NationStates Jolt Archive

How exactly does being a UN member affect one's nation? When resolutions pass, do some built-in effects automatically change your country perspective? Are UN members not allowed certain issues, or can nations be ejected from the UN based on issue votes?

Example - we have recently been hit by a new issue which recommends that we torture POWs. Since we as a government have no respect for human life, we are considering the option. We are not a UN member, which has passed a resolution banning torture. Will UN members not recieve this issue then? If we allow torture, and later become a UN member, will it disactivate the effects of our issue desicion?

With all these civil rights issues getting passed in the UN it seems to me that eventually all UN members would automatically end up with forced World Benchmark status on their Civil Rights scorecard, and Basketcase economies with all the money the UN demands they spend on certain things.

Somebody please explain the cause/effect syndrome here.

Joining the UN is not compulsory, though it gives you the oppertunity to debate issues in the United Nations forum and vote on resolutions on the United Nations Page. If you are not in the UN, the resolutions do not affect you. And when a resolution passes, you must abide by the rule, it does not do any physical changes to your nation.

Hope that cleared it up, if not, contact Enodia or Stephistan who deal with the UN most.

Oh and Issues:
Issues make a direct effect on your nation, they add and change text in your spot light, the mess around with your economy, civil, and political rights as well as your UN Category and the UN rankings in The World.

when a resolution passes, you must abide by the rule, it does not do any physical changes to your nation.


So you are saying abiding is by gentlemans agreement, and not binding by the game? One can be a UN member and still outlaw civil rights internally?

when a resolution passes, you must abide by the rule, it does not do any physical changes to your nation.


So you are saying abiding is by gentlemans agreement, and not binding by the game? One can be a UN member and still outlaw civil rights internally?

Yes. Look at me!