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HISTORICAL RESOLUTION #171 UN Educational Aid Act A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.
Category: Education and Creativity	Area of Effect: Educational	Proposed by: Gruenberg
Description: The United Nations, Firmly convinced that a high quality of education is worth securing for all people, Acknowledging that some nations, especially those with developing economies or poor infrastructure, or these experiencing problems of internal stability, may experience understandable difficulties in providing such services, Determined to help all people achieve access to education, and to work with, rather than against, nations and institutions encountering particular problems in this regard: 1. Proclaims it the duty of nations to ensure opportunities for education and training are reasonably accessible for all their nationals, and especially for children and young adults; 2. Declares its support for all projects aimed at increasing the availability of good, free or affordable educational services; 3. Condemns all forms of unfair and unreasonable discrimination with national educational systems, and motions for effective remedies to such; 4. Promotes schemes such as distance learning courses, part time adult education universities, and opportunities for deferred study, to ensure that those with jobs, young children or other responsibilities are able to benefit from the opportunities of education; 5. Establishes the "UN Educational Advancement Fund" (UNEAF) to: - solicit voluntary donations from national governments, charitable and other organizations, and individuals; - organize international conferences on educational methods, relevant technologies, academic subjects, and any other relevant topics; - act as a point of liaison for any international academic or educational projects seeking assistance in the acquisition of funding, resources or membership; - provide funding for research projects, infrastructure development programs, academic journal distribution and any other approved academic or educational programs, where approved by both an independent advisory council to the UNEAF, and the national government(s) of any nation(s) receiving such aid; 6. Entrusts nations with the right and responsibility to decide on the structure of their public education systems and the role of private institutions, mandatory, encouraged and prohibited subjects, skills and course elements in educational institutions, and the financing of educational programs, subject to previous UN legislation still in effect; 7. Encourages nations to ensure a sustainable supply of good teachers, educators, instructors and other educational professionals, through: - providing small bursaries and grants to those seeking to train as educational professionals; - ensuring reasonable pay and benefits for those working in the public education sector; - engaging in the creation of opportunities for those in other industries to retrain and enter the educational profession; - rigorously checking such applicants for history of violent or sexual abuse, especially involving children, and prevent any applicants who are considered a significant risk to children from obtaining teaching posts; 8. Also recognises that education is not solely an institutional prerogative, and as such requests that nations respect the importance of family and community education programs and teaching systems, formal or otherwise. Votes For: 11,250 Votes Against: 2,307 Implemented: Sun Aug 20 2006

HISTORICAL RESOLUTION #172 Help Prevent Ozone Depletion A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
Category: Environmental	Industry Affected: All Businesses	Proposed by: The black market hq
Description: For too long humans have been emitting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which effect the ozone that protects us. Most of CFCs come from the industry. If CFCs continue to be emitted we will not have enough ozone to protect us. Ozone protects us, it prevents the majority of UV(Ultra-Violet) rays from reaching our surface. Too many UV rays and you get skin cancer. The Ozone is depleted so much over the south pole and the north pole that almost 100% of UV rays reach the surface. If we don't stop emitting CFCs the 'hole'(area of significantly depleted ozone) will continue to grow until it covers the entire earth. Therefore all businesses must reduce emitions of CFCs by 50% within five years and 90% within thirty years. It is still possible for businesses to work effectively even though they have to reduce the amount of gas they release. If there is a reduction in CFCs, the ozone will stop depleting, there will be a significant reduction in skin cancer and therefore a reduction in medical costs. It will also help endangered animals as animals suffer from the same problem. Basically by reducing CFC emitions we make the world a better place. Votes For: 9,028 Votes Against: 6,191 Implemented: Fri Aug 25 2006

HISTORICAL RESOLUTION #173 Repeal "Definition of Marriage" A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation
Category: Repeal	Resolution: #81	Proposed by: Sir ernest shackleton
Description: UN Resolution #81: Definition of Marriage (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void. Argument: This resolution goes too far. It mandates what a constitutes a "marriage" with no respect for a nation's religious beliefs, or societal structure. The last line is also disturbing: "FURTHER RECOGNIZES all nation's right to expand this definition beyond species borders as the individual governments see fit." This is an endorsement of beastiality, and it should have no business being in the UN. Therefore, we shall hereby strike "Definition of Marriage," knowing that the individual nations know best what is a marriage and what isn't. Votes For: 8,776 Votes Against: 5,767 Implemented: Wed Aug 30 2006

HISTORICAL RESOLUTION #174 Orbital Space Safety Act A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
Category: Environmental	Industry Affected: All Businesses	Proposed by: Witchcliff
Description: Noting the enlarging amount of obsolete satellites, space vehicles, spent rocket casing and other debris currently in orbit around inhabited planets for reasons including, but not limited to, various nations space races, orbiting weapons platforms, exploration of space, deliberate dumping of junk into orbit and visiting space faring nations jettisoning their refuse. Further noting this debris presents a danger to all nations, whether they use orbital space or not, and worried about the possible loss of life and/or property that could occur when some of this junk survives re-entry, and crashes onto the planet, or collides with working equipment in orbit, manned or unmanned. Convinced measures to clean up this orbital space debris are necessary to protect life and property of all nations. This will work to promote international co-operation between nations of all technological levels, reduce the economic impact caused by nations losing working equipment to collisions with space junk, and ensure orbital space can be utilized by all in as safe and equal a manner as possible. Mandates: 1 – All UN nations are responsible for any form of equipment put into orbital space by that nation. This includes anything launched by government and/or private agencies. Nations that use another nation’s facilities for launch purposes are still ultimately responsible for their own equipment. 2 - All UN nations with equipment in orbital space must be able to identify any equipment launched from or by their nation, whether by government or private agencies, and must immediately accept responsibility for any piece of their equipment that poses a danger, at the time it is identified as a danger. 3 – All nations with equipment in orbital space must take immediate proactive measures to repair, retrieve or destroy safely any piece of their equipment that is identified as space junk and identified as posing a danger to their own and/or other nation’s people or property. Nations may delegate direct and/or financial responsibility for dealing with said equipment down to private agencies within that nation at their own discretion. 4 – Nations that have equipment in orbital space are responsible for any and all costs incurred in dealing with their own space debris. If you can afford to build it and put it up there, you can afford the clean up. Strongly encourages all nations with equipment in orbital space to co-operate with each other and share information and technology both to reduce the amount of space debris currently in orbit, and to improve methods of repair, retrieval or safe destruction of malfunctioning equipment in the future. Urges all UN nations to work together to clean up unidentifiable and/or small space debris currently in orbital space, as much as they are technologically and/or financially able to assist, to ensure a cleaner, safer, environment for those nations with equipment and/or personnel in that environment, to reduce the possibility of objects damaging working equipment, and to reduce the danger of large pieces of debris falling back to the planet. Encourages space faring nations to offer their services to assist with the disposal of orbital space debris. Payments and terms of contracts for these jobs will be at the discretion of the nation concerned to negotiate with the customer(s). Votes For: 10,523 Votes Against: 3,108 Implemented: Mon Sep 4 2006

HISTORICAL RESOLUTION #175 Individual Working Freedoms A resolution to develop industry around the world.
Category: Advancement of Industry	Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation	Proposed by: Gruenberg
Description: The United Nations, Strongly reaffirming its commitment to individual liberty, Believing that individuals should be as free as possible from undue government interference in making decisions governing their personal lives, Convinced that the issues of when, how often, and for how long an individual works should remain an issue for private negotiation between employer and employee, Recalling the repeal of Resolution #59, "The 40 Hour Workweek", and the reasons therein given for the weaknesses of the prior document, Dissenting from the view that one standard working week can be determined as a universal diktat, given the diversity of national economies, the particulars of industries working on cyclical, seasonal or other irregular working patterns, and the varying conditions, demographic, environmental, developmental, and otherwise, of member nations, Considering any attempt to impose a "one size fits all" manacle of working time constriction as a grossly unfair abrogation of individual freedoms, Desirous of reaching a fair compromise on the issue: 1. Requires member nations to grant their people the greatest possible degree of freedom in determining their terms of employment, with specific regard to working time; 2. Calls upon member nations to respect the rights of individuals to be free to make choices about their terms of employment, and equally of individuals to seek representation or counsel during such negotiations; 3. Mandates the removal of working time regulations that serve only to reduce individual liberty, and that unfairly remove decision-making power from the individual level; 4. Reserves the right of nations to choose whether to set specific regulations on workweeks and working time in the general public interest, so long as such regulations do not unduly abridge the freedom of individuals in deciding their terms of employment; 5. Endorses policies aimed at delegating decisions concerning working time regulations to the most local level possible; 6. Promotes a healthy harmony of national and individual rights in economic decision-making. Votes For: 7,812 Votes Against: 6,595 Implemented: Sat Sep 9 2006

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