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Guidelines in Writing a Position Paper 1. Begin the writing process with an in-depth research about the issue at hand. 2. Be aware of various positions about the issue and explain and analyze them objectively. 3. Reflect on your position paper and identify its weaknesses. 4. Establish your credibility by citing reliable sources. 5. Present a unique way of approaching the issue. 6. Limit your position paper to two pages. 7. Analyze your target readers and align your arguments to their beliefs, needs, interests and motivations. 8. Summarize the other side’s counter arguments and refute them with evidence. 9. Define unfamiliar terms at first mention. 10. Use an active voice as much as possible. This will make your tone dynamic and firm. 11. Arrange your evidence logically using an inductive or deductive approach. 12. Check your paper for fallacies and revise accordingly. 13. Use ethical, logical and emotional appeals. Ethical appeals relate to your credibility an...

  Committee: Commission on Human Rights Topic: Violence against women Country: The Kingdom of Denmark Delegate: William Hayward Wilson, Shea University   Source: https://www.bloomu.edu/documents/model/PositionPaper.pdf The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states’ “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Although this doctrine was adopted in 1948, the world has fallen quite short of this goal. Violence against women pervades all states and it is the duty of the international community to ensure that all persons are afforded equality and respect. Despite cooperative efforts at combating gross human right abuses, such as adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the United Nations has not been able to alleviate the injustice women worldwide experience daily.   THE Kingdom of Denmark believes that in order to end violence against women nations must look empower women in...