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RULES OF PROCEDURETHE 10TH CNMUN CONFERENCE 【Committee of Topic 1 and Topic 2】I. SessionII. AgendaIII. Delegate and DaisIV. Conference ProgressV. Documents and VoteVI. Participation of Non-Member StatesVII. MiscellaneousI. SessionArticle 1Two delegates from each participating country will attend the parallel sessions for Committee of Topic 1 and 2 of the Commission on the Status of Women (hereinafter “CSW”). The two committees aim to address the related topics with proper suggestions and thus hand in draft sectional resolution for review of the plenary conference.Article 2The working language is English.Article 3The time of the two committees is in the evening of November 8th, the morning and afternoon of November 9th, 2013, UTC+8.Article 4The session will be held in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China and the venue will be arranged by the Secretariat.Article 5Delegates may propose motion of suspension or recession at any proper time during the session and the session may be suspended or announced in recess without discussion but simple majority approval of participating countries and thereafter resumed.II. AgendaArticle 6The topic and agenda for each committee shall be decided by the Secretariat,which will be notified to each party prior to the session.Article 7At the opening, the agenda will be voted after the roll-call, which needs to be passed by simple majority approval from the participating countries.III. Delegates and DaisArticle 8The rights of the delegates are hereby set forth as follows:(1) Right of speech. Please refer to Article 9 Item (2), Article12, Article 15 Item(2) and Article 24 on making a speech，no one is allowed to make a speech without the approval of the Dais;(2) Right of reply. According to Article 14 on reply, all debates shall be confined to the iss ues under discussion among the states. If the speakers’ debate is irrelevant to the agenda item, the Dais may urge him/her to abide by the rules;(3) Right of motion. Please refer to Article 5 and Article 15 about motion;(4) Right of point. Please refer to Article 16 about questioning;(5) Right of composition. Please refer to Article 17 and Article 18 about document composition and submission;(6) Right of vote. Please refer to Article 5, Article 7, Article 18, Article 22 and Article 23 about vote.Article 9The Secretariat shall select candidates to form the Dais, whose rights hereby are outlined as follows:(1) The Dais is entitled to announce the opening and closing of each session, preside discussions and ensure compliance with the rules herein, grant permission to make speeches, host vote for items in discussion and announce decisions. The Dais shall keep track with the progress of the sessions and maintain good order in the venue;(2) The Dais is entitled to invite the lecturer to make a speech at the time mutually consulted and agreed if such a speech is deemed necessary by the Dais hereof;(3) The Dais enjoys the rights to review, compile and exhibit working papers, draft sectional resolution and other documents deemed necessary by the Dais;(4) The Dais reserves the right of administration on venues, instruments, schedule and request of attendance by conference staff.Article 10In failure to attend any session or part of a session for due reasons, the Dais shall designate one Dais member to act on the Chair’s behalf or implement rotating Dais system at its discretion.IV. Session ProceduresArticle 11The Dais may announce opening of the session only if delegates from over 1/3 of the countries shall participate have attended the sessions. Any vote on draft sectional resolution shall be made under the presence of the simple majority of the countries shall participate. Countries that shall participate and have attended the sessions herein are referred as the participating countries. Article12In the beginning of the first session, the Dais shall request a roll-call at random to confirm the speakers’ list. The total for each speaker in the list is 90 seconds. Upon the closure of the speakers’ list, the session shall enter the s tage of vote for draft sectional resolutions. Anyone not listed in the speakers’ list or having finished his/her speeches in the list may require additional speech by submitting written applications to the Dais. Once approved, he/she shall be added to end of the list.Article 13For the speakers finishing their speech within the allotted time, the remaining time is automatically yielded to the Dais.Article 14When a state is clearly mentioned in the speech of the speakers’ list or in the moderated caucus, the state could apply for the chance of reply in written form to the Dais. Upon approval, the state will have 30 seconds to reply. The 30 seconds’ speech cann ot be yielded. And the right of reply could only be applied once during the conference.Article 15After three speakers in the list have finished their speech in each beginning of the session, motion can be proposed by raising placards without verbal declaration. Motion types are hereby defined as follows:(1)Unmoderated Caucus. The total time is set by the motion country and passed by a simple majority of the participating countries. All delegates can leave their seats for free discussion;(2) Moderated Caucus. The topic, total time and time for each speaker are set by the motion country and passed by a simple majority of the participating countries. The Chair should open a speaker’s list based on willingness randomly. The speech time cannot be yielded. If all the speakers in the original list have finished and the remaining time is enough for at least one country to speak, the Dais can add to the list based on willingness to speak randomly. (3)Modify the duration of each speech in the speakers’ list. Th e modified duration is set by the motion country and passed by a simple majority of the participating countries. Formal speeches are performed in accordance with the modified duration thereafter;(4)Close the speakers’ list. The motion can only be propose d when draft sectional resolution is submitted and should be passed by an absolute majorityof the participating countries. Once the motion is passed, the speakers’ list is closed and the voting begins.Article16When there’s no speaker on the stage, part icipants can issue points directly via raising placards and speaking or in written form to the Dais at any time. The point types are as follows:(1) Personal privilege, namely applying to leave the venue;(2)Procedural issues, namely inquiring procedural matters, or pointing out procedural flaws.The Chair shall immediately decide the issues in accordance with rules. A delegate may raise an objection over the decision, which the Chair shall put to vote. The decision of the Chair remains valid unless being overruled by the simple majority of participating countries. When issuing a procedural issue, a delegate shall not discuss about the theme.V. Documents and VoteArticle17The meeting should contain the following documents, which shall be approved and informed to the audience by the Dais. Documents shall be drafted in accordance with formats of samples issued by the Secretariat.(1)Position Papers. Each participating country shall hand in mandatorily before the conference to showcase their ideas and opinions. Voting is not needed;(2) Working Papers. Submitted by arbitrary number of participating countries, it is to conclude their own working and views or express expectations towards the conference process. Voting is not needed;(3)Draft Sectional Resolution. Its sponsors and signatories shall be twenty percent or more of the participating countries, which should contain at least five or more member states. The sponsors should contain one or more of the member states. Sponsors shall not be sponsor or signatory of other draft sectional resolution while signatories are allowed to second any number of draft sectional resolution. The document is used to reach consensus and to submit for the plenary conference consideration.Article 18A draft sectional resolution, if not be voted, can be withdrawn by all sponsors at any time before voting. And the withdrawn draft sectional resolution can be submitted again by any delegate. The Dais will renumber the document. Article 19All participating countries shall have one vote.Article 20Upon the beginning of voting, walking or passing page is strictly prohibited. When the Dais announced the voting procedure, no one should interrupt with the progress except pointing out the procedural issue of the vote.Article 21The draft sectional resolution shall be deemed passed with the absolute majority of approval from the participating countries. Once a draft resolution is passed, the committee will no longer vote for any other documents and the voting procedure will be ended.Article22The committee should conduct a roll-call vote according to the number of the draft sectional resolution. The vote shall begin with the English alphabetical order of registered abbreviated name of the participating country decided via drawing lots by the Chair. During the roll-call vote, each delegate should raise the placard high and declare “Yes”, “No” or “Abstain”, which shall all be put on record.Article 23If all the draft sectional resolutions fail to be passed by an absolute majority of the participating countries and there is more than one draft sectional resolution, then a roll-call vote should be conducted again according to the number of a draft sectional resolution. Participating countries should declare “Yes”, “No” or “Abstain”. Draft sectional resolution with approval of a simple majority of the participating countries can be submitted to the plenary. Abstaining members should be deemed as non-voting.Article 24Once voting for a draft sectional resolution ends, the Chair should ask whether there is a willingness of explanatory speeches and randomly point to no more than three participating countries to speak for no more than 60 seconds each. Explanatory speeches are limited to explanations of the vote. The sponsors and signatories of the draft sectional resolution are not allowed to give explanatory speeches.VI. Participation of Non-Member StateArticle 25The committee may invite any member of the United Nations and any institutions of the international law system to participate in the consideration of any matter of particular relevance. Such countries are called observer states. Article 26The committee may invite any important person including United Nations officials to participate in a meeting and should offer courteous reception. VII. MiscellaneousArticle 27Before each session of meeting and voting, the Dais should request roll-call to determine a simple majority, an absolute majority and 20 percent according to the results and informed the audience. The values are determined as follows:(1)A simple majority, namely half of the number of participating countries, which should plus one if it is an integer, and be filled if it is not;(2)An absolute majority, namely two-thirds of the number of participating countries, which should be filled if it is not an integer;(3) 20 percent, namely one fifth of the number of participating countries, which should be filled if it is not an integer.Article 28Issues fail to be covered in this rule of procedures shall be decided by the Dais with consent of the Secretariat.【Committee of Topic 3】I. SessionII. AgendaIII. Delegate and DaisIV. Conference ProgressV. Documents and VoteVI. Participation of Non-Member StatesVII. MiscellaneousI. SessionArticle 1One delegate from each participating country will attend the parallel sessions for Committee of the Topic 3 of the Commission on the Status of Women (hereinafter “CSW”). The committee aims to address the related topic with proper suggestions in written document for the review of the plenary conference.Article 2The working language is English.Article 3The time of the committee is in the evening of November 8th, the morning and afternoon of November 9th, 2013, UTC+8.Article 4The session will be held in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China and the venue will be arranged by the Secretariat.Article 5Delegates may propose motion of suspension or recession at any proper time during the session and the session may be suspended or announced in recess without discussion but simple majority approval of participating countries and thereafter resumed.II. AgendaArticle 6The topic and agenda for each committee shall be decided by the Secretariat, which will be notified to each party prior to the session.Article 7At the opening, the agenda will be voted after the roll-call, which needs to be passed by simple majority approval from the participating countries.III. Delegates and DaisArticle 8The rights of the delegates are hereby set forth as follows:(1) Right of speech. Please refer to Article 9 Item (2), Article12, Article 15 Item(2), Article 16 and Article 25 on making a speech，no one is allowed to make a speech without the approval of the Dais;(2)Right of reply. According to Article 14 on reply, all debates shall be confined to the issues under discussion among the states. If the speakers’ debate is irrelevant to the agenda item, the Dais may urge him/her to abide by the rules;(3) Right of motion. Please refer to Article 5 and Article 15 about motion;(4) Right of recommendation. Please refer to Article 16;(5) Right of point. Please refer to Article 17 about questioning;(6)Right of composition. Please refer to Article 18 and Article 19 about document composition and submission;(7) Right of vote. Please refer to Article 5, Article 7, Article 9 Item (5), Article 20, Article 23 and Article 24 about vote.Article 9The Secretariat shall select candidates to form the Dais, whose rights hereby are outlined as follows:(1) The Dais is entitled to announce the opening and closing of each session, preside discussions and ensure compliance with the rules herein, grant permission to make speeches, host vote for items in discussion and announce decisions. The Dais shall keep track with the progress of the sessions and maintain good order in the venue.(2)The Dais is entitled to invite the lecturer to make a speech at the time mutually consulted and agreed if such a speech is deemed necessary by the Dais hereof.(3)The Dais enjoys the rights to review, compile and exhibit working paper, draft agenda report and other documents deemed necessary by the Dais. (4)The Dais reserves the right of administration on venues, instruments, schedule and request of attendance by conference staff.Article 10In failure to attend any session or part of a session for due reasons, the Dais shall designate one Dais member to act on the Chair’s behalf or implement rotating Dais system at its discretion.IV. Session ProceduresArticle 11The Dais may announce opening of the session only if delegates from over 1/3 of the countries shall participate have attended the sessions. Any vote on draft agenda report shall be made under the presence of the simple majority of thecountries shall participate. Countries that shall participate and have attended the sessions herein are referred as the participating countries.Article12In the beginning of the first session, the Dais shall request a roll-call at random to confirm the speakers’ list. The total for each speaker in the list is 90 seconds. Upon the closure of the speakers’ list, the session shall enter the stage of vote for draft agenda reports. Anyone not listed in the speakers’ list or having finished his/her speeches in the list may require additional speech by submitting written applications to the Dais. Once approved, he/she shall be added to end of the list.Article 13For the speakers finishing their speech within the allotted time, the remaining time is automatically yielded to the Dais.Article 14When a state is clearly mentioned in the speech of the speakers’ list or in the moderated caucus, the state could apply for the chance of reply in written form to the Dais. Upon approval, the state will have 30 seconds to reply. The 30 seconds’ speech cannot be yielded. And the right of reply could only be applied once during the conference.Article 15After three speakers in the list have finished their speech in each beginning of the session, motion can be proposed by raising placards without verbal declaration. Motion types are hereby defined as follows:(1)Unmoderated Caucus. The total time is set by the motion country and passed by a simple majority of the participating countries. All delegates can leave their seats for free discussion;(2) Moderated Caucus. The topic, total time and time for each speaker are set by the motion country and passed by a simple majority of the participating countries. The Chair open a speaker’s list based on willingness randomly. The speech time cannot be yielded. If all the speakers in the original list have finished and the remaining time is enough for at least one country to speak, the Dais can add to the list based on willingness to speak randomly.(3)Modify the duration of each speech in the speakers’ list. The modified duration is set by the motion country and passed by a simple majority of the participating countries. Formal statements are performed in accordance with the modified duration thereafter;(4)Close the speakers’ list. The motion can only be proposed when draft agenda report is submitted and should be passed by an absolute majority of the participating countries. Once the motion is passed, the speakers’ list is closed and the voting begins.Article 16Prior to each session’s beginning or unmoderated caucus’s ending, any delegate could make a speech by 20 perce nt participating countries’ recommendation. Such speech is named “recommended speech”. Therecommending countries should register at the Dais and thus been decided the order of each speech. The total time for the each is within 5 minutes. When the recommended speech is finished, the Dais will open the floor for no more than 3 questions from different countries, and each of these questions will be within 30 seconds. The speaker will have 60 seconds to answer each question.Article 17When there’s no speaker on the stage, participants can issue points directly via raising placards and speaking or in written form to the Dais at any time. The point types are as follows:(1) Personal privilege, namely applying to leave the venue;(2)Procedural issues, namely inquiring procedural matters, or pointing out procedural flaws.The Chair shall immediately decide the issues in accordance with rules. A delegate may raise an objection over the decision, which the Chair shall put to vote. The decision of the Chair remains valid unless being overruled by the simple majority of participating countries. When issuing a procedural issue, a delegate shall not discuss about the theme.V. Documents and VoteArticle 18The meeting should contain the following documents, which shall be approved and informed to the audience by the Dais. Documents shall be drafted in accordance with formats of samples issued by the Secretariat.(1)Position Papers. Each participating country shall hand in mandatorily before the conference to showcase their ideas and opinions. Voting is not needed;(2) Working Papers. Submitted by arbitrary number of participating countries, it is to conclude their own working and views or express expectations towards the conference process. Voting is not needed;(3) Draft Agenda Report. Its sponsors and signatories shall be twenty percent or more of participating countries, which should contain at least five or more member states. The sponsors should contain one or more of the member states. Sponsors can be sponsor or signatory of other draft agenda report while signatories are allowed to second any number of draft agenda report. The document is used to reach consensus and to submit for the plenary conference consideration.Article 19A draft agenda report, if not be voted, can be withdrawn by all sponsors at any time before voting. And the withdrawn draft agenda report can be submitted again by any delegate. The Dais will renumber the document.Article 20All participating countries shall have one vote.Article 21Upon the beginning of voting, walking or passing page is strictly prohibited. When the Dais announced the voting procedure, no one should interrupt with the progress except pointing out the procedural issue of the vote.Article 22The draft agenda report shall be deemed passed with the absolute majority of approval from the participating countries. Once all the draft agenda report has been passed, the voting procedure will be ended.Article 23The committee should conduct a roll-call vote according to the number of the draft agenda report. The vote shall begin with the English alphabetical order of registered abbreviated name of the participating countries decided via drawing lots by the Chair. During the roll-call vote, each delegate should raise the placard high and declare “Yes”, “No” or “Abstain”, which shall all be put on record.Article 24If none of the draft agenda reports is passed, the Dais will request an unmoderated caucus within 10 minutes. Then a roll-call vote should be conducted again until at least one draft agenda report is passed. The participating countries should declare “Yes”, “No” or “Abstain”.Article 25Once voting for a draft agenda report ends, the Chair should ask whether there is a willingness of explanatory speeches and randomly point to no more than three participating countries to speak for no more than 60 seconds each. Explanatory speeches are limited to explanations of the vote. The sponsors and signatories of the draft agenda report are not allowed to give explanatory speeches.VI. Participation of Non-Member StateArticle 26The committee may invite any member of the United Nations and any institutions of the international law system to participate in the consideration of any matter of particular relevance. Such countries are called observer states. Article 27The committee may invite any important person including United Nations officials to participate in a meeting and should offer courteous reception. VII. MiscellaneousArticle 28Before each session of meeting and voting, the Dais should request roll-call to determine a simple majority, an absolute majority and 20 percent according to the results and informed the audience. The values are determined as follows:(1)A simple majority, namely half of the number of participating countries, which should plus one if it is an integer, and be filled if it is not;(2)An absolute majority, namely two-thirds of the number of participating countries, which should be filled if it is not an integer;(3) 20 percent, namely one fifth of the number of participating countries, which should be filled if it is not an integer.Article 29Issues fail to be covered in this rule of procedures shall be decided by the Dais with consent of the Secretariat.【Plenary Conference】I. SessionII. AgendaIII. Delegate and DaisIV. Conference ProgressV. Documents and VoteVI. Participation of Non-Member StatesVII. MiscellaneousI. SessionArticle 1All delegations will attend the plenary session of the Commission on the Status of Women (hereinafter “CSW”). The conference aims to discuss the results of each of the parallel session and to draft the final resolution.Article 2The working language is English.Article 3The time of the session is on the morning of November 10th, 2013, UTC+8. Article 4The conference will be held in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China and the venue will be arranged by the Secretariat.Article 5Delegations may propose motion of suspension or recession at any proper time during the session and the session may be suspended or announced in recess without discussion but simple majority approval of participating countries and thereafter resumed.II. AgendaArticle 6The topic and agenda of the conference shall be decided by the Secretariat, which will be notified to each party prior to the session.Article 7At the opening, the agenda will be voted after the roll-call, which needs to be passed by simple majority approval from the participating countries.III. Delegates and DaisArticle 8The rights of the delegates are hereby set forth as follows:(1) Right of speech. Please refer to Article 9 Item (2), Article12, Article13 and Article 14 Item (2) on making a speech. As for member states, please refer to Article 25 on making a speech. No one is allowed to make a speech without the approval of the Dais;(2) Right of recommendation. Please refer to Article 13;(3) Right of motion. Please refer to Article 5, Article 14 Item (1) and (2) about motion. As for member states, please refer to Article 14 Item (3) and Article 18 about motion;(4) Right of point. Please refer to Article 15 about questioning;(5)Right of composition. Please refer to Article 16 and Article 17 about document composition and submission;(6) Right of vote. Please refer to Article 5, Article 7, Article 9 Item (5), Article 14 Item (1) and (2) about vote. As for member states, please refer to Article 14 Item (3), Article 18, Article 19, Article 22, Article 23 and Article 24 about vote. Article 9The Secretariat shall select candidates to form the Dais, whose rights hereby are outlined as follows:(1) The Dais is entitled to announce the opening and closing of each session, preside discussions and ensure compliance with the rules herein, grant permission to make speeches, host vote for items in discussion and announce decisions. The Dais shall keep track with the progress of the sessions and maintain good order in the venue;(2)The Dais is entitled to invite the lecturer to make a speech at the time mutually consulted and agreed if such a speech is deemed necessary by the Dais hereof;(3) The Dais enjoys the rights to review, compile and exhibit working papers, draft agenda report and other documents deemed necessary by the Dais; (4)The Dais reserves the right of administration on venues, instruments, schedule and request of attendance by conference staff.Article 10In failure to attend any session or part of a session for due reasons, the Dais shall designate one Dais member to act on the Chair’s behalf or implement rotating Dais system at its discretion.IV. Session ProceduresArticle 11The Dais may announce opening of the session only if delegates from over 1/3 of the countries shall participate have attended the sessions. Any vote on draft sectional resolution shall be made under the presence of the simple majority of the countries shall participate. Countries that shall participate and have attended the sessions herein are referred as the participating countries. Article12In the beginning of the session, the Dais shall invite the sponsors of the passed documents of the previous three parallel sessions to give introduction on the documents. The total for each speech in the list is 7 minutes. The sponsors of each document will decide internally the speakers and their order. Article13During each unmoderated caucus, any delegate could make a speech by 20 percent participating countries’ recommendation. Such speech is named “recommended speech”. The recommending countries should register at the Dais and thus been decided the order of each speech. The total time for the each is within 5 minutes. When the recommended speech is finished, the Dais will open the floor for no more than 3 questions from different countries, and each of these questions will be within 30 seconds. The speaker will have 60 seconds to answer each question.Article14After introduction speech or recommended speech has finished, motion can be proposed by raising placards without verbal declaration. Motion types are hereby defined as follows:(1)Unmoderated Caucus. The total time is set by the motion country and passed by a simple majority of the participating countries. All delegates can leave their seats for free discussion;(2) Moderated Caucus. The topic, total time and time for each speaker are set by the motion country and passed by a simple majority of the participating countries. The Chair open a speaker’s list based on willingness randomly. The speech time cannot be yielded. If all the speakers in the original list have finished and the remaining time is enough for at least one country to speak, the Dais can add to the list based on willingness to speak randomly.(3)Start to vote. This motion could only be motioned by the member states and passed by their absolute majority.Article 15When there’s no speaker on the stage, participants can issue points directly via raising placards and speaking or in written form to the Dais at any time. The point types are as follows:(1) Personal privilege, namely applying to leave the venue;。