This year, we have Secretary-General Bhuvi Gupta from the International School of Stavanger Deputy Secretary Generals Joel Tan from Hwa Chong Institution, Yu Sunny Fang from Kaohsiung American School, and Claire Oberle from the American School of The Hague who collaboratively organized the conference. As we approached the end of the first THIMUN The Hague…
The opening ceremony of THIMUN 2021 foreshadowed its closing. As all good things come to an end, the conference did so on a positive note. Indeed, the closing ceremony this year was live rather than recorded. Unlike the opening ceremony that seemed too much of a challenge to conduct live with the uncertainty of…
Non-biodegradable waste is a type of waste material that does not decompose, decay, or dissolve naturally since they cannot be broken down by microorganisms. The only way to get rid of these materials is through combustion with energy recovery, landfills, and hazardous waste disposal. They are the main sources of water, air, and soil pollution,…
The Legal and Financial Committee has so far entered lobbying and finished debating on their first two issues like every other committee. These two issues, however, appear to be the most difficult to tackle. Be it promoting recognition by the United Nations of the crime of ecocide or initiating measures to ensure the financing…
President of All Committees, previously known as President of the General Assembly, is a position presently occupied by Thibault Quelavoine, resident of The Hague, Netherlands. In his last year of high-school in Lycée Français Vincent van Gogh, he strives to embody his ambitions by fulfilling the demands of this role. The President of All Committees…
People of both genders deserve equal treatment as well as opportunities. But is this the case in reality? The fact is that females are generally paid less than men when doing the same job. The gender gap is even more evident when the Peace Corps demonstrated that it is much more difficult for a woman…
In the years since China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the country’s economy has grown to become second only to the United States in terms of purchasing power parity. In the past decade, China’s global trade influence has also spread, gradually surpassing the US as the major supplier of goods to Europe,…
Today was another day of lobbying for delegates in the Environmental Committee (EVC). In preparation for the debate tomorrow, the delegates were put into breakout rooms to merge clauses and decide on who will be main-submitting. In one of the breakout rooms, the delegates discussed the extensive ways climate change is affecting the world…
THIMUN 2021 Online marks the 53rd conference of THIMUN The Hague and the second online THIMUN (Singapore being the first). Due to travel restrictions, it has been slightly harder for delegates to get to know each other, as the only things that seem to connect them are their devices. But that shouldn’t prevent us from learning more…
Since the Brexit referendum in 2016 ignited the Brexit question, many have raised the question as to how the relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU) would look like. After long negotiations and debates, the UK ultimately left the EU at the beginning of 2021. When Boris Johnson announced the Brexit deal…