Mikitivity
10-09-2004, 18:15
I've resubmitted the following proposal, which had 48 endorsements when it finished in the queue last night:
Global Disaster Assistance
A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.
Category: Political Stability
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Mikitivity
Description:
The NationStates United Nations,
RECALLING its resolution, the IRCO, adopted Sep. 1, 2003, which established the voluntary funded International Red Cross Organization (IRCO) for United Nations members in order to be "the first response team to natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and any other events which threaten the lives of citizens";
OBSERVING that in addition to medical and law enforcement personnel, that these first response teams include technical and engineering professionals who in many non-emergency situations may be highly regulated by domestic liability laws;
MAKING NOTE that of the existence of many other national and international disaster assistance programs in addition to the IRCO;
NOTING WITH APPROVAL the many nations, including both UN members and non-members, which have entered into bi-lateral agreements to provide local and regional disaster assistance;
CONCERNED that these disaster assistance programs are limited in their effectiveness to send both first response teams and long-term disaster recovery teams due to the lack of pre-existing bi-lateral and unilateral arrangements, such as arrangements concerning the liabilities associated with all personnel in the volunteer response and recovery teams;
1. ENCOURAGES all nations, including UN non-members, to lend whatever aid possible in the event of a disaster;
2. EXPRESSES ITS HOPE that nations will continue to enter into local and regional arrangements to prepare for and lend aid to one another in the event of a disaster;
3. DIRECTS the IRCO to set up an international aid clearing house to inventory the capabilities of existing national and international disaster assistance programs;
4. AUTHORIZES the IRCO to expand its role beyond lending first response teams to nations in need to developing additional disaster assistance programs focusing on long-term disaster recovery;
5. SUGGESTS that nations receiving any disaster assistance to appoint a single organization or office of their government to act as a coordination group in the event that multiple national or international disaster recovery and assistance teams are working together; and
6. CALLS UPON all nations to develop domestic "Good Samaritan" laws granting volunteer based first responder teams, including technical and engineering professionals, immunity to liability associated with work and professional judgments made while rendering disaster assistance.
Approvals: 0
Status: Lacking Support (requires 135 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Sep 13 2004
Last go around I telegrammed only 4 UN Delegates. This time I'm planning on telegramming the 48 nations that endorsed it last go around.
As discussed in an earlier thread, this proposal was inspired by a "fictional" accounts of law being drafted in other countries in order to streamline disaster assistance.
Thank you / Danke!
10kMichael
Global Disaster Assistance
A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.
Category: Political Stability
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Mikitivity
Description:
The NationStates United Nations,
RECALLING its resolution, the IRCO, adopted Sep. 1, 2003, which established the voluntary funded International Red Cross Organization (IRCO) for United Nations members in order to be "the first response team to natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and any other events which threaten the lives of citizens";
OBSERVING that in addition to medical and law enforcement personnel, that these first response teams include technical and engineering professionals who in many non-emergency situations may be highly regulated by domestic liability laws;
MAKING NOTE that of the existence of many other national and international disaster assistance programs in addition to the IRCO;
NOTING WITH APPROVAL the many nations, including both UN members and non-members, which have entered into bi-lateral agreements to provide local and regional disaster assistance;
CONCERNED that these disaster assistance programs are limited in their effectiveness to send both first response teams and long-term disaster recovery teams due to the lack of pre-existing bi-lateral and unilateral arrangements, such as arrangements concerning the liabilities associated with all personnel in the volunteer response and recovery teams;
1. ENCOURAGES all nations, including UN non-members, to lend whatever aid possible in the event of a disaster;
2. EXPRESSES ITS HOPE that nations will continue to enter into local and regional arrangements to prepare for and lend aid to one another in the event of a disaster;
3. DIRECTS the IRCO to set up an international aid clearing house to inventory the capabilities of existing national and international disaster assistance programs;
4. AUTHORIZES the IRCO to expand its role beyond lending first response teams to nations in need to developing additional disaster assistance programs focusing on long-term disaster recovery;
5. SUGGESTS that nations receiving any disaster assistance to appoint a single organization or office of their government to act as a coordination group in the event that multiple national or international disaster recovery and assistance teams are working together; and
6. CALLS UPON all nations to develop domestic "Good Samaritan" laws granting volunteer based first responder teams, including technical and engineering professionals, immunity to liability associated with work and professional judgments made while rendering disaster assistance.
Approvals: 0
Status: Lacking Support (requires 135 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Sep 13 2004
Last go around I telegrammed only 4 UN Delegates. This time I'm planning on telegramming the 48 nations that endorsed it last go around.
As discussed in an earlier thread, this proposal was inspired by a "fictional" accounts of law being drafted in other countries in order to streamline disaster assistance.
Thank you / Danke!
10kMichael