World 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 # 423
Repeal: “Promoting Sustainable Timber”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #422 “Promoting Sustainable Timber” (Category: Advancement of Industry; Area of Effect: Protective Tariffs) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
This esteemed World Assembly,
Recognizing the laudable efforts and purpose to uphold the quality of timber production in order to provide a sustainable future for timber production,
Acknowledging that a complete ban of timber and timber product imports produced in ways non-compliant with the provisions set by this and preceding resolutions would be a detriment to timber industries of non-WA member nations,
Realizing this damage to the timber industry would decrease business and lower demand, which lowers prices and forces non-compliant nations to use cost-cutting, environmentally harmful methods of production for timber,
Further noting that this ban on importation would greatly hurt trade relations between WA and non WA member nations who consume timber and timber products,
Discerning that this will force WA member nations to spend a significant amount more importing sustainable timber, especially when other nations can undercut the sustainable market with unsustainable practices,
Concluding that this resolution will ultimately harm the sustainability of timber rather than protect it, good intentions notwithstanding.
Hereby repeals GAR#422 Promoting Sustainable Timber.
Passed: |
For: | 12,645 | 66.3% |
Against: | 6,418 | 33.7% |
General Assembly Resolution # 424
Repeal: “Protection of Biomedical Research”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #420 “Protection of Biomedical Research” (Category: Health; Area of Effect: Research) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Affirming in principle the importance of biomedical research in improving quality of life in all World Assembly member states,
Simultaneously insisting on the necessity of appropriate bioethical regulation in order to protect the fundamental rights of individuals and other legitimate public interests,
Condemning the target resolution GAR #420, "Protection of Biomedical Research", a resolution that primarily serves to frustrate the responsible regulation of biomedical research by member states,
Noting that the target resolution bars member states from engaging in any regulation of biomedical research except for "scientific standards" and "ethics standards and regulations [that] serve specifically to minimize or eliminate harm to life provably sentient or sapient at the time of research",
Emphasizing the critical importance of numerous ethical regulations that are relevant in the context of biomedical research and in service of legitimate public interests, even though they cannot be established as preventing direct harm to particular sapient or sentient life,
Appalled that this absurdly broad restriction prohibits (or at least would prohibit, should prior legislation be repealed) member states from, among other things:
securing legal protection from harmful medical experimentation to the historically vulnerable class of persons who, while not "provably sentient or sapient at the time of research" may indeed regain such capacity, such as individuals in comas or persistent vegetative states,
granting precautionary legal protection from potentially harmful medical experimentation to potentially sentient or sapient life that has not yet been definitively "proven" to be such, perhaps due to difficulties in communication,
requiring appropriate reverence for the remains of deceased sapient life in the course of biomedical research,
mandating that biomedical researchers abide by reasonable financial disclosure and conflict of interest rules, and
providing adequate legal protection for the environment in the context of biomedical research, at least with respect to non-sapient animal, plant, bacterial, and fungal life such as coral reefs and old-growth forests,
Understanding that significant portions of the remainder of the target resolution are largely redundant in light of GAR #111, "Medical Research Ethics Act" and GAR #219, "Biomedical Innovation Org", for the following reasons:
the target resolution requires the Biomedical Innovation Organization (BIO) to coordinate "international efforts at biomedical research", despite the fact that GAR #219 already requires the BIO to coordinate "research on treatments involving biomedical tissues conducted within WA member nations",
the target resolution mandates the BIO with developing minimum scientific and ethical standards for biomedical research and serving as an advisory body for biomedical ethics organizations and regulatory bodies, even though GAR #111 already establishes and regulates bodies required for upholding medical research ethics in member states, and
the target resolution establishes an "internationally-accessible database of ongoing biomedical research within Member-States", even though GAR #219 already requires the BIO to include "research data for biomedical innovations as a part of the Database Of Clinical Treatments Under Study",
Seeking to remove harmful and redundant legislation from the pages of international law,
The General Assembly,
Repeals GAR #420, "Protection of Biomedical Research".
Passed: |
For: | 10,293 | 52.6% |
Against: | 9,288 | 47.4% |
General Assembly Resolution # 425
Protection of Biomedical Research
A resolution to modify universal standards of healthcare.
Recognizing the vast potential of biomedical research to improve and save the lives of the citizens of Member-States,
Applauding the great strides already made in the field by many Member-States,
Desiring to establish a universal scientific standard so as to facilitate international cooperation and advancement,
Appalled by the complete lack of moral fiber demonstrated by organizations that oppose life-saving research,
And condemning the placement of unjust and illegitimate restrictions on such research,
The World Assembly hereby;
Defines, for the purposes of this resolution:
Biomedical Research as the fields of research investigating the causes of disease, disease prevention, treatment, and the mitigation or elimination of medical conditions including, but not limited to: Cancer, Paraplegia, and Motor Neuron Diseases,
Mandates:
That Member-States determine the sapience of any species for which the status is as-yet indeterminate or unknown prior to allowing, or engaging in biomedical experimentation on said species,
That Member-States consider any temporarily or permanently incapacitated member of a species known to be sapient, to be themselves Sapient, regardless of disability or condition,
That any and all research efforts within Member-States, barring those protected for reasons of security, disclose any and all conflicts of interest, including, but not limited to, origin and amount of funding, methodological biases, and personal biases in research personnel,
That Member-States place no restrictions on biomedical research beyond those that are necessary to ensure that research efforts meet ethical and scientific standards,
That Member-States rescind any and all biomedical research ethics standards and regulations that do not serve specifically to minimize or eliminate direct or indirect harm to life provably sentient or sapient at the time of research, and,
Clarifies, to avoid certain deliberate misinterpretations,
That the above provisions are subject to extant legislation,
That nothing in this legislation prevents Member-States for ensuring proper respect for the deceased,
That nothing in this legislation prevents Member-States from enforcing Environmental protections,
And reminds Member-States that any and all determinations of sapience or sentience are subject to extant World Assembly legislation and scientific procedure.
Passed: |
For: | 15,041 | 76.6% |
Against: | 4,595 | 23.4% |
Security Council Resolution # 244
Liberate The Communal Confederacy
A resolution to strike down Delegate-imposed barriers to free entry in a region.
The Security Council,
Observing that The Communal Confederacy, a revolutionary leftist region, once had over forty nations in its youth;
Noting the regions decline and inactivity, especially after the Founder, The faj federation, ceased to exist;
Distraught at the current occupation by the fascist KAISERREICH, who has locked down the region;
Appalled by the high number of Colonies, or trophy regions, that the invading region possesses;
Highly Disturbed by the near certainty of regional destruction and a refound of The Communal Confederacy by KAISERREICH;
Distressed by the actions of the recent foreign delegate and current Homeland Officer, Fox mulderss, and the "Additional Necessary Duties" Wanton disregard towards destroying the region;
Believing that the region will not reach its fullest potential, which it had barely shown in its youth, without a SC Liberation;
Hereby Liberates The Communal Confederacy.
Passed: | |
For: | 17,039 | 88.0% |
Against: | 2,330 | 12.0% |
General Assembly Resolution # 426
Protecting Minority Languages
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.
This World Assembly,
Declaring that the existence of an independent language is intrinsically valuable, both as unifying part of cultural heritage and as a different perspective from which to perceive the world,
Acknowledging that political prejudice and societal intolerance is considerably diminishing linguistic diversity throughout the world, and is hastening the extinction of many minority languages,
Recognizing also the importance that the diversity of languages has for academic studies such as linguistics, psychology, history, anthropology, and other pursuits of knowledge;
Hereby,
Prohibits a member nation from purposely enacting measures through law or administrative rule which aim to deliberately eradicate a living minority language, or endorse any other efforts to suppress the active use of a minority language, with the intention of causing language death in its borders,
Again confirms an individual's right to learn and write, emphasizing for the purpose of this resolution an individual's right to learn and practice their native language if they so please,
Encourages multilingual nations to foster healthy linguistic diversity within their borders as recommend from the following committee,
Establishes the World Assembly Language Society (WALS) which shall have two central functions as of the ratification of this resolution:
1. Conducting an academic survey of existing languages, which entails:
i.) Recording the existence of any living native language within the World Assembly.
ii.) Evaluating the vitality of a language and its designation as a language in danger of language death.
iii.) Creating an accessible archive of this information to facilitate linguistic research.
2. Acting as an authoritative body on matters of language preservation and revitalization for nations within the World Assembly, which entails:
i.) Advising and working with receptive governmental bodies on matters of language preservation and revitalization within their jurisdictions.
ii.) Assisting local efforts with the creation and promotion of programs which educate interested students on their endangered language.
iii.) Promulgating suggested guidelines on methods for nations to practice linguistic diversity.
Notes that nothing in this resolution is to be construed as to prevent persons from becoming multilingual, to prevent member nations from establishing a national language, instituting compulsory language education, or any other unreasonable interpretation not in the spirit of protecting minority languages from the threat of language death.
Passed: |
For: | 16,681 | 82.2% |
Against: | 3,620 | 17.8% |