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 # 606
Universal STI Counteraction
A resolution to modify universal standards of healthcare.
Acknowledging the continued spread of sexually transmitted infections (STI) across a large portion of WA member states; and
Discouraged by the lack of universal testing, treatment, and medication surrounding STIs;
The World Assembly hereby mandates that:
All member states must offer free (or fully insurance-covered), confidential, and universally accessible solutions to sexually transmitted infections, including but not limited to:
Accurate STI testing for all STIs; these must be available to any WA resident who fulfills any of these criteria:
Exhibits symptoms of any STI.
Is consistently exposed to possible STI transmission as a part of their profession or employment.
Has been possibly exposed to any STI since their last period of adequate testing.
Effective antibiotic or antiviral treatment/medication for all STI; these must be available to any resident who has tested positive for an STI of any form until such treatment or medication is no longer necessary or the patient is no longer a WA resident.
Member residents, upon testing positive for an STI, must, to the best of their ability, provide a list of all persons they may have come in transmissible contact with since the date they last tested negative for that STI. The clinic or organization that tested that individual must:
Privately contact, to the best of their ability and only when contact would not directly endanger the lives of any involved parties, each member of the positive individuals list to inform those individuals of the possibility of contact and to recommend immediate testing.
Delete the provided list immediately after completion.
Never share any of the provided information with law enforcement of any kind.
Not, under any circumstances, share records of an individual's transmissible contacts with any party other than the person receiving the positive test, their transmissible contacts, or the clinic performing the test, excepting circumstances where all of the aforementioned parties consent to the disclosure,
The World Health Authority (WHA) must, using funds allocated from the WA General Fund, ensure that adequately accessible STI testing, treatment, and medication are available across member states that cannot afford such solutions by:
Expanding existing general clinics throughout member states to introduce, accommodate, and upkeep STI testing, treatment, and medication.
Providing internationally available training programs to ensure that doctors, nurses, and pharmacists are properly trained in the most effective STI-related treatments and countermeasures.
Donating supplies, grants, or labor in an effort to upkeep STI treatment faculties.
Member states must, through any previously provided reproductive education courses, provide instruction on avoiding and counteracting the spread of STI, including advocation for regular testing before sexual activity with new partners and the use of contraceptives as a preventative measure.
Passed: |
For: | 12,476 | 80.1% |
Against: | 3,099 | 19.9% |
General Assembly Resolution # 607
Health and Safety Act
A resolution to enact uniform standards that protect workers, consumers, and the general public.
The World Assembly,
Recognizing not only that industry is critical to the economic development of many member states, but that high standards of health and safety are critical to the development of many industries,
Concerned that some member states and employers might not have adequate laws and policies in effect to protect workers from dangerous working conditions, not only in factories and other centers of heavy industry but also - for example - in restaurants (where measures to prevent cross-contamination of foodstuffs, such as the use of different-colored chopping boards and regular handwashing, are of great importance),
Believing that employers in member states with strong health and safety standards should not be entitled to outsource jobs to member states with lax or nonexistent health and safety standards in order to increase profit at the expense of workers well being, and
Supporting the right of workers everywhere to face as small a risk of physical harm and deterioration as possible while they are working,
Hereby enacts as follows.
1. Each member state must:
publish a first, quantitative manual of guidelines listing those levels of mechanical, temperature, chemical, and ergonomic stresses which a worker in that member state may endure on a daily basis without incurring adverse side effects over time,
publish a second, quantitative manual of guidelines listing those levels of various industrial chemical substances, with reference to levels in both the factory workplace environment and a worker's blood sample, which a worker in that member state may endure on a daily basis without incurring adverse side effects over time,
publish a third, qualitative manual of guidelines explaining the steps that their workers can take to reduce their risk of injury in the workplace (both in general and at the particular type of business where they work), regardless of where they work or what their job entails, and the steps that employers in each sector of the economy must take to reduce these risks,
update the three manuals of guidelines, hereinafter "the Manuals," on an annual basis to incorporate the latest research findings and relevant statistical data, and
distribute the Manuals to all of their businesses, and
sanction those businesses who expose their workers to levels of stress and exposure to chemical substances (pursuant to Articles 1a and 1b respectively) beyond those stipulated in the Manuals, or who fail to report injuries sustained by their workers at the workplace to their member states government (to ensure its compliance with Article 2c).
2. The Health and Safety Board (HSB) is established. It is responsible for receiving the following data from each member state on an annual basis:
legal measures enacted by that member state and its political subdivisions to protect the health and safety of workers,
how frequently and effectively the measures described in Articles 1a, 1b, 1c, and 2a are being enforced by the government, and
how often per year, on average, workplace injuries occur (which shall be disaggregated according to whether they were caused by mechanical hazards, temperature hazards, chemical hazards, or ergonomic hazards).
3. The HSB shall report all member states and political subdivisions of member states whose governments fail to enforce those measures they have enacted to protect the health and safety of workers, including by failing to enforce compliance with Articles 1, 2 and 4 of this Act, to the WACC.
4. Each member state must disseminate accurate and informative publications to all of their businesses (including state-owned businesses) that describe the legal measures they have enacted to protect the health and safety of workers and explain how businesses can comply with these legal measures.
Co-author: Tinhampton
Passed: |
For: | 8,138 | 50.7% |
Against: | 7,904 | 49.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 608
Repeal: “LEO Force Restrictions”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #590 “LEO Force Restrictions” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Recognizing a disturbing history of excessive force exercised by law enforcement toward members of the public and the need for international attention toward police violence,
Determining that the language of the target resolution nevertheless paralyzes the capacity for law enforcement to detain suspects in its attempt to prevent excessive use of force,
Anticipating a more diligent approach to international regulation of the use of force by law enforcement entities,
The World Assembly hereby repeals General Assembly Resolution 590 "LEO Force Restrictions" for the following causes:
Section b.i criminalizes the use of force conditional on information not available to the detaining officer or officers. The methods they use to detain a suspect are rendered illegal after-the-fact, based on information that may only unveil itself weeks, months, or even years after the detention.
Section c.iii makes several radical assumptions which render its enforcement frustratingly difficult, circuitous, or even impossible for many member states.
It assumes the wide availability of miniature video cameras capable of capturing images of sufficient quality and film length to provide useful insight into the actions of an officer wearing it.
It assumes ubiquitous wireless technology, such that miniature video cameras attached to law enforcement officers can communicate with electronic vehicle equipment whenever "those vehicles' lights or sirens activate".
It assumes that all activation of law enforcement vehicles' emergency signals indicates a potential for use of excessive force by an officer, and that all potential for use of excessive force by an officer follows the activation of a law enforcement vehicle's emergency signals.
It assumes that every law enforcement officer has a designated vehicle to which their miniature video cameras can wirelessly connect, and that law enforcement officers do not patrol on vehicles without electronic components or on foot.
It assumes a universal signal for impending law enforcement interaction: "lights or sirens". This does not accommodate any other signal that a law enforcement vehicle may use.
Section d.ii requirements result in the criminalization of all homicides committed by a law enforcement officer, regardless of cause or danger presented toward the officer, for failure to ensure that the suspect receives "basic first aid necessary for their survival".
Section d.ii requires law enforcement to render life-preserving aid to all parties to which they cause "death or life-changing injury". It is, however, beyond an officer's ability to render life-preserving aid to an already dead person. Thus, the section e mandate renders murder every homicide committed by an officer.
Furthermore, d.ii requires law enforcement to render life-preserving aid even when doing so would put one or more officers at risk of injury or death, such as in the case of apprehending or neutralizing multiple suspects and causing life-threatening injury that neutralizes one but not all suspects.
Passed: |
For: | 12,551 | 79.4% |
Against: | 3,261 | 20.6% |
General Assembly Resolution # 609
Limiting Animal Pathogens
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
The World Assembly,
Cognizant of the risks posed by zoonotic diseases to sapient wellbeing and the increasing risks of such dangers as the world becomes ever more connected,
Hereby enacts as follows:
Definitions.
In this resolution:the "WHA" is the World Health Authority;
the "WAGF" is the World Assembly General Fund;
a "zoonotic disease" is any disease which:
is caused by a pathogen; and
is capable of being transmitted from a nonsapient being to a sapient being; and
"wet market" refers to any marketplace which:
keeps and offers for sale to the general public live animals;
keeps and offers for sale to the general public nonsapient animals to be killed at or immediately before or after sale; or
is in the business of reselling wares described in paragraphs (i) and (ii).
Testing.
Animals sold or intended for sale in any wet market shall be subject to random testing for any zoonotic disease which:
has been determined by the WHA or local health authorities to pose a substantial danger to sapient wellbeing; and
is capable of infecting and thereby harming sapient beings in the intended market.
Animal carcasses intended to be sold in any wet market shall be subject to random testing for any zoonotic disease described in subsection (a).
Any animal which tests positive under subsection (a) or (b) shall not be sold until such animal reliably tests negative for such disease. If a negative test does not result, the animal shall be disposed of in a manner provided by local health authorities.
Every individual who works at a wet market shall be subject to random testing for any communicable zoonotic disease described in subsection (a). If a person tests positive, then every other worker at that or other wet markets who may reasonably have been exposed to the same zoonotic diseases shall be tested for each zoonotic disease which the individual worker has tested positive for. Any person who tests positive under this paragraph may not work at any wet market until such person reliably tests negative for the same zoonotic disease.
Testing under this section shall be carried out by local health authorities, except that if a governmental body responsible for such an authority certifies to the WHA that it does not have the capacity or training to carry out such testing, the WHA shall send Inspectors to carry out such testing. While so engaged, Inspectors shall be treated as members of a local health authority and shall enjoy international protection.
Animal marketing regulations.
It is an unlawful business practice for a wet market or other marketplace which sells living or dead animals to:store an animal of one species in close physical proximity to animals of another species (or carcasses of such species) if such proximity is likely to result in the cross-species transmission of zoonotic diseases;
store the carcasses of animals of one species in close physical proximity to the carcasses of animals of another species if such proximity is likely to result in the transmission of zoonotic diseases across carcasses;
store the carcasses of animals intended for sale in a manner which is likely to result in the acquisition of zoonotic diseases, when there is a cost-efficient way of preventing such acquisition;
furnish false information in response to any test ordered under this resolution, or impede such a test;
retaliate against any person for reporting any violations of this resolution or any other applicable laws governing wet markets;
falsely label any species of animal or animal carcass for the purpose of bolstering sales or evading inspections; or
discriminate against any person on account of such person's decision to don personal protective equipment on the premises of such market.
Import and export.
Each member nation shall:test every animal intended for import to or export from such nation for any zoonotic disease which:
has been determined by the WHA or local health authorities to pose a substantial danger to sapient wellbeing; and
is capable of infecting and thereby harming sapient beings in the area and population in which such animal is intended to be moved to;
deny entry or exit to, treat, euthanize, or isolate, any animal which tests positive for any such disease until such animal tests negative for the same zoonotic disease; and
take measures to ensure the health of individuals engaged in the business of transporting animals internationally, including measures to monitor and prevent the spread of zoonotic diseases among such individuals
Funding.
A mandate under this resolution shall be funded by the member nation in whose borders the mandate is done. However, upon verification of inability to fund such a mandate in full or in part, the WAGF shall cover such proportion of the costs as is necessary to ensure that the mandate is effectively carried out. In determining whether and to what extent to cover costs, the WAGF shall seek to ensure that this resolution is carried into effect as broadly and effectively as possible.
Passed: | |
For: | 9,254 | 55.7% |
Against: | 7,352 | 44.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 610
Safe Disposal of Nuclear Waste
A resolution to enact uniform standards that protect workers, consumers, and the general public.
The World Assembly,
Knowing that many nations rely on nuclear power plants as a source of energy;
Aware that the production of nuclear energy produces radioactive waste that becomes dangerous if not properly disposed of;
Distraught that no such disposal has been previously regulated by the World Assembly;
Hereby enacts as follows:
In this resolution:
nuclear waste is defined as the radioactive solid or liquid wastes resulting from nuclear fission, fusion, refinement, or any other process from which nuclear power is derived.
radioactive contamination is defined as the spread of radiation to any habitats, natural reserves, bodies of water, or atmospheres such that it would pose a significant danger to life or the environment.
The Nuclear Energy Safety Commission (NESC) must:
Investigate methods of nuclear waste disposal and determine those considered safe by the following guidelines:
Disposal methods must have little to no risk of radioactive contamination.
Methods must include proper solidification, compaction and subsequent treatment of nuclear materials to prevent leaching of waste or radioactivity.
Inspect prospective nuclear waste storage and burial sites to ensure they are geologically stable and at sufficiently lengthy proximity from areas at risk of radioactive contamination.
Ensure that decommissioned nuclear reactors are properly dismantled, and any nuclear waste present is removed before said reactors can be demolished.
Ensure that domestic transport of radioactive materials provides little to no foreseeable risk of leakage, thievery, or any form of radioactive contamination.
Explore safer and more effective methods of nuclear waste disposal, recycling, reuse, and transmutation. Such studies must be publicly disseminated to member states.
Member states must:
Only employ methods of safe nuclear disposal as defined by the NESC. Member states may submit reliable scientific research to the NESC to have a method of nuclear disposal be investigated for future safety standards.
Ensure that radioactive contamination originating from their nation is reported to any foreign governments that are subject to foreseeable risk of that contamination spreading to or affecting their nation.
Passed: |
For: | 14,653 | 85.4% |
Against: | 2,506 | 14.6% |