6th General Assembly

Topic 1: The validity of anti-terror laws with regards to detention and treatment of terror suspects, with particular attention to cases in United Kingdom and Australia.
Director: Jo Sampford

In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre, the Security Council called on states to take wide‐ranging counter‐terrorist measures, including to 'ensure that any person who participates in the financing, planning, preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts or in supporting terrorist acts is brought to justice and ensure that such terrorist acts are established as serious criminal offences in domestic laws and regulations and that the punishment duly reflects the seriousness of such terrorist acts.
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Topic 2: The question of legal rights of foreign mercenaries.
Director: Benjamin Harkin

Mercenaries are effectively non‐government soldiers who are motivated usually by financial gain or religious or other considerations. But clearly, are not actors of a state, rather they are employed by them. In recent times there has been considerable debate of the deployment of foreign mercenaries in warzones, their use, and their legal rights.
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