Sunday, September 14, 2014

Visit to the United Nations Headquarters.

In preparation for our visit to the United Nations Headquarters, we were asked to formulate a number of questions to ask our lecturer for the IAEA. The questions are as follows:

  • What is the IAEA's view on nuclear disarmament? Does the IAEA view all nations in the same in this regard, or are, for example, non-combative/neutral nations under less scrutiny? 
  • How does the IAEA attempt to control and regulate nuclear materials and waste?
  • To what extent, if at all, does the IAEA subsidize nation's for investments in safe nuclear power?
  • How else does IAEA incentivize the transition to nuclear power? 
  • Does the IAEA play an active role in recovy for nations and regions dealing with fallout from incidents such as Fukushima?
  • How does the IAEA enforce anything, if it does at all? What powers do they really have?
  • What nations have been historically least cooperative in the IAEA's efforts? What about more recently?
  • What sort of educational background is most desired by this branch of the United Nations? What roles, if any, could a chemical engineer fill here?
We were also given a short lecture by two representatives from the UNODC, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. They talked to us about the world report on human trafficking and human smuggling.

  • How is data collected for reports such as these? How do you approach a country with a terrible track record for trafficking, and say "hey, I want to tell the world how bad you are." That must be GREAT for tourism.
  • What are the reasons for nation that did not submit data for the report?
  • Are there any alarming trends emerging from the data? Anything hopeful? Anything that's just interesting?
  • What people(s) are most susceptible to being victims of human trafficking?
  • What role does the UNODC play in preventing human trafficking? What powers does the UNODC have in this regard?

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