About MUNEX

 

The University of Essex is renowned worldwide for its Human Rights Centre with names such as Sir Nigel Rodley, John Packer, Sheldon Leader, Françoise Hampson, and Geoff Gilbert and immense resources for research. This is why MUNEX focuses mainly on issues regarding Human Rights. With MUNEX 2009 behind us, we are pleased to announce that we are partnered with the Human Rights Centre and will continue in the tradition of simulating the Human Rights Council.

 

Find out more about the Human Rights Centre.

 

While the world around us is ever changing, the mindset of the people in it and leading it do not always follow suit. With this in mind and after careful consideration we have chosen a theme for the conference that we find to be most suitable to tackle these problems:

 

Contemporary Forms of Discrimination

 

And the subtopics are: 

  1. Preventive Measures against Discrimination of Ethnic Minorities
  2. Situation of Roma, Sinti, Gypsies and Travellers
  3. Improving the Status of Same Sex Couple

 

The conference will be a 3-day event, from 29th January to 31st January. Other than the committee sessions, delegates will be able to attend workshops on the different topics, talks given by eminent speakers, and many amusing socials as well. Also, the organising committee is proud to present another event under the same theme in the format of an open forum of discussion as a precursor to the conference on Thursday, 28th, named “Nuremberg Trials:  A Modern Approach” in order to discuss the issue of what impact the Nuremberg Trials have had on subsequent International Law and reflect upon the question "Is there an adequate punishment for such types of crimes?".