General Assembly Proposals

The World Assembly,

NOTING the great strides past resolutions have taken in civil rights,

WISHING to continue those strides,

ACKNOWLEDGING that member states should, as far as possible, have the right to maintain control over their own penal code,

BELIEVING, however, that banishment, also known as exile, can often result in an unacceptable breach of civil rights,

CONCERNED that certain member states wish to enact banishment for the most minor of offences, such as the possession of tobacco farms, seeds or cigarettes,

HEREBY:

1. DEFINES banishment, for the purposes of this resolution, as the removal of an individual's citizenship and the enforced prohibition of said individual's return, either temporarily or permanently,

2. DEFINES a banished person, for the purposes of this resolution, as an individual who is serving banishment,

3. PROHIBITS the use of banishment as a valid punishment by member states, unless:

   • the only legal alternative punishments are life imprisonment or execution, and

   • the individual to be banished is given adequate opportunity to obtain citizenship of another state if they do not already possess such citizenship,

4. ESTABLISHES the Court of International Jurisdiction (CIJ), which shall:

   1. hear cases for torts from banished persons against the banishing state,

   2. have the authority to dismiss cases that are patently frivolous, and

   3. provide access to applications of immigration, citizenship, and/or passports to banished persons seeking relocation,

5. CLARIFIES that nothing in this resolution empowers the CIJ to claim civil jurisdiction on non-member states or criminal jurisdiction on any state,

6. TASKS the World Assembly Office of Building Management to construct facilities adjacent to the World Assembly Headquarters for the purposes of housing banished persons for the duration of any necessary delay incurred as a result of this resolution or of prior unrepealed legislation,

7. ALLOWS member states to send banished persons to the aforementioned facilities for the duration and only for the duration of any necessary delay incurred as a result of this resolution or of prior unrepealed legislation,

8. DECLARES that member states utilising such facilities are not absolved of their responsibilities under Clause Three,

9. MANDATES that member states are required to inform banished persons, extant and ongoing, of the provisions established herein,

10. ENCOURAGES member states to provide citizenship to individuals that have been left stateless as a result of breaches of this resolution's mandates,

11. CLARIFIES that nothing in this resolution prevents member states from declaring a foreign citizen a persona non grata.

Co-Authored by The Eternal Democratic Monarchy of The United Royal Islands of Euramathania.

General Assembly Resolution #10 “Nuclear Arms Possession Act” (Category: International Security; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

World assembly,

ACKNOWLEDGING that nuclear weapons are a weapon used by lots of different countries, with lots of different purposes in mind.

NOTING that there are nations that use these weapons just in the case of defense.

FURTHERMORE praising the ones that achieved a thriving society without the use of intimidation by nuclear annihilation.

STRESSING the fact that the storage of nuclear arsenals is a great danger for every population and it's just a big disaster waiting to happen.

BELIEVING that the resources used to build these arsenals would have better use in the building of nuclear plants, which would in turn diminish the use of oil and natural gas, harmful substances for the environment.

NOTING that the previous act was right in the sense that non WA members out number WA members by a lot more.

STATING that while some non WA members are hostile, not all are the same and that the purpose of the WA is to unite all the glorious nations of the world and lead them to greater goals, like global peace, a threat much more easily avoided without the existence of nuclear weapons.

FURTHERMORE stating that if passed, this repeal, would lead to the development of an act that would ensure that the world will be safer without the threat of nuclear annihilation.

HEREBY, THIS LEGISLATION:
Asks the World Assembly to repeal Nuclear Arms Possession Act, because it is largely outdated and brands non WA nations in an unfair and maybe discriminatory way, believing that if we do not protect ourselves with monstrous weapons, those nations will attack us.
Nuclear weapons are a great danger to human life and there are thousands of proofs that wrong minded leaders may use them for wrong purposes.
And the WA should give the example to every non WA nation that its ultimate goal is peace. With this maybe some of those nations will join the WA, reversing this trend to not join the WA, eliminating this fear of an attack.

Thank you for your time.

The World Assembly,

Applauding previous legislative efforts to ensure that everyone, including the disabled, have the right to basic education,

Concerned that "disability" is often understood to mean a physical condition that, for example, requires one to use a wheelchair to move about,

Worried that this allows nations to ignore the special needs of children who have difficulties learning in a normal class environment due to mental disabilities,

Hoping to provide guidance for member nations with the difficulties of educating these children,

Hereby,

1. Defines, for the purposes of this resolution;

1. a "child" as an inhabitant of a WA member nation who is under the age of majority in that nation,

2. a "medical specialist" as a medical professional specialized in mental disabilities that are likely to cause serious learning difficulties,

3. "learning challenges" as serious problems with the attention, communication or understanding required to attend regular basic education, which are caused by an irreversible mental disability,

4. a "mentally challenged student" as a child who has been evaluated by medical specialists to suffer from at least one of the learning challenges,

5. a "mentally disabled student" as a child, who has been evaluated by medical specialists to suffer from all of the learning challenges,

2. Requires that member nations;

1. Provide learning ability evaluation service for all children nearing the age for entering basic education, if their caretaker or attending physician has reason to suspect they may be mentally disabled, or when the child has demonstrated an inability to learn normally during their first year of education,

2. Institute a training program for special education teachers, if such does not already exist, to train education professionals who will have the needed skills to educate children with mental disabilities,

3. Provide, to the best of their ability, all mentally challenged students with basic education; either as part of the regular class, a separate class taught by a special education teacher, or individual instruction by a special education teacher or a similarly accredited instructor,

3. Additionally requires that member nations also attempt to provide all mentally disabled students with basic education, or as much of it as is possible based on their level of understanding; either as a separate class taught by a special education teacher, or individual instruction by a special education teacher or a similarly accredited instructor,

4. Encourages member nations to set up a training program, if such does not already exist, for the caretakers of all children with mental disabilities to become accredited instructors for their own children, if they should choose homeschooling,

5. Requires the homeschooling curriculum to follow that of the public education system for children with mental disabilities, to ensure the quality of education,

6. Allows member nations to restrict the learning ability evaluation service to children who are residents of the nation,

7. Reaffirms that this resolution only concerns those children who have serious learning difficulties caused by an irreversible mental disability.

Coauthored by The Socialist Republic of The New European Order

Requirements- All WA nations must have local contests, regional contests consisting of the local winners, and national contests for the reginal winners; for the 4 major subjects of academia.
Requirements- All WA nations must host a mathematics competition with a prize for the winner.
Requirements- All WA nations must host a science competition with a prize for the winner.
Requirements- All WA nations must host a history competition with a prize for the winner.
Requirements- All WA nations must host a spelling competition with a prize for the winner.
Requirements- All competitors must be in grade school.
Enforcement- The Commission for academic competitions will be created to follow up on the creation and execution of these competitions.

General Assembly Resolution #404 “Enabling The Disabled In Academia” (Category: Education and Creativity; Area of Effect: Educational) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Whereas legislation passed by the World Assembly cannot be amended or changed, only repealed, and that any correction of the problems noted in the target resolution would first require passage of a repeal:

And whereas it is the case that

1. the members of the World Assembly, and the assembly itself, have limited resources,

2. this resolution effectively forces members to provide accommodations and various support groups in all places of education, both public and private, imposing huge costs which (for private systems especially) would be difficult or impossible to bear,

3. it can both be cheaper for nations to provide a higher level of accommodation and support in specialised organisations more suited to persons with specific disabilities via e.g. enrolment in specialised schools,

4. schools can serve multiple functions, but they cannot serve all functions simultaneously without compromising quality, and

5. accommodations for one group can trade off with the welfare of another, derived simply from the fact that resources are fungible:

And whereas the resolution's definitions are unsound as

1. the definition of 'disabled' includes practically all manner of different ailments or manners of imperfect health, their being a condition that 'limits movements, senses, or activities',

2. that definition fails to consider such things as learning disabilities, which do not limit movement, senses, or physical activity, and therefore does not provide those accommodations which the resolution seeks, and

3. the definition of 'disabled student', beyond the fact that knowledge is not disbursed as if it were coin, only applies to 'academic settings' which many times are not the only places of education.

And whereas this resolution offers little improvement over those protections already instituted in section 2 of the resolution 'A Promotion of Basic Education' and the resolution 'Charter of Civil Rights', while blocking the passage of mandates for effective accommodation that are currently being drafted:

And whereas the use of the phrase 'the disabled' dehumanises persons living with disabilities, reducing them to be a problem to be normalised or 'solved' whilst subsuming their identities into a single aspect of their personhood:

Now, therefore, be it enacted by the World Assembly, by and with the advice and consent of its members, and by the authority of the same, that the resolution entitled 'Enabling The Disabled in Academia' be repealed.