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i've submitted this proposal:

Amending Repeal Resolution 199

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Mylae

A proposal to amending the repeal of Resolution #28 "Free Education".

CONSIDERING that the UN Resolution #28 was subject of a large majority in favour;

FURTHER CONSIDERING that the motivations of the repeal in UN Resolution #199 are the complete lack of any form of educational standards, references to the type(s) of education to be provided, or financial considerations regarding nations' abilities to provide said education;

AWARE THAT, nonetheless, education is a very important issue for all the States, and that all States will like to set particular standards to improve education among their citizens, no matters of the form of government, since education concerns primary elements like the possibility of industrial development;

AWARE THAT UN Educational Aid Act's entrustment of nation's rights to "decide on the structure of their public education systems and the role of private [education] institutions";

AWARE THAT Resolution #171: UN Educational Aid Act fully addresses many concerns of educational standards throughout member nations, including, but not limited to, declarations to help: ensure educational opportunities, support projects for educational services, strike out unfair education practices, and provide financial assistance for various education initiatives through the UN Educational Advancement Fund;

BELIEVING that education is question of internal legislation but could as well be enhanced by a supranational UN Resolution, this amendment,

MANDATE:

1) The creation of an apposite body, since now called UN.EDU., whose Central Committee have to be composed by regional delegats, who have to respond of educational situation in their region of competence;
2) That all States should inform the UN.EDU. of the minimum standards that they will like to set in their internal legislation;
3) That the UN.EDU., once elaborated the data on the different nations, could generate particular international and/or regional plans - via particular issues to submit to states - to improve education in particular countries, thus favouring their development;
4) That the UN.EDU., monitoring the educational situation, have to favour the exchange of informations and technologies among nations, unless a State is unwillingness to share its technology with the rest of the world, thus meaning that the said State will neither receive the benefits of the free sharing of informations and technology;
5) That the costs of UN.EDU. have to be divided in equal parts among all the nations on regional basis;

UNDERSTANDING that all nations are not touched in their individual rights, but instead could take greater advantage from the determination of higher internal educational standards and from the information-sharing role of the UN.EDU, the proposal nation invite UN members to vote in favour of it.




i'm really sorry to have not inserted the links of the amended resolution in the text, but i've tried unsuccessfully to do it.


the proposal is under vote by now to 21 feb.

is my first proposal of resolution, so i have few ideas about it: i don't know if it has been done good or not. i'm a newbie, i've read posts here, and so i have few practice, so please forget me if i've occurred in errors :)

Amendments are illegal. Please read the rules stickies.

We would like to welcome the representative from Mylae to this assembly, and hope that they will avail themselves of the collected wisdom herein present to improve their proposal in draft form before they resubmit it.

As has been mentioned by members more august than ourselves, extant resolutions may not be amended by any means. It is however entirely possible to introduce new legislation on the same topic as a repealed resolution, provided no other resolution duplicates or forbids it. In short, you may introduce an entirely new Free Education bill to your specification.

Assuming that you were to reintroduce your proposal as such new work, there are a regrettable number of issues with it. First, in clause 1, it should be noted that committee membership is traditionally the province of the gnomes who enforce the UN resolutions, whose impartiality can be trusted in such matters. It is perhaps best to leave the membership unspecified and allow tradition to take its course.

Clause 5, on the other hand, is in conflict with the resolution forbidding the UN to raise taxes, which such a mandatory shared cost would be. It must be deleted wholesale.

The remaining clauses we have some issue with on the grounds that while we can see some small degree of distinction between the proposed work of UN.EDU and that of the UNEAF, we cannot honestly say that UN.EDU would perform sufficiently different work that the resolution should not be struck down for duplication of Resolution #171. If you genuinely believe that there is additional work that should be done (and we would not necessarily disagree with your assessment), perhaps a better way to write your proposal would be to assign such additional duties to the UNEAF?

(OOC: I can tell English isn't your first languange, and I'm sorry that this speech is such a dense load of waffle. That's the way the Gobbannaen ambassador talks, unfortunately. Seriously though, it would be a good idea to talk around what you think needs to be done in the forum before putting a proposal together. Folks here, however rude they are in character, seem to be pretty willing to help us newcomers clarify things before we completely embarrass ourselves in public!)

Clause 5, on the other hand, is in conflict with the resolution forbidding the UN to raise taxes, which such a mandatory shared cost would be. It must be deleted wholesale.


There is no such resolution. The representative seems to be referring to NSUNR#4, but that only prohibits the direct taxation of citizens.

Travilia E. Thwerdock
Ambassador to the United Nations

Mylae

Join Date: Feb 2007
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There is no such resolution. The representative seems to be referring to NSUNR#4, but that only prohibits the direct taxation of citizens.

Intriguing. Our reading of that resolution had been overly rapid, it seems.

is my first proposal of resolution, so i have few ideas about it: i don't know if it has been done good or not. i'm a newbie, i've read posts here, and so i have few practice, so please forget me if i've occurred in errors :)
Its a good effort, but sadly it's an ammendment.

Still welcome to the UN, you have much potential.