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 # 513
Sovereign Justice Accord
A resolution to enact uniform standards that protect workers, consumers, and the general public.
Whereas it is destabilising to the international system to permit suits against a member nation in the courts of another member nation, as this would
allow for member nations to engage in abusive suits against other and
imply that one nation is in a position of supremacy to the nation being sued:
And whereas sovereigns have incentives to avoid being held to justice in the status quo:
And whereas GAR 466 World Assembly Justice Accord creates a cohesive and robust means to try cases submitted to it and provides clear and effective measures to review decisions made therein:
Be it enacted by this august World Assembly as follows:
In this resolution,
use of the singular includes the plural and vice versa,
legal persons means legal persons under the jurisdiction of the World Assembly and/or its members,
WAJC refers to the World Assembly Judiciary Committee,
member means member nation,
resolution means General Assembly resolution,
IAO refers to the Independent Adjudicative Office, and
WAJC courts refers to the courts established by the WAJC under section 2 of this resolution.
WAJC shall appoint judges to trial and appellate courts, which will hear cases in panels of one and three judges respectively.
No foreign affected legal person may initiate civil judicial proceedings against a member or its subdivisions, without the consent of that member or subdivision, except in WAJCs trial courts and under procedures that may be established by resolution.
WAJC courts shall apply WA law and all other laws applicable within the relevant jurisdiction(s). Members must provide the WAJC with official translations of their laws in the WAJCs working language.
WAJC must make regulations to govern the processes by which people can initiate judicial proceedings in a way that ensures that grievances can be processed and adjudicated fairly for all parties with respect to civil and criminal actions.
If it can be shown to the IAO that those regulations are insufficient in fulfilling the mandates of this section, the IAO may alter or abolish them.
Parties in cases before WAJC courts may retain counsel for their own representation.
Affected legal persons-
may appeal against judgements of WAJCs trial courts to its appellate courts and
must cooperate fully with any orders and judgements issued by WAJCs courts within a reasonable time frame, as set by the courts.
WAJCs courts may require a member to pay compensatory and non-compensatory damages as part of a judgement against that nation.
No judge serving in a WAJC court may hear cases involving a member that they are or have been a citizen of, or where they have or have had permanent residence. WAJC may, upon acceptance of a case, dispatch court officials to a locale more convenient for proceedings. Members must permit the entrance and exit of such court officials.
All members must submit evidence requested by a WAJC court which it believes is sufficiently important. The courts of WAJC should, in deciding whether to request evidence from a member, weigh the interests of the member against the necessity of requesting the evidence.
Members are to be permitted to file emergency motions against the production of classified documents with an appellate court of WAJC, who will have final judgement on the matter. The appellate courts may dismiss any motions that are prima facie frivolous or meant to disrupt proceedings.
If a member is required to produce classified documents, WAJCs courts will take appropriate measures to prevent the disclosure of said documents to the general public.
Co-authored by Imperium Anglorum.
Passed: |
For: | 10,994 | 79.7% |
Against: | 2,799 | 20.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 514
Ending School Segregation
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.
Whereas the exclusion of minority students from education with the majority population in separate educational facilities creates an inherently unequal quality of education by neglecting the student's ability to discuss and exchange views with other students:
And whereas racial and class motivated biases, along with the costs of private education, produce self-segregation that negatively affects students' ability to engage with society writ large:
And whereas the only way to prevent this self-segregation is for the state to promote values of pluralism and tolerance in the realm of schooling:
And whereas, if the Assembly is to ensure minority students' inclusion in schools, safeguards are required to prevent staff from treating those students poorly and to protect such students from being harassed:
Now therefore, be it enacted by this august World Assembly as follows:
Rights of the child. Children have a right, by education, to develop competence to interact in a pluralistic society. Unless a child is physically unfit to attend a school or an undue hardship is imposed on the child by this requirement, member states must to the best of their ability advance this goal through schooling; to that end, among other things, they shall prohibit segregation and self-segregation of students by parental income, race, religion, or other protected classes.
Ensuring school quality. Member nations shall ensure that educational services not under their direct control meet or exceed the same standards as those under their direct control on the following criteria: educational goals, facilities, instructors' training, and other standards that member nations may by law or resolution create. Member nations may not use accreditation in a way that encourages segregation by classes in section 1.
School authorities' duty to parents. Parents may, with the advice and consent of an administrative law (or other suitably empowered) officer, require school authorities to take action to prevent their children from being poorly treated by other children or staff on account of background, beliefs, and other rights protected by World Assembly legislation.
Clarification. In this resolution,
resolution refers to World Assembly resolutions and
parent includes guardians.
Passed: |
For: | 12,837 | 87.0% |
Against: | 1,915 | 13.0% |
General Assembly Resolution # 515
International Bankruptcy Protocol
A resolution to enact uniform standards that protect workers, consumers, and the general public.
Abhorring the lack of international comity requirements for insolvent entities in a world increasingly reliant on globalized commerce;
Fearing that such a lack may permit debtors to evade creditors by shifting assets across international borders, both hindering commerce and increasing the transactional cost of commercial and consumer bargaining;
Believing that bankruptcy is a tool to both protect debtors from insolvency and permanent barriers to obtaining consumer credit and creditors from losing any opportunity for remuneration;
Asserting that no loss of sovereignty truly occurs by extending the courtesy of comity to fellow members of the World Assembly, as all states benefit equally from their extension;
The World Assembly enacts the following:
Bankruptcy is a legal process overseen by a court or trustee that reorganizes or discharges debt meant to satisfy creditor claims while protecting debtors from extended insolvency and compounding debt.
A foreign representative is a person or persons authorized to appear on behalf of a nongovernmental debtor or creditor to represent the debtor or creditors interests in a foreign bankruptcy proceeding.
Member states must establish a judicial or administrative procedure to aid foreign representatives in recognizing and enforcing the applicable foreign bankruptcy laws over fiscal assets within the territorial jurisdiction of that member state.
Member states may require a reasonable analysis of the debtors ties to the host jurisdiction and to the foreign jurisdiction to determine whether extending bankruptcy comity is appropriate.
A reasonable analysis may inquire into:
The proportion of assets within the host jurisdiction as compared to those in the foreign jurisdiction;
The length of time those assets have been within the host jurisdiction; and
Any other factor which the member state feels relevant and that facilitates fair and efficient bankruptcy procedures in conformity with the implicit goals of this resolution.
Notwithstanding foreign bankruptcy law, member states must:
Enforce a mandatory stay of any creditor claims against the debtors assets within member state jurisdiction pending conclusion of the bankruptcy process if member states have extended comity under Clause 3, except for government liens meant to collect unpaid taxes; and
Supply court records pertaining to ongoing proceedings and past bankruptcies on request by a party or government involved in the instant bankruptcy proceeding.
Member states may charge foreign representatives reasonable administrative or court fees, commensurate with domestic fees for similar work, when enforcing foreign bankruptcy comity claims.
No member state may treat the failure to obtain bankruptcy comity as having a preclusive effect on later domestic claims by either creditors or debtors.
Member states may enforce a time limit on the number of separate bankruptcy comity claims a court may enforce for a debtor.
Nothing in this resolution mandates the extension of comity to non-member states.
Passed: |
For: | 12,326 | 84.5% |
Against: | 2,263 | 15.5% |
General Assembly Resolution # 516
Repeal: “Ban on Sterilisation of Minors etc”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #472 “Ban on Sterilisation of Minors etc” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Recognising the efforts made in GA #472, Ban on Sterilisation of Minors etc to prevent unnecessary sterilisation of minors;
Asserting that the purpose of independent review can be achieved with individual qualified medical professionals;
Concerned that Institutional Review Boards, as defined by GA#111, are bureaucratic institutions that are not required to be staffed with medical experts and thus serve no real purpose, except wasting the state's resources in setting up and maintaining such institutions;
Worried that requiring the permission of an Independent Review Board could unnecessarily prolong decision making in an emergency or in time-sensitive cases;
Further alarmed that clause two allows the World Assembly Compliance Commission (WACC) to create further regulations on behalf of the World Assembly, without needing to consult the will of the combined member nations;
Convinced that this Assembly should not pass legislation that empowers committees to create secondary legislation, as there is little supervision, if at all, over the actions these committees make;
Confident that regulations to ensure the proper review procedures for the sterilisation of minors can be instituted by further legislation without reducing the relevancy of member nations in the decisions concerning their own future;
Hereby repeals GA#472 "Ban on Sterilisation of Minors etc".
Passed: |
For: | 11,044 | 76.0% |
Against: | 3,487 | 24.0% |
General Assembly Resolution # 517
Repeal: “World Assembly Trade Rights”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #209 “World Assembly Trade Rights” (Category: Free Trade; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly finds as follows:
Extending trade preferences on a most-favoured nation basis to all member nations requires that any further preference to an allied member nation also be given to other unfriendly member nations. Governments have interests in stopping the transfer of technology or linking of their industry with such unfriendly nations, motives which are not accounted for in GA 209, which only permits exceptions for 'vital national security interests during serious international disputes or times of war'.
Section 1(c) of the target resolution allows for existing trade zones to exist. But it is unclear how such existing trade zones can possibly 'ultimately lower trade barriers between their members' without inherently contradicting the most-favoured nation provision in section 1(a), as any members of a trade zone would by virtue of their membership be more favoured than non-trade zone member nations, putting such members in violation of section 1(a) unless their trade zone membership privileges were extended to all World Assembly member nations.
Section 2 does not give member nations authority to institute retaliatory tariffs against dumping or other unfair trade practices, instead only giving member nations the ability to support domestic industry with subsidies. This has two impacts. First, subsidies cost member nations money, while tariffs (being taxes) are net positive on a nation's treasury. By only allowing subsidies, this penalises member nations with weaker financial situations. Second, the use of subsidies instead of tariffs causes a race towards higher subsidies, as subsidies increase production, further driving down commodity prices, necessitating even higher subsidies to ensure viability. This singular-minded view on subsidies therefore harms the poorest member nations and saddles the Assembly as a whole with chronic overproduction and government support of inefficient industries.
GA 440 'Administrative Compliance Act' uses trade sanctions as a core means of enforcement of World Assembly legislation. It is unclear how strong such sanctions can be when section 1(a) requires equal treatment of nations regardless of their compliance with World Assembly resolutions. Basic fairness requires that member nations which are not compliant with Assembly legislation, a duty of membership in the Assembly, should not be given the benefits of membership. Repeal, therefore, repairs a sense of basic fairness necessary for the Assembly to operate justly and impartially.
Further legislation should be passed, patching the flaws present in GA 209, to ensure sufficient incentives for membership in the World Assembly.
Now, therefore, the World Assembly repeals GA 209 'World Assembly Trade Rights'.
Passed: |
For: | 12,627 | 92.1% |
Against: | 1,081 | 7.9% |