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 # 624
Repeal: “Whistleblower Protection Act”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #539 “Whistleblower Protection Act” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly finds as follows:
Privacy is an important right. People who work for the government have privacy rights in the same way normal citizens do. The vast majority of people who work for the government, being inferior officers thereof, take salaries and live peacefully. The provision in section 4, which indemnifies media outlets from punishment for "the dissemination of financial information of a government official", is at best the World Assembly saying that "if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide". At worst, it opens government workers to identity theft and harassment. Privacy rights are sometimes overridden by other important public interests. Release of such information should be judged on a case-by-case basis: a civil servants' personal financial information should not be turned into public knowledge without a credible suspicion of malfeasance.
Section 3 prohibits the media from publishing a person's personally identifying information (such as names) unless that person is party to a crime committed by a government official. This is a substantial limit on the freedom of the press: media outlets would no longer be able to report on crimes committed entirely by private individuals and unconnected to government action. This not only harms press freedom, but also the ability of the press to report on private misdeeds, meaning more unethical behaviour goes unreported, harming society writ large.
Section 6(a) prohibits 'seek[ing] legal recourse' for libel unless the statement was "proven to be demonstrably false". "Proven" is in the past tense. Such a bar in effect closes off all recourse: to have something proven false in a court of law, it must first be proved before a judge, which cannot directly happen because "seek[ing] legal recourse" is prohibited. Both governments and citizens ought to have a right not to be lied about, destroying that right indulges in the worst incentives for misinformation and slander.
Replacement for this vital legislation should be passed which corrects these flaws.
Now, therefore, be "Whistleblower Protection Act" repealed.
Co-author: Hulldom
Passed: |
For: | 13,674 | 91.4% |
Against: | 1,287 | 8.6% |
General Assembly Resolution # 625
Deposit Insurance Fund
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
Whereas bank runs can bankrupt a bank, leading to all the depositors' savings disappearing in a flash of mania:
And whereas savings destruction sharply reduces economic activity and poses an extreme hazard to national populations:
And whereas (1) banks are central to modern payments systems and (2) protections for firms or certain asset classes in specific circumstances do not necessarily protect savers from having their life's work wiped out in an instant:
Be it enacted by the World Assembly, as follows:
All member nations are encouraged to establish a deposit insurance scheme that meets or exceeds the protective standards given by the Deposit Insurance Fund. All depository institutions are encouraged to enrol, and all such institutions with demand accounts are required to enrol, in the Deposit Insurance Fund.
There shall be established a Deposit Insurance Fund, hereinafter referred to as the Fund, with the following mandates. "Insured depository institutions" (IDI) are those institutions the Fund insures.
IDIs must pay premiums in proportion to the amount and risk of Fund-insured deposits. Extra premiums may be levied against what the Fund believes are systemically important institutions. IDIs receive a certificate and the ability to advertise that their deposits are insured by the Fund. Institutions not insured by the Fund may not make fraudulent claims that they are so insured.
If an IDI declares bankruptcy or is judged by the Fund to be critically undercapitalised, the Fund shall resolve it. The deposits insured by the Fund shall be determined ex ante by an insurance limit. That limit shall apply separately for each account-holder and be set roughly between two and three times that member nation's median household income, with adjustments made by the Fund after taking that member nation's advice.
The Fund shall resolve IDIs using one of the following options with the least cost to the Fund: (i) It may pay out to the depositors of such an institution their insured deposits. (ii) It may sell such an institution, or parts thereof, to another IDI, with some proportion of expected losses shared by the Fund, set at the Fund's discretion. (iii) It may advance liquidity support to such an institution if the Fund believes that the institution is systemically important. (iv) It may administer the IDI until such time that it is able to take other action cost-efficiently.
In all cases where the Fund closes an insolvent IDI, it must (i) make reimbursements to depositors forthwith and (ii) liquidate the unsold assets and liabilities in receivership, distributing proceeds to stakeholders per section 3 infra.
The Fund shall collect and supervise the collection of financial and legal information to determine the risk of failure and therefore, appropriate premiums to be levied on IDIs. It may release to the public non-sensitive information that it believes useful in furthering depositor discipline or improving transparency of the banking sector.
The Fund may require IDIs to pre-pay premiums, in exchange for credit against future premiums, within a reasonable time window. When the Fund does not have the money necessary to secure its mandate and is unable to raise it from IDIs without severely weakening remaining institutions, it may borrow from IDIs or incur amortised non-callable fixed-rate liabilities secured against future General Fund assessments.
The Fund shall distribute monies raised at the liquidation of an IDI in the following order: (a) the Fund itself, but only to reimburse liquidation expenses, (b) insured depositors if they have not yet been fully reimbursed, (c) uninsured depositors, and (d) all other stakeholders according to the bankruptcy procedures of the relevant jurisdiction. The Fund may issue an advance dividend for insured depositors against a conservatively-estimated value of the receivership.
The Fund shall have the power to create and enforce regulations needed to ensure that it can efficiently and effectively carry out its mandate. Member nations must enforce and IDIs comply with such regulations. IDIs shall send to the Fund standardised consolidated reports of income and condition at regular intervals on standards specified by the Fund. After considering a cost-benefit analysis, the Fund or superseding institutions shall issue regulations establishing minimum reserve requirements, capital adequacy requirements, liquidity requirements, and corporate governance standards in IDIs. Such regulations must be periodically reevaluated.
The Fund shall release consolidated reports of income and condition at the close of each quarter and liaise with deposit insurance programmes within member nations to provide guidance and assistance in fulfilling mandates concurrent with those of the Fund.
Passed: |
For: | 11,205 | 81.7% |
Against: | 2,518 | 18.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 626
Repeal: “Nuclear Arms Possession Act”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #10 “Nuclear Arms Possession Act” (Category: International Security; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Understanding the critical role nuclear weapons play as tools of deterrence and national defense,
Lauding GA 10 "Nuclear Arms Possession Act" for securing member nations' right to possess nuclear weapons at a time when this august body was in its infancy and could have made any number of disastrous mistakes on the subject due to shortsighted political forces,
Recognizing, however, that the main purpose of the target resolution- to protect the right of member nations "to possess nuclear weapons to defend themselves from hostile nations"- is now redundant with a more recent and better written resolution, GA 418 "Safeguarding Nuclear Materials," thereby removing the main benefit provided by the target and allowing its severe issues to come to the forefront,
Deeply troubled by the targets ultimate clause, "REQUIRES that any nation choosing to possess nuclear weapons take every available precaution to ensure that their weapons do not fall into the wrong hands," which:
does not define or elaborate on the meaning of "the wrong hands," thereby leaving who or what nations are to secure their weapons against unclear, and
requires nations to "take every available precaution" regardless of how reasonable, sensible, or otherwise justified a given precaution is,
Comprehending that the above problem areas render compliance with the already redundant target resolution unclear, difficult, and unnecessarily costly through their vagueness and poor wording, and could easily undermine the purpose of the target and even endanger nations by potentially forcing members to implement unreasonable restrictions that harm their ability to access, use, or even maintain or dismantle their own weapons so long as those restrictions act to "ensure" they "do not fall into the wrong hands,"
Adamant that such issues are inexcusable where nuclear weapons and national security are concerned, especially since the survival of the members of this Assembly could very well hinge on the credible threat of rapid nuclear retaliation in certain circumstances, not to mention the ability to efficiently access their weapons for repairs and maintenance,
Noting that even the aforementioned final clause of GA 10 is better covered by GA 418's fourth clause: "Mandates that member nations take all practical actions to stop unauthorised release of the materials or disclosure of the knowledge spoken of in the above two clauses,"
Clarifying that repealing GA 10 will not leave the right of members to possess nuclear weapons unprotected, nor will it have any significant impact other than eliminating a redundant resolution with several flaws that can prove severely harmful to member nations,
Believing that GA 10 has not failed, but rather has served its purpose and helped allow this body to survive into the future, and to pass a resolution of a higher quality that has rendered GA 10 obsolete, and
Wishing to finally lay one of the most venerable documents produced by this body to a well-deserved rest,
Hereby repeals GA 10 "Nuclear Arms Possession Act."
Passed: |
For: | 12,088 | 85.6% |
Against: | 2,028 | 14.4% |
General Assembly Resolution # 627
Ship Recycling and Breaking Protocols
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
The World Assembly,
Recognizing its efforts to protect the seas (GAR#168, GAR#409), to promote recycling (GAR#511), and resolutions on labor rights and trade;
Concerned that, with ever more ships plying the waters, no effective rules exist on the recycling of ships at the end of their useful lives;
Noting that ship recycling yard workers may be exposed to potential hazardous materials which may pose significant negative risks to their health;
Anxious that, with many bodies of water connected across the multi-verse, pollution from a member state may still harm the well-being of another member state;
Hereby enacts as follows:
For the purposes of this Resolution:
"WA vessel" means a ship either (i) duly registered to the competent authority of a WA member state with relevant information on the ship duly recorded by the WA member state, in accordance with that state's requirements and/or (ii) asserted by the said member state to be subject to its jurisdiction thereof;
"Flag state" means the WA member state for which a WA vessel is duly registered on its registry and/or asserted by the said WA member state to be subject to its jurisdiction; and
"WA yard" means a breaking and recycling yard located within a WA member state.
The World Assembly Nautical Commission (WANC) shall set forth, and update from time to time as it deems fit:
(I) regulations, (II) procedures and (III) recommendations on service levels and best practices on safe and environmentally-friendly ways to recycle WA vessels, including technical rules and requirements on design, construction, and operations of WA vessels and WA yards and the handling of potentially hazardous materials;
A database for sharing latest research, advanced technologies and developed best practices between WA members, subject to regulations on copyright and intellectual property;
requirements to (re)confirm the safety and capability of a WA vessel prior to and for its final voyage to a WA yard for recycling;
requirements that flag state must ensure that its WA vessels carries sufficient insurance with an insurance underwriter that the flag state deems to be well capitalized, prior to setting off on its final voyage to a WA yard for recycling to compensate for any potential incidents en route, including any salvage and clean-up costs and compensation paid to any other WA states affected on this voyage;
requirements that any new WA vessels to compile and maintain (and for existing vessels, compile and maintain to the fullest extent possible) an updated inventory of potentially hazardous materials used in its construction, modification and/or repairs to aid the WA yard during breaking and recycling; and
templates for "Recycling Plans" for WA yards, to be updated from time to time, detailing how various kinds of WA vessels will be recycled in a safe and environmentally-friendly manner, including the safe handling of potentially hazardous materials.
WA yards are required, for each recycling of a WA vessel, to:
complete such a "Recycling Plan" stated in Clause (2)(f) specific to that WA vessel, using the latest templates from WANC;
for such a Plan to be approved by a competent authority of the WA member where the WA yard is located prior to the start of work; and
for the aforesaid competent authority to enforce compliance of the said Plan.
WA yards recycling non WA vessels, or vessels not built according to WANC rules, are required to comply with local rules or WANC rules, whichever is stricter, to the maximum technical extent possible.
WA members shall recycle their WA vessels in WA yards, and not at non-WA member states, unless the WA member is satisfied that the non-WA member state adheres to standards for recycling at least as stringent as WANC rules.
Flag states may not permit the re-registration of a WA vessel to a non-WA member state, or abandon its claims to subject a particular vessel to its jurisdiction thereof, if the competent authority of the flag state independently determine after due process that the re-registration is primarily for the purpose of circumventing WANC rules.
Passed: |
For: | 13,465 | 81.6% |
Against: | 3,031 | 18.4% |
General Assembly Resolution # 628
Repeal: “Equal Justice Under Law”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #572 “Equal Justice Under Law” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The Assembly of Worlds,
Believing in the value of holding public officials accountable for their actions, including ending unnecessary immunity from prosecution of crimes,
Arguing that nevertheless, GA#572 "Equal Justice Under Law" not only does not do that, but also even endorses such "qualified immunity" of public officials,
Stating the facts as such:
GA#572 "Establishes that all private and public individuals, officials, entities, and institutions... be held accountable... under any guidelines and/or disciplinary measures that may be in use by a particular organization."
GA#572 makes no rules regarding these disciplinary measures.
Institutions in member nations may therefore set their own guidelines and disciplinary measures, including such things as paid administrative leave, and consider this to be sufficient accountability.
Encouraging the members of this Assembly to think carefully about the legislation they choose to enact in the future and whether it is really an improvement over the resolutions we frequently repeal,
Destroys "Equal Justice Under Law"
Passed: |
For: | 13,066 | 88.1% |
Against: | 1,764 | 11.9% |