Resolution #196

The question of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

Committee: Security Council
Main Submitter: Security Council
Submitted: 02/04/2022 10:10
Status
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Approved by approval panel
Selected for debate by secretariat
Passed by committee (Security Council)

Committee Voting

For: 13
Against: 0
Abstentions: 1

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Resolution

Committee: Security Council
The Question of: the Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine

The Security Council,

Alarmed that over 2 million children have fled from Ukraine over the country’s border, with a further 2.5 million children displaced within the country, equating to around 60% of Ukrainian children being forced to leave their homes as a result of the conflict,

Defining a humanitarian crisis as an event or a series of events that represents a critical threat to the health, safety, security or wellbeing of a community or other large group of people, usually spread over a wide area, 

Noting with concern that approximately 3.4 million people have been displaced during the invasion,

Noting with concern the destruction of infrastructure such as hospitals, roads and apartment buildings as a result of this conflict,

Welcoming efforts by the international community of taking in refugees fleeing the conflict,

Disturbed by the 1,189 civilian casualties as of the 29th of March including 108 children

Noting with concern of the inability of NGO’s to effectively evacuate citizens from conflict areas (such as the Red Cross in Mariupol) and the 10 million displaced people inside Ukraine,

Acknowledging the need for financial support for the Nations accepting Ukrainian refugees,  

Emphasizing the huge burden on nations that have taken in Ukrainian refugees,

1. Further advises the creation of an international trust fund to be called the Save Ukraine Fund (SUF) overseen by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank, with the cooperation of experts from individual nations, representatives from nations' government, relevant NGOs and a Ukrainian delegation, with the goals of:

a) Providing a streamlined and centralized system to donate funds to Ukraine,

b) Supporting the rebuilding of infrastructure such as roads, houses, schools, hospitals and other key infrastructure once the situation has been stabilized,

c) Providing financial support to Ukrainians who have been displaced as a result of the conflict,

d) Providing financial support for all development aid initiatives by the UN, member states and NGOs, 

e) Mirroring the US Marshall Plan and investment strategy implemented post WWII,

f) Support local governments of relevant member states in providing adequate short and midterm shelter, food and medicines;  

2. Stresses the urgency for a temporary ceasefire allowing room for concentrated dialogue between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Ukraine and the Russian Federation as well as humanitarian corridors thus so the proper evacuation of civilians can be exercised in this conflict, further stresses the need for UN observed peace talks to be held in Istanbul, Turkey along with creating a new sub body of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to be called the United Nations Treaty of Istanbul Commission (UNTIC) that will oversee the implementation and ratification of this treaty by all involved parties regarding the humanitarian situation and military crisis in Ukraine, noting no definite length of the peace talks to be set and quintessential aim of ending or diminishing this conflict by means of but not limited to:

a) Mass evacuation of civilians through humanitarian corridors,

b) Strict following of the 1949 Geneva Convention as well as prior and updated versions particularly regarding prisoners of war (POW), chemical weapons, torture, weapons of mass destruction, landmines and illegal targets such as hospitals or civilian areas,

c) Future issue of the Ukrainian separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk,

d) Ability to retrieve the deceased and facilitate proper burials;

3. Calls upon all member nations to provide a specialised protection programme, with guidance and assistance from UNICEF for unaccompanied refugees under the age of 18 which will establish a uniform process of identifying unaccompanied minors through census and legal records and enable minors to pass quickly into the states care if it is unsuitable for them to return to Ukraine and to provide foster care schemes, social worker care and access to local primary and secondary education for all minors under the auspices of the UNHCR and assist unaccompanied child refugees who have been separated from their families due to the conflict to try contact their families in the safest most protective manner;

4. Requests the immediate deployment of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the nuclear site in Chernobyl following the recent withdrawal of Russian forces in the area as well as the other active nuclear reactors in Ukraine outside of conflict zones to be deemed by the agency themselves to ensure that the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant and other plants pose no further risk to human health;  

5. Recommends the creation of UN run humanitarian corridors in conjunction with the UNHCR, WHO, the WFP and any relevant NGOs, out of Ukraine using the highway system to provide food, water and safe passage for refugees fleeing the country, with the deployment of a technical assessment mission which can be followed by the deployment of peacekeeping forces and policing personnel following this deployment of a technical assessment mission which will complete goals such as but not limited to: 

a) assess the humanitarian and security situation on the ground and the implications for a possible operation, 

b) provide the findings to the Secretary General who will deliver the findings to the Security Council per Peacekeeping Operation protocol;

6. Urges every member state to send immediate humanitarian aid and relief to Ukraine along with monetary donations to the Red Cross and Central Bank of Ukraine further noting the need for military aid if possible but subject to a countries foreign policy, flow of humanitarian aid to be coordinated with United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as well as relevant non-governmental organizations (NGOs) whilst the military aid is to be entirely coordinated and managed by the country sending it separate to the UN or any UN body, notes the dire need for but not limited to:

a) Financial assistance to the Red Cross and National Bank of Ukraine,

b) Spare clothes that don't have holes and are still in good condition,

c) Non-perishable food,

d) Helmets and bullet proof vests,

e) medical aid supplies to aid women and children in need, specifically oxygen tanks with the help of UNICEF,

f) an Emergency Relief Corridor to provide 30 days of free passage after the adoption of the present resolution as well as a report on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and on the humanitarian response; 

7. Calls for the setting up for the  UN Ukrainian Humanitarian Crisis Fund (UNUHCF) under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for Nations bordering Ukraine in order to alleviate the pressure put on governments of neighbouring countries as a result of the suffering and hardship of the Ukrainian refugees displaced due to the ongoing conflict, which would: 

a) support local government in providing adequate short and mid term, shelter food and medicines,  

b) help neighbouring nations establish temporary medical facilities, 

c) help neighbouring nations set up temporary telecommunication centres,  

d) alleviate the financial pressure placed on neighbouring nations 

e) allocate funds for neighbouring nations who are receiving, or have received Ukrainian refugees, since the invasion of Ukraine on 24th  February 2022, designated for providing social welfare benefit in accordance with national social welfare legislation for any refugee from Ukraine, until the person receives a job or similar sustainable source of funding with annual equivalent that is proportionate to the average annual pay of the member state, 

f) reiterates the importance of all parties to allow safe and unfettered passage to destinations outside of Ukraine and to facilitate the rapid, safe and unhindered access to humanitarian assistance for those in need in Ukraine, to protect civilians; 

8. Requests the provision of psychological care and counselling services for refugees with the assistance of the health department of the state in question and the WHO in order to reduce the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and mental illnesses among refugees including the setting up of counselling and aftercare services for refugees and displaced persons found to be treated unfairly because of racial, or discriminative comments;