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UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #6 End Slavery A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
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Category: Human Rights Strength: Significant Proposed By: Monocerous

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Description:
The scourge of slavery yet remains in these progressive times. People are bought and sold like cattle, unable to determine their destiny. Their families are split apart; they are allowed no possessions of their own. They are beaten, chained, and tortured.

Therefore, I propose that the following human rights be given to every peoples of this great world:

- The right to leave her or his job, given two weeks' notice.

- The right to own possessions.

- The right to travel freely throughout their country.

- The right to bodily safety from one's employer.

- The outlawing of the selling or purchasing of people.

Votes For: 6,939

Votes Against: 1,753

Implemented: Tue Jan 21 2003


The resolution makes no provisions as for punishment for a crime.
For example, a prisoner can clame they have "The right to travel freely throught their country" out of jail.
And also and prisoner preforming community service has the "The right to leave her or his job, given two weeks' notice."

Please don't say I'm not in the UN, I have a UN puppet and can get 2 endorsements really fast.

Please don't say I'm not in the UN, I have a UN puppet and can get 2 endorsements really fast.

OK, I won't say that. I will say that you're an idiot. Fortunately minds significantly saner than your own are working on the double-repeal-and-replace necessary to get a resolution that actually ends slavery.

One could put some other things in question about that proposal. In my opinion it forbids nations to have a planned economy or a communist society.

- The right to leave her or his job, given two weeks' notice.

- The right to own possessions.

In a planned economy people are assigned to jobs and they have to do them without being given the choice of another job. Of course this isnt very democratic or free market of nations to do this, but the UN cant force nations to choose a specific form of government or market organisation.

I doubt the legitimacy of the right to own possessions aswell. Everything can be owned by the state and people have the right of use of possessions. People without possessions don't have to be slaves.

Why I dont try to repeal this myself? Im capitalist so I like it very much that the UN enforces this on other nations. But to be honest I don't think the UN has the right to make such demands.

Fortunately minds significantly saner than your own are working on the double-repeal-and-replace necessary to get a resolution that actually ends slavery.
Where?