United Nations

The United Nations Human

Rights Council Distr: General
26 August 2023
Ori: English

Topic : Addressing the Under- Representation of Women and Minorities Population

d in Government Institution
Council : The United Nation Human Rights Council
Sponsor : The United States of America
Signatories : Federative Republic of Brazil, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, Kingdom of Spain, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Republic of Rwanda, The
Commonwealth of Australia, The Independent State of Papua New Guinea, The Republic of
Finland, The Republic of Yemen, The Republic of South Africa

The United Nations Human Rights Council,

Guided by The Charter of United Nation

Acknowledging the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

Deeply concerned with the low percentage of women and minorities groups within

government institutions,

Recognizing basic needs and human rights for women and minorities groups in government

institutions,

Declares the ratification of The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of

Discrimination against Women and Beijing Platform for action within member states,
Emphasising the need address historical and systematic barriers that have led to the

under-representation of women and minorities in government bodies,

Reaffirming the commitments made under international agreements and conventions,

including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

(CEDAW) and universal Declaration of Human Rights,

Further noticing that Women and Minorities population in government institution in

particular in ruler and undeveloped areas in developing countries,

Emphasize the need for international cooperation in creating an adaptable and flexible policy

that can be implemented for all state and countries, therefore,

ARTICLE 0
FRAMEWORK
1. Establishes a transparent and just legal system that upholds human rights for all
citizens, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or background by:
a. Providing adequate legal protection for women and minorities from
discriminatory practices by enforcing stringent legal consequences for those
involved in said practices;
b. Abolishing existing discriminatory laws against women and minorities;
c. Safeguarding the freedom rights of academicians, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), and human rights defenders by:
i. Preventing the dismissal, detention, or prosecution of scholars,
students, and educators based on political loyalties, encouraging a
diverse range of perspectives;
ii. Guarantee non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to operate
independently without interference from armed groups or political
entities, enabling them to provide essential services to vulnerable
populations;
iii. Preventing the arrest, detention, or harassment of human rights
advocates;
2. Approves the ratification of COURAGE system to ensure and improve women and
minorities' representation in government institutions, which stands and defined as:
a. Comprehensive Analysis
i. Launch a detailed analysis to identify historical trends, discriminatory
behaviors, and structural obstacles that are contributing to the
underrepresentation problem;
ii. Use a mix of quantitative and qualitative techniques, such as
intersectional analysis, inclusive stakeholder discussions, and
sociological research;
iii. This procedure establishes a strong framework for creating strategies
that take into account the particular circumstances of each member
state;
b. Oriented Localization
i. Build on the knowledge from Phase 1 by emphasising the development
of specialised answers that are in line with the needs of every member
state, including Yemen, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia;
ii. Create context-sensitive tactics to support global accords like CEDAW
In order to meet various conditions, encourage inclusivity, and ensure
equal representation, successful models should be modified, such as
the Parity Law;
c. Uplifting Intervention
i. Take proactive steps to remove institutional barriers that prevent the
representation of women and people of colour;
ii. This stage focuses on biases, discrimination, and its underlying causes
while encouraging cooperation with global organizations;
iii. Implement awareness-raising activities, affirmative action initiatives,
legal changes, and policy improvements;
iv. Take a cue from effective interventions like leadership initiatives and
municipal election incentives;
d. Reinforcing Enhancement
i. Step up initiatives to safeguard and improve the representation of
women and minorities by strengthening current policies and programs;
 ii. Legislative actions that establish specific goals, such as the
Copé-Zimmermann Law's corporate board quota, are part of this phase
to address underrepresentation holistically, use intersectional policies;
iii. Create mentoring initiatives and data-driven control systems to foster
an inclusive political climate;
e. Empowering Transformation
i. Focusing on transformative acts to go through enduring obstacles, fully
incorporate COURAGE;
ii. Enhance minority candidates and forcefully confront discriminatory
actions to enhance diversity in political processes by promoting the
participation of women and minorities in governance, address
gender-based biases;
iii. Create an open narrative that values various viewpoints and promotes
fair involvement;
3. Establishes the Equal Opportunity programs to provide equal access to education and
employment for women and minorities by;
a. Government- programs provide doors to employment opportunities in
government and academia, including academic institutions and professional
positions, such as:
i. Providing mentoring and tutoring in supporting their success;
ii. Considering the holistic view about the applicant’s background
b. Provide the hiring of diverse candidates, the provision of training and
development opportunities that level the playing field, and the creation of an
inclusive and encouraging work environment for all staff;

ARTICLE 1
FUNDING
1. Considers to work together with organisations that advocate for the rights of the
minority and women population by:
a. Strengthening local or worldwide organisations to carry out their own agenda
of equality;
b. Having celebrity or influential figures that are women or a certain minority to
be an ambassador for the organisation during a funding campaign;
 c. Offer paid services or products for the public in order to gain additional
funding;
d. Arrange a collaboration with local businesses or corporate partnerships to
support the funding campaign;
2. Declares the implementation of Gender Responsive Budgeting to ensure budget
allocation raise gender and minorities representation effectively and evaluate raising
policies, by:
a. Gender-focused budget analysis:
i. To create and validate budget by assessing budget impact on diverse
factors, age, disparities, groups, and etc;
ii. Evaluate governmental actions and programs ;
b. Budget prioritisation:
i. Government, parties, and decision makers determine budget priorities
based on the analysis aforementioned without gender-segregated data;
ii. Involving gender expert and budget specialist to get equal gender
representation;
c. Programming and budgeting phase:
Engages government, policy makers, and budgeting/planning
department to establish transparent procedures with balanced gender
priorities,
d. Monitoring and Evaluation:
i. Determining budget impact on men and women by the planning
division and helping other department in gender mainstreaming;
ii. Based on open policies for public and data access, including root
cause, womens and mens network, and civil society;
3. Encourage funding support to address gender occupational segregation in some
sectors, such as in political and economic:
a. The proper tools to identify sexism and stereotypes are provided to social
actors through training programs and the adaptation of workstations in
male-dominated activities;
b. A rubric with criteria is provided to determine whether a text or an image
reproduces harmful gender stereotypes;
4. Endorses the policy for enhancing the budget placement and transparency by:
a. Gender budget statements:
 i. Provide a strategic tool to implement gender-responsive policies by
allocating adequate resources to reach strategic goals and measuring
impact and results, especially the macroeconomic goals;
b. Budget circular:
i. gives information on the macroeconomic and other assumptions, and
educates ministries and departments on how to submit their budget
submissions for the upcoming fiscal year;
5. Calls for adequate healthcare funding in regards to protecting the physical, mental,
and psychological state of women and minorities, in order to:
a. Ensure a healthy state of body and mind in government representations which
will result in more effective decision-making and meaningful political
contributions;
b. Promote research and data collection on the health disparities experienced by
women and minorities, in order to take evidence-based policy decisions and
interventions;
6. Encourages the creation of Emergency Relief Reserve Fund (ERRF) to quickly
respond to critical humanitarian situations in brought on by problems, such as but not
limited to poverty, crisis, etc which works as follows:
a. Get funding from public funds, foreign aid, donors, and fundraising efforts
Budget surpluses during times of economic stability will also contribute;
b. The requirements for emergency access to the ERRF will take into account
vulnerable populations, urgency, and poverty-related issues;
c. A committee made up of members from pertinent agencies, humanitarian
organizations, and experts in poverty reduction will be in charge of monitoring
emergency allocations and Prompt relief will be provided through swift payout
methods;
d. Regular reporting on the movements of funds, their use, and the results will be
used to ensure transparency;
e. Proper management will be ensured by independent audits and oversight
measure;

ARTICLE 2
ELECTORAL REFORM
1. Considers to improve the electoral system to reserve a certain number of seats
exclusively for women and only nominate a certain percentage of women and
minorities as candidate, by:
a. Mandating political parties to have minimum at least 40% of seats for each
gender and minorities candidates, while aiming the representation more than
60%;
b. Steer clear of implementing 50/50 quota system which restrict representation
for gender and minorities;
c. Implementing double quota which ensures enough number of women in
electoral list and preventing the placement of female candidates at the
bottom-list with less chance in winning;
2. Encourages the adoption of mixed member systems in local and national elections to
enhance political diversity, allowing political parties to propose a varied slate of
candidates, in the following way:
a. Dual voting for voters:
i. One for a candidate in their geographic area without any party and
political party intervention at regional and national areas;
ii. One for party vote, including political party at regional or national
level by ensuring proportional representation of parties based on the
shared vote;
b. In single member districts, candidates who get the most votes, will win the
first ballot to represents in local areas;
c. Parties which have reached the particular threshold are awarded proportional
presentation seats as defined by Hare formula as the result from combining
single-member district seats;

ARTICLE 3
EDUCATION
1. Encourages schools around the world to implement a curriculum where it:
a. Educates the students about how to fight against discrimination;
b. Actively urges students to participate in political activities to build their
knowledge of issues that people face (especially the women and minority
population) so that they are able to come up with solutions that resolve the
problem;
 c. Integrates sex education so the students grow up to understand women rights;
d. Builds up tolerance inside the students’ communities or environment around
them;
e. Engages with their local communities through volunteer work and projects
that address community issues;
f. Reflects the contributions of women and minorities history in order to
highlights their achievements and helps to challenge stereotypes and biases;
g. Ensures an unbiased education free from political ideology;
2. Provides political education and training programs to women and other minority
groups such as:
a. Leadership Workshops: training and applying leadership skills into future
potential candidates that are apart of minority groups;
b. Political Campaign Training: teaches the basic knowledge of political
campaigning, management, etc;
c. Education of Law: educates women and minority groups about the basic
knowledge of law in order to increase their understanding and overview of
tasks that can be involved in government affairs;
d. Global Literacy Corner: Providing books or journals that support engagement
in political literacy (books can be achieved through donations nation-wide or
internationally, as long as the book is not prohibited in one’s nation);
e. Media training: teaches and prepares women or minorities to develop public
speaking, how to effectively engage with the media, and handle difficult
questions or scenarios;
These all can be done to:
a. Increasing women leadership training and providing high-level events to
achieve transformational change in empowering women;
b. Encourage women’s interest to participate in political parties and join election
contests;
c. Encourage more diverse and impactful candidates to enter the political field;
3. Adopts an inclusive and accessible education system in order to:
a. Reach minority groups living in rural areas by giving them adequate facilities
and resources such as but not limited to building facilities and teachers;
b. Increase education and literacy rates by giving everyone the same opportunity
to enroll in an educational institution;
 c. Provide a schooling compulsory for children aged 7 to 15 and ensure that all
learners have access to quality education without discrimination;
d. Providing high quality support materials for learners and teachers as well as
improving school infrastructures;
e. Preserve and revitalize Indigenous languages by including them in the
education, literature, and research scope of work;
4. Arrange seminars to encourage students who are willing to enter political fields:
a. Have women and minority figures in government institutions/private sectors
speak at the seminars to encourage the involvement of youths’ voices;
b. Guiding and giving basic knowledge of politics;
c. Organise networking events where students can interact with current political
leaders, policymakers, and activists to building connections can open doors for
the future opportunity;
d. Organise presentations of NGOs about the under-representation of women and
minorities and how youths can participate in solving the issue;
5. Ensures the protection of scholars and students that are women or a minority and
create a safe-space for them to pursue education by:
a. Implementing laws that strengthen the right to obtain education;
b. Provide educational facilities that are protected from any conflicts or dangers
caused;
6. Arrange the media and information school programs which serves as approach in
increasing critical thinking with ability to analyse and media biases, which works as
follows:
a. Students participate in well-organised learning modules that explore media
bias, stereotypes, and the importance of respecting different points of view;
b. conducting workshops to provide students with real experiences in
recognizing and analyse the biases in media forms;
c. students examining many things of media content, such as news, articles, and
etc to improve their identification on underlying messages;
d. equip educators for training and resources to be able to deliver media literacy
education for exploring media narratives and opening dialogues;
7. Provide scholarships to minorities or women who are struggling with financial
problems, to:
 a. Create an inclusive education system by giving women and minorities with
financial issues access to quality education;
b. Ensure women and minorities of all financial status receives an equal chance
in quality education;

ARTICLE 4
SOCIAL BARRIERS
1. Considers the use of role model initiatives to establish international mentorship
program to enhance and ensure girls and young women on decision-making processes
and transformation by pairing them with experienced politicians from the
government;
a. Government allows mentees to choose mentors based on their expertise and
experience;
b. Politicians from the government act as role models and mentors to provide
them with guidance and support in political opportunities, equal wage, and
possible quota in woman equality sectors;
c. Backed up by distribution foreign aid development programs, including
guidance on political strategies, leadership skills, and navigating their
challenges;
2. Calls for the establishment of digital records and hotline for women and minorities
offenders to amplify women and minorities voices in decision-making process and
society, which works as follows:
a. Member states helped by UN bodies establish an emergency number for
reporting discrimination, biases, and barriers concerning the
underrepresentation of women and minorities in government;
b. This platform allows marginalised groups to share experiences and concerns;
c. The public can report suspicious activities against women and minorities, with
reporters protected by local authorities and intelligence surveillance;
d. Once reported, persons are monitored by a central database of information on
those found guilty of sexual offences;
e. To ensure accountability, false reports from the reporter can be questioned and
can be punished by the officers with data stored in members states database;
3. Calls for the emergency protection order to create offence of harassment within the
womens and minorities and authorise the electronic monitoring of the perpetrator, by:
 a. A woman or member of a minority group can use the judicial system to
request the protection of this order if they feel themselves in danger;
b. The victim is granted a number of significant protective measures by the order,
which include preventing the offender from approaching, making contact with,
or frightening the victim, as well as making arrangements to protect the
welfare of any children involved;
c. The victim can remain in a safe setting by having the offender removed from
the shared residence in particular circumstances;
4. Considering the balance between local norm and tradition with the universal standard
of human rights:
a. Recognize the complex interplay between cultural norm, tradition, and
religion on domestic level
b. Acknowledge that certain practice and culture may be incompatible with
principal of the universal of human rights
5. Pressures political parties to include women and minorities in their delegations during
negotiations or discussions, which will work as follows:
a. Dedicate a number of seats for women and minorities during discussions such
as negotiations, peace talks, and conflict resolutions;
b. If a party fails to bring sufficient women and minorities according to the
amount of seats, then they remain empty;

ARTICLE 5
CAMPAIGN AND PROMOTION
1. Calls for a Global Campaign, argues all nations to initiate nationwide campaigns
aimed at addressing the under-representation of women and minorities in government
institution which work as follows:
a. Creation: Establish an international task force consisting of experts in gender
equality, diversity, and communication strategy
b. Mandate: The task force will be responsible for developing guidelines,
strategies and resources for the implementation of nationwide campaigns
c. Partnership: Nations will collaborate with established civil society
organisation working on gender equality and minority rights
d. Amplifying reach: help amplify the campaign reach, ensuring it reaches
diverse segments of the population
 e. Participation: Public figure invited to endorse and actively participate in
campaign events and media engagements
f. Social media campaign: utilise various social media platform to share
campaign messages, success stories, infographic to reach a wider audience
2. Establishes Ambassador program, introduces the concept of an Ambassador Program,
wherein each member state appoints influential personalities both domestically and
internationally, as ambassador for the cause
3. Promotes Cross National Exchange of Best Practices, encourages nations to share
their successful campaign strategies and initiative, fostering a collective learning
environment to accelerate progress
4. Calls for Data-Driven Approach, encourages nation to collect and share data on the
representation of women and minorities in government, enabling evidence-based
decision-making and tracking progress over time, as mechanism as follows:
a. Legislative requirement: enact legislation mandating the collection of
comprehensive and disaggregated data on the representation of women and
minorities in government institution
b. Accessibility: ensure repositories are easily accessible to governance and
media publication
c. Regular reporting and transparency,
i. annual reports, nations will be published annual report summarising the
collected data, outlining progress made, and future goals
ii. Report will be made publicly available to promote transparency and
accountability
5. Supports long term Engagement, recognizes that addressing the under-representation
of women and minorities requires sustained efforts
6. Supports the creation of Gender and Minorities Equality and Media Representation
Oversight Commission, to target media portrayal and provide framework about
societal norms and attitudes towards women and minority representation, which
works as follows:
a. Outlines thorough recommendations for media outlets, pushing them to show
women and people of colour in a variety of positions inside the governmental
institution
b. Examines all media representations of governmental institutions, determining
if they are accurate and whether they promote pre-existing social stigmas
 c. Encourages the production of media that dispels stereotypes about women and
minorities by highlighting their contributions and accomplishments, the media
affects opinions and causes bias to change
d. Issues frequent reports describing achievements, challenges, and noteworthy
events to hold them responsible for fairly portraying women and minorities
and displaying their proactive efforts to combat societal biases
7. Supports gender-responsive budgeting at all levels of government to ensure that
budgets consider the differential impact of policies and programs on women and men
8. Provide sponsorships that are given to women or minority candidates of the
government, specially towards those who are already contributing to their community

ARTICLE 6
EVALUATION AND MONITORING
1. Establish monitoring programs to ensure the smooth running of programs such as:
a. Regular Data Collection: requiring members of monitoring program to
regularly collect data on the ongoing process of the solution programs;
b. Promote access to information and give citizen rights to access the
government informations to increase transparencies;
c. Transparent budgetary and procurement processes to ensure that public funds
are allocated and spent fairly and efficiently;
d. Encourage public participation in decision making processes;
2. Ensuring honesty of data collection by:
a. Evaluating leader and member candidates of monitoring program before the
appointment
b. Increasing the severity of punishment towards members/leader of monitoring
programs that falsely manipulates data on report, such as increased time for
imprisonment;
3. Recommends that member state regularly report their progress and challenges in
achieving gender and minority equality in government institution, including the
outcomes of the evaluation and monitoring mechanism, to relevant national and
international bodies,
4. Calls upon member state to involve women’s and minority rights organisation, as well
as other civil society actors, in the evaluation and monitoring processes to enhance
transparency and accountability,
5. Establish the Inclusive Policy Assessment and Enhancement Committee (IPAEC),
which is a specialist committee to assess and enhance current regulations,
guaranteeing ongoing inclusivity and fair practices for member states, by:
a. Including professionals from a variety of disciplines, including economics,
social sciences, law, and advocacy, ensuring comprehensive research and solid
policy recommendations;
b. Performing analysis and in-depth analysis how policies affect these groups by
discovering gaps, biases, and areas for improving the fairness;
c. Developing comprehensive plans for policy improvement by analysing both
short-term obstacles and long-term systemic problems, such as structural
disparities;
d. Collects insightful feedback to match policies with practical requirements
from affected communities, civil society organisation, and minority
representatives;
e. Develop recommendations for policy improvement based on the assessment
before;
6. Ensuring good governance in member states by equitable, effective, and accountable
goods and services in society, through:
a. Enhancing public officials' abilities to choose performance metrics for
oversight and incorporate gender equality initiatives into plans and budgets;
b. The implementation of gender-responsive budgets that allocate sufficient
funds to both women and men, as well as transparent and adequate public
finance for gender equality;
7. Promote media diversity and ensure that all citizen have access to accurate and
undiscriminating informations in order to combat hate speech and misinformation
a. Continuously monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of measures taken against
hate speech and hoaxes
b. Strengthen law enforcement against hate speech and hoaxes
8. Request the Secretary General of United Nation to compile and publish a periodic
global report on the progress and challenges in achieving equal representation of
women and minority populations in government institution, based on the information
provided by member state,
 9. Invites member states to consider the establishment of international fund to support
capacity-building, technical assistance and knowledge-sharing initiatives aimed at
addressing under-representation in government institution
10. Establish a monitoring of the media during elections by:
a. Providing benchmarks for judging the fairness of the election process;
b. Evaluating the coverage to be in accordance with local and international
standards on where each candidate of government running for an election must
have equal screen time
11. Request the assessment on intersectionalist analysis to analyse individuals' overlapping
identities to create focused and nuanced solutions in addressing causes of
underrepresentation, by:
a. Using an intersectional lens to analyse the data requires an awareness of how
identities interact to create particular problems
b. Collaboration with stakeholders and specialists improves insights, such as advisory
committees, for instance, highlight various viewpoints
c. Customising policy to meet particular hurdles is necessary to turn analysis into action.
For instance, programs can concentrate on mentorship and educational support if
young women of colour experience particular problems