Vancouver Model United Nations 2027

About the Conference

Vancouver Model United Nations is a student-organised high school conference held in downtown Vancouver. It has run since 2002 and describes itself as the largest high school student-run Model UN in North America. The 26th annual session takes place from 29 to 31 January 2027 at two downtown hotels, the Hyatt Regency Vancouver and the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, with committees and rooms split between them. The conference usually welcomes more than 1,400 delegates from around the world, and its own site lists 20 committees. It is aimed at high school students and offers a wide spread of committees, from General Assemblies and agency committees to regional councils and advanced crisis and joint crisis committees. Delegates debate topics such as autonomous weaponry, human organ trafficking, neurotechnology and the cost of living in a Canadian House of Commons simulation. Committees 🛡️ Disarmament and International Security Committee (Autonomous Weaponry; Red Sea Crisis) 🕊️ Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (Trafficking of Cultural Property; Digital Safety and Combating Online Exploitation) 🩺 World Health Organization (Strengthening Global Emergency Response Systems for Future Pandemics; Addressing the Global Shortage of Healthcare Workers) 🕊️ United Nations Human Rights Council (Protection of Healthcare Facilities During Armed Conflict; Human Rights Implications of Neurotechnology) 📚 UNESCO (Advancing Gender Equality in STEM; Preserving Global Linguistic Diversity) 💼 International Monetary Fund (Reforming IMF Loan Conditionalities; Weaponization of Global Finance and De-dollarization) 🌍 United Nations Environment Programme (Waste Colonialism; The Impact of AI on Clean Water and Sanitation) ⚓ International Seabed Authority (Underwater Resources Extraction; Protection of Underwater Heritage Sites) 💊 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (The Red Market: Human Organ Trafficking; Sand Mafias) 🛡️ North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Enlargement of NATO; Strategic Autonomy) 🤝 Organization of American States (Combatting Cross-Border Maritime Narcotrafficking; Preventing Transnational Human Trafficking and the Exploitation of Minorities) 🤝 European Union (Reviewing Drug Policy; EU Involvement in World Conflicts) ⚖️ International Criminal Court (Trial of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo; Trial of Abiy Ahmed and Debretsion Gebremichael) 🤝 House of Commons (Reducing the Cost of Living) 🛡️ United Nations Security Council (Myanmar Civil War; Addressing the Use of Child Soldiers by Armed Groups) 🚨 Intelligence Committee 🚨 Cabinet 🚨 Joint Crisis Committee 🚨 Historical Crisis Committee 🚨 Advanced Crisis Committee

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