President's letter

Dear Delegates of the Human Rights Council,

It is a privilege to welcome you to AAMUN’26, and specifically, the Human Rights Council. These next few days are filled with numerous debate sessions and endless opportunities for advocacy regarding essential rights that require clear and logical thinking from passionate delegates. The HRC is a place where solutions must be feasible, supported with evidence, and aim to help a specific set of people.

I am Hamza Sboul, a current senior at King’s Academy, and I am this year's president of the Human Rights Council. This committee has been my favorite for many years now, and part of it is due to my first delegate experience being HRC. It has a large scope and covers many aspects, making it interactive, relatable, and stimulating. This year, I want to set the bar high and do more than just debate ideas; we’ll work together to turn those ideas into realistic plans that can make a real difference in the world!

I can’t stress the role of human rights in the world enough; every day, people’s rights are being stripped, and our goal is to limit as much of this as possible. The resolutions we make in this conference will mirror the kind of leadership the world truly needs.

This year, we will be debating two topics: Protecting Victims of Forced Criminality and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia’s Transnational Cyber-Scam Operations, alongside Protecting Journalists and Freedom of Expression in Armed Conflict Zones Amid Digital Surveillance and Information Warfare. These two topics will cover essential human rights that have a lot of controversy around them, and I’m very excited to see your delegations' stances.

I’d like to sign off with a quote by Nelson Mandela that states, “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” Keep this in mind as we embark on this amazing journey together. I look forward to working with every one of you!

Sincerely,
Hamza Sboul
President of The Human Rights Committee