the US joined
Britain as allied powers, Britain and its Empire fought a successful war against Germany,
Italy and Japan. The cost was high and Britain no longer had the wealth or the inclination to

maintain an empire, so it granted independence to most of the Empire. The new states
typically joined the Commonwealth of Nations. The United Kingdom has sought to be a
leading member of the United Nations, the European Union and NATO. Since the 1990s,
however, large-scale devolution movements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have
brought into question the degree of unity of this constantly evolving political union.

Name: Jos Antonio Rivera Canchola

committee: Human Rights Council
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Topic A: Childrens rights during military use of schools and
universities: the importance of the Safe Schools Declaration

Education is a human right; and its a universal obligation to bring that right to all children.

According to the international law, the education is a human right and as a human right it has
to have the principles pro person and no discrimination. Following those principles we can
ensure that education must not be interrupted by any cause even war or armed conflicts.
In the last decade in some countries students, professors and the education itself had faced a
big problem: military use during armed conflicts.
Countries like Iraq, India, Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen, Central African Republic, etc.
have this problem. They are living the consequences of military use of schools like destroyed
buildings, drop out and the impossibility to access to better opportunities.
The global coalition to protect education from attack have offered a solution for this countries
with the safe schools declaration and the guidelines for protecting schools and universities
from military use during armed conflict. These actions are a really compromise to make
effective this human right attending to principle of universality of the human rights. But this
declaration and these guidelines are not enough to protect schools from military use. States
like United States of America, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, China have the
compromise to move all these principles and declarations to the reality. We have a bigger
responsibility to take care of democracy and human rights.
Once said this, we cannot negate the importance of signing this declaration. Doing this is the
only way to keep safe schools and universities from armed conflicts.
To sign is the first step. The solution gave by the GCPEA has concordance with international
covenants like the international covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in its
article 13and the convention on the rights of the child in its articles 28 and 38.
Once we have signed we are going to be in the position to make better improvements for
achieving the goal of stop military use of schools and universities in armed conflicts like
legislative modifications on internal law, create international instruments to evaluate the
situation of schools

Name: Jos Antonio Rivera Canchola

committee: Human Rights Council
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.


Topic B: Attacks on human rights by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Militant Group
In the last year we have seen how a terrorist group have expanded in all the Arabic world bringing
misery and pain to all places they go.
The evolution of the Islamic state could be characterized for the speed of their growth and the
advantage they took of the instability of the middle east and the social conflicts in countries like
Syria and Iraq.
Countries as France, United States of America, Germany, Russia and many others have been trying
to stop the crimes of the Islamic state. But the strategy did not give the expected results.
The Islamic State have incurred in many violations of human rights and we will have to punished
them for it.
The United Kingdom accuse to the Islamic State of:

Slaving people
Capture and kill civilians
Destroy patrimony of the humanity
Kill to everyone that they consider against ther beliefs or interests.

Unforgiven crimes that deserve a rational and proportional sanction to their acts.
This session is the opportunity to stablish these sanctions and create respectful human rights
guidelines in order to going on with the attack to the Islamic State and recover the order that we
have in middle east.
We have a compromise with democracy and human rights and the Islamic State is an enemy of both.
United Kingdom encourage all countries to create a coordinate plan in concordance with the
agreement celebrated in Paris in 2014 and create a strategy that stops the crimes of Islamic State