General 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 # 229
Access to Courts
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
The World Assembly:
CONVINCED that providing a system for resolving civil disputes is one of the primary purposes of government;
APPLAUDING the varied and admirable systems of civil justice that exist in every member nation;
AWARE that all civil justice systems have an attendant cost that is paid for by taxes, filing charges, and other court fees;
CONCERNED that court costs can be very expensive and that some individuals, because of their limited resources or means, may be unable to afford filing or court fees;
RESOLVED that an individual's socioeconomic background should not determine their access to justice, and that an individual should not be deprived of access to civil courts simply because they are unable to afford court costs;
Hereby,
1. DEFINES "court costs" for the purposes of this act, as "the costs and fees charged by a court (or other civil justice system) directly to a litigant for services rendered by the court." Examples of court costs include, but are not limited to: filing fees, service fees, court reporter charges, court transcripts, copying costs, and other similar expenses charged by the court.
2. ENCOURAGES member nations to fund their civil justice systems in a manner that completely avoids passing court costs directly onto litigants;
3. ENCOURAGES member nations to permit a successful litigant to recover the court costs they incur from the losing party;
4. MANDATES that if a member nation requires the payment of court costs, prior to the assessing those costs a litigant is entitled to request a cost wavier and/or deferment. Any individual whose request demonstrates that paying court costs would present a severe financial hardship, given their particular economic situation, shall be permitted to proceed with their case regardless of whether they have paid court costs.
Passed: |
For: | 9,959 | 78.7% |
Against: | 2,696 | 21.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 230
The Early Learning Act
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.
ALARMED at the lack of early learning facilities in many member nations,
FULLY AWARE that children who attend early learning facilities are more likely to perform well at basic education facilities and to become productive, law-abiding citizens,
NOTING that in many nations there is unfulfilled demand among parents and guardians of young children for early learning facilities,
DEFINING early learning facilities as facilities following all of these requirements:
- (a) Facilities serving children too young for primary education, as determined by national custom,
(b) Facilities in settings outside the home or family,
(c) Facilities that educate through a mixture of learning through play and age-appropriate educational lessons,
(d) Facilities focused on helping children develop in five key areas:
- (i) Social: forming attachments, creating relationships with, and cooperating with others,
(ii) Physical: development of motor skills,
(iii) Intellectual: learning to make sense of the physical world,
(iv) Creative: development of talents in areas including music, art, reading, and mathematics,
(v) Emotional: development of self-awareness, self-confidence, and the ability to cope with feelings,
SEEKING to provide every child access to an early learning facility, the General Assembly:
(1) REQUIRES member nations to fulfill demand among parents and guardians for early learning facilities, by whatever means the individual member nation sees fit,
(2) FURTHER REQUIRES that member nations regulate current and future early learning facilities so that they meet the definition laid out above,
(3) CLARIFIES that this resolution does not require parents and guardians to send their children to early learning facilities,
(4) INSTRUCTS the Global Initiative for Basic Education (a division of the WA General Accounting Office) to curate a registrar of member nations currently unable to economically support the requirements for early learning facilities laid out in this document;
(5) COMMANDS the WA General Accounting Office to allocate and provide funds to the nations on this registrar to comply with this legislation, so long as the recipient nation used the funds solely to establish and support early learning facilities.
Passed: | |
For: | 10,824 | 79.7% |
Against: | 2,758 | 20.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 231
Marital Rape Justice Act
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.
The General Assembly,
Recognizing that domestic violence continues to be a problem in many of its member states,
Expressing its strong opposition to all acts of sexual violence,
Realizing that many societies countenance domestic violence, namely marital rape, because of primitive beliefs that treat people as if they were the property of their spouses or because of archaic views that wrongly consider consent to marriage or consent to a relationship to be consent to sexual intercourse whenever it is desired by the partner,
Further realizing that many member states lack laws against marital rape, do not enforce laws against marital rape, or have laws against marital rape that are less severe than laws against other kinds of rape,
Seeking to ensure that its member states treat accusations and acts of marital rape just as severely as they treat other accusations and acts of rape occurring outside of committed relationships,
1. Defines marital rape, as used in this resolution, as an act of sexual assault or sexual abuse that is committed against an individual by a spouse, civil partner, domestic partner, registered partner, cohabitant, or someone who formerly had such a relationship with the individual;
2. Mandates that accusations of marital rape be treated by law enforcement the same as or more carefully than similar accusations of nonmarital rape, especially because survivors of marital rape usually live with their attackers;
3. Requires that member states and political subdivisions thereof, in their laws on sexual assault and sexual abuse, eliminate all legal distinctions between marital rapes and nonmarital rapes occurring under otherwise identical circumstances;
4. Prohibits discrimination between marital and nonmarital rapes in the application of sexual assault and sexual abuse laws, namely with regard to the punishment of individuals who commit the crime of rape;
5. Decrees that consent to marriage, civil union, civil partnership, domestic partnership, registered partnership, or cohabitation shall never be considered consent to sexual activity under any circumstances; and
6. Encourages member states to take sufficient steps, such as the establishment of public awareness or special counseling programs, to reduce the number of instances of marital rape in the country.
Passed: | |
For: | 9,741 | 81.3% |
Against: | 2,246 | 18.7% |
General Assembly Resolution # 232
Foreign Copyright Recognition
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
Recognizing that many World Assembly member nations use copyrights to promote creativity and to reward the authors of intangible works for their efforts,
Further recognizing that the efficacy of these copyrights is impeded by the failure of other member nations to recognize them,
Believing that foreign copyright recognition will make it easier for authors to market their works internationally,
The General Assembly,
Defines "copyright", for the purposes of this resolution, as the set of exclusive rights granted to the author of an original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, including the right:
to reproduce, publish, publicly display, publicly perform, and create derivative works of the work;
to sell or license any of these rights to others;
to seek damages and injunction against any entity that infringes upon these rights; and
to extinguish any of these rights;
Further defines "foreign copyright", for the purposes of this resolution, as any copyright that is recognized by the member nation where the copyrighted work originated;
Mandates that all member nations recognize foreign copyrights for, at minimum, twenty years after the date of creation or publication of the work, or the period used by the member nation of origin of the copyrighted work;
Authorizes member nations to create reasonable limitations and exceptions to foreign copyrights, but only when such limitations and exceptions are clearly in the public interest and do not adversely impact the ability of a rightsholder to reasonably profit from any normal use of their work;
Encourages member nations to permit appropriate uses of copyrighted works without the permission of the rightsholder for the following purposes:
news reporting;
education, scholarship and research;
commentary, criticism, parody and satire; and
purely private copying of legally acquired copies of a work;
Clarifies that member nations are not required by this resolution to recognize the copyright of a work of domestic origin, nor the copyright of a work in violation of general restrictions on freedom of expression;
Further clarifies that nothing in this resolution should be interpreted as limiting the World Assembly from further legislating on copyright.
Passed: | |
For: | 8,810 | 77.3% |
Against: | 2,581 | 22.7% |
General Assembly Resolution # 233
Ban Profits on Workers' Deaths
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
The World Assembly:
AWARE that in countries that allow international corporations, most of the time these corporations act as a force for good, providing employment and economic strength to the communities in which they operate;
FURTHER AWARE that, in order to maximize profits, international corporations may lawfully distribute their corporate subdivisions among many different countries to benefit from a multitude of variations on national subsidies, lower taxes, reduced bureaucratic overload, and so on;
APPALLED that some corporations and other employers can and sometimes do secretly buy life-insurance policies in their employees names, designating the corporations themselves as beneficiaries, thus demonstrating to be more interested in their employees deaths as a source of revenue than in their actual well-being;
DEPLORING such a practice;
DETERMINED to end it once and for all;
IT IS ESTABLISHED:
1) Defines, for the purpose of this resolution, Dead peasant policy as when an employer secretly buys a life-insurance policy in an employees name, designating the employer itself as a beneficiary, collecting or expecting to collect benefits after the death of said employee.
2) The employees free, fully informed, uncoerced consent shall be required for the validity of any life-insurance wherein her/his employer is a beneficiary. Other beneficiaries of the employees own free choosing shall receive at least half the benefits of any life-insurance policy, present or former, in which the employer is or was a beneficiary.
3) To fire, burden, harass, penalize or pressure any employee for not listing her/his employer as a beneficiary of a life-insurance policy is forbidden.
4) Any employees, present or former, targeted by dead peasant policies have the right to have any and all personal documentation pertaining to participation in said policies fully disclosed and may seek and obtain the immediate annulment of such policies without let or hindrance; if an employee is deceased, that employees heirs, if any, shall have the aforementioned right in lieu of said employee.
Co-authored by Christian Democrats
Passed: |
For: | 9,205 | 80.3% |
Against: | 2,260 | 19.7% |