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 # 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% |
General Assembly Resolution # 530
Fairness in Collective Bargaining
A resolution to enact uniform standards that protect workers, consumers, and the general public.
The World Assembly,
Believing that labor unions are essential in allowing workers to negotiate benefits, freedom from exploitation, and fair compensation on equal footing with their employers,
Commending the efforts of prior WA legislation to strike a reasonable balance between the necessity of effective collective bargaining and the public good, and
Convinced that a more expansive resolution on the subject is necessary, in order to solidify the negotiating ability of workers and provide needed protections for employers where unions are concerned, hereby:
Defines "interference" as any acts intended to place or keep a labor union under the control of an employer whose workers are represented by that union as a bargaining unit;
Prohibits the interference of employers and labor unions in the establishment, functioning, or administration of labor unions;
Prohibits employers from:
unduly impinging on the ability of multiple workers to act in concert to protect their rights; or
discriminating against workers for engaging in concerted activities to protect their rights;
Prohibits labor unions from:
coercing workers in the exercise of their rights or an employer in its choice of bargaining representative;
deliberately influencing an employer to discriminate against certain workers;
requiring excessive dues; or
deliberately influencing an employer to pay for unneeded workers, excepting paid leave and severance-related benefits;
Requires employers and the labor unions that lawfully represent said employers' workers to make a good-faith effort to negotiate with one another;
Mandates that member nations:
establish, if such does not already exist, and maintain an effective system to enforce labor law in relation to collective bargaining and labor practices; and
allow labor unions to deliberately influence an employer to cease doing business with another employer;
Urges member nations to:
promote union membership through union security agreements; and
implement more expansive regulations protecting the ability of workers to collectively bargain with employers.
Passed: | |
For: | 8,677 | 65.2% |
Against: | 4,627 | 34.8% |
General Assembly Resolution # 531
Tariffs and Trade Convention
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
Whereas free and fair trade is good, be it enacted as follows:
In this resolution,
general customs area refers to an area in which customs authority is exercised by a nation or nations with a common external trade policy without substantial internal trade barriers;
customs area refers to a general customs area entirely subject to World Assembly law;
resolution means extant WA resolution;
member means WA member; and
trade area means an area created by bilateral or multilateral treaty between customs areas in which they accord to each other special trade preferences.
Each customs area must accord to every other customs area a most-favoured trade preference, unless such preferences are:
necessary for establishment of a particular industry or economic development in a nation with low standards of living,
extended only to co-members of a trade area or customs area, or
permitted by this resolution.
The value ascribed to imported goods shall be based on the value of the goods imported, or of like goods, if they were sold in normal trade under competitive conditions in normal quantities. If such information is not available, members must make a best guess of that value on available information.
Customs areas may not enforce quantitative restrictions, ie quotas, on imports from or exports to any other customs area, unless:
export restrictions are temporary and in proportion to the need to relieve a serious ongoing or upcoming shortage of food or vital goods,
needed restrictions are imposed for the purpose of evaluating or enforcing compliance with regulations not discriminating on origin also applying to like domestic goods,
import restrictions are needed to safeguard the health or safety of domestic agriculture or to remove a temporary domestic surplus of a like good, or
such restrictions are to protect national treasures of substantial cultural value, conserve exhaustible natural resources, or comply with resolutions.
Unless a quota is imposed, no member may require an import licence for goods from another member. Quotas on a good, when allocated, may not discriminate against supplying member nations, unless otherwise agreed to by the quota imposer and the major supplying member nations. All import licences shall be publicly available.
When a good is imported into a customs area at a price lower than normal market prices of like goods (ie dumping), the area may impose a tariff in the amount necessary to adjust the imported goods price to a normal market price, after showing to the Wacc the occurrence of dumping, likely material damages to internal industry, and that the former clearly causes or will cause the latter.
After a good enters a customs area lawfully, no internal regulations or tax may be applied in a manner which discriminates against the origin of that good relative to other like goods.
Members shall ascribe the origination of a good to the general customs area in which the good was last substantially transformed, excluding operations carried out for transport, preservation, storage, marketability, simple assembly, or mixture.
Members may require origination marks on imported goods, so long as such marks do not reduce the value or increase the cost of such goods materially. Customs areas may not assess penalties for failure to make such marks prior their import.
This resolution notwithstanding, members may make trade restrictions:
to forestall a balance of payments crisis provided that members maintain such restrictions only to the extent necessary to defend their balance of payments and speedily recover their financial position,
on arms, ammunition, or other materials used in military procurement directly or indirectly,
in time of war or, subject to resolution, for protection of vital security interests,
if required by resolution to enforce trade sanctions against a nation not compliant with WA law,
exercising powers granted or enforcing restrictions required by prior resolution, or
exercising regulatory powers granted by resolution over a specific good or well-defined class of goods which bear substantially similar properties that are unrelated to their marketability or use.
This resolution does not cover intellectual property or transfers of hard currency. Any tariff or quota imposed must first be posted publicly, specifying the goods covered with the quantities restricted or tax assessed. Penalties ascribed for a customs offence must be in proportion to the offence's harm. Declarations on issues arising from this resolution may be requested from the Wacc; no penalty for non-compliant activities taken with good faith reliance on such declarations may be imposed; the Independent Adjudicative Office may rescind such declarations.
Passed: |
For: | 8,420 | 61.9% |
Against: | 5,183 | 38.1% |
General Assembly Resolution # 532
International Radio Standards Act
A resolution to enact uniform standards that protect workers, consumers, and the general public.
The World Assembly,
Recognising that radio technology is used by many member states for communication,
Lamenting the lack of international standards for radio communication,
Considering the detrimental effects that a lack of standards has on international radio communication, such as incompatibilities in equipment,
Especially worried that a lack of international cooperation could result in non-coordination and even interference in essential radio communications,
Aware that sudden regulatory changes are likely to cause severe confusion in existing radio transmissions,
Hereby enacts as follows:
International Radiocommunications Authority: There shall be an International Radiocommunications Authority (IRA), which shall be an organ of the WA Scientific Programme.
Radio spectrum allocations: For each member state using radio for communication, the IRA shall allocate parts of the radio spectrum for each relevant kind of communication in that state, which shall include at least public broadcasting and recreational use. The allocations shall be made considering the existing use in that state and other nearby states, in order to increase compatibility of standards between nations while minimising inconvenience to existing radio transmission. Member states shall be required to comply with these allocations after a reasonable transition period fixed by the IRA. The allocations may be changed from time to time by consultation between the IRA and member states.
Registry of radio transmitters: Member states shall maintain a registry, revised frequently, of all persons or institutions equipped to transmit radio signals which can be recieved over long distances, and shall allocate frequencies to each of them if necessary to avoid interference of signals. Member states shall submit this registry to the IRA regularly. Member states shall make freely available all portions of the registry for which doing so would not unduly infringe on privacy or national security.
Restrictions on equipment:
Member states may:
Prohibit or restrict the manufacture, sale or purchase of equipment capable of transmitting radio signals outside the ranges allocated for public broadcasting and recreational use,
Require that equipment capable of transmitting radio signals, other than equipment solely for private communication on frequencies specified for that purpose (such as mobile telephones) only be sold to persons licensed to operate such equipment, provided such licensing is widely available without unreasonable costs or restrictions,
Prohibit or restrict the manufacture, sale or purchase of equipment capable of receiving radio signals in any ranges allocated for secret military or security communication, or
Prohibit the transmission of radio signals at a power which is likely to injure or kill any sentient beings living in that area, except in a contained environment for scientific research.
Member states may not impose unreasonable restrictions on the manufacture, sale or purchase of equipment for transmitting or receiving radio signals which are not covered by article 4a.
Passed: |
For: | 9,761 | 75.7% |
Against: | 3,137 | 24.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 533
Repeal: “International Criminal Protocol”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #500 “International Criminal Protocol” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The General Assembly,
Applauding GA #500 "International Criminal Protocol" for its intended goal, which was ostensibly to preserve the civil liberties of those imprisoned from the horrors of state-sanctioned legal abuses,
Reassuring member states that a replacement resolution has been drafted to carry on the vital protections GA #500 offered concerning prison conditions,
Dismayed, however, that the resolution permits member states to decide the legality of capital punishment; a state-sanctioned penalty that this Assembly regards as inherently abhorrent and as posing a devastating detriment to civil liberties,
Cognizant that many ambassadors were unaware of the resolutions toleration of the death penalty at the time of its passage, perhaps because of its focus on the rights of prisoners,
Referring to the fact that this body has previously repealed otherwise well-meaning resolutions on such grounds (see also GA#438 Repeal: Crime And Punishment),
In particular, it must be noted that:
The death penalty is always inconsistent with the inherent dignity of the person,
The costs of the administrative effort necessary to fully prove the guilt of the convicted almost always outweighs any of its possible financial benefits,
The presumption that the death penalty lowers violent crime rates is based on the empirically false assumption that the circumstances of violent crime can be considered in a vacuum where criminals act rationally,
The death penalty rarely aids the family of homicide victims, as it merely adds the emotional baggage of yet another life lost, and
The use of such a severe, irreversible penalty can further exacerbate disparities in justice systems, especially those with existing widespread discrimination,
Further noting that since the justifications presented for the use of the death penalty are insufficient to allow member states to legalize it, this esteemed Assembly ought to prohibit it - which cannot occur in the presence of the target resolution,
Appalled that this resolution stands in the way of preventing the execution of innocent persons for crimes they did not commit, an atrocity that will continue to occur so as long as this resolution remains in force,
Resolved that the numerous benefits and protections this resolution brings forth does not outweigh the crippling blow it inflicts upon civil liberties, a disservice to the good intentions that fostered it,
Hereby repeals GA #500 "International Criminal Protocol".
Co-authored by Pope saint peter the apostle and Tinhampton.
Passed: |
For: | 9,879 | 76.0% |
Against: | 3,112 | 24.0% |