Due to unforseen circumstances, this year's SUSMUN conference has been limited to three committees. If you've already registered for one of the other committees, we'll be in touch to arrange a spot for you in one of the three remaining. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

These draft resolutions will form the focus of debate on the day. Each country will work to change the resolution to suit its national policy more closely. This will require countries to work together to pass amendments.

Here is a list of committees and topics that will be running at SUSMUN 2009. Click the topic name to download the briefing paper.

• Security Council: The situation in Pakistan
• Human Rights Council: The right to freedom of religion
• UNESCO: Ensuring access to education in developing countries

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us at susmun@usydunsociety.org.

A celebration of the culture of one of Sydney’s newest refugee communities will unfold near one of Sydney’s longstanding icons.

The Darfur Festival will take place in the Bondi Junction Oxford Street Pedestrian Mall on Friday, June 20, 11am-3pm to mark World Refugee Day.

Approximately 500 Darfuri refugees have been granted asylum in Australia, fleeing the raging war in Darfur, western Sudan, which reports say has left around 400,000 dead and caused the mass displacement of an estimated 3 million people.

About 50 families have settled in western Sydney – some Sydney-siders might not have realised such a vibrant and rich community was settling just minutes away down the M4 motorway.

 Thursday (May 15, Week 10), 5.30pm, Holme Reading Room

Our next MiniMUN will focus on a topic which has generated much discussion in recent days: whether the UN’s concept of a ‘responsibility to protect’ should allow humanitarian workers to override national sovereignty. We look forward to some quality debate on this topic which has implications not only for the current crisis in Myanmar but for the wider conflict between sovereignty and maintenance of human rights. Attendance by members of the AMUNC delegation is encouraged.

In a slight departure from normal practice, we won’t release the draft resolution beforehand. This is to give everybody a bit of practice with dealing with a resolution they haven’t seen before, which is what happens at AMUNC. A bit of background reading on Myanmar’s political situation, the recent cyclone, and the idea of a ‘responsibility to protect’ will be more than enough to get you through the debate.