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 # 525
Repeal: “Landfill Regulation Act”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #520 “Landfill Regulation Act” (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses - Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Observing the excessive micromanagement in General Assembly Resolution #520, Landfill Regulation Act, which includes mandating that member nations create agencies to ensure compliance, unnecessary handholding and bureaucracy that is better left to be decided by member nations themselves;
Further observing that this overreach ignores member nations who use private companies to survey environments, which results in member nations being forced to create agencies they will not use, meaning that the bureaucracy is even more pointless;
Concerned that the poor definition of SWL includes locations such as scrap metal yards, which pose little to no significant harm to public health or the surrounding environment, resulting in harsh mandates being placed on these landfills that could cost exorbitant amounts of money;
Dismayed that systems for the collection and removal of leachate are mandated regardless of the potential danger the leachate causes to public health or to the environment, yet another excessively broad mandate;
Further concerned that implementing such unnecessary regulations negatively affect the operations of solid waste landfills with very little potential positive benefit;
Realising that placing these mandates on SWLs without any form of subsidy or funding could lead to costs being passed on to the consumers, therefore giving them incentives to dispose of solid waste at unregulated areas instead and defeat the resolutions purpose of protecting the environment from solid waste;
Convinced that a poorly executed and overreaching resolution ought to be repealed, hereby:
Repeals General Assembly Resolution 520, Landfill Regulation Act.
Passed: |
For: | 9,244 | 62.1% |
Against: | 5,630 | 37.9% |
General Assembly Resolution # 526
Land Reclamation Regulation
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
The World Assembly,
Worried that unregulated land reclamation can lead to ecological damages with long term economic damage, as well as dangers to the health of both people and the environment;
Acknowledging the use of land reclamation by member nations to increase their land area for necessary purposes such as halting urban spread into pristine terrestrial ecosystems, or extending port facilities of growing coastal cities;
Very concerned about the loss of biodiversity hotspots and areas vital for the reproduction of commercially important marine species, as an unintended consequence of land reclamation;
Especially aware of the vulnerability of shallow marine ecosystems and the coastal areas, yet understanding the occasional necessity for their development;
Searching for a way to balance ecological concerns with the necessities of urban development;
Hereby:
Defines:
land reclamation as the oceanic construction of new dry land in a nations territory;
impact study as an independent survey conducted to determine the potential ecological impacts of land reclamation;
Mandates thats a good faith effort to obtain and apply materials that cause as little environmental damage as possible for the physical stage of land reclamation must be made, unless obtaining those materials is incredibly infeasible or costly, in which case the best possible alternative must be used;
Subject to clause 5 of this resolution, orders member nations to prevent a land reclamation project from proceeding if it is likely to cause environmental damage that will severely imperil the health of marine life or those that live nearby;
Clarifies that if the potential damage caused can and will be mitigated to a reasonable level, the land reclamation project may proceed;
Requires member nations to conduct impact studies to determine if proceeding with land reclamation will not violate this resolution;
Requires that results of impact studies must be submitted to the Environmental Survey of the World Assembly (ESWA), and tasks the ESWA with:
issuing special permits to land reclamation projects that would otherwise violate this resolution only if:
not proceeding with land reclamation will severely imperil the health of a nations population; or
not proceeding with land reclamation will cause greater environmental damage than doing so;
issuing normal permits to land reclamation projects that will not violate this resolution;
prohibiting land reclamation from taking place if it violates the restrictions laid out by this resolution;
Mandates that land reclamation projects that are issued permits as a result of clause 5a must cause as little environmental damage as feasible, and prohibits land reclamation projects from proceeding if they are denied a permit by the ESWA.
Passed: |
For: | 10,940 | 76.7% |
Against: | 3,324 | 23.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 527
Protected Working Leave
A resolution to enact uniform standards that protect workers, consumers, and the general public.
The World Assembly,
Understanding the importance of an economically and socially secure working class to long-term economic growth,
Believing that said security does not need to be mutually exclusive with the decision to raise a family or the need to maintain good health, and
Wishing to ensure that working people in all member nations have access to paid leave and job security in order to care for themselves and their loved ones, without unduly disrupting the operations of their employers, hereby:
Defines for the purposes of this resolution:
a "worker" as any individual bound by a contract to perform work or services for an employer, whose employment contract mandates the work or services be performed specifically by that worker, involves an obligation for the worker to perform work and the employer to provide it, and implies the employer having some degree of control over the manner in which the work is performed; and
"paid leave" as time during which a worker is not required to perform the work or services specified in their employment contract and receives:
compensation sufficient to financially support themselves and their dependents, to be provided by the government of a member nation;
all employment-related benefits which would otherwise be provided to that worker, to be provided by their employer; and
the guaranteed ability to return to the same or a comparable job after the conclusion of paid leave, should their employer reasonably be able to provide such;
Declares that member nations must provide workers who request such with a reasonable duration of paid leave to the extent necessary to adequately service any of the following conditions:
to care for a new child due to childbirth, adoption, or placement of said child in foster care should the child require such care;
to care for a seriously ill or physically or mentally disabled spouse, child below the age of majority, parent, grandparent, or dependent should they require such care; or
to recover from their own serious illness;
Forbids employers from discriminating or retaliating against workers for requesting or taking paid leave pursuant to section 2 of this resolution; such retaliation including:
not returning said workers to the same or a comparable job;
terminating employment;
reducing compensation or benefits; or
disciplining said workers;
Requires that workers:
give their employer reasonable notice in the event of a foreseeable birth or adoption; and
alert their employer of serious health conditions that are the reason for their requesting paid leave if practicable;
Clarifies that:
employers may not impose unnecessarily onerous conditions on the granting of paid leave;
any additional conditions by an employer on the granting of paid leave are to be implemented and enforced at the employer's expense;
member nations may place the burden of providing financial compensation to workers over the duration of paid leave on said workers' employer should the employer be capable of providing such without significant financial strain; and
employers, member nations, and World Assembly resolutions may implement policies granting workers more expansive paid leave than provided for by this resolution.
Passed: | |
For: | 12,324 | 80.7% |
Against: | 2,954 | 19.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 528
Repeal: “Protecting Sites of Religious Significance”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #522 “Protecting Sites of Religious Significance” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Affirming the importance of identifying and protecting sites of cultural significance;
Acknowledging that religious sites frequently fall into this category and are deserving of protection;
Gratified by the long-standing success of General Assembly Resolution #287 "Cultural Site Preservation", which codifies identification and protection for sites with all manner of cultural significance;
Abhorring the needless and overreaching bureaucracy present in General Assembly Resolution #522 "Protecting Sites of Religious Significance", which both duplicates effort and exceeds reasonable boundaries;
Notes that the target resolution creates extensive and overlapping efforts in this regard through the creation of a second committee tasked with an overlapping mandate, and the separate designations of significance for religious sites now being required under multiple competing resolutions;
Annoyed that the creation of this unnecessary second committee will massively waste World Assembly funds that would be of better use elsewhere;
Further notes that the target resolution uses incredibly broad and problematic definitions, such as:
defining any place of religious community as a site of religious significance to be protected in perpetuity, which will include culturally insignificant houses with shrines where community worship may take place, preventing owners of the house from altering the religious nature of the house in the future even if their own religious views have changed;
defining any grave of people associated with [ ] a religion as a site of religious significance to be protected in perpetuity, which would render the grave of any deceased practitioner of an active religion forever untouchable, even for law enforcement purposes such as recovering evidence in a murder;
Dismayed that member nations are required to protect "foundational place, or places, of a religion" in perpetuity, which could lead to people declaring the establishment of a religion to immediately gain international protections for their person and property against even the most reasonable of societal demands;
Troubled that sites of religious significance established through invasion may be completely desecrated by member nations regardless of their current importance to the adherents of the religion at present;
Further troubled that the resolution does not fully prevent member nations from applying blanket access restrictions to sites of religious significance, defeating the purpose of protecting these sites in the first place;
Confused by unclear wording in the resolution, such as [a]busing [sic] one's private property rights in the pursuit of gaining the legal right to protect or maintain a site of religious significance, which could lead to vastly different interpretations by member nations and not result in the intended effect that the clause wanted;
Concluding that the member nations of the World Assembly should repeal a flawed resolution; hereby:
Repeals General Assembly Resolution #522, Protecting Sites of Religious Significance.
Co-authored by Verdant Haven.
Passed: |
For: | 10,299 | 68.6% |
Against: | 4,715 | 31.4% |
General Assembly Resolution # 529
Repeal: “Rights of the employed”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #491 “Rights of the employed” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Commending the efforts of GA 491 "Rights of the employed" in enumerating several rights of workers,
Concerned, however, that sloppy writing and easily foreseeable consequences have transformed this well-intentioned resolution into a heavily flawed piece of legislation that imposes substantial unintended costs and directly undermines its own agenda,
Troubled that the resolution requires that workers prove to their employers the necessity of their breastfeeding in the workplace, a condition which is both obviously problematic and flies in the face of the legislation's stated purpose,
Disturbed that the resolution mandates a private area in the workplace "reserved for the sole purpose of breastfeeding" for workplaces subject to the mandates of clause E(3), a costly and unrealistic burden on small businesses and workplaces that cannot practically accommodate such a requirement,
Elaborating that the above mandate also establishes a substantial incentive for firms to avoid hiring female labor in direct contravention of the intentions of this resolution and WA labor law, especially given the absence of any non-discrimination hiring protections applying to breastfeeding in this resolution,
Confounded that the resolution requires at least eight weeks of leave for adoption, despite older children generally needing no special caregiver attention,
Adding that this mandate incentivizes business-minded governments to unduly burden adoption of older children to the detriment of adoptees, adopting families, and foster care systems,
Recognizing that extant WA law covers the two main policy objectives of this resolution, parental leave and retaliation, to a far greater degree, with:
GA 503 "Protecting Legal Rights of Workers" ensuring that workers are not retaliated against for seeking legal enforcement of their rights; and
GA 527 "Protected Working Leave" providing for far broader parental and other leave;
Reminding that several extant resolutions, including GA 35 "The Charter of Civil Rights", GA 91 "A Convention on Gender", and GA 457 "Defending the Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities" more than adequately cover discrimination based on gender identity, gender expression, or sexual identity, and
Convinced that a heavily flawed, overreaching, and largely redundant piece of legislation has every reason to be repealed,
Hereby repeals GA 491 "Rights of the employed".
Passed: |
For: | 11,901 | 80.1% |
Against: | 2,963 | 19.9% |