This is the law student, Danny Jhoan Álvarez who received The Best Position Paper award and obtained one of the five full scholarships awarded by UNESCO.

Danny Jhoan Álvarez, student of the Law program at the Universidad del Cauca and member of the International Law Seedbed for Community Cooperation and Diplomacy, received one of the five full scholarships from UNESCO and was awarded the award "The best position paper” (The Best Position Paper), one of the most prestigious awards in the United Nations Simulation WIMUN 2021, from the UNESCO Center For Peace.

The competition consisted of a four-day debate with competitors from Latin America to achieve international cooperation and also a decisive role with possible solutions to the problems at the table in which the student represented the government of Russia in the Committee of the General Assembly of The UN, a deliberative body of the United Nations, this time the topic to be debated was the COVID 19 pandemic and its repercussions on the ODS (Sustainable Development Goal), point 6 water and sanitation in Latin America.

The student Danny Jhoan Álvarez managed to position the best position paper in the portfolio of the General Assembly Committee whose document consisted of a brief and concise description of the position and priorities of the Russian state in matters of international public policy, national strategies of development, and concrete proposals such as the territorial extension and processing of the Guaraní Aquifer, being a gigantic natural reservoir of fresh water that extends below the surface of part of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. It is one of the largest known freshwater reserves on planet Earth. Due to its volume, it is the third largest in the world.

The foregoing, with the primary purpose of guaranteeing the contribution to the fulfillment of the UN 2030 agenda on the Sustainable Development Goals SDG, specifically number 6 water and sanitation for Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on the most vulnerable population and / or difficult to access to combat COVID 19.

UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that seeks to establish peace through international cooperation in education, science and culture. UNESCO programs contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in the 2030 Program, approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015.

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