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Observing that religion and its many systems have been an important part of many societies for millennia,

Mindful that different people hold different beliefs, and that no person should be treated less favorably under the law because of their religion or lack of religious belief,

Disturbed that some governments have punished people for their faith, pressured them to abandon it, or forced beliefs upon them,

Maintaining that freedom of conscience and belief helps create more peaceful societies while allowing people to live according to their own values,

Hereby:

• Defines the following for the purposes of this resolution,

  1. Defines "religion" as a system of beliefs concerning the nature or purpose of existence,

  2. Defines "belief" as adherence to or rejection of any religious, spiritual, or ideological system of thought,

• Affirms that every person has the right to practice, change, conceal, or abandon a religion, to adhere to atheism, or to have no religion at all,

• Prohibits governments from coercing any person into adopting, renouncing, or professing a particular religion, atheism, or religious belief,

• Prevents governments from denying employment or education solely because of a person's religion, atheism, or lack of religious belief,

• Protects the practice of religion, provided that such practices do not infringe upon the fundamental human rights or physical autonomy of others, nor involve non-consensual psychological coercion,

• States that nothing in this resolution shall be construed as granting any person immunity from prosecution for criminal acts, violations of civil liberties, or incitement of violence or threats against public safety and order, even if such acts are committed in the name of that person’s beliefs,

Declares that nothing in this resolution shall be interpreted as favoring or endorsing any religion, atheism, or lack of religion.

1. For the purposes of this resolution, “torture” is defined as any act which seeks to inflict severe psychological or physical pain or trauma against an individual for an interest in:

   1. coercing persons into providing information or consent, or complying with demands that are not strictly necessary to the conduction of law enforcement or military action; or

   2. punishing persons or using their pain or trauma to coerce or influence others.

2. Subjecting a person to torture is to be treated as a serious criminal offence in individual member-states’ jurisdictions and, when done in large scale against a civilian population, a crime against humanity as covered by international law. Aiding the execution of these crimes and complicity in torture must also be criminalised, with sanctions to be set proportionately to involvement.

3. The prior clause shall be interpreted as mandating the criminalization of significant involvement in the planning, ordering, or execution of torture; and as mandating the criminalization of compliance with an order to torture, except where:

   1. compliance was necessary to avoid grave punishment upon the complying person or another person known to the complying person, and

   2. that punishment is not merely financial or on the basis of reputation.

4. Member-states must provide educational materials for persons directly or indirectly serving them in roles that involve interrogation, criminal investigation, or the handling of prisoners or detainees, including instruction on the international prohibition of torture and the rights of persons regarding it.

5. It is the duty of every member-state to combat the practice of torture in its institutions and among its inhabitants. Member-states' governments are required to thoroughly investigate any credible report or accusation of torture within their jurisdiction, and prosecute it.

6. Confessions, testimonies, statements, and any other piece of evidence acquired by means of torture shall be considered inadmissible in every court proceeding, national or otherwise. Evidence an accused produced against themselves by torturing another person is admissible exclusively for the purpose of facilitating proceedings against them. The victims of torture may also use evidence produced by their torturing to prove the innocence of themselves or others on related accusations.

7. Member states may not retaliate against persons via direct or indirect means for reporting or attempting to report a violation of this resolution's mandates that is credible to the best of the reporter's knowledge, and must take effective action to curtail any retaliation which occurs in the jurisdiction of their state.

Co-author: Cessarea

Understanding the importance of the humanities in the study of societies and therefore believes such utility to aid in the proliferation of cultural preservation,

1. Defines:

   1. Humanities as the study of composition of which, for the the categorical purposes of this Resolution, shall consist of the “social humanities”, describing contextualization within society, and the “natural humanities” representing physical phenomenon including but not limited to the arts;

   2. Art as the study of external composition through a designated medium with the “visual arts” to be categorized as sensory and “performance arts” as bodily;

   3. Language as the mode of communication allowing for the transferral of information between individuals, with “home language” to be seen as local dialects within a Member State and “foreign language” as dialects in the opposite of this respect being representative of external polities;

   4. Secondary or primary education as the elementary attainment of knowledge qualification across varying academic disciplines and tertiary education achieving subsequent advanced qualification including research catering from universities, think tanks and other relevant institutions.

2. Establishes the World Assembly Council for the Humanities (WACH) of which shall encompass a praesidium of researchers with the body to be formed in preserving academic standards within the humanities among all Member States and shall be given the authority to:

   1. Categorize emerging, new empirical disciplines within both the social and natural humanities of which shall be recognized among all Member States;

   2. Encourage cross-research between Member States and facilitate for global research guidelines and etiquette;

   3. Send international observers to Member States and assess metrics within the humanities subjects including institutional rankings, formal counsel and any subsequent recommendations with any necessary screening to be conducted by request of Member States;

      1. The relevancy of metrics and statistical methods utilized shall be formulated by the WACH and moderated by any relevant external committees or bodies within the World Assembly;

   4. Facilitate and administrate global academic journals;

   5. Provide research funding with encouraged subsequent cooperation from Member States;

   6. Create scholarship and bursary opportunities for tertiary degrees among Member States;

   7. Host annual academic conferences and conventions on new frontiers of emerging research.

3. Mandates the WACH to establish the Humanities Accords of which shall serve as long-term aims among Member States and shall encompass the following:

   1. Encourages the promotion of bilingual attitudes within schooling and tertiary institutions and the motivation of foreign language perspectives and learning;

   2. Encourages Member States to promote the arts within education through national curricula and tertiary programs spanning both visual and performance disciplines;

      1. Deems the above provisions to be relevant only where funding for such activities are feasible with any subsequent funding necessary to be delegated on the discretion of Member States to the WACH.

   3. Motivates for the preservation of national culture through museum incentivization, government-sponsored programs, tourist attractions and locales and other provisions necessary in depicting historical and present attitudes deemed important at the discretion of Member States;

   4. Advocates for the inclusion of history within generic tertiary humanities courses with relevancy to be attributed to Member States’ respective cultures and customs.

The Security Council,

Acknowledging that “Liberate Utopia” served an essential purpose in helping Utopia’s residents reclaim their region from rogues, at a time when the region lacked the means to do so itself, restoring Utopia’s idyllic and positive environment,

Noting that the specific security concerns and administrative disruptions that prompted SC#13 to be written have been fully resolved by the region’s current residents and global circumstances,

Observing that no native population of Utopia remains, its founding nations and long-standing residents before its refounding having long since ceased to exist, leaving only recently arrived nations with no historical claim to the region predating this Council’s original intervention,

Recognizing that the Security Council’s resolutions are meant to uphold durable principles rather than preserve dated concerns and grievances,

Reflecting that the vulnerability following the loss of Utopia’s founder, Utopian thoughts, left the region genuinely exposed, and SC#13’s intervention played a real part in seeing it through that period,

Further reflecting that the circumstances behind the one-time occurrence belong to a specific chapter in Utopia’s history that has since closed,

Noting further that the residents of Utopia took matters into their own hands, refounding the region and entrusting it in their own community,

Aware that Utopia, like any other founderless region, can rely on established defender coalitions to defend itself, coordinated through networks such as Libcord, which monitor and respond to raids regardless of formal treaty ties or Security Council resolutions,

Understanding that this Council repeals liberation resolutions once a region has shown long-term stability and no longer requires active World Assembly intervention, as with the recent repeal of “Liberate Portugal de Esquerda,” where the resolution was recognized as unable to serve its intended function without a governor to enforce it, leaving the text ineffective without any active protective effort, and as with the repeal of “Liberate Syria,” where invading forces were found to no longer pose a threat to the region, as they were long gone,

Exhausted that “Liberate Utopia” has stood 17 years past the events that needed it, far longer than its original purpose,

Hereby repeals “Liberate Utopia”.

Co-author: Varanius