Commission: UNESCO

Country: MALTA

Topic: The key-role of the UNESCO to play in peace building and

reconciliation to achieve the goal of promoting mutual understanding,
tolerance and a culture of peace.
According to the Global peace index, the global level of peace has gone below by 2.38
percent since 2008. The Republic of Malta believes that peace and tolerance between countries
and cultures must be achieved around the world. There are more than 7 cultures in the world with
common climate and landscapes. Peace is directly proportional to tolerance and cultural
recognition. If one will be changed there will be impact on others. Many countries do not tolerate
and understand each other for this reason affects other countries with peace issues. for example,
India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine. It is important for the UNESCO and all the countries in
the world to collaborate and bring in mutual consensus to ensure peace in all areas of the world
and should not allow any countries to violate peace building resolutions.
UNESCO has been working since 1945 to promote educational, economic and social success
around the world. Malta has always considered peace as a major factor in the success of the
country. “As a country that always favors dialogue over conflict, promoting peace continues to
be one of the main aims for Malta,” said Minister of foreign minister and trade promotion
minister of Malta. Malta has been a neutral state for other countries to ensure that peace building
can be ensured due to which it has hosted meetings including Malta Summit, Malta conference.
Malta has shown significant efforts in peace building both internally and externally. Knowing the
fact that Malta is a small island with a population of just more than 450,000 people did such
work for peace must be adopted by UNESCO and other countries and could take the assistance
of Malta to make resolutions for peace in the world.
Malta advocates UNESCO's current policies in encouraging peace building by ensuring cross
cultures collaborations, tolerance between cultures, promotion of education and other efforts to
protect the peace for all. Malta can help in peace building by going beyond the political level as a
moderator between different countries facing peace building issues. Peace cannot be ensured by
only one or a few countries but it must be the responsibility of all the countries in the world.

Topic: The protection of journalists in war areas

Journalists are individuals who show people what is happening around the world. Malta
believes that journalists must be given full freedom to depict their viewpoint in any area.
Journalists put all their efforts to report with dignity and biasedness, which must be appreciated
by all nations. In war areas, there are great threats to journalists like in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Kashmir. Threats include kidnapping, murder and rape and more. There have been 36 journalists
killed in Iraq since 2006, which shows how critical it is to protect journalists in war areas. UN
and other countries must make policies and protect journalists in war areas.
 Malta believes that journalists must be protected and those who got killed must get justice
for their lives. Malta has cooperated with Committee to Protect Journalists to find the murderer
of Journalists especially one in Malta named Daphne Caruana who was killed in 2017 by car
blast. The scenario might be different from that of war areas as Malta is a peaceful place with no
official enemies but Malta believes that all the journalists deserve equal protection and
safeguard.
Protecting journalists is very important not only for individual countries but also for all
the people around the world. Malta supports the UNs Plan of Action on Safety of Journalists and
the second UN in their efforts to protect journalists and implementing impunity policies. UN can
play an important role by making policies as it has a massive reach and authority to use in more
than 190 member countries. Malta also would like CPJ and other organizations to play major
roles in protecting the journalists and their reporting information. In war areas, journalists must
be given access and protection by the respective area’s security forces to report true and fair view
of war.

Topic: Fight against contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,

xenophobia and related intolerance
Racism is a problem faced by every state in the world and it is very unfortunate that by
knowing the fact that there are humans in the world but people discriminate against each other
for their reasons. Racism can be of many forms some of which are nativism, xenophobia,
otherness, segregation, hierarchical ranking, and supremacist. Racism has many adverse impacts
that can affect any person’s life and can have physical, mental, social and economic impacts.
There is a serious need for policies and resolutions to prevent racism, discrimination, and
intolerances between different groups.
Malta is a country that has faced racism episodes in its own country. It is the
responsibility of each state to ensure that racism is discouraged and prevented in any form within
its area. Racism has to be stopped at each level whether small or large and it can be done by
implementing serious policies by governments. In 2030 Agenda of Malta, has an agenda to
reduce inequalities. Malta has a strong equality law framework that restricts racism in Malta and
discrimination against races. Malta’s authorities have also facilitated the migrants and foreigners
and thus no cases in the past 2 years have been reported against racial discrimination in Malta.
Malta believes that the stay of immigrants in different countries must be facilitated and no
harsh or cruel policies must be used in countries. Malta has been able to resolve its racism
problem in recent years in which the other countries can adopt from Malta. Malta authorities
must also take racism seriously and record any cases reported by people. National Action Plan
against racism can be implemented. UN can provide awareness programs and events to
discourage racial discrimination and encourage collaboration and a sense of recognition between
races.
 Work Cited:
I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_Summit
II. https://en.unesco.org/70years/building_peace
III. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/20203Malta_VNR_Final.pdf
IV. https://foreignaffairs.gov.mt/en/Government/Press%20Releases/Pages/Malta%E2%80%99s-
engagement-with-the-United-Nations-goes-beyond-politics-%E2%80%93-Minister-Abela.aspx
V. https://cpj.org/blog/2019/10/cpj-joins-call-to-end-impunity-in-killing-of-malte.php
VI. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/16/malta-police-evidence-daphne-caruana-galizia
VII. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/international-
days/world-press-freedom-day/previous-
celebrations/worldpressfreedomday2009000/themes/safety-of-journalists/
VIII. https://en.unesco.org/un-plan-action-safety-journalists
IX. https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/racism/srracism/pages/indexsrracism.aspx
X. https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/no-room-for-racism.711187
XI. http://cms.horus.be/files/99935/MediaArchive/Racist%20Violence%20Report%20Malta%20-
%20online.pdf
XII. Boffa, C. The attitudes, perceptions and feelings of immigrants towards Malta and the Maltese.
BA Psychology (University of Malta, 2008).