World Assembly Resolutions
Since the rise of the World Assembly from the ashes of its predecessor, the Bureaucracy That Cannot Be Named, WA member nations have worked tirelessly to improve the standard of the world. That, or tried to force other nations to be more like them. But that's just semantics.
Below is every World Assembly resolution ever passed.
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General Assembly Resolution # 356
Landmine Safety Protocol
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.
The General Assembly,
Pursuing endlessly the goals of Peace and Goodwill throughout the world,
Recognizing that landmines, in particular, are indiscriminate and persistent tools of war that inherently threaten the long-term safety of civilians in and near conflicted areas,
Finding the use of those inherently indiscriminate weapons as utterly abhorrent,
Concerned that conventional measures of mitigating risk, such as marking or mapping these weapons, is ultimately useless, due to mine migration, changes in topography, and difficult detection,
Hereby declares:
Landmines, or mines for brevity, shall be defined as weapons adopted and issued by recognizable military services, designed to be deployed on or below the ground, detonate via some manner of proximity, and utilized as a means of ambush, area denial, or tactical boundary in conflict.
Member states shall consider extant laws relevant to the customs of war to apply to their use of landmines, and observe them appropriately.
Landmines must have at least one of the following features:
A pre-set timed deactivation function that will reliably cause the mine to automatically become inert and inactive after such time as the tactical value of the mine is no longer immediate;
A remote deactivation function that will reliably cause the mine to immediately become inert and inactive;
A trigger function that reliably lends itself to selectively target hostiles instead of civilians, vehicles instead of personnel, or characteristics inherent to military hardware instead of civilian hardware.
A remote or pre-set timed detonation function in lieu of a victim-activated trigger.
Member states shall not utilize, purchase, manufacture, stockpile, or transfer in any way mines that do not retain at least one of the listed features.
Member states shall take every practical precaution to avoid collateral damage to civilians or civilian infrastructure in their placement of mines.
Member states shall remove or render inert those mines they have deployed outside their territory at the conclusion of hostilities.
Passed: |
For: | 12,764 | 87.1% |
Against: | 1,888 | 12.9% |
Security Council Resolution # 191
Repeal: “Condemn DEN”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
Security Council Resolution #187 “Condemn DEN” shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The Security Council,
Noting the acts of aggression committed by the DEN war machine against innocent regions and recognizing it as a threat,
Recalling that raider groups have been using the name DEN since ancient times, and that many incarnations of the region have existed,
Recognizing that the current incarnation of DEN was spawned in the wake of the destruction of The Black Riders, but remained a separate entity from The Black Riders, having different leadership, attracting many new raiders who had never been members of the previously mentioned group, and employing different, less mechanical strategies,
Disappointed that SC #187 falls for the common misconception that the two raider groups are one and the same, when they are in fact quite different from one another,
Shocked that SC # 187 insinuates that DEN destroys unique cultures and communities throughout NationStates, yet fails to provide even a single example of a refound to support this claim,
Reminded that DEN has not refounded a native region by force since its revival, excluding the raider region Power Is Rising, which negates the second clause completely as none of the listed raids caused regional destruction on any scale,
Skeptical regarding the statement that DEN conducted The invasion of the region of Christmas considering the fact that there is no evidence that DEN has ever led an occupation of said region. The only recorded DEN involvement in any occupation of Christmas was the reinforcement of a 2012 raid conducted by Asgard. SC #187 makes it out as if DEN invaded the region, when in reality, DEN was one of four raider groups who merely reinforced a fifth groups invasion,
Confused as to why DENs raid of Paradoxia goes completely unmentioned throughout SC# 187, despite being one of the modern DENs earliest and most controversial raids,
Appalled by the simply atrocious number of spelling, grammar, and syntax errors throughout the proposal, including:
The use of appaled instead of appalled in the third clause,
The inconsistent use of punctuation marks throughout the proposal,
The statement that the invasion of Catholic occurred in the 2012,
The multiple uses of the phrase on Nationstates in clauses two and five, which Sedgistan, a member of the Secretariat, has described as being grammatically incorrect,
And the horrific half thought, even though the atrocities they have done to many regions on Nationstates in the sixth clause,
Asserting that the language used throughout SC #187 is not fit to be used in a book report, let alone in an international law,
Exasperated by the concept that there were raiding strategies and tactics that condemned the Black Riders, when it is a well known fact that it was the Security Council that condemned The Black Riders,
Realizing that the condemnation has been publicly dismissed by many Security Council veterans as being poorly written and hastily submitted,
Remembering that the condemnation of DEN is not a time sensitive issue, and should be done with at least enough care as to not make basic spelling and grammar mistakes, as well as to avoid major factual errors,
Concluding that Security Council Resolution #187 Condemn DEN is not fit for use by this esteemed body,
Hereby Repeals SC #187: Condemn DEN.
Co-Authored by Tim-Opolis
Passed: |
For: | 9,591 | 69.8% |
Against: | 4,143 | 30.2% |
General Assembly Resolution # 357
Promotion of Clean Energy
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
The World Assembly,
Conscious of the environmental damage that can and does occur when fossil fuels are burned to create energy and the adverse health effects that can develop due to this release of harmful emissions;
Deeply aware of the impermanent nature of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas;
Cognizant of the existence of alternate forms of energy, such as solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, nuclear, and hydro, virtually all of which are clean, renewable, and cost-effective in the long-run;
Praising the fact that some forms of clean energy such as solar photovoltaics can be implemented cheaply on a small-scale in rural areas, and are thus incredibly successful in bringing power to areas that may have lacked it otherwise;
Recognizing that many of our member nations have already researched and implemented efficient and effective ways of harnessing clean energy;
Urges member nations to seek to simultaneously dis-incentivize the usage of fossil fuels and incentivize the usage of clean energies, through methods available to them such as taxation, business and consumer subsidies, active governmental research and involvement, and dissemination of information concerning the advantages of clean energy;
Requires that member nations which have efficient forms of clean energy available to them make a good faith effort to utilize these forms of energy in the most effective means possible;
Implores member nations which have access to superior forms of clean energy to share those technologies with nations that inhabit the same environment, as pollution from fossil fuel usage is non-discriminatory concerning national boundaries;
Encourages member nations to create legislation and policy that works in other ways to decrease the nation's overall carbon footprint, and to continue to seek out new advantageous technologies to increase the sustainability and longevity of their environments.
Passed: | |
For: | 11,743 | 75.1% |
Against: | 3,897 | 24.9% |
General Assembly Resolution # 358
Explosive Remnants of War
A resolution to modify universal standards of healthcare.
Noting that unexploded ordinance left over from war can pose a serious threat to civilian populations, and can detonate decades after they are deployed;
Concerned that, in resuming their daily lives, transient populations returning after a conflict can become casualties by accidentally disturbing these remnants of war;
Determined to reduce the risk to civilians by explosive remnants of war to a point where they can safely resume their lives;
The General Assembly establishes the following:
The humanitarian clearing, disposal, and quarantining of unexploded ordinance that poses a persistent danger to public health and safety shall be referred to collectively as demining.
The International Humanitarian Aid Coordination Committee shall establish the Explosive Remnants of War Action Subcommittee (ERWAS), which shall be tasked with the following duties:
Inspecting humanitarian demining operations to ensure such operations maintain a sufficient degree of safety, quality, and effectiveness in methods, as well as to guarantee public awareness, and safety during operations;
Rigorously testing detection and demining methods and statistically evaluating those methods, as well as make public those findings;
Liaising with and coordinating efforts between national and non-governmental humanitarian organizations to cooperate with local populations to identify and report areas requiring demining, establish unexploded ordinance awareness education outreach, facilitate demining operations, assembly and share technical intelligence, promote joint training, and ensure equipment availability.
Member states are required to report sites with significant risks to civilian populations as a result of explosive remnants of war, and must cooperate with ERWAS during humanitarian demining operations.
Member states are required to take steps towards demarcating and demining or quarantining aforementioned sites, and publicize the process in the interests of public health and safety.
Member states are required to ensure their humanitarian demining operations utilize methods that, collectively, ensure a clearance rate of 99.7% for a particular site, and ensure compliance with ERWAS inspection findings.
Passed: |
For: | 11,028 | 74.2% |
Against: | 3,826 | 25.8% |
General Assembly Resolution # 359
Sexual Health and Education Act
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.
The purpose of this act is to ensure that all public school students of specified ages are given access to factual, educational, non-threatening material in regards to sexual education.
ACKNOWLEDGING- That due to certain cultural/religious/personal beliefs, many people encourage "abstinence-only" lessons for minors. However, "Comprehensive" Sex Education has proven to be more effective in terms of reducing the number of teenage pregnancies worldwide, and the spread of sexually-transmitted infections, as well as making minors feel more comfortable and informed about their bodies.
ESTABLISHING- That all public schools include comprehensive Sex Education as part of their course curriculum, for those aged 10 to 18 years old.
CLARIFYING- The aspects of the act
1) The curriculum must give students accurate information on STIs, teen pregnancy, reproductive rights, pubescence, sexuality, gender identity, human anatomy, and methods of birth control. For those between the ages of 10 and 13 years old, only information on pubescence, sexuality, gender identity, and human anatomy are required. For students aged 13 and up, the curriculum must include lessons on STIs, teenage pregnancy, reproductive rights, and birth control as well. Age-appropriateness should be taken into consideration when planning how to approach each topic.
2) Parents may exempt their children from the entire course through contacting the school. Children may be excused from a particular lesson if they find the material to be upsetting, offensive, or distressing. Every effort should be made to accommodate modest children who are embarrassed by course materials, such as not requiring such students to answer a given question out loud. Students excused from the required course will be required to take a standard health course instead. Students asking to be excused from a particular lesson may sit in the hallway outside of the classroom or go to a designated study hall at the discretion of the teacher.
3) This course will not advocate underage sexual activity. Instead, this course will make the children aware of the emotional and physical risks of underage sexuality, and will instruct them how to look out for their best interests. Class materials should be factual, non-threatening, and thorough. However, pornographic content is strictly prohibited; this includes pornographic videos, images, writings, and other visuals.
4) It is not mandatory for private education to systems to offer Sex Education lessons, but encouraged nonetheless.
HEREBY- Establishes mandatory Comprehensive Sexual Education curriculum in public schools worldwide.
Passed: | |
For: | 13,691 | 70.9% |
Against: | 5,624 | 29.1% |