Bulgaria General Assembly Position Paper

Bulgaria General Assembly Position Paper

Delegation from

Bulgaria

Position Paper for the General Assembly

The topics before the General Assembly are: 1) Trafficking in Women & Girls in the blank, and 2) Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. Bulgaria is committed to increasing international cooperation on these two issues in order to aid those who have suffered so wretchedly to these tragedies.

I. Position Paper for the Trafficking in Women & Girls

Human trafficking is a tragic and important issue that the international community needs to involve itself in more so than it has previously. Specifically, the human trafficking of women and girls needs to be addressed, as they constitute a substantial proportion of those who are being trafficked. We think that it is important to improve and revamp the implementation and enforcement of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. This is a global issue that needs to be addressed more seriously on an international cooperation scale. Furthermore, due to the Syrian Civil War, we are afraid that unless we assist the Syrian refugees in the neighboring countries to Syria, the women and girl refugees may be subject to human trafficking that is facilitated in places of chaos and crisis. We see how these two issues intertwine, and find it imperative that we address both issues together in aiding the Syrian refugees.

We fully support the Global Plan of Action Against Human Trafficking that was adopted by the General Assembly in 2010, and we think that we need to increase our international support and cooperation in enforcing and facilitating the security of women and girls across the globe that are subject to human trafficking. We need to accomplish this by aiding the governments of countries that are especially affected by human trafficking, such as the countries in northern Africa. We need to help those who have been subjected to human trafficking by providing medical treatment to them and helping them deal with the physical and psychological trauma that they have endured.

We ask that the General Assembly writes legislation that increases the international commitment to stopping human trafficking, primarily focusing on women and girls who are primarily targeted, but also men and boys as well. We need to harbor safe havens for those who have been subjected to human trafficking as well as preemptively stopping future trafficking by assisting the governments who are primarily affected by human trafficking. We must help these countries police their country in search of those criminals who are dealing with human trafficking in order to stop the human trafficking from happening in the first place. Because there are economic incentives in human trafficking, our aid that is sent to those countries whose governments cannot afford to police and deal with human trafficking will help alleviate the economic conditions that foster the black market of human trafficking. We need to help increase the legitimacy of these governments so that they can eventually police human trafficking on their own without overwhelming international support.

II. Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic

The Syrian Civil War has escalated over the summer of 2013. We think that this is a crucial time for international cooperation in order to help the Syrian people in this catastrophic humanitarian crisis. On March 15, 2011, protests erupted in Syria calling to oust the Bashar al-Asad regime that was apart of the wider Middle Eastern protest movement called the Arab Spring. Later in April of 2011, the Syrian Army was deployed to stop the uprisings and protestors were killed across the country. Since then, there has been an armed conflict between Syrian forces loyal to the Ba'ath Party and those who want to oust it, which is known as the Syrian Civil War. There are many armed groups within Syria and outside Syria that