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 # 716
Repeal: “Food and Drug Standards”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #64 “Food and Drug Standards” (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Believing that food safety is important,
Concerned that GA 64 "Food and Drug Standards" is poorly written enough that it manages to be both too weak and too overbearing to accomplish this goal,
Noting that the target handles compliance by charging the WA Food and Drug Regulatory Agency (WAFDRA) with "gradually" implementing reforms and "eventually" establishing regulatory agencies in members that lack them, without defining an actual timeframe for compliance, thereby opening the door to all sorts of procedural delays and bureaucratic shenanigans,
Annoyed at the target's creation of a quality grading system without actually specifying what goes into determining a product's level of "relative" quality beyond requiring the similarly vague "creation of international standards", failing to account for such factors as differences in sapient species, taste, or acceptable levels of chemicals in food;
Distraught at the target's requirement of penalties for "any businesses that attempt to evade safety standards upon their products" without limiting the scope of "safety standards," thereby requiring extensive WA involvement in the enforcement of everything from local food safety ordinances to a gas station convenience store chain ordering its locations to improve their sausage quality,
Horrified by delegating much of the enforcement to "extensive WA involvement," as the target leaves these penalties "at the discretion of the WAFDRA,"
Confused at what the target means by "appropriate legal consequences" for quality control facilities that fail in their duties, as well as what the target means by requiring the creation "an overall international standard" for national inspection facilities, and what exactly goes into this standard,
Fearful of the ramifications of the target empowering WAFDRA to "order the closure of any food and drug regulatory facilities that are found to repeatedly fail to succeed in ensuring the quality of the products being inspected; the closure shall be carried out by national law-enforcement," given that shutting down a facility inspecting lots of low-quality products and acting accordingly would mean shutting down an inspection facility for doing its job,
Believing that shutting down an inspection facility that actually fails at its job still wouldn't be an appropriate response if reforming its operations is an option, and
Noting the passing since this resolution of other related resolutions focusing on drugs, including GAR 582 (Access to Effective Medications) and GAR 659 (Medical Standards), and on food (GAR 713), and looking forward to several potential replacements to address these flaws that are in discussions in this esteemed organ,
Hereby repeals GA 64 "Food and Drug Standards."
Co-author: 9003
Passed: |
For: | 9,370 | 76.5% |
Against: | 2,886 | 23.5% |
General Assembly Resolution # 717
Standardized Passport Arrangements
A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.
The World Assembly (WA),
Noting the WA's dedication to ease travel between WA states;
Believing that travel is easier if passports from different WA states can be authenticated to easily identify individuals, and that easy identification provides benefits to national security;
The WA hereby enacts as follows:
Definitions and declarations.
"PASA" means the Passports, Nationality and Refugees Administration (PASA), which is hereby established as a committee of the WA.
"Passport" means a travel document (in physical or electronic form) issued by a WA state (or by PASA, pursuant to the provisions below) to an individual for the purpose of identifying that individual for travel purposes.
Passport templates.
PASA is to create standardized templates for passports. All passports issued by a WA state or by PASA must follow the said templates.
PASA is responsible for translating all templates into the languages of the WA state (or its sub-national divisions, where appropriate).
PASA templates shall be updated from time to time to use the latest privacy, security and authentication technologies.
PASA may tailor templates for WA states that prefer to use inferior technologies, if requested by the said state.
PASA may also tailor templates for different sapient species, if requested by a WA state.
PASA templates may be provided to non-WA states, subject to bilateral agreements on protecting privacy, security, and technology.
Features of passports.
Each passport validly issued to an individual shall contain pertinent information on that individual as deemed necessary by PASA.
Each passport can include additional information that the said WA state deems necessary.
Entitlement to a passport.
Each individual is entitled to their own separate passport, regardless of whether they are minors or are legally competent.
Each WA state is responsible for issuing passports to individuals entitled thereof.
No WA state may deny the right to be issued a passport to any of their individual citizens, nationals, or subjects, unless that individual is prohibited from exiting that state due to the laws of that state or extant WA resolutions.
Each WA state must recognize a passport from another WA state as legally valid, provided that it can verify the authenticity of that passport, either with the issuing WA state or with PASA.
Each WA state can charge a fee for issuing passports (or replacements) to any individual, with the fee not exceeding a full recovery of costs incurred for issuing that passport.
Emergency passports. PASA is authorised, at its discretion, to issue passports to individuals that are verifiably in dire circumstances, such as anyone:
fleeing an active war, whether declared or otherwise;
travelling as refugees or seeking asylum;
rendered stateless by the collapse of a WA state; or
rendered stateless as a result of an action by a state, regardless of whether that state is a WA state.
Powers of PASA.
PASA shall have the right and the ability to authenticate passports with, for and on behalf of all WA states.
PASA may also authenticate passports from non-WA states, subject to bilateral agreements.
Delegation.
A WA state may request PASA to issue all of that state's passports on its behalf.
PASA will only accept such a request if it determines that a WA state (i) lacks a functioning government or (ii) lacks the resources necessary to maintain such infrastructure.
Finances.
PASA is to be paid for by the General Fund.
All services from PASA are to be provided free-of-charge to end-users.
Jurisdiction.
If anyone fails to obtain a passport from PASA pursuant to clause 5 for any reason, they may appeal to the Independent Adjudicative Office.
Passports issued by PASA do not imply conferring citizenship, nationality or subject from any entity on any individual.
This resolution does not interfere with a WA state's powers, subject to extant WA resolutions, regarding border controls, or to grant or remove citizenship and/or nationality from any individual.
PASA is responsible for the interpretation of this resolution.
Passed: |
For: | 10,907 | 77.9% |
Against: | 3,098 | 22.1% |
General Assembly Resolution # 718
Prisoner Financial Rights
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Whereas the practice of financially penalising individuals for their incarceration, such as through "pay-to-stay" policies, is unjust; and
Whereas this practice often keeps former prisoners in a cycle of debt, thereby actively impeding the reintegration of prisoners into society while causing many prisoners to return to crime;
The World Assembly enacts as follows.
No individual may suffer any financial penalty, or otherwise be required to provide any payment, where that burden would not exist but for their incarceration and is intended to fund their incarceration or otherwise recuperate costs associated therewith.
Creditors must fully relieve all debts owed by an individual as a result of a required financial penalty or payment of the nature proscribed by Section 1. Member nations must terminate bankrupt status, and expunge records thereof not purely for the purpose of administrative record-keeping, where such status is as a result of any debt of the nature proscribed by Section 1.
Should a provision of this resolution contradict a past World Assembly resolution still in force, that previous resolution takes precedence.
Co-author: Sanctaria
Passed: |
For: | 9,366 | 70.4% |
Against: | 3,938 | 29.6% |
General Assembly Resolution # 719
Ban on Sexual Abuse of Animals
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.
Recognising the inherent inability of an animal to meaningfully communicate consent to sexual acts with sapients, making sexual acts with animals amount to sexual assault and thus animal abuse; and
Further noting the demonstrable negative effects of such abuse on animals, which often sustain significant, long-term injuries as a result of sexual abuse;
The World Assembly enacts as follows, subject to relevant past World Assembly legislation still in force.
Every member nation must prohibit the act of a person having sexual intercourse with an animal. Every member nation must also prohibit the act of a person causing any form of physical harm to an animal for the sexual gratification of that, or any other, person.
The term "animal", in Section 1, includes any species with the ability to control its movement and excludes any sapient species as defined by World Assembly or other applicable law. No part of this resolution should be interpreted as inherently addressing sexual acts with dead animals or parts thereof. A member nation may delegate the duty of enforcing Section 1 to its respective administrative or political subdivisions, so long as that Section is enforced throughout the entirety of that member nation's jurisdiction.
Passed: |
For: | 11,599 | 92.7% |
Against: | 918 | 7.3% |
General Assembly Resolution # 720
Statistical Data Practice
A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.
The World Assembly (WA),
Noting the frequent need for the WA and WA states to collect statistical data ("data") for analysis and as part of a decision-making process;
Desiring the assurance that such data collection is subject to rigorous professional standards;
The WA hereby enacts as follows:
Definitions.
"Agency" means one (or more) entities in charge of statistical practice (defined below) on behalf of a WA state and/or on behalf of a WA organ, including WA organs conducting statistical practice themselves.
"Practitioner" means any individual involved in statistical practice.
"Statistical practice" means the practice of statistical sciences for and on behalf of an agency, including (but not limited to) survey design, methodology, sampling, survey field work, data collection, analysis, and presentation.
"Survey" means both sampling (such as stratified sampling) as well as a survey of all members of a population (such as a census).
"WA organs" means any of the sub-committees of the WA.
Scope of regulation.
The standards for statistical practice set forth in clauses (3) to (6) apply to any data collected by a WA state and/or WA organs for official statistics purposes; and apply to any data for regulatory approvals by a WA state or WA organ, or for compliance with any WA resolutions.
The WA reserves the right to impose additional rules on statistical practice at its discretion.
This resolution does not regulate how an agency of a WA state is organized, whether it is a public or private body, and whether multiple agencies are employed for different political subdivisions or functions of a WA state.
Establishment of PDAA.
The "Principal Directorate for Administrative Affairs" (PDAA) is hereby established as an organ of the WA.
PDAA is funded by the WA General Fund.
Integrity. Each WA organ and each WA state must ensure that, at all times, all of its agencies and their practitioners must:
remain impartial and independent from political interference;
employ practitioners deemed qualified and competent by that agency;
treat all participants in a survey (whether paid or unpaid) with dignity and respect.
Standards of practitioners. Each WA organ and each WA state must ensure that, at all times, all of its agencies and their practitioners must base their practice on:
scientifically valid methodologies on all matters of statistical practice, including setting all parameters to a survey prior to the start of a survey;
transparent, informed and prudent decision-making;
completing all work to the best of their capabilities and available resources.
Publications. Subject to relevant laws and extant resolutions (such as on matters concerning national security and privacy of personal data):
All WA organs and all WA states are required to ensure that all of their official statistics be made public free-of-charge, and available through convenient physical and/or electronic means.
All such publications must include all underlying methodologies, assumptions, and raw data for verification and re-testing of hypotheses by third parties.
Role. The PDAA is responsible for:
Provide updated best practice guidelines in statistical practice to agencies;
Reviews and inspections from time to time regarding the implementation of statistical practice by agencies;
Conduct additional forensic testing, such as stochasticity testing, if suspicions arise as to the quality of any data submitted and/or published;
Provide accreditation (if required) of practitioners and continuous professional training of practitioners (if required);
Provide up-to-date guidance to WA organs and agencies from WA states on statistics software, such as bleeding edge linear regression and modeling tools.
Delegation.
A WA state may request PDAA to act as its agency on its behalf.
PDAA will only accept such a request if it determines that a WA state (i) lacks a functioning government or (ii) lacks the resources necessary to maintain such infrastructure.
Passed: |
For: | 8,788 | 67.7% |
Against: | 4,202 | 32.3% |