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 # 661
Voting Rights Guarantees
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
The World Assembly (WA),
Defining:
"bod(ies)" to mean any body/bodies of government in a WA member state with legislative, judicial, consultative, or other powers (substantive or otherwise) at national and/or all sub-national levels;
"election(s)" to mean elections for representatives to the said bod(ies), including any preliminary elections, or consultative meetings for choosing representatives such as caucuses;
"voters" to mean anyone who is eligible to participate in the said elections, notwithstanding that a registration process may be required by a member state prior to participation;
Hereby requires:
No one in any WA member state that is otherwise eligible to be a voter shall be denied the right to vote (and/or to register to vote), for any bod(ies) on account of the following immutable characteristics:
Current status of incarceration (including work release, parole, half-way houses and home confinement);
Previous records of incarceration (including parole) and criminal conviction;
Failure to repay any debts due in full or in part (including liens, fines, penalties, taxes and fees payable pursuant to any legislation or regulation at any level of government);
Any interpretation of this resolution by the judiciary of a WA member state shall be for the benefit of anyone who would otherwise be denied the aforesaid rights.
Co-author: Millenhaal
Passed: |
For: | 11,764 | 79.3% |
Against: | 3,071 | 20.7% |
General Assembly Resolution # 662
Public Endangered Species Table
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses - Mild
Proposed by: Magecastle Embassy Building A5
Believing that a public database of endangered species would
promote awareness regarding endangered organisms whose endangerment would otherwise be overlooked, in turn encouraging conservation action;
help member nations tailor their conservation efforts to be more efficient, as knowledge of endangered organisms would be more available; and
aid further research regarding endangered organisms, in turn further facilitating conservation thereof;
Excited by the further benefits of the World Assembly engaging in its own research vis-a-vis endangered species, which would facilitate member nations' own conservation and research efforts;
The World Assembly enacts as follows, subject to past World Assembly law still in force.
Database: The Endangered Species Database Institution (ESDI) shall be formed as a subcommittee of the WA Endangered Species Committee and shall carry out the following tasks to the best of its ability,
Compiling and regularly updating a database, known as the Public Endangered Species Table and hereinafter referred to as the "Table", of all extant and recently extinct species, subspecies, and populations, and all data substantially relevant to past, current, or potential future conservation efforts thereof, including but not limited to natural habitat, diet, threats to survival, predators, genetic details, likelihood of extinction or endangerment, location, and sightings, based on objective information of clear demonstrableness from research, reports, or other evidence practically available to and publicly documented by the ESDI.
Publishing the Table in full, such that the Table can be accessed for free and breadth of public access to the Table is maximised.
Using funds from the WA General Fund to complete tasks assigned to the ESDI in this resolution if necessary to do so.
Researchers working for or in member nations are strongly encouraged to use any relevant information in the Table to facilitate their research vis-a-vis endangered species.
ESDI research: The ESDI may conduct its own research to find new data that would significantly aid in updating the Table within member or consenting non-member nations.
Each member nation where such research is occurring must, to the best of its ability and in good faith, comply with all requests for information in regard to that research by the ESDI, except for such requests for information whose accessing, provision, or publication is demonstrably likely to compromise national security or personal privacy.
ESDI access for such research may only be denied to areas within a member nation to which access is restricted for all national residents without specific authorisation for protection of national security or public health or safety, or that area's status as private property, a quarantined area, or a vulnerable culturally or environmentally significant site, by that member nation or an entity therein in charge of preventing unauthorised access to that area, unless the ESDI can clearly demonstrate that such access is to the minimal extent necessary to achieve the aim of that research. If the ESDI does enter such an area, it shall take sufficient precautions to duly minimise or prevent risk to national security, public health or safety, or damage to that private property or culturally or environmentally significant site.
No member nation or entity therein may wilfully otherwise obstruct the due course of any such research, via action or lack thereof.
Provision of information: Member nations must, to the best of their ability and in good faith, provide the ESDI with all research and factual data respectively published or discovered within their jurisdiction that they have practical access to, has not already been received by the ESDI, and is substantially relevant to any past, present, or future conservation efforts, unless the accessing, provision, or publication of that information is demonstrably likely to compromise national security or personal privacy. The ESDI shall duly compensate any entity's contribution of said research and data to the ESDI for internal use and maintenance of the Table.
Protection of sensitive information: Regardless of the other mandates of this resolution, the ESDI shall not place in the Table, make public, or otherwise distribute any information in a manner likely to compromise national security or personal privacy. Nor shall the ESDI place in the Table or itself publish research for which an entity maintains intellectual property rights, absent the informed consent of said entity. For the purposes of this Section, research does not include factual data or information contained therein. This resolution shall not restrict any intellectual property rights of contributing entities to any other use of Section 3 research.
Passed: |
For: | 11,767 | 79.8% |
Against: | 2,979 | 20.2% |
General Assembly Resolution # 663
World Assembly Official Merchandise
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
The World Assembly (WA),
Noting the WA's popularity across member states throughout the multiverse;
Dismayed that such popularity has not been leveraged to help fund the initiatives of the WA by selling merchandise to citizens of member states and fans of the WA across the multiverse;
Hereby defines:
"WA merchandise" as products of all kinds carrying WA IP and authorized for sale by WATCH;
"WA IP" as all intellectual property associated with the World Assembly and its constituent committees, including their names, logos, mascots, and other symbols deemed as such by WATCH;
"WATCH" to mean the WA Trust for Cultural Heritage;
Hereby requires WATCH to:
Authorize businesses within member states to produce and ship WA merchandise in a fair and transparent process;
Encourage individual member states to license (for valuable consideration) their own national symbols, important books and works of art, and other items deemed significant to their culture for use as WA merchandise;
Ensure that all WA merchandise meet quality, environmental protection, safety, reliability and other requirements applicable;
Ensure that all WA merchandise sold in an individual member state meet the technological, cultural, social, and other requirements, norms and practices of the said individual member state;
Promote exports of WA merchandise to non member states;
Arrange for retailing of WA merchandise in such manner as WATCH deems appropriate across all member states, tailored to the customary methods of retailing of each member state across the multiverse;
Hereby requires the WA General Accounting Office to monitor the profits generated from WA merchandise, and further specifies that such profits be used:
Firstly, to fund the humanitarian activities of the WA;
Secondly, if any funds remain, for the benefit of the WA General Fund;
Hereby encourages member states' government agencies (including sub-national governments and agencies) to purchase WA merchandise for their use as well as for the benefit of its citizens.
Passed: | |
For: | 8,334 | 55.6% |
Against: | 6,666 | 44.4% |
General Assembly Resolution # 664
Repeal: “Limiting Animal Pathogens”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #609 “Limiting Animal Pathogens” (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: Agriculture) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Aware of the need for international measures to challenge the increasingly universal problem of zoonotic disease, including regulations on the import, export, and sale of live animals and animal carcasses,
Concerned that General Assembly Resolution #609 Limiting Animal Pathogens, in seeking to accomplish this worthwhile goal, is unfortunately burdened with many substantial and quite frankly unacceptable oversights, in particular:
Finding Clause 2d's requirement that "Any person who tests positive [for a zoonotic disease] under this paragraph may not work at any wet market until such person reliably tests negative for the same zoonotic disease" to be particularly imprudent, not only in that it does not necessarily require that the most reliable tests available be used, but also insofar as it could disbar wet market employees from such work indefinitely (if not permanently) in cases where they are unable to consistently test negative for zoonotic diseases, even when this would pose little to no risk to public health, such as:
Scenarios in which the only available methods of testing have an unacceptable level of accuracy and where there is a high probability of potentially devastating false diagnosis. The issue is only broadened by the lack of any provision requiring that the most reliable tests be those used. Ultimately, all kinds of wet market workers may very well find themselves unable to "reliably [test] negative for the same zoonotic disease", thus preventing them from returning to work and putting their well-being at risk.
Scenarios where a qualifying zoonotic infection (of which there are many) may be treated to the point of safety and nontransmissibility but remains persistent or latent in a host; infected wet market workers, despite posing no further danger to themselves or others, may find themselves unable to ever consistently receive negative test results, permanently preventing them from providing for themselves and their loved ones.
Situations where, even though a disease can be cured and relevant tests may be broadly accurate, the only available testing (such as serology tests) can still return positive results in the weeks, months, and even years after an infection has been effectively cured, thereby preventing afflicted wet market employees from returning to their trades for a significant, or permanent, stretch of time.
Appalled by Clause 4a.'s grossly unreasonable demand that "every animal" intended for import or export be tested (as opposed to the random testing required by Clause 2 in wet market contexts) for qualifying zoonotic illnesses, which could, and almost certainly would, cause member states undue financial and logistical stress, given that livestock and other animals are often transported in bulk and that many requisite tests require substantial time and effort for each sample taken, altogether potentially leading to delays, cost overruns, and economic disaster for WA member states;
Baffled that, throughout Clauses 2 and 4, all rules and regulations fail to take into account the fact that many such zoonotic illnesses lack any adequate testing whatsoever. The resolution's provisions, in failing to carve out exceptions for these diseases, risk locking WA member states into narrow, restrictive, and potentially ineffective public health responses due to mandated misallocation of national resources;
Judging that the pantheon of issues enclosed within this resolutions provisions more than justifies their immediate removal from extant international law,
Hereby repeals General Assembly Resolution #609 Limiting Animal Pathogens.
Co-author: Tinhampton
Passed: |
For: | 12,796 | 88.2% |
Against: | 1,706 | 11.8% |
General Assembly Resolution # 665
Minimum Standard of Living Act
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
Believing that a minimum standard of living should be granted to all individuals,
The General Assembly:
1. Defines the minimum standard of living, for the purposes of this resolution, as the necessary amount of food and nutrition and adequate access to hygiene, housing, transport, and appropriate utilities and conditions of care which a person needs to live with health and dignity.
2. Asserts that all member states of this Assembly must provide this minimum standard of living to those living within their territory.
3. Encourages member states to promote this guarantee via providing incentives, financial or otherwise, to companies which assist in this guarantee.
4. In the case where a government is unable to provide the minimum standard of living, authorizes the World Assembly Compliance Commission and the Independent Adjudicative Office to determine the culpability of the member nation.
4.1. In the case where a government is unable to provide the minimum standard of living, but is not found to be culpable, the WA Development Foundation may, on that government's request, work with that government to improve infrastructure in order to provide the minimum standard of living as soon as possible.
Passed: |
For: | 10,828 | 75.4% |
Against: | 3,529 | 24.6% |