Disarmament and International Security Committee

Tracy Ruth Das

disec@worldmun.org

Tracy Das is a Junior at Harvard College concentrating in Government and History on a pre-law track. Aside from World Model UN, Tracy is the Vice-President of the Harvard Undergraduate Law Review, Reading Room Assistant at Harvard Widener Library and a Leadership Brainery Ambassador Fellow! Tracy also works closely with the United Nations Association of Greater Boston as a student Ambassador after participating in their conferences since middle school. She is excited to chair for the WorldMUN 2025 conference and is ecstatic to meet all her delegates coming from abroad!

Topic: Displacement and Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Day after day, civilians, including children, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are physically abused and displaced from their homes to work in cobalt mines. The DRC is considered the country with the richest natural resources in the world. Every country in the international community benefits from Cobalt , a critical raw material. However, its extraction requires a dangerous and grueling process. In the Disarmament and International Security Commission, we will be investigating the ethics behind cobalt extraction and the path that the international community can take to combat inhumane mining practices.