Historical Resolutions
From the rise of civilization (November 13, 2002) up until a particularly brutal collision with reality (April 1, 2008), nations toiled under the banner of the World Assembly's predecessor, an organization that now Cannot Be Named, but sounded a lot like "United Stations." Although this grand institution is no longer, its incomparable volume of law shall stand forever.
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Historical Resolution #121
Adoption and IVF Rights
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
The United Nations,
OBSERVING that
-A- Adoptions and births from IVF, in the same manner as natural births, contribute to the happiness of many adults and children, worldwide
REGRETTING that in some Nations:
-B- Same sex couples and non married couples are discriminated against, for they are not allowed to adopt children
-C- Couples cannot adopt children from a different nation, even if these couples respect the standards defined by the nation of which the child is resident
-D- Adoption is sometimes a front for the selling of a child for money
-E- IVF (In-Vitro fertilization) is forbidden
MANDATES all nations to allow:
-1- Same sex couples and non married couples to adopt children with the same standard that opposite-sex and married couples are held to.
Nations will be permitted to allow Biological Parents to indicate their preference of the adoptive parents' religion, marital status and/or sexual preference before signing their parental rights away. This shall only apply in the case, both the child was willingly given away by parents but not purposely abandoned
-2- Opposite-sex and same-sex couples, regardless of marital status, from other UN countries shall be allowed to adopt children if these couples meet the standards defined by the nation of which the child is initially residing in.
Nations will be permitted to give priority of adoption to a local couple over a non-local couple
URGES that in all nations:
-3- Only nationally accredited adoption organizations can conduct the adoption procedure; and
-4- Adoptive parents be forbidden to give money to this adoption organizations, to any person working in or related to this association, to the biological parents and to people related to the biological parents; adoptive parents are welcome to donate money to any adoption organizations that they did not use and are not attempting to use to adopt children
ENCOURAGES
-5- Scientific stem cell research in order that, in the future, sterile men and women can have gametes (spermatozoon and ovum) with their own genetic identity, these gametes being harvested from their own stem cells,
URGES:
-6- All UN Nations to allow IVF, whether the gametes concerned were naturally produced or produced in the way defined in paragraph [5]
Thanks to all Nations that helped edit and improve this proposal in the UN forum
Passed: |
For: | 7,926 | 57.3% |
Against: | 5,918 | 42.7% |
Historical Resolution #122
Promotion of Solar Panels
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
BEING a fact that the burning of Fossil Fuels in order to make electricity is fast destroying the environment.
AWARE that there are other means of making electricity other than Solar Panels and Fossil Fuels.
NOTING that Solar Panels provide each home with the most reliable source of electricity.
REALISING the expense that the promotion of Solar Panels incurs,
On the passing of this resolution, the UN and all it's members will -
1) Begin projects to promote Solar Panels in all homes and places of work.
2) Will set aside an amount of government funds going to the environment into the project of manufacturing and distributing Solar Panels.
3) Over the period of ten years and a month after this proposal passes Solar Panels should be installed in all homes and places of work and leisure.
4) After the period of ten years and seven months all burning of fossil fuels shall be halted and electricity shall be generated by Solar Panels, together with and environmentally friendly methods each respective nation should wish to introduce.
5) The UN shall hold meetings as often as necessary to discuss the funds needed in order to carry out the project.
ASSUMING and REALSING that not all nations may be able to make the transition in the time period given above -
1) The UN shall meet to discuss possible ways of aiding the nations in question.
2) A time extension shall be given, the amount will be decided individually for each nation depending on the amount of wealth of the nation.
MAKING note that -
1) Each nation has the right to decide the price of the Solar Panels distributed in their nation. As well as whether to provide subsidies for those with lower income.
2) That each nation that burns fossil fuels does damage to other nations as well as their own.
3) That burning fossil fuels is putting a limit on how free our children and other future generations will be in the world when it comes to enjoying luxuries that are disappearing as we speak such as, fresh air, clean oceans and community gardens.
4) The burning of fossil fuels is one of the factors that depletes the Ozone Layer, which in turn melts the polar ice caps.
FINALLY NOTING that the mass introduction of Solar Panels everywhere will give us the long term benefits we will never enjoy if we do not implement this resolution.
Passed: | |
For: | 8,285 | 55.0% |
Against: | 6,777 | 45.0% |
Historical Resolution #123
Labeling Standards
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
SEEING THAT some companies may label their products incorrectly, or misuse words like fresh and organic, and also seeing that there is a rising number of people that need to be able to know what is in what they are eating, this proposal imposes the following:
I. If a product is marketed in one or multiple countries that speak different official languages, all labels on the product must be in all official languages of those countries, and must all translate to mean the same thing.
II. Defining fresh as not stale, sour, or decayed and not altered by processing, and defining organic as food produced with the use of feed or fertilizer of plant or animal origin without employment of chemically formulated fertilizers, growth stimulants, antibiotics, or pesticides. Nothing may be labeled fresh or organic unless it fits the above definition.
III. All people have the right to know what is in the food they eat. This means all packaged products must be labeled with (if applicable) the ingredients of the product, and nutrition facts, which should include the amount of fat, trans fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, sugars, sodium, protein, vitamins and minerals, and calories in the product. Also, all packaged products must be labeled with the country where the product was grown/made.
Passed: |
For: | 11,399 | 78.1% |
Against: | 3,190 | 21.9% |
Historical Resolution #124
Repeal: “Promotion of Solar Panels”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
Historical Resolution #122 “Promotion of Solar Panels” (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses - Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Let it primarily be noted that the original creator of this resolution, Starcra II, in his own words, has admitted to his resolution having faults and was previously aware of the repeal. He encourages nations to support this repeal as he is writing up a newer, better version of the resolution which will be up for debate before submission to the UN.
This repeal does not condemn solar panels, and the United Nations acknowledges that this resolution is well intentioned, but:
-A- The mandatory objective to ban fossil fuels use in ten years is unrealistic, due to it entailing:
- Too short a timescale for the phasing out of fossil fuels
- Too great a fiscal expense of environmentally-conscious replacements and the introduction of said replacement s
- Too much consumption of resources and of fossil fuels themselves for the materials and processes required for the manufacture of more environmentally-conscious alternatives
- An unforeseen and accidental hindering of many fossil fuel reliant economic sectors such as the aeronautical and airlines sector.
- An impact on power supplies, thus reducing the productive outputs of industries extracting, processing and modifying further resources to make the products that are taken for granted in maintaining our quality of life. This may involve the processing and packaging of foodstuffs, medicines, water and other supplies used in aid programs and our daily lives.
-B- This resolution's requirements will destroy many economies in next 10 years due to the costs of extracting, obtaining and processing the resources required, as mentioned in Section A, and the costs of the economy recovering to the level it was at before the fossil fuel ban would have to come out of already nearly depleted treasuries.
-C- As some nations receive little sunlight each year and many new/clean/renewable sources of energy are available, the nations must be to allowed to decide between these choices, some of which are more suited to their climates and geography, in order to decrease their use of fossil fuels, whilst maintaining the economic viability and practicality of the replacements.
-D- This resolution falsely states that the combustion of fossil fuels results in holes in the Ozone layer, and while the UN accepts that they theoretically assist the Greenhouse Effect and are aware of its implications, this error must be removed to prevent the misinforming of member states.
The United Nations,
PLEASED by the environmental concerns of the original proposal and its promotion of renewable energy source, but
REGRETTING the aforementioned shortcomings,
REPEALS Resolution #122 - "Promotion of Solar Panels".
This resolution was co-authored by Love and esterel
Passed: |
For: | 10,922 | 76.2% |
Against: | 3,403 | 23.8% |
Historical Resolution #125
Repeal: “DVD region removal”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
Historical Resolution #5 “DVD region removal” (Category: Free Trade; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The U.N.
Realizing:
-A- The rights and privileges of nations and regions involving all other media types, including: Blu-ray disc, High Density DVD (HD DVD), Universal media disc (UMD), super Audio CD (SACD), DualDiscs, other record types, and nearly all computerized were not mentioned at all in the previous resolution.
-B- Other media supports exist or will arrive soon on the market and should be also free of a regional system. This resolution only covers one type of media which is only effective during the time in which DVDs are used as standardized media.
Regretting:
-C- This resolution is poorly written, and contains numerous grammatical errors which can be embarrassing to the U.N.
-D- This resolution is illogical to only include one type of media and this makes it in a way unenforceable and meaningless.
In light of this resolution ineffectiveness and failure to expand to other media types, be it resolved that:
Resolution #5, DVD region removal is repealed
Co-Authored by: Love and esterel
Passed: |
For: | 11,801 | 83.6% |
Against: | 2,320 | 16.4% |