Leiden Model United Nations 2026

About the Conference

LEMUN is a secondary school Model United Nations conference organised by students of the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden, a public grammar school in the centre of Leiden in the Netherlands. The conference was founded in 2002 with 200 delegates. The 2026 edition runs from Friday afternoon 11 December to Sunday evening 13 December 2026 at the school, with registration on the evening of Thursday 10 December. About 450 delegates take part and roughly half come from abroad. A limited community housing programme exists for foreign schools that have attended before. It suits both new and experienced delegates, with regular General Assembly committees alongside harder special committees, a historical council and a crisis committee. The crisis committee is open only to students with at least two earlier conferences. Committees 🛡️ First General Assembly (Reforming the United Nations Security Council; Strengthening the international legal framework regulating the rise of autonomous weapon systems; The situation in the Persian Gulf) 🕊️ Third General Assembly (The right of parents to enroll their children in an educational institute with a denomination or persuasion of their choosing; The right of free speech versus the spread of xenophobia, the normalisation of racism and the rise of political violence; Enhancing female participation in politics) 🤝 Fourth General Assembly (Negotiating a peaceful arrangement for the Israeli-Lebanese border region; Protecting the sovereignty of LEDCs against the influence of foreign investors; Arresting foreign officials within another country's sovereign territory for judicial purposes) 💼 Economic and Social Council (Addressing the difference between men and women in labour rights; The consequences of the growing wealth gaps between the ultra-wealthy, the middle class and the lower class; Forced labour in judicial systems) 🕊️ Human Rights Council (Regulating the use of AI in international mass-surveillance; The rights of long term refugees; Human rights, including working rights, of professional athletes) 🌍 United Nations Environment Assembly (Planned obsolescence in consumer goods; The ecological impact of datacenters; Balancing rare-earth mineral supply chains with environmental factors) 🤝 European Council on European Affairs (Countering the growing political extremism in Europe; Reconsideration of the overall veto right; The future of shared regulations regarding social media) 🤝 European Council on Foreign Affairs (Expanding the European Union; Determining the future of control over European government data; The interpretation and possible implementation of article 42.7 (Mutual Defence) of the Treaty of the European Union) 🤝 African Union (The situation in Libya; Access to fresh water; Protecting the sovereignty of AU member states against the influence of foreign investors) 💼 BRICS+ (Challenging the American hegemony; The situation in Myanmar; Mitigating the economic effects of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict) 🌱 UNICEF (The negative impact of social media on minors; Providing child refugees with educational assistance and native language courses; Breaking through the negative effects of collective generational trauma) 🩺 World Health Assembly (Conflict areas as potential hotspots for new developing diseases; Reducing the price of medication worldwide; The role of the WHO in a changing geopolitical climate) 🤝 Arab League (Dependency on maritime choke points for the global distribution of our oil; The relationship with the United States of America; Modernizing Arab economies) 🕊️ Special Conference on Diversity (The continuous suppression of Uygurs in China; Combatting the spread of misogynist ideologies among the youth; Developing a legal framework for DNA manipulation by method of molecular cutting on zygotes) 🛡️ Security Council (The situation in Sudan; The situation in the Persian Gulf; Safeguarding the international energy supply) 🏛️ Historical Council 🚨 Crisis Committee

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