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Old Age Expression Freedom Law

Groot Gouda
13-10-2005, 10:15
Description: We, the United Nations, recognize the basic human rights of all individuals. This resolution seeks to reduce Old Age Identity/Expression Discrimination in order to give old people and others their chance to live dignified lives.

Believing that human right is rooted in the belief of human dignity; everyone deserves to be treated with dignity regardless of their old age identity and/or expression.


Defining Old Age Identity as a person’s innate sense of self -age; age expression is the external presentation of a person’s mental age.

Noting that Old Age Identity/Expression Discrimination affect not only trans-age individuals.

Recognizes that Old Age, is a recognized physical condition that can be diagnosed even by amateurs.


Convinced than people who are diagnosed with Old Age should have the right to seek for different types of treatment with the approval of a mental health professional.

Deeply disturbed that Old Age Identity or Expression discrimination has taken and destroyed many lives.

Be it resolved that that the following articles be recognized by the United Nations.

Article 1: Everyone has the legal right to express their mental age freely without unreasonable interference from the state.

Article 2:

1.) Old Age Identity and/or Expression alone are not grounds for any form of discrimination in the work place unless such identity/expression are clearly proven to preclude satisfactory performance of required duties; Discrimination includes, but is not limited to, unequal treatment in hiring, training, promotion and termination, be the source from other employees or employer(s).

2) Declares that this Article does not apply to:

A.) Situations where Employers wish to establish age specific dress codes or bathrooms at work.

B.) Religious Institutions. (Except in their For-Profit activities)

C.) Non-Profit organizations. (Except in U.N countries where For-Profit organizations do not exist or are an anomaly)

Article 3:

A.) The U.N is neutral on the subject of plastic surgery; however, these "age reassignment treatments" must be legal options available to people diagnosed with Old Age by the tabloids.

B.) U.N countries reserve the right to determine the source of funding for "age reassignment treatments".

C.) Health insurance companies do not have to include coverage for age reassignment treatments but must not discriminate people simply because of their old age identity and/or expression.

D.) Old Age identity and/or Expression alone are not justifiable grounds for hospitals and health care providers to refuse appropriate medical treatments to patients whose lives are at immediate risk.

Article 4: Any person who had undergone a Age Reassignment Surgery must be allowed to change his or her legal age. The issue of whether to grant non post-operative seniors or others the right to change their legal age will be for individual nation to decide.


Article 5:

Urges:

A.) Member nations to consider putting pre operative old inmates
in isolated cells if their personal safety is in danger.

B.) Member nations to accommodate mental age diversity if they haven’t already.

Article 6: If any member nation has rights and protections that go beyond those enlisted in this resolution, the Old Age Freedom Law will not remove them.
Love and esterel
13-10-2005, 10:42
"age reassignment treatments"
interesting you mean gerontology?
i like that
maybe we can encourage scientific research about gerontology
Ecopoeia
13-10-2005, 13:07
OOC: gerontology - how very Red Mars...
Cluichstan
13-10-2005, 14:49
The UN, if I am correct, already extends some protection to the rights of children and workers. Now we are being asked to extend protections to the aged (and, under another proposal, "trans-gendered persons"). Where will this end? When we've got protections for every possible subclassification of people with which we can come up? Do we need a bunch of "protected classes" of people? Given such a trend, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we started seeing proposals to protect the rights of midgets, somnabulists, and sufferers of chronic halitosis.

This creation of "protected classes" really must stop.

Respectfully,
Sheik Nadnerb bin Cluich
Cluichstan's Ambassador to the UN
Regional Delegate from Scybala
Groot Gouda
13-10-2005, 14:59
The UN, if I am correct, already extends some protection to the rights of children and workers. Now we are being asked to extend protections to the aged (and, under another proposal, "trans-gendered persons"). Where will this end? When we've got protections for every possible subclassification of people with which we can come up? Do we need a bunch of "protected classes" of people? Given such a trend, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we started seeing proposals to protect the rights of midgets, somnabulists, and sufferers of chronic halitosis.

Butbut! Think of the children! And then there's CEOs, medium-sized people, people who are extremely average, and that woman with a nasty cough.

I mean, we wouldn't want discrimination to occur, do we?
Cluichstan
13-10-2005, 15:05
Butbut! Think of the children! And then there's CEOs, medium-sized people, people who are extremely average, and that woman with a nasty cough.

I mean, we wouldn't want discrimination to occur, do we?

I am glad to see that my esteemed colleague, Mrs. Lane, agrees with my point, not to mention my tone.
SLI Sector
13-10-2005, 15:09
You mean Groot Gouda really didn't mean this propsal?
Cluichstan
13-10-2005, 15:10
Frankly, the people of Cluichstan are unsure what to think on that point.
Shazbotdom
13-10-2005, 15:51
The people in the Pure Socialist Holy Empire have equal rights.



Although i understand the method that was attempted to be used in the creation of proposals like this one, there really needs to be one proposal that covers all our bases. Something that gaurantees equal rights for all.
Groot Gouda
13-10-2005, 16:39
You mean Groot Gouda really didn't mean this propsal?

*gasp*

I'll tell you what though, if that transgender crap stands a chance of passing I wouldn't be surprised at all if this resolution could pass. And that's not making me happy...
Cluichstan
13-10-2005, 16:46
There's no way that transgender proposal will ever pass.
Yeldan UN Mission
13-10-2005, 16:51
*gasp*

I'll tell you what though, if that transgender crap stands a chance of passing I wouldn't be surprised at all if this resolution could pass. And that's not making me happy...
Sadly, if you campaigned for this as if it was real, people would support it and it probably could be passed.
Cobdenia
13-10-2005, 16:58
Sadly, if you campaigned for this as if it was real, people would support it and it probably could be passed.

I know. If it was for the mods, I'm fairly sure that Eradicate Arctocephalinae would have passed, and we'd all be hitting seals with shovels
SLI Sector
13-10-2005, 16:59
What is Eradicate Arctocephalinae anyway?
Mikitivity
13-10-2005, 17:05
OOC: gerontology - how very Red Mars...

OOC: I still have yet to read Kim Stanley Robinson's series, though he is from Davis, CA, USA -- i.e. a local to me. :) The people of Davis speak very highly of his novels *and* the person as well.
Cluichstan
13-10-2005, 17:13
What is Eradicate Arctocephalinae anyway?

In small words, it's "Kill Arctic Seals."
Pallatium
13-10-2005, 19:11
*gasp*

I'll tell you what though, if that transgender crap stands a chance of passing I wouldn't be surprised at all if this resolution could pass. And that's not making me happy...

It seems to have been deleted - I can't find it in the proposal list any more, and I am pretty sure it was not expiring for two days or so. Further more I think it had support of around 75 to 80 delegates when it was deleted :}
Groot Gouda
14-10-2005, 12:59
Good.

I never submitted this resolution BTW, the mods have better things to do than weed out nonsense like this.