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 # 139
Consumer Product Safety
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
The World Assembly,
ACKNOWLEDGING that a predominant role of this body is to promote and protect the general welfare of the citizens of its member nations;
REALIZING that in many instances citizens of WA member nations are sustaining injury, illness, or even death directly related to unsafe consumer products;
RECOGNIZING the need for a regulatory body charged with maintaining international safety standards of said consumer products;
DEFINES a consumer product as any article, or component thereof, produced or distributed for a consumer to purchase, i.e. toys, automobiles, household chemicals, electronics etc.; however, exempts any article not customarily intended for use, enjoyment, or consumption by a consumer.
DEFINES an unsafe consumer product as any consumer product that can pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure a consumer while used properly and according to age / training / safety requirements;
PROHIBITS the import to and export from WA member nations of consumer products that qualify as unsafe consumer products according to the terms of this legislation;
STRONGLY URGES member nations to prohibit manufacturers and distributors from producing and/or distributing unsafe consumer products;
STRONGLY URGES member nations to impose financial penalties on manufacturers and/or distributors guilty of producing and/or distributing unsafe consumer products;
ESTABLISHES a Consumer Product Safety Council, hereafter CPSC, to maintain international consumer product safety standards;
CHARGES the CPSC with the investigation of consumer products on an international scale in order to identify unsafe consumer products and prevent their import to and export from WA member nations;
FURTHER CHARGES the CPSC with assisting citizens of WA member nations seeking financial compensation, legal recourse, or product recall associated with unsafe consumer products;
URGES individual WA member nations to provide funds, where applicable, to facilitate CPSC organizational efforts;
CONCLUDES that a CPSC will promote a higher level of consumer safety on an international level, leading to a decline in injuries and deaths associated with consumer products.
Passed: | |
For: | 6,047 | 62.4% |
Against: | 3,640 | 37.6% |
General Assembly Resolution # 140
Institutional Psychiatry Act
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
The General Assembly,
Hereby Demands:
1. All persons with a mental illness or who are being treated as such persons have the right to:
Voluntary residency in a mental health facility in addition to psychiatric treatment, counselling and rehabilitation by mental heath professionals that are held to the same high standards as all other fields of practiced medicine;
Not be subject to exploitation for economic, sexual or other gains (e.g., human exhibitions, prostitution);
Not be subject to degrading treatment and physical, mental or any other form of abuse;
At-least robust allowances for visitation with their offspring unless said persons' present behavior suggests that their presence is a danger to their children as determined by domestic courts;
Be employable -- dependent upon their ability to perform said work without their mental illness establishing a new threat to the safety and wellbeing of themselves or others as determined by domestic courts;
Freedom of communication, which includes freedom to send and receive uncensored private communications with anyone outside or inside in a mental health facility with respect to domestic court restraining orders (i.e., "no contact" provisions), and inalienable access to communicational services (postal and telephone) and newspapers, radio, television and other forms of media;
2. No patient shall be subject to medication or punishment that is not in their best medical interests or lacks a therapeutic or diagnostic purpose (e.g., as a method of punishment, for the convenience of staff, misuses of seclusion or electroconvulsive therapy, lobotomization, embarrassment via group therapy);
3. Robust periods for visitation between friends, family and other persons and the patients of a mental health facility should be available unless (1) the patient requests without coercion that they not receive visits from any given person, (2) restraining orders have been established by domestic courts against visitation between the patient and certain prospective visitors, upon said situations, mental health facilities should provide the necessary security to fulfill these request/orders;
4. Mental health facilities shall offer a pleasant environment and living conditions for at least its residents in addition to making a wealth of recreational, educational and leisure activities and an efficient complaint system available to residents;
5. No perceived threat to the social, political or cultural values of the majority (e.g., sexual orientation, unconventional gender roles or political ideology), or the suppression of dissent shall ever be the justification for a patients admittance to a mental health facility;
6. That nothing of this resolution shall be misconstrued as prohibiting the practice of involuntary admission to a mental health facility;
7. Member-nations (1) shall not relocate patients or mental health facilities elsewhere to circumvent this resolution, (2) shall consider further legislation on the details of admission to mental health facilities, and (3) are urged to consider any grievous deviation from this resolution by any nation as reasonable grounds for diplomatic intervention or condemnation-- not because said nation has simply 'failed to comply' with this resolution, but because of the mass social grievances that result from such deviation.
Passed: | |
For: | 6,403 | 73.8% |
Against: | 2,277 | 26.2% |
General Assembly Resolution # 141
Permit Male Circumcision
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
The World Assembly,
AFFIRMING that male circumcision, the removal of some or all of the foreskin from the penis, may be performed for a range of medical and religious reasons;
HAVING VOTED to deny a ban on male circumcision on previous occasions;
DECLARES male circumcision to be a medical procedure, and entitles patients undergoing male circumcision to all the protections associated with that status;
OBLIGES all member states to permit the practice of male circumcision, notwithstanding their authority to regulate the procedure.
Passed: |
For: | 6,495 | 68.5% |
Against: | 2,986 | 31.5% |
General Assembly Resolution # 142
In Regards to Cloning
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
DEFINES cloning as 'the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another'
DEFINES clone as 'the organism that is an exact genetic copy of another'
RECOGNIZES the risk of cloning mistakes,
URGES nations to take steps to prevent cloning mishaps,
REQUIRES that cloning only be done by trained professionals,
DECLARES that nations cannot classify sentient sapient clones as their own legal class,
REQUIRES sapient clones in member nations be extended all the legal rights, privileges, and opportunities granted to their genetically identical counterparts,
DECLARES that clones cannot be used for the purpose of or as part of a violation of other GA resolutions,
AFFIRMS the right of nations to pursue cloning of sapient beings,
PRESERVES the right of nations to illegalize such cloning in that nation,
REMINDS that nations are allowed to enact further legislation in regards to clones, so long as it does not violate this act,
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Passed: | |
For: | 5,261 | 53.8% |
Against: | 4,520 | 46.2% |
General Assembly Resolution # 143
Repeal: “In Regards to Cloning”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #142 “In Regards to Cloning” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
While the General Assembly recognises the intent behind Resolution #142, In Regards to Cloning, it notes the following flaw:
The Resolution specifically:
DEFINES clone as 'the organism that is an exact genetic copy of another'
The wording used includes organisms that reproduce naturally in a number of ways in the definition of 'clone'.
Examples of organisms included in the definition are:
Any organism which reproduces by binary fission, in which the parent organsim divides into two genetically identical offspring.
Any organism which reproduces through budding, in which a genetically identical offspring grows off a mother organism.
Any plant which reproduces by vegetative reproduction, in which a genetically identical plant grows from the leaf, runner, or rhizome of another plant, or from the stem of a damaged plant, or from new shoots on an existing root system, or arise from tubers or bulbs.
Any organism which reproduces through asexual sporogenesis, in which a genetically identical offspring develops from a mitospore after dispersal.
Any organism which reproduces through fragmentation, in which genetically identical offspring from fragments of the parent organism.
Any organism which reproduce through parthenogenesis, in which the female of a species produces genetically identical offspring from an unfertilised egg.
Any organism undergoing asexual reproduction, not mentioned in the list above.
Based on this definition of cloning, General Assembly Resolution #142 In Regards to Cloning is rendered in a different sense than that in which it was meant.
For the above reason, the World Assembly hereby repeals In Regards to Cloning.
Passed: |
For: | 7,762 | 72.4% |
Against: | 2,954 | 27.6% |