During the 11th ordinary General Assembly of the GIMUN association, last Friday, the following candidates have been elected for the board:

- Caroline Renold (President)

- Alexandre Steullet (Secretary-General)

- Carla Niediek (Secretary-General)

- Hanna Krasmann (Public Relations)

- Tara Misra (Finance and Fundraising)

Attached you can find the new statutes, including the changes made, and the minutes of the 11th ordinary General Assembly.

*Text from http://ifil.ch/index.php?page=1666. Please use the IFIL website to register.

UNO New York 3rd - 10th of July 2010

Millennium Development Goals

"With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York on 20-22 September 2010 to boost progress towards the MDGs." read more …

Dear members, alumni, and soon to be members,

The 11th General Assembly of the GIMUN association will take place on Friday 21st of May 2010 at 18:00 at S1, Villa Barton. There are a couple of questions we would like to clarify for the good functioning of the meeting.
 
Who is member, and who can become a member? read more …

The application process for the new Board (10/11) of the GIMUN association is now open. The available positions are:

• President
• Public Relations Coordinator
• Secretary-General (x2)
• Treasurer

If you are interested in one of the positions within the departments, please let us know, so that we can transfer your contact details to the new board.

In order to apply please submit the following documents to board [at] gimun [dot] org until Friday 16th of April 2010, specifying the position you apply for in the subject: read more …

In the past month, there have been two events organised by the GIMUN US Chapter in New York. On the 5th, mainly students from NYU visited to UN for an info session on how to start a career at the United Nations. On the 19th, the representatives from our US chapter visited the Security Council session on "Central African Region – Impact of illicit arms trafficking on peace and security".

Both events have been a great success and we hope to be able to organise more similar events in the future. Attached you can find the full report.

In February 2010 a delegation from MUNUSAL, the University of Salamanca’s Model United Nations, and one of our EMUNNET partners, took part at the HNMUN (Harvard National Model UN). After this, the delegation spent a week in NY. read more …

Dear Participants of our event organised on the commemoration day of the entry into force of the UN Charter,

we have finally revised and uploaded the final reports of all the panels, as well as Dr. Schnabel's slides.

We have used the first week of classes in order to introduce GIMUN to students from all Universities in Geneva. Apart from the presentations on the NGO and the Conference, by the President and the Co-Secretaries-General respectively we invited Marc Bruchez as a guest speaker.  Mr. Bruchez works for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in the department of Political Affairs. He introduced the Swiss host state policy for International Organisations, introducing the relations Geneva has to the various international actors present. read more …

The first of two international study trips organised by GIMUN in cooperation with IFIL this year was the study trip to Lebanon. During one week, our EMUNNET Representative, Kaspar Paur, together with organisers from our partner MUN in Zagreb, gave the international participants a chance to form a strong knowledge base about the region and Lebanon in particular, in order to be able to form their own opinion.

The announcement can be found here, and the final report is attached.

We are very thankful to have had the opportunity to host a night of rather informal talks on the last night of the first ever Global Model UN. The official photo selection contains more than 300 pictures and can be found here. All photos are published under the Creative Commons License. If you choose to download, copy and reuse any photos (i.e. for your own facebook album) please refer to the respective photographer, in this case Christopher Streuli. read more …