Vote Against GA resolution Extrajudicial Punishment Ban

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General Assembly Vote Recommendation

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Part of the Information for WA Voters program

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Resolution Analysis
The proposal effectively codifies into WA law a ban on murder and assault when done as retribution or vigilantism either as individuals or as a mob, which is redundant as it is reasonable to assume that most nations already make such actions illegal. Mob violence occurs not because of failure to prohibit it, but inability to enforce, something not even a WA resolution can do.

In the case of governments conducting extrajudicial punishments, the WA already effectively bans it resolution 37, mandating that "all persons charged with criminal offences in the jurisdictions of member nations shall be brought to trial with such reasonable speed as is consistent with both prosecution and defence properly assembling available relevant evidence," and in GA Resolution 9 by outlawing torture, including "sensory deprivation, such as prolonged confinement to dark quarters and or use of a hood during interrogation."

For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote against this resolution.

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