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Vote For GA resolution Repeal: "Rights of Crime Victims"


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Resolution at Vote: Repeal: "Rights of Crime Victims"
Vote Recommendation: For

Resolution Analysis
Overview
This proposal seeks to repeal GAR#247 "Rights of Crime Victims". To explain why the resolution ought to be repealed, the author identifies a number of issues with the target resolution: ambiguity in section 1, flaws in definitions for 'the accused' and 'crime victim', poor handling of homicide cases, and detrimental consequences to due process and fair trials. A few claims in the repeal are not entirely clear or fully impacted; that said, many of the issues with the target are well known.

Recommendation
The target's largest issue is that its definition of 'the accused' still includes people accused but later acquitted. This, by the plain meaning of the resolution, forces member nations to maintain certain disabilities on people even after they are found not guilty. Moreover, the target's provisions related to victim statements could have a substantial prejudicial effect on defendants, perverting the course of justice with emotional statements unrelated to actual culpability and the law. Member nations should take due process and defendant rights seriously.

The Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote For the General Assembly Resolution at vote, "Repeal: 'Rights of Crime Victims'".

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