Welcome to Kenya Model United Nations #KenyaMUN

Kenya Model United Nations is the PREMIER youth leadership platform that has produced excellent young diplomats for over 20 YEARS who have ubiquitously served in Kenya and around the world. We have a vast outreach to over 500 young, smart and energetic university students and students in institutions of higher learning who are drivers of change with a mindset of structured development and critical solution-making capabilities through deliberative and value-based Diplomacy.

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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The General Assembly includes all 193 United Nations members, placing this unique forum at the UN's deliberative, policy-making, and representative core.

General Assembly committees are the largest at KMUN, with 100 to 400 delegates each. Delegates' negotiation and diplomacy skills will undoubtedly improve both inside and outside of the committee room.

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Opening of the public hearings (request for provisional measures by Timor-Leste) at the ICJ in the case Timor-Leste v Australia. These hearings took place from 20-22 January 2014, in the Great Hall of Justice at the Peace Palace in The Hague, under the presidency of Judge Peter Tomka. The Court’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States (its Judgments are final and binding) and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized UN organs and agencies. Its official languages are English and French. ICJ news and archives can be accessed via www.icj-cij.org

Ouverture des audiences publiques (demande en indication de mesures conservatoires déposée par le Timor-Leste) à la CIJ en l’affaire Timor-Leste c. Australie. Ces audiences se sont déroulées du 20 au 22 janvier 2014 dans la grande salle de justice du Palais de la Paix, à La Haye, sous la présidence de M. Peter Tomka. Pour en savoir plus: www.icj-cij.org

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

The International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, is the main judicial organ of the UN.It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946.

The primary intent of the ICJ is to settle international legal disputes between states and to give advisory opinions to the other organs of the UN.

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INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION

The International Law Commission (ILC) is the United Nations' codification body, and it is simulated in Kenya Model United Nations.

The ILC strives to hold insightful and intellectually stimulating debates in which commissioners apply their knowledge of public international law in a fun and engaging manner, all while working towards the ILC's main goal of promoting the progressive development of international law and its codification.

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Get to know KenyaMUN

Kenya Model United Nations is a non-profit, student-run organization affiliated with the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) at the UN Office in Nairobi. Mr Ronald Osumba of Moi University founded the Model United Nations in Kenya in 2001, and the organization was then known as Kenya Model United Nations (Kenya MUN). Kenya MUN held its first conference in 2002, and has held this event annually in February or March at UNON, Gigiri, since then.

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