Baymun XVI – BayMUN XVII

BayMUN

Zain Alrayes

BayMUN XVI Secretary General

“It is with great pleasure and excitement that I am able to lead the extraordinary XVI admin team, working effortlessly to produce a conference which celebrates the power and potential of youth to shape our world with lasting legacies. Throughout, the youth have been catalysts for transformation, igniting social, political, and economic progress. Today, more than ever, we recognize the vital role that youth play in shaping a sustainable and inclusive world.”

What is BayMUN?

BayMUN

BayMUN is a model of how global issues are discussed and handled in the United Nations. It urges delegates to learn diplomacy and international relationship through an educational experience. BayMUN as an MUN has been affiliated by THIMUN since 2014 and was the first school in Bahrain to receive such an honorable affiliation.

Bayan

Bahrain Bayan School is a bilingual national school founded by the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees, Dr. May Bint Sulaiman Al Otaibi, and Mrs. Kathleen Acher Kaiksow in 1982, KG1 through Grade 12, serving the Arab Bahraini community. The school holds accreditation from an Arabic and American/English based curriculum, accredited by the Ministry of Education, IB, and MSA. BBS has been rated “Outstanding” by Bahrain’s National Authority for Qualifications & Quality Assurance of Education and Training (BQA) in October 2016 and February 2021 and has received an outstanding acknowledgment of reaccreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA) in November 2020

THIMUN

The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN) conference, which includes over 3500 participants, coming from around 200 schools and 100 countries, although it is not located near the United Nations Headquarters in New York, it is one of the pioneer model United Nations conferences in the world, since it has been founded in 1968 and located in the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) world city of the Hague. A whole network of conferences is marked by its THIMUN affiliation, a label which basically describes the universality of the procedures that rule the conference, and make it part of the UN recognized foundation. In 1995, the THIMUN Foundation was accredited as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information. Additionally, THIMUN has established its own conferences’ network throughout time: THIMUN Qatar, THIMUN Singapore, THIMUN Online MUN (O-MUN) and THIMUN Latin America conferences have been set up from 2005.