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From April 1, 2008 until July 2, 2026, the World Assembly built a massive corpus of 862 resolutions adopted by all WA member nations. During this period, the WA split into two chambers: The General Assembly continued the WA's original mission and focus on international law.
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Legacy General Assembly Resolution # 223
Transboundary Water Use Act
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
The World Assembly,
NOTING that certain surface water and groundwater resources, such as rivers and lakes, water basins, and aquifers are transboundary among nations.
CONCERNED that abuses committed by one nation on transboundary water resources could detrimentally affect the environment, economy, and well-being of neighboring nations.
AWARE that abuses may include, but are not limited to: Damming or diversion of rivers for irrigation or hydro-electric power generation, overtapping of aquifers, and discharge of urban wastes, industrial byproducts, and storm waters into rivers and lakes.
Hereby,
1) DEFINES, for the purpose of this Act, “Transboundary Water Resources” as water resources which are situated in part in different nations.
2) FORMS the Joint Water Resources Management Panel (JWRMP) to establish sustainable water use policies, cooperation protocols, and other regulations necessary to protect transboundary water resources,
3) ADOPTS the following articles to ensure that transboundary surface and groundwater resources are managed in-common and used sustainably.
Member nations shall:
Conserve, improve, and use transboundary water resources responsibly;
Mitigate any downstream hazards caused by upriver human activity;
Agree not to overtap, divert or dam transboundary water resources if the action causes significant harm to neighbouring nations;
Adopt measures to eliminate pollution from agriculture or industrial activities entering transboundary rivers and groundwater basins;
Ensure future development carried out on or near transboundary water resources will not cause lasting, adverse change to them; and
Allow neighbouring member nations to monitor the progress made in mutually agreed joint-implementation programs.
4) DIRECTS member nations to resolve disputes on transboundary water issues bilaterally or multilaterally, failing which, allows member nations to refer the dispute to JWRMP for arbitration with the consent of all parties involved.
5) CLARIFIES that member nations may:
Trade water rights so long as doing so is not detrimental to the public welfare or conservation goals; and
Enact more stringent environmental and water conservation laws than those stipulated by JWRMP.
6) AFFIRMS the importance of international cooperation and requests member nations cooperate with non-member nations on issues stated herein.
Passed: |
For: | 8,421 | 82.9% |
Against: | 1,743 | 17.1% |
Legacy General Assembly Resolution # 224
Promotion of Bee-keeping
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
The World Assembly,
Happily aware that Bees not only play a major role in pollinating many species of plants, including quite a few species that are useful to people, but can also produce both honey and beeswax in quantities that makes their harvesting by people worthwhile,
Open to the fact that keeping one or more hives can therefore provide people with a useful supplement to their diets and incomes, as well as assisting the pollination of some local crops,
Not at all happy that some nations might, for one reason or another, play unnecessary restrictions on bee-keeping;
Enthusiastically urges all WA member nations to _
1. Legalise bee-keeping, without setting unreasonable limits on whereabouts keepers may allow their bees to roam;
2. Legalise both domestic and international trade in hives or swarms of bees, honey, beeswax, bee-hives, and other relevant goods;
3. Refrain from imposing unreasonably strict or petty regulations upon bee-keeping and the associated activities, and from taxing these matters at rates that would render them not worthwhile for the bee-keepers;
4. Recognise the legal right of people from adjoining nations to reclaim swarms of bees that those people owned within those other nations under those other nations' own laws but that have strayed or even been lured across the international border;
5. Ensure that training in bee-keeping and in the processing of the bees’ products is available easily enough within their jurisdictions to meet the needs of any of their people who are interested in this possibility;
6. Discourage the reckless use of general-purpose insecticides, because those could harm bees (and other useful insects) as well as the 'pest' species that people actually want to get rid of;
Yearning to ease international trade in these goods, enacts that (subject to any restrictions imposed by earlier GA resolutions that are still in force) all WA member nations are required _
1. To allow the importation and exportation of any bees, bee-keeping equipment and/or products of bee-keeping of types whose possession would be legal within their borders, without unreasonably strict or petty regulation, subject to any restrictions that they apply to international trade in general in time of war or other national emergency, except as is genuinely necessary to prevent the spread of disease;
2. To limit any place customs duties, tariffs, or other taxation, that they place on the international trade in bees, bee-keeping equipment, and/or the products of bee-keeping, to levels that do not exceed taxation on the internal trade in such goods within their borders, except that if any imported goods received government subsidies within their country of origin at higher rates than equivalent goods are subsidised within the receiving nation then additional tariffs may be imposed to balance that difference.
Passed: | |
For: | 8,599 | 77.7% |
Against: | 2,463 | 22.3% |
Legacy General Assembly Resolution # 225
Repeal: “Assitance Givers Protection”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
Legacy General Assembly Resolution #106 “Assitance Givers Protection” (Category: Advancement of Industry; Area of Effect: Tort Reform) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Applauding the intentions of Ga #106 "Assitance Givers Protection,"
Seeking, however, to improve the quality of international law,
Believing that the resolution in question is poorly written,
Regretting that the ambiguity of its language precludes several of its clauses from being effectively enforced,
Recognizing that simply believing yourself capable of helping someone does not necessarily indicate capability to help effectively,
Notes that the resolution bars simple actions such as removing someone from harm's way, when doing so would be both warranted and acceptable.
Feeling that GA #106 unnecessarily ties the hands of nations who might be better arbiters of the merits of each individual case,
Emphasizes that harm resultant of negligence, even in the course of providing assistance, should still be actionable in civil court in at least some cases,
Accepting that most nations will pass their own laws on the subject without the interference of the World Assembly,
Hereby repeals Ga #106 "Assitance Givers Protection."
Passed: |
For: | 9,744 | 90.7% |
Against: | 1,004 | 9.3% |
Legacy General Assembly Resolution # 226
WA Development Foundation
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
Recognizing that developing member nations often encounter significant difficulties in making capital investments and attracting foreign investment,
The General Assembly adopts the following resolution:
Article I: Mandate
The World Assembly Development Foundation is established, mandated with promoting socioeconomic development in developing member nations through foreign investment and international trade.
Article II: Development Strategies
The Foundation shall conduct extensive research relating to socioeconomic development in all developing member nations. All of the Foundation's research shall be released to the general public.
Based on its research, the Foundation shall create a comprehensive development strategy for all developing member nations, including as necessary:
capital investment projects designed to improve the infrastructure required to support future economic development and provide basic public services;
governmental reforms designed to promote good governance and remove barriers to foreign investment and international trade, including but not limited to austerity measures, balanced budgets, trade liberalization, privatization and deregulation, sustainable development programs, democratic reforms, improved respect for fundamental human rights, and increased spending on basic public services as appropriate; and
reasonable timelines for the completion of the aforementioned projects and reforms.
Development strategies shall be drafted with the full participation of all the major stakeholders in the subject nation.
Article III: Sovereign Loans Program
The Foundation is authorized to offer sovereign loans at its discretion to any developing member nation. Nations must have made a good-faith effort towards implementing the governmental reforms recommended by their development strategy, though the Foundation may allow exceptions during times of national emergency and economic crisis.
Member nations shall use these loans exclusively to implement the recommendations from their development strategy, though the Foundation may allow exceptions during times of national emergency and economic crisis.
Loans extended by the Foundation shall be entirely financed by willing member nations. The Foundation shall not be held liable in the event that a member nation defaults on a loan. A nation's share of all loan payments and influence on the Foundation's loan policy shall be proportional to the size of its contributions to the Foundation.
In general, member nations are encouraged to provide debt relief to other member nations during times of national emergency and economic crisis.
Article IV: Foreign Investment Insurance Program
The Foundation is authorized to insure any foreign investment in developing member nations at its discretion when available insurance is inadequate. The grounds for a claim are limited to currency inconvertibility, expropriation, war, terrorism and civil disturbance, breaches of contract, and governmental failure to honour financial obligations.
The Foundation shall charge premiums to investors sufficiently high to cover the risk of their investment and the expenses incurred in determining that risk.
The Foundation shall take any reasonable course of action to avoid bankruptcy, and must maintain a minimum liquidity ratio of 10% at all times.
Passed: |
For: | 7,156 | 60.3% |
Against: | 4,706 | 39.7% |
Legacy General Assembly Resolution # 227
Rights of the Disabled Act
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
The World Assembly,
Recognising the need for a formal resolution on the procedures to protect the mentally disabled,
Understanding that there are multiple levels of of Mental Disability
Therefore Defining,for the purposes of this act, a Mentally Disabled person to be a sapient individual, above the age of majority, whose sapience has been reduced to the point where any two or more of the following are significantly reduced:
The ability to understand their rights
Their ability to defend their rights to the same extent as the average citizen in their nation
Their ability to exercise their rights
Their ability to make informed decisions regarding their health and safety
Hereby Mandates that in necessary cases, including but not limited to; legal matters, court matters, and medical consent, a limited power of attorney be transferred to a Responsible Adult.
Defines a Responsible Adult as one of the following
A preferred Responsible Adult, nominated by the person before they become disabled, will be the first person requested to become the Responsible Adult, but only if they can prove that they have no conflict of interest
A member of the Disabled Person's family, who can legally establish that they have no conflict of interests
In lieu of a suitable candidate, a representative, independent of the national government, must be selected, who must also pass a test of conflict of interest.
Mandates that the said Responsible Adult be monitored on a regular basis to ensure that no conflict of interest develops
Restricts the power of Attorney given to the Responsible Adult to the least possible in the circumstances
Urges the states to use this legislation as a matter of last resort, and to consider all alternatives before transferring a persons authority to another.
Urges the states using this legislation to work towards a position whereby a Disabled Person's authority is returned to them at the earliest possible juncture
Mandates the creation of a commission to monitor states for abuse of this legislation
Passed: | |
For: | 8,899 | 70.7% |
Against: | 3,686 | 29.3% |
