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 # 471
Repeal: “Preventing Desertification”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #432 “Preventing Desertification” (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: Agriculture) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The General Assembly,
Acknowledging the dangers desertification poses to member nations,
Applauding the resolution in its attempt to slow the spread of desertification,
Worried that the framework of the resolution only states removal of vegetation as a major cause of desertification, not referencing other factors such as climate change, urbanization, and harmful agricultural practices,
Further worried that the resolution does not provide a specific definition for desertification, possibly allowing for nations to dodge parts of the resolution by allowing desertification to spread while not citing it as such, leading to further environmental harm,
Acknowledging that, while it is important for member nations to determine their own policies and regulations in preventing desertification, the overall vagueness of the resolution will allow nations to take advantage of the resolution, doing little to stop this process while citing their effort as beneficial,
Noting that Clause 1 is extremely vague in its usage of reasonable precautions and reasonable regulations, not specifying what a level of excessive vegetation removal is and allowing member nations to interpret this however they want,
Observing that Clauses 2 and 3 both encourage nations to educate workers and take part in reforestation, allowing nations to ignore the clauses if they so choose, posing the risk of uneducated workers harming the environment further rather than aiding it,
Alarmed that Clause 4 is nebulous in the role the WAEC carries in its overseeing of efforts against deforestation, not elaborating on its jurisdiction or role, allowing member nations to dodge regulations and punishment through individual interpretation,
Seeing that subpoint A of of Clause 4 does not specify the extent of effort that is feasible or what is not harmful regarding efforts of preventing desertification, again allowing nations to employ minimal impact tactics as long as they interpret it as feasible,
Further surveying the subpoints generalization of each nations political structure could have an extremely negative impact on each specific nations role in combating desertification within its borders.
Worried that subpoints B and C of Clause 4 are both vague and generalized, not taking into account differing strategies for facilitating reforestation and preventing overgrazing in the different environments of each nation, allowing for member nations to continue deforestation and overgrazing through the ambiguity of the subpoints,
Concerned subpoint D of Clause 4 is also generalized, not referencing the specific water needs of each member nation based on its spread of desertification.
Confused on why subpoint E of Clause 4 does not specify what records are to be kept on areas affected by deforestation, such as water levels and area of land lost to desertification each year,
Viewing the extreme vagueness of the resolution has allowed for the exploitation of numerous loopholes,
Hoping the repeal of this resolution will result in the drafting of new legislation much more equipped to combat the disastrous effects of desertification,
Hereby Repeals GA#432 Preventing Desertification.
Passed: |
For: | 11,639 | 86.6% |
Against: | 1,797 | 13.4% |
General Assembly Resolution # 472
Ban on Sterilisation of Minors etc
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Whereas the sterilisation of minors or incompetent persons is not prohibited by the legislation of this most excellent Assembly :
And whereas it would be most safe to entrust the authority to make such a determination to independent medical authorities :
Be it enacted by the World Assembly, by and with the advice and consent of the Delegates and Members, in this present session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
1. It is unlawful in all member nations to sterilise, in any way, a person below the age of majority or any incompetent person, without the approval of an independent Institutional Review Board, which has certified after review, the necessity of sterilisation for the long-term health of that person.
2. The WACC may make regulations to clarify upon and enforce this resolution.
Passed: | |
For: | 10,312 | 76.7% |
Against: | 3,139 | 23.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 473
Responsible Land Management
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
Understanding, although desertification and erosion have taken place for eons beyond remembrance, where the activities of sapient beings exacerbate those processes or cause the expansion of drylands to take place where they otherwise would not, far reaching negative consequences can result.
Outlining the source of artificially caused desertification to include over-grazing, deforestation, the over-exploitation of soils from farming, and the loss of sufficient moisture in soils to prevent wind erosion after tillage or the removal of vegetation,
Highlighting the effects of artificial desertification to include the destabilisation of the local biosphere, diminished habitability and food production in the affected areas, as well as climate changes in the larger scope of the region when water cannot be dispersed into the atmosphere through transpiration from plants,
This General Assembly, in seeking to avoid such environmental repercussions, hereby:
1. Establishes the Environmental Survey of the World Assembly (ESWA) as a research and advisory department within the World Assembly Scientific Programme, employing an appropriate number of scientists and support staff, and paid for by the WA general fund with no external sources for financial contribution permitted;
2. Instructs the ESWA to:
Conduct ground, water, and atmospheric surveys of member nations' territories, as well as accessible international areas in order to collect data on their environmental situations.
Keep and publish records of survey findings, develop estimations to the cause of any changes in a survey area over time, and create predictions of future trends.
Alert member nations to at-risk areas of environmental degradation caused by their sapient inhabitants and issue recommendations for appropriate countermeasures.
Identify areas in member nations territories as candidates for reforestation, land reclamation, and rehabilitation, where environmental degradation has been artificially made.
Allow volunteer scientists with relevant expertise to assist with ESWA research under supervision.
3. Instructs member nations to develop and implement curricula as a comprehensive component of existing education in geological sciences for their nations youth in order to understand the causes, consequences, and solutions for artificial desertification;
4. Requires member nations to prohibit over-grazing and, instead, employ sustainable, targeted grazing practices, defined as the rotation of livestock between pastures with fallowing periods sufficient to allow plants to recover, unless the livestock is being used to maintain a controlled conservation area for the purposes of improving biodiversity, or unless the livestock is temporarily used to fertilise and prepare farmland;
5. Orders member nations to install or plant windbreaks around farm fields in areas designated by the ESWA to be at-risk of wind erosion, in sufficient intervals to be effective;
6. Requires member nations develop and implement legislation prohibiting the excessive removal or destruction of vegetation, defined as such removal or destruction resulting in exposed, unprotected soils creating a threat of artificial desertification or contributing to existing desertification in the local area;
7. Mandates that member nations implement water control measures on their landscapes made artificially vulnerable to ecologically damaging levels of water erosion, with such measures able to channel surface runoff into swales, contour trenches, or other systems that preserve water, soil, and vegetation fertility;
8. Recommends that member nations work in harmony to develop and contribute to reforestation projects in areas identified by the ESWA to be targets for rehabilitation.
Passed: |
For: | 11,351 | 76.9% |
Against: | 3,409 | 23.1% |
General Assembly Resolution # 474
Financial and Economic Education
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.
The World Assembly,
Recognising its past actions in GA 80 "A Promotion of Basic Education" which establishes a requirement for member nations to give their citizens knowledge or awareness "of financial mathematics and concepts, currency and economics that is appropriate to the economy of their nation" and
Convinced that simply being aware of the existence of taxation and financial investments, as well as sources wherein one can find more information on those topics, is insufficient, hereby:
1. Defines "personal finance products" to mean products and services which an average inhabitant of a member nation could reasonably be expected to encounter in adult life which includes, in those nations where that is the case, but is not limited to, products or services which:
extend credit, service loans,
lease or purchase personal property,
engage in deposit-taking or investment activities,
provide payments and transaction services, including cheque or bill of exchange liquidation services,
analyse and disseminate customer report information for the purposes of evaluating creditworthiness,
collect against obligations made by any product mentioned in this section, and
all other products which that member nation defines as a personal finance product for the purposes of this resolution;
2. Requires member nations to truthfully educate all of their inhabitants on core personal finance topics, which shall include but is not limited to:
setting and managing a personal budget,
protection of their identity against possible identity theft,
the method and means of filing tax forms which those inhabitants can reasonably be expected to file,
management of personal savings or long-term investment accounts based on the best available evidence,
the means of establishing and evaluating personal finance products,
the existence and benefits of available preferential governmental schemes for certain purposes;
3. Further requires member nations to truthfully educate all of their inhabitants on general economic topics, which shall include but is not limited to:
the means of production in their society,
issues associated with those means of production,
their nation's fiscal state and determinants thereof,
the determinants of economic growth,
the causes and policy responses to economic downturns,
financial intermediation, rent-seeking behaviours,
public goods, collective action problems, and inflation.
Passed: |
For: | 11,435 | 84.0% |
Against: | 2,185 | 16.0% |
General Assembly Resolution # 475
Promoting Natural Sciences in Schools
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.
The General Assembly,
Aware that all children deserve a balanced and varied education covering different disciplines, in order to gain a wide breadth of knowledge,
Highlighting the sciences as subjects crucial to the development of informed thinking and worldviews, due to being the area of education that concerns the natural world of member nations children,
Understanding how an education in science enables a child to pursue far more careers than they would be able to otherwise, as a direct result of the universality of the skills gained by studying the sciences;
Acknowledging the lack of currently-active, comprehensive legislation on the topic of allowing the children of member nations to freely learn about this vital area, and
Wishing to promote a scientific education in all member states, whilst remaining mindful of differing traditions and religions,
Hereby,
1. Defines the following, for the purposes of this resolution:
a school is an institute of education for minors, excluding both those that specialise in a particular subject and are in addition to standard education, for example performing arts schools, and those that are for minors of a very young age; and
the natural sciences are those subjects consisting of information gained from empirical evidence or logical deductions about natural phenomena, such as biology, geology, chemistry or physics;
2. Mandates that all schools under the jurisdiction of member states must either offer classes in multiple branches of the natural sciences, or a series of general classes in science as a whole, to its students, and that these classes must be of a non-trivial length of time, and contain relevant educational content;
3. Further mandates that any adults within member nations that are undergoing education of a very similar nature to that of schools, either due to receiving poor results upon completion of standard education or due to never having been taught basic subjects, must also be offered science in fulfilment with the principles of clause 2;
4. Encourages member nations to make these science classes mandatory for students to learn at early levels of education;
5. Prohibits any school within a member nation from deliberately disseminating false information in science classes, excluding abstractions or simplifications which aid learning;
6. Clarifies that subjects other than science are not covered by this resolution, and emphasises specifically that religious education may cover whatever beliefs are chosen by the schools or member states;
7. Requires that all member nations fund the science classes mandated by this resolution to a degree that enables appropriate learning opportunities, unless the school is of a private nature, in which case funding is urged but not mandated; and
8. Authorises the World Assembly General Fund to provide money to member states governments if they are genuinely unable to fully fund science classes, while still fulfilling the basic obligations of state, in accordance with the above clause, with the condition that member nations must still provide the highest degree of funding they are reasonably able to, and that requests must be logged and frivolous or unnecessary requests of funding denied.
Passed: |
For: | 13,316 | 91.4% |
Against: | 1,246 | 8.6% |