General Assembly Proposals

General Assembly Resolution #221 “On Multilateral Trade Talks” (Category: Free Trade; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Noting that Article 1 of GA#221 requires that the World Assembly organise "multilateral trade negotiations... with the mandate of reducing protectionist measures between all member nations" on a decadal basis, and that its Article 3 tasks members with deploying "at least one qualified delegate to these negotiations,"

Concluding that GA#221 not only fails to require members to actually subscribe to free trade agreements, but in fact allows member state delegates to its negotiations to attempt to reach such agreements about exceedingly minor categories of goods and services with other delegates, so long as they meet Article 4's requirement that they "make a good faith effort... to come to mutually beneficial agreements which are in the best interests of all national populations involved" in doing so,

Firmly refusing to applaud GA#221's goal of "reducing protectionist measures between [member]s," given that GA#26 "World Assembly Economic Union" - the third article of which had similar provisions to that of GA#221 - was repealed by GA#45 exactly because of the damage that the WA-sanctioned reduction of such measures can cause to the economies of the least developed members, and

Believing that individual members are more than capable of negotiating their own free trade agreements - comprehensive or otherwise - without having to be babysat by the WA in the process...

The General Assembly hereby repeals GA#221 "On Multilateral Trade Talks."

General Assembly Resolution #105 “Preparing for Disasters” (Category: International Security; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

The General Assembly,

Acknowledging and appreciating the good intentions of Resolution 105, “Preparing For Disasters,” in its aid to international coordination in the leadup to natural and artificial disasters,

Aware that Resolution 105 does a reasonably good job in achieving its goal,

Concerned, however, at several potentially negative implications reaching beyond the scope of the resolution, such as:

1. Clause two mandating that the World Assembly Disaster Bureau provide “all the help that a nation requests in [inspections mandated],” regardless of the nation’s actual need of help, potentially opening the door for malicious states to drain the funds of the World Assembly General Fund by requesting unnecessary assistance that the Bureau is required to provide,

2. Clause seven requiring the World Assembly Disaster Bureau to share research regarding technologies used to assist in responding to disasters with all nations, regardless of the nation’s World Assembly member status or any other potential applications of the technology, meaning that any research found by the Bureau that may prove hazardous or otherwise dangerous if in the wrong hands must be shared with all nations, including malicious actors,

3. Clause eight instructing the World Assembly Disaster Bureau to work with all World Assembly organizations, regardless of relevance or necessity to the overarching goal of the Bureau, which could prove to be burdensome as the network of World Assembly organizations expands,

Believing that, regardless of whatever good Resolution 105 provides, the negative consequences that the language of the resolution allows necessitates repeal,

Hoping that, following the repeal of Resolution 105, a suitable replacement will be promptly passed, ultimately minimizing whatever negative effect will be felt by not having a resolution of this topic on the books,

Hereby repeals Resolution 105, “Preparing For Disasters.”

Whereas all sapient rights are put in danger wherever unnecessary armed conflict occurs, the General Assembly hereby:

1. establishes the World Assembly Peace Prize, hereinafter the Prize,

2. tasks the WA Commission on Human Rights with:

   1. receiving nominations for the Prize from anyone who works as a head of state or government, legislator, or professor in any member state, in addition to any leaders of member state delegations to the World Assembly; and disregarding nominations with the effect of such individuals nominating themselves, their co-workers or their employer for the Prize,

   2. awarding the Prize each year to that person or group of people resident in any member state who has been nominated in accordance with Article b(i),

   3. basing its decision to award the Prize to any given person or group solely on whether, in its view, they have demonstrably contributed more than any other such person or group in the previous year to the resolution, without violence and with respect for all sapient rights protected by international law, of major conflicts between and within nations which involved or could have realistically involved large-scale acts of violence, and

   4. rewarding (each of) the winner(s) of the Prize in each year with a medallion containing one ounce of 99.9% pure silver and of one-and-a-half inch diameter, which shall have on its obverse the words "WA PEACE PRIZE - WITH PEACE COMES FREEDOM" surrounding the logo of the World Assembly, and on its reverse nothing,

3. forbids members from confiscating any rewards bestowed upon Prize winners under Article b(iv) for any reason not enshrined by prior and standing international law, and

4. encourages all members to refrain from organised armed conflict which is not necessary to prevent practices (such as terrorism, genocide, and other crimes against humanity) that threaten the achievement of all sapient rights.

General Assembly Resolution #247 “Rights of Crime Victims” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

The World Assembly,

Believing in the intent behind Resolution 247, “Rights of Crime Victims”, in protecting the victims of crimes from the accused perpetrators, and in securing various rights that victims necessarily should have,

Concerned that several flaws present in Resolution 247 may render it doing a net harm to society and government in member-nations, notably:

1. Ambiguities in clause one that lead to a not-unreasonable interpretation that crime victims must be updated on critical stages of prosecution, regardless of their actual desire to know of the ongoings, which may lead to further trauma or harm to their psyche,

2. The ability for victims to make a statement at any critical stage of the prosecution may lead to particularly vindictive victims to be able to draw out a trial beyond a point reasonable or necessary for the deliverance of justice,

3. The failure of the definition of “the accused”, resulting in all clauses regarding the accused to apply to acquitted individuals, due to the past tense of the clause possibly meaning “any person who has been charged in the past with a crime”,

4. The failure of the resolution to connect “the accused” with the “crime victim” explicitly, possibly allowing any person considered a crime victim to be afforded all the rights in the resolution against any person considered to be the accused, even if the cases are wholly unrelated,

5. Not inherently allowing the immediate family of a crime victim to be afforded the rights as listed under Resolution 247 if death or incapacitation falls upon the crime victim, but is unrelated to the crime in question, which may lead to awkward, unfortunate, or otherwise harmful situations to the families of incapacitated crime victims,

Certain that while a resolution can be written in order to further protections of victims, Resolution 247 fails to uphold a standard ensuring a fair trial to all, as well as having notable ambiguities that make the proposal ineffective in tempering malicious or otherwise incompetent nations,

Hopeful that most reasonable member-nations will impose rights similar to those intended to be applied by the target, and unfortunately knowing that due to subpar writing, unreasonable or malevolent nations can find holes to bypass the intent of the resolution and further their own agenda regardless of this legislation on the topic,

Hereby repeals Resolution 247, “Rights of Crime Victims”.