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 # 160
Forced Marriages Ban Act
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
The General Assembly,
Realizing the importance of marriage in many societies,
Respecting the various cultural and religious customs surrounding marriage,
Recognizing that many, if not most, marriages are intended to be lifelong unions,
Believing therefore that no person should be coerced to marry,
1. Defines forced marriage, for the purposes of this resolution, as the contractual or covenantal union of persons without the informed consent of every person being joined or a similar nonconsensual or coerced union of persons;
2. Prohibits forced marriage;
3. Forbids member states and their political subdivisions from enforcing or providing legal recognition to forced marriages performed in other countries;
4. Requires each member state to offer to annul all forced marriages of people in its jurisdiction; and
5. Recommends that member states establish special law enforcement divisions to investigate claims of forced marriage and communities that supposedly countenance such unions.
Passed: |
For: | 8,695 | 78.6% |
Against: | 2,363 | 21.4% |
General Assembly Resolution # 161
Medical Standards in Prisons
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
The General Assembly,
ACKNOWLEDGING that adequate healthcare in prison medical wards is a vital aspect of the facility,
DEFINES, for the purpose of this resolution, Prison as a facility used to confine accused and/or convicted criminals in accordance with local, regional, and/or international law,
HEREBY MANDATES that all Prisons in all member states have, at minimum, one functioning medical ward that:
1. Employs an adequate number of appropriate medical professionals, relative to the prison's occupancy, with at least one qualified physician present in the medical ward at all times;
2. Allows all prisoners immediate access to anesthetics, analgesics, and other such drugs when determined to be medically necessary by staff health care professionals;
3. Contains an appropriate number of beds, which will be made available to all inmates who suffer from a medical emergency that requires observation in the medical ward;
4. Utilizes up-to-date, effective medical equipment for the treatment of prisoners;
5. Provides gender-appropriate services as dictated by the inmate population of the prison in question, including appropriate care and treatment for pregnant individuals and their offspring;
6. Arranges for the safe transfer of prisoners to outside facilities for those who require specialized medical care beyond that offered by the Prison medical ward.
REQUIRES the use of appropriate sterilization techniques throughout the prison and medical ward to minimize the spread of infectious disease.
PROHIBITS the following inhumane actions from being performed on prisoners:
1. The administration of medical drugs for the purpose of causing anguish;
2. The administration of medical drugs for the purposes of causing death, with exceptions granted for euthanasia at the inmate's request and for capital punishment;
3. The use of prisoners as test subjects without their informed, written consent.
ALLOWS individual member states to impose additional protocol or standards that do not conflict with this resolution to their current correctional facility medical system.
Co-Authored by Mousebumples
Passed: |
For: | 7,177 | 64.0% |
Against: | 4,044 | 36.0% |
General Assembly Resolution # 162
On Humanitarian Aid
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
ACKNOWLEDGES that soldiers are not the only battlefield casualty of a war,
LAMENTS that Humanitarian Aid Workers are also an unfortunate casualty of conflicts,
REALIZES that by protecting Humanitarian Aid Workers, militant, and civilian casualties would decrease for all participants of a conflict,
DEFINES for the purpose of this resolution:
1) Humanitarian Aid Worker, as a neutral party who provides logistical and medical assistance in conflict, and disaster zones, primarily to civilians
2) Conflict Zone, as an area of open, or pronlonged combat,
ALLOWS humanitarian aid workers to declare a neutral zone, where humanitarian aid workers may distribute supplies, administer medical care, and provide temporary residence to civilians/refugees.
MANDATES that all neutral zones must display recognized humanitarian aid insignias to prevent inadvertant conflict,
PROHIBITS:
1) Conflict from occuring within neutral zones,
2) The intentional injuring, or slaughtering of Humanitarian Aid Workers,
3) The stymieing or hindering of said workers who are providing treatment to wounded soldiers, civilians, or others
RELINQUISHES protection to humanitarian aid workers who:
1) Do not clearly display a recognized insignia within their neutral zone,
2) Have engaged in any form of combat,
3) Are dressed in a uniform similar to, or identical to those worn by standard soldiers,
4) Declare neutral zones with the intent of stockpiling weaponry,
5) Deny aid to wounded soldiers, civilians, or any other any other sapient being affected by conflict,
FURTHER PROHIBITS humanitarian aid workers from intentionally entering conflict zones,
FORBIDS militants from forcing humanitarian aid workers into conflict zones, regardless of the circumstances,
ALLOWS individual nations to relocate Humanitarian Aid Worker declared neutral zones if it is determined that they interfere with war efforts,
ENCOURAGES individual nations to allow humanitarian aid workers to utilize pre-existing facilities as neutral zones,
URGES individual nations to send qualified officials to inspect these neutral zones to ensure that they are in compliance with the aforementioned provisions,
PERMITS nations to peacefully disband neutral zones within their borders once the conflict is recognized as having ended or when it is determined that the need for humanitarian efforts are minimal.
Passed: | |
For: | 6,638 | 61.4% |
Against: | 4,172 | 38.6% |
General Assembly Resolution # 163
Repeal: “Law of the Sea”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #47 “Law of the Sea” (Category: Political Stability; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
APPLAUDING the intentions of GA#47: Law of the Sea, in attempting to set standards by which nations may claim oceanic territory bordering their shores,
REALIZING that the resolution was erroneously addressed to "The United Nations," the predecessor to the World Assembly which no longer existed at the time of the resolution's passage,
NOTING that, according the text of the legislation, "waters within 12 nautical miles of [a] nation's sea border" will be under a nation's "sovereign control" and that a nation has "the sole right to harvest natural resources" in "waters within 200NM of [its] sea border,"
FURTHER NOTING that, should any nations with adjacent or opposing shorelines find their "12 nautical miles" of oceanic territory overlapping in any fashion, this legislation arbitrarily divides these waters between the nations regardless of a nation's history, economy, or its relations with its neighbor,
UNDERSTANDING that the legislation permits nations with overlapping oceanic territory "to voluntarily agree to divisions along other lines," yet noting that nations with border disputes are unlikely come to an agreement if they are led to believe that arbitrary division of territory would occur,
CONCERNED that the arbitrary division of oceanic territory has the potential to damage certain nations by reducing their spheres of influence and/or inciting conflicts between previously ambivalent neighbors,
DISMAYED that GA#47 fails to establish limits to oceanic territorial claims, without which a nation may use islands, sand bars, or atolls occurring within the first 12 nautical miles of its oceanic territory as a basis for further claims,
APPALLED that GA#47 includes no provision requiring nations to control pollution within their 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) arising from activities such as deep sea mining and oil exploration that may pollute the EEZs of neighboring nations and damage international fishing grounds,
DISMAYED that GA#47 fails to include exceptions to sovereign control of territorial waters, giving nations bordering narrow straits or sea channels an undue influence over international shipping that must pass through these water bodies,
CONVINCED that errors and omissions described herein renders the resolution inoperable and detrimental to World trade and the environment,
HEREBY repeals "Law of the Sea".
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Co-authored by A mean old man
Passed: |
For: | 8,942 | 81.3% |
Against: | 2,053 | 18.7% |
General Assembly Resolution # 164
Consular Rights
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
The General Assembly,
Recognizing the existence of diplomatic missions like consulates and embassies which serve as a representation from one nation
to another,
Understanding in many nations the laws may be confusing to understand for a common citizen from another culture and that a representative from the diplomatic mission of one's home nation may make the law more clear,
Realizing that nations may also accuse a citizen of a crime falsely and that governments way want to hear evidence from the citizen that he or she is being falsely accused so the government may protect its citizens abroad,
Knowing that those citizens of a nation convicted of a crime in another nation may also wish to speak to a representative from their home nation's diplomatic mission to inform their government on conditions within the prison or to seek advice on appeals,
Hereby:
Defines for the purposes of this resolution:
The "home nation" as the nation the accused holds citizenship in.
The "host nation" as the nation that has accused or convicted the foreigner of a crime.
A "diplomatic mission" as an embassy, consulate, or other formal representation of the home nation.
Declares a person charged of a crime while in a member nation as a non-citizen has the right to meet with a representative from their home nation's diplomatic mission within a host nation, should such a diplomatic mission exist,
Allows host nations to require these meetings to occur off of the actual grounds of the diplomatic mission, to prevent a situation where the accused refuses to leave the building the host nation is not allowed to access,
Encourages nations to staff diplomatic missions with legal experts in the host nation's laws to be able to advice their citizens accused of a crime within the host nation,
Further declares that foreigners convicted of crimes and imprisoned within member states have the right to meet with a representative of their home nation's diplomatic mission privately, within the prison, once per year, should such a diplomatic mission exist.
Passed: | |
For: | 9,325 | 89.3% |
Against: | 1,118 | 10.7% |