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Policy Paper #1 Country: Iran Topic: Capital Punishment Committee: Human Rights Name: Joyce Mojica Per.0

Capital punishment or the death penalty has been around for about 400 years. Capital punishment is when killing a person by tutoring them or executing them. This happens when they commit serious crimes, for example murder, espionage, or treason. Other countries though, also do this for sexual crimes such as adultery, incest, rape, and sodomy. At the end of 2007, 91 countries abolish the death penalty for any kind of crimes. Currently, 64 countries still have capital punishment for any law or practice. 10 other countries still have it but only do it for exceptional cases. Other 35 countries retained capital punishment for any sort of crimes. The countries were most of capital punishment is practice is in Asia and Islamic nation but the majority is in Africa. Some penalties were the breaking wheel, boiling to death, flaying, slow slicing, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing your body with a heavy animal, stoning, execution by burning, dismemberment, sawing, or decapitation. It was thought of cruel and inhumane.
 * I ** .** Background **

UN has done what it has on its hands to stop capital punishment. It proposed and passed a resolution called the universal ban in 2007.This was not he only one thought it has passed over 50 resolutions on capital punishment. The Fundamental Freedoms treaty explains the rights and freedoms of the people which include right to life and prohibition of torture. Also the Second Optional Protocol to the International Convention for the Protection of Human Rights treaty supports the idea of capital punishment being inhumane and should be abolished and also protected and stated some of a lot of our rights.
 * II.UN involvement **

In Iran we still practice capital punishment. We believe that it is a fair way to pay for the crimes that people committed. Because of our beliefs we haven’t signed or agreed on any treaties or protocols. The types of crimes that are punishable in our country are sodomy, murder, apostasy and many others. There are certain cases were minors commit crimes and we execute them for what they did. According to our government’s policy, we also execute people related to homosexuality. We are one of the retained countries. Our thoughts as a government do with paying the price and your actions. If some one committed a crime of any kind should be punish for it.
 * III. Iran's opinion **

Being part of the retained countries the only thing that our country pleases to the UN are to understand our beliefs and our policies on how our country is run and let us keep continuing capital punishment. We have our ideas and thoughts of looking at things and what we truly feel is that it is fair if some one did a crime of any level should be punish the same or worst to see what the person gets for not doing what is right. It is a right and fair thing to do, they do some thing bad and our government will the same or worst.
 * IV. Solutions **

Policy Paper #2 Country: Iran Topic: POWs Committee: Human Rights Name: Joyce Mojica Per.0

Prisoners of war have been a global issue for many years. Prisoners are warriors or soldiers who get capture by the enemy during a war or battle. During the period of time they are capture the prisoners will be torture. During the middle times prisoners will be sold into slavery if they weren’t able to pay for ransom. In World War 1 about 8 million soldiers were capture and held till the war ended. Prisoners of war had a bigger rate of surviving then other men. But once the prisoners reached the camps they were in better conditions thanks to the International Red Cross. In Russia about 40% of the prisoners that were captured died during the war. To solve this issue an international conference was held. One of the firsts conference held was the Brussels Conference of 1874. The UN wrote the Third Geneva Convention to expand in detail the treatment of prisoners of war. Also this protects military personnel, a couple of guerilla fighters and specific civilians. Once the UN notice all the deaths caused from POWs they decided to start holding conferences about it. One of the first on was Brussels Conference of 1874. This was to prevent countries from doing inhumane things to the prisoners. The fist couple ones didn't work but they still worked on it and made an international law. It stated that the prisoners should be treated humanely and diplomatically. In Iran we torture our prisoners of war. They are the enemy and they are danger to us. We believe that there is not point of letting them live if we can kill them or torture them when they are in our hands. With Iran we have had this problem. We fought for many years and we capture soldiers and they also capture ours. We torture them, eventually they'll give the information we need but then we will eventually killed them. As much as some people think it is a horrible thing to torture the prisoners we think this is the fair way. We need to get rid off the enemy if we want to win or obtain something. Again we please the countries and the UN to leave us and our thoughts and understand our way of justice. The government decided on tutoring the enemy and that’s what we want to keep doing. We care about our people and we kill these soldiers to keep our people safe from them killing our people. That’s the way our country runs and we want to keep it that way.
 * I.** ** Background **
 * II. UN involvement **
 * III. Iran’s opinion **
 * IV. Resolutions **

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1309/is_/ai_3624601 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Iran
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