NationStates Jolt Archive

The Universal Bill of Rights

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Free porcupines

Description: Recalling the many egregious infringements of human rights,

Recognizing the need to protect basic human rights,

Deploring any acts by government at the sake of human rights,

Determined to put an end to the violation of human rights,


The United Nations shall endorse what will be called the Universal Bill of Rights, the articles of which are as follows:

Article 1 -- All human beings have the right to choose worship any faith, and to change their religious beliefs at any time without punishment on the part of the state.

Article 2 -- All human beings have the right to express themselves through speech and through the media without any interference.

Article 3 -- All human beings have the right to peacefully assemble.

Article 4 -- All human beings have the right to be treated equally under the law of any member nation.

Article 5 -- All human beings must not be subjected to torture or to cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment.

Article 6 -- No human beings will be subjected to arrest or exile without an explicit list of their offenses.

Article 7 -- Any arrested person must be assumed innocent until proven guilty.

Article 8 -- A human beings family members cannot be held accountable for the crimes of their relative.

Article 9 -- Any persons who violate any of these articles shall be held accountable by the law.

Article 10 -- The Universal Bill of Rights does not override the existing Bill of Rights of United Nations members. If any of these stated rights do not exist in a member nation, they are herby protected. If any nation has rights that go beyond these universal rights, the Universal Bill of Rights will not remove those rights.

Votes For: 11,169
Votes Against: 3,649

Implemented: Fri Aug 8 2003


Okay. I found this kind of interesting...Aren't various parts of this Bill of Rights ripped from the actual U.S. Bill of Rights? Articles I - III are a spread version of Amendment I, Article 5 is also a plagarism, as well as Article 6 and 8. I do give credit to the author for altering it drastically so as to lessen the offense..So I'm not really sure if this makes it illegal or not.

Maybe I'm just trying too hard..:p

Okay. I found this kind of interesting...Aren't various parts of this Bill of Rights ripped from the actual U.S. Bill of Rights? Articles I - III are a spread version of Amendment I, Article 5 is also a plagarism, as well as Article 6 and 8. I do give credit to the author for altering it drastically so as to lessen the offense..So I'm not really sure if this makes it illegal or not.

Maybe I'm just trying too hard..:p

It was passed before the current rules about writing resolutions were set in place, so it was legal then, and the very fact that it's still on the books means that it has to be considered legal now as well. (I gather that the relevant term is "grandfathered in"...)

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #109


Proposed by: Bromanique

Description: UN Resolution #109: Nuclear Armaments (Category: International Security; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument:
RECOGNIZING that Resolution 109 is intended to protect the rights of nations,

ACKNOWLEDGING the individual nations' rights to defend themselves,

LET IT BE NOTED that such a resolution insinuates that the UN has jurisdiction over the military rights of the various nations,

LET IT BE FURTHER NOTED that such a resolution is superfluous and unnecessary as such a resolution cannot prevent future bans and already ensures rights that the UN has little or no jurisdiction in,

LET IT BE RESOLVED that the UN Repeals United Nations Resolution 109, "Nuclear Armaments", to protect the nation-states' rights and eliminate the precedence of UN jurisdiction over this area.

The Republic of BromaniqueIllegal, branding.

Category: International Security


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Rick Hard

Description: Stop the Joint Defense Initiative. Society sees them as corrupt close minded individuals. They RARELY comply with the UN. Their Evil leading country can be classified as one of George Orwell's nightmare. Take away rights from 'The Democratic Republic' of Provostinia. Please, for the security of the world. Illegal, branding and RL reference.

Category: Social Justice


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Ataturkey

Description: Description: UNDERSTANDING that the prevailing socio-economic conditions of lesser-developed nations are in part due to the intentional misallocation of U.N. foreign aid by states where governmental transparency is virtually non-existent.

BELIEVING all citizens of lesser-developed nations has the right to access U.N. foreign aid.

RECOGNIZING nations in receipt of U.N. aid must be held accountable for all fair and even aid distribution practices through monitoring by the appropriate U.N. authorities residing in their countries.


Be It Resolved...
That the U.N. establish a monitoring agency in lesser-developed countries in receipt of U.N. aid whereby U.N. officials are instruct how aid packages are to be distributed by state officials, of which will be monitored by U.N. officials.

To FULFILL its mandate, the U.N. will elect a committee to manage the monitoring of aid packages for each country in need of foreign aid. These monitory boards shall be here on referred to as the United Nations Department of Aid Inspection (UNDAI).

NATIONS who receive U.N. foreign aid are required to have at all times present during arrival of and distribution of foreign aid UNDAI agents, and will be subject to U.N. foreign aid distributive practices. Reports by state officials must be presented to UNDAI Agents within 7 business days of complete aid distribution and if all points of receipt have passed, state report will be marked with the UNDAI seal, thus ensuring future receipt of aid.

OFFENDING NATIONS that have failed inspection by UNDAI Agents either during the process of aid distribution or after will be notified to UNDAI Agency Headquarters in New York City. A UNDAI report will be sent to the United Nations headquarters in New York City where review of the foreign aid regime to the offending nation will be discussed with penalties ranging from warnings to state governments to temporary restriction of authority of state-directed aid to that of UNDAI agents for a period of up to one year.

Be it also resolved…
That the United Nation should monitor foreign aid distribution to lesser-developed countries in order to ensure that such aid is distributed fairly to the population in need.

To UNDERGO this resolved, the UN will elect a committee manage the monitoring and review of foreign aid to recipient countries. This committee shall be here on referred to as the United Nations Department of Aid Inspection (UNDAI).

APPROVED country reports of fair distributive practices will be marked with the UNDAI seal of approval. This will guarantee future shipments of U.N. foreign aid.

NATIONS that do not allow access to, or report to their national UNDAI agency will be subject to U.N. penal codes for non-compliance with international law.Illegal, RL reference.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Sethomania

Description: All slaves are to be freed by their masters,given a chance for a new life,and treated with the same respect as anybody else.It's been done.

Category: Recreational Drug Use


Decision: Outlaw


Proposed by: Walasaria

Description: We need to band drugs of than Meds outlaw beer wine ok wiscy I think this would contradict the UN Drug Act if the author could spell.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #49


Proposed by: Enania

Description: UN Resolution #49: Rights and Duties of UN States (Category: Political Stability; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: Simply Put, this Resolution has outlived it's purpose and should be scraped and Rewritten by a Grand Convention of all UN Members to make it better for all those whom inhabit our World, and for those whom are UN Members.

It was once said, that Every Generation should have a Revolution of Thinking and should be able to undo all of its predecessors doings and rewrite the laws in a way as to serve the current people. This law was created by Nation, most of Which have faded into the Abyss, I propose with this Repeal, that we after this repeal, rewrite this resolution in a way we all can agree on.Fris is gone? (http://www.nationstates.net/frisbeeteria)

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Woodchipping


Proposed by: Ansalan

Description: The Endangered Species Act (ESA) provides a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and the habitats in which they are found. The U.N. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) of the Department of the Interior maintains a worldwide list which, as of Feb. 20, 2008, included thousands endangered species (many are plants) and hundreds threatened species (many are plants). Species include birds, insects, fish, reptiles, mammals, crustaceans, flowers, grasses, and trees. Anyone can petition FWS to include a species on this list.
The law requires federal agencies, in consultation with the U.N. Fish and Wildlife Service and/or the U.N. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, to ensure that actions they authorize, fund, or carry out are not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any listed species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of designated critical habitat of such species. The law also prohibits any action that causes a "taking" of any listed species of endangered fish or wildlife. Likewise, import, export, interstate, and foreign commerce of listed species are all generally prohibited. Isn't this what the UNCoESB does?

Fris is gone? (http://www.nationstates.net/frisbeeteria)

Yeah, pretty sure he's stopped paying attention to large parts of the site. He'll probably drift off into CTE land about the time that proposal makes queue.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Kangolistan

Description: This resolution hereby argues that "the Pacific" as it is now known is unconstitutional because the name implies governance of the four feeder regions surrounding it. The new established name of said region shall hereafter be known as "the Central Pacific." The initial structures of our vast regions were originally members of "the Pacific" but as a whole we now have both a greater populous and greater influence than said region. This is not an act of war nor is it a vice to ensnare the members of “the Pacific.” This is simply a call to consensus to give the northern, southern, eastern, and western entities of the Pacific an equal claim to their namesake. Thus we stand, "The parts are greater than the whole."Illegal, game mechanics.

really illegal wow
im a UN MEMBER

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Alexander William

Description: If this proposal is passed a minimum wage will be required in all country that are part of the U.N.




NOTICING- To may people are out of jobs, and aren't able to support a family. We don't want our citizens on the street, and we want all people to be able to live, even if it is at the bare minimum.


UNDERSTANDING- That this act will significantly improve the life styles pf every day people. That the populatiuon of people who are poor will go down. That in many nations 1% of the population owns almost 40% of everything in the country.


DECIDEING- That if this proposal is passed a minimum wage of 10 dollars an hour. And that if a country sees fit to higher the wage they can. The reason i am putting it at 10 dollars, is because people can't live on anything lower. In some countries it is 7 to 8 dollars. BUt that was decided in the 70's and its a new century and people can't live on that kinda of money, even if its the bare minimum. Illegal, duplicates/contradicts UN Fair Wage Convention.

Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Educational
Proposed by: SHAWSUN

Description: I propose that every child between the age of 5-8 should get free schooling in there grades. That the UN makes an group that funds this proposal and helps with this ways of this idea. This will be a benefit for those who can not afford schooling for there child. And this will make it much better for people to school ther kids. I end it here,

Thank You
All together now: illegal, contradicts UNEAA


Category: Advancement of Industry
Area of Effect: Environmental Deregulation
Proposed by: Neep islands

Description: This will make industries more environmentaly friendly. ut will also help reduce the amount of carbon dioxides in the air resulting in helping our people.
Wonderful. Green. Possibly even cute. How will it achieve this miracle? Especially since it's in the wrong category.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Faliace

Description: This act stipulates that any movement whether, peaceful or violent that proclaims any race or religion as a lesser individual should be punished to the extent of the law.

The Tolerance is not so easy, in the nation of Faliace, we are undergoing a Nazi resurgence. We would like to put an end to such protests that would not only undermine a nations confidence, but undermine the right of democracy.

Yes freedom of speech is important, but to put the lives of our own citizens at risk is too much to bare. I would like to put an end too such hateful demonstrations in the streets.

This bill ends demonstrations that discriminate against a certain people, ethnic or religious sector.

It cant be both ways, if you are a Nazi that is in no way a religious sect, but a way to the door of Genocide.

Please join me in this my fellow United Nation Members in ending the beginning of genocide and disease in developing and already developed nations.Illegal, branding.

Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation


Proposed by: Philosphical Debate

Description: Seeing how this is the UN, I purpose that Slave Labor be instituted within all nations. Every nation should be allowed to have slave labor as it is a nation's right to do so. The UN should be promoting national freedoms and rights, and that also includes the right for nations to have slave labor.

Hence, hereby slave labor is acceptable within all UN nations.Illegal, contradicts Abolition of Slavery and Abolition of Forced Labour.

Category: Repeal
Resolution: #4
Proposed by: Kiddopolis

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: 1: COMMENDING Resolution #4: UN taxation ban,

2: AGREEING that all nations need to collect taxes from the citizens of member states,

3: BELIEVING that governments in the world shall allow taxation from its people,

4: DECLARES for reducing the major spendings of the world's governments,

5: CRITICIZING the ban on taxation on all UN member nations of the world,

6: HEREBY repeals United Nations Resolution #4: UN taxation ban.
Uh, what?

Category: Recreational Drug Use


Decision: Legalize


Proposed by: Faliace

Description: This Resolution hereby states:

The drug Marijuana, with only the chemical THC is legal is all nations.

Any substances that have additives such as Crystal Meth, LSD, or PCP is illegal.

This bill also includes some stipulations:

1. That the governments of all nations take up a mandate on the federalization and taxing of the use of marijuana and its medicinal counterparts.

2. That there be more studies into the medicinal purposes of Marijuana.

3. Any person who is prescribed Marijuana for medicinal purposes not be subject to any kind of investigations, neither by that nation, or by and outside powers, such as the United Nations.

4. No laws be broken if Marijuana is used in commercial trade or finance.

5. It is illegal for any persons under the age of 17 to smoke Marijuana, or take it in its THC pill form.

This bill is very important my fellow colleagues. It is to provide nations with some relief on crimes committed by youthful offenders. I believe this will not only stop the solicitation of Marijuana by the black market, but it will also stopped many crime related deaths in the drug industry.

Thank you all for you time.

THE REPUBLIC OF FALIACE

PRESIDENT MCLAURIN Illegal, contradicts UN Drug Act, and branding.

Category: Recreational Drug Use


Decision: Legalize


Proposed by: New Boston 2

Description: This proposal recognizes that
1. The smoking of marijuana of any kind is better for ones health then smoking cigarettes, and
2. Marijuana is only slightly worse than alcohol, and
3. That the regulation and taxing of the marijuana trade will prevent overdosing and produce government revenue, and
4. The smoking of all substance will be illegal in oublic places, and
5. Marijuana bars should be established for purposes of selling and smoking marijuana, and
6. This proposal does not condone or allow the use of any other drugsIllegal, contradicts UN Drug Act.

Category: Free Trade


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Robert C Byrd

Description: Our country and the many regional countries in our area have wanted to make a free trade agreement world-wide. This would finacially help the world economy which is right now plunging to the ground. So i propose a free trade agreement worldwide in the following products... salt, sugar, and corn.Wouldn't all three of those be covered under the GFDA?

Why are new proposals stricken because they aren't in accordance with prior law? If a new proposal contradicts an earlier act, wouldn't passage of the proposal just be considered to modify or supersede the pre-existing act?

Modification, amendments, contradictory and duplicate resolutions are all illegal, in part due to the program code. In order to update a resolution, you must repeal the original and pass a replacement. That is the only way there is, that is the only way there will be for the foreseeable future. Read the various sticky'd threads at the top of the forum, they'll tell you any reason that it could be deleted.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Walasaria

Description: .Health care should be free
.taxes low
.the nation should pay for funds for middle and lower class so they live the life they should in peace
.collage free
.having the people as strong as the king/president
.and the people should be happy to live there lifeHmm, free health care, free college and giving money to the lower and middle classes. How the hell do you do all that and still have low taxes?

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #4


Proposed by: Kids Woeld

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: taxes must be enforced in every way possible and i will send my regards to all UN regional delegates and to The United Kingdom Kids Woelds regional delegate. Thank You All and God bless.Illegal, branding.

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Kids Woeld

Description: I am proposing this both politically and govermentally. I am aspecifically announcing this porposal to the UN that if someone wants to eb a regionaal delegate the UN Member must have votes instead of endorsements. I am also trying to stabalize the political government in Kids Woeld. Thank You very much and God bless.Illegal, game mechanics and branding.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Mirahge

Description: NOTING that many people die each year from the death penalty

FURTHER NOTING that the death penalty is a cruel and horrible punishment in todays justice system

This resolution herby enacts these laws:

ELIMINATE the death penalty from all UN nations justice system

REPLACES the death penalty with life in imprisonment

STRONGLY DISCOURAGES any other inhumane treatment and/or punishments in the justice systems of the UN nationsIllegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Automobile Manufacturing


Proposed by: Pierz

Description: This is a revision of UN Resolution #18: Hydrogen Powered Vehicles, which was repealed by UN Resolution #201.
COMMENDING the intent of the original UN Resolution #18,
RECOGNIZING the reasons given for its repeal, namely its indiscriminate requests of all member nations regardless of economic stability, developmental stage or research prowess,
PROPOSES the following revised version of the original UN Resolution #18:

The Empire of Pierz promotes the creation of an international committee composing of all UN Member Nations with a Gross National Product per Capita in the top 15% of UN Member Nations, containing a number of scientific minds proportional to the population of each Committee Member Nation, funded by a similarly proportional budget allocated to each Committee Member Nation, with the intent of:

DEVELOPING, through scientific enquiry and experimentation, an efficient method of powering automobiles utilizing Hydrogen as the main fuel of a combustion- or electrolysis-powered engine, for such purposes as minimizing the emissions of 'greenhouse gases', as defined as gaseous emissions that contribute to the heat-containing nature of the atmosphere, but with an overarching goal to develop a hydrogen-powered engine that emits only water as a byproduct, and;

TO DEVELOP cheap and effective methods of mass-production of said Hydrogen-powered engine, and cheap and effective conversion processes so as to allow the advancements achieved by this scientific committee to go un-utilized by the worlds' developing nations while simultaneously reducing the impact of such developments on the economy of Committee Member Nations;

Which would be created upon resolution of this Proposal, and would herald the way for further Scientific Committees for the purpose of scientific development and research for the good of all UN Member Nations and all nations of the planet.Illegal, branding.

Category: Recreational Drug Use


Decision: Outlaw


Proposed by: New Alex World

Description: This resolution would make it so that:
Smoking is prohibited in all indoor and in-home workplaces including restaurants, bars, public transportation.
Smoking is banned on 50% of outdoor patio seating in restaurants and bars.

Why?
Secondhand smoke causes approximately 3,400 lung cancer deaths and 46,000 heart disease deaths in adult non smokers in the United States each year.


Non smokers exposed to secondhand smoke at work are at increased risk for adverse health effects. Levels of ETS in restaurants and bars were found to be 2 to 5 times higher than in residences with smokers and 2 to 6 times higher than in office workplaces.

Secondhand smoke is especially harmful to young children. Secondhand smoke is responsible for between 150,000 and 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children under 18 months of age, resulting in between 7,500 and 15,000 hospitalizations each year, and causes 430 sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
And smoking makes everything be all 'Ewwww!'smelling.Illegal, RL references and probably contradicts UN Drug Act.

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Niveus Vesica

Description: Despite the unity of the United Nations and the progress on having a unified UN standing and peace keeping force, our home countries are still under threat from rogue nations that are not members. Putting forth that all UN members must devote at least 5% of their total budget to Defense and another 5% to Law and Order to build stability in your region and help defend against threats from foreign ones.Illegal, game mechanics.

A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.


Category: Political Stability


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Karensleons

Description: allow phone tapping (only when a terrorist is suspected) Illegal, contradicts Stop Privacy Intrusion.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Vrall

Description: RECOGNIZING the repeal of Resolution #232: abolition of slavery

PROPOSING the replacement of said article with a more effective one.

REQUIRING, if voted into resolution, that no UN nation may allow its civilians to FORCE another human being into slavery.When the hell was Abolition of Slavery repealed?

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: The FAC Empire

Description: Communism is a plague amongst NationStates and must be eradicated!
Naught but the Right-Wing nations succeed.
Help remove this blight upon our delightful game!

Damian Penney
Ch.FLDMSHL
Head Of State
The FAC EmpireIllegal, idealogical ban and branding.

Primary School Teaching
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.

Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Educational
Proposed by: Salicional

Description: I believe that the stringent testing 7 year olds have to go through adds un-nessicary stress to their school life, and does not benefit them in any way. I also believe that Foundation stage and Key Stage 1 (4 - 7 years) should be about finding yourself and not testing. Therefore I propose that more music, PE and Drama is used during this time to achieve the same results as we currently get, but presenting it in a more fun, hands-on way. For example, times tables could be leart by learning a song, and then tested by using some form of P.E. lesson or physical activity. I believe that this would releave the stress on the staff and pupils, and make the early years of school more enjoyable. I hope that you will vote for this proposal, for the sake of the children and your education systems

Approvals: 1 (Salicional)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 104 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Sat Mar 8 2008

Illegal, for RL references and contradiction of the UN Educational Aid Act...
and somebody needs more lessons in spelling. ;)

Isn't this already

Sex on the beach
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Giant hair samurais

Description: I think that all nations have a selected time slot for exclusivly having sex on the beach. In this time all married couples would be forced to have sex on the beach!
Approvals: 0
Status: Lacking Support (requires 105 more approvals)
Hmm... Forced to have sex on the beach? Like with armed guards making sure everybody's really doing it?

Hmm... Forced to have sex on the beach? Like with armed guards making sure everybody's really doing it?

Methinks someone isn't getting any.


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Winstane

Description: ASSERTING that all citizens and individuals within the states of the United Nations, equal in the eyes of their respective states' legal systems, deserve protection from prosecution for criminal activity to which their guilt can be brought into question.

MAINTAINING the principle of Habeas Corpus, thereby demanding justification for the arrest and/or detention of individuals by the state.

DEFINING fair trial as involving the following:

1. TRIAL BY JURY, with a jury holding ultimate power in reaching a verdict in a trial.

2. INDEPENDENT JURY, with members of the jury randomly chosen, i.e. not deliberately or discriminately chosen by the state, and not having any otherwise vested interest in the prosecution of a defendant.

3. PROTECTION FROM COMPULSION TO TESTIFY AGAINST ONESELF, with responsibility for proof of guilt beyond reasonable doubt being totally with the prosecution.

4. GUARANTEE OF LEGAL REPRESENTATION for both the defendant and prosecution. Should either or both parties be unable, for whatever reason, or unwilling, to provide for their own professional legal representation in court, the state must provide, without financial or any other cost, impartial and qualified legal representation. Neither party is compelled to accept legal representation should they wish to represent themselves.

5. PROTECTION FROM UNFAIR PROSECUTION, with guilt necessarily proven beyond reasonable doubt to justify the prosecution of an individual.
They need to wait for the repeal vote to be finished first!


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Warsaw and Poland

Description: We are conscious that people in many parts of world are discriminated for their preferences and sexual orientations, which don't give any damage to others, therefore we ask united nations to recognize that each person is free, that nobody can be oppressed or condemned for what he chooses.
Does this do anything that isn't already in the Discrimination Accord?

Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Tort Reform


Proposed by: Emperial Poland

Description: This proposal to the UN is for economic help to poorer nations with weak and crumbling economies. Every UN nation will be required to give money to developing countries and help each other out when in economic trouble.

This will help many nations if a global depression were to hit all UN nations.

No word yet if non-UN nations will be allowed to recieve help for their economies. Say it with me everyone, "This is not tort reform!"

Kill the mongrels
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Category: International Security
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Titanician

Description:
Kill the mongrels, for they feast on our children in the depth of the night. LIVE BY THE WARRIOR CODE!!!

I Propose an all out war against these evil creatures of the night

WHO IS WITH ME?
*for those whom do not know what a mongrel is then go here for a pic:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/gladius/art-018.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/gladius/art.html&h=720&w=521&sz=78&hl=en&start=20&um=1&tbnid=AJfPqIqIUw8XuM:&tbnh=140&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2Bgamecube%2Bgladius%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

Approvals: 1 (Ecia)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 104 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Mar 9 2008 Aside from being Bloody Stupid, the (unparsed) URL gives the site horrible stretch marks.

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Massive Punishment

Description: If there is a politician that seems to have lost his mind, anmely it looks as if he has been pschotic, then maybe he should consider these three options:
1. Quite being so darn pschotic, and comply with U.N laws, policies, and regulations.
2. If continues to dissobey said laws, polcies and regulations, then maybe he should be forcably removed from the U.N altogether.
3. Perhaps the U.N forcably remove the nation from the game completly, if the U.n so choses to.

These are just options that I have thought in case a nation is non-compliant, and becomes a nuisance! Illegal, tries to mandate ejection from the UN (and the game) as a penalty for non compliance with UN resolutions.

Category: Recreational Drug Use


Decision: Legalize


Proposed by: Faliace

Description: This Law Hereby States:

The Drug, known as THC, (the chemical effect of Marijuana) be made legal in all nations of the world. Marijuana Crimes and Sentences should be dissolved and thrown out of court. Prisoners facing legal bounds because of a previous court trial shall be freed immediately upon the U.N. passing of this Proposal.

Stipulations and Redress of Grievances:

1. Anyone who has been in prison longer than 22 months shall be released immediately upon the passing of this resolution, and receive a check from their states government of $1,300.

2. Anyone who wants to grow their own Marijuana plants will be allowed to do so, but no house hold may own more than 3 Marijuana plants.

3. Just as alcohol remains to have an age limit, so shall Marijuana. Anyone under the age of 17 who is caught smoking Marijuana or selling it, will be prosecuted at the states expense.

4. The government of any nation will be able to tax, permit, and sell Marijuana to it's citizens.

5. Commercial Trade of Marijuana will now be legal amongst all nations.

6. Every nation will have at its own expense, Medical Teams who research and confirm the effects of Medical Marijuana on the elderly and the sick.

7. All forms of other drugs, such as Cocain, Heroin, Opium, LSD, and Crystal Meth will still be outlawed at the extent to which the state deems nessasary.

I would also like to put a stipulation into this bill that will say to the U.N. that it cannot vote to repeal this bill unless there is undisputable evidence that the Legalization of Marijuana has effected any one nation in a way that would jepoardize its security or its stability.

Thank You,

President McLaurin

The Republic of Faliace Illegal, contradicts UN Drug Act, tries to make itself unrepealable, and branding.

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Johnmcain

Description: This resolution hereby outlaws all abbortions, based on teh moral indecency of such acts and the respect for unborn human life. It outlaws all forms of abbortion EXCEPT in cases of rape incest or threat to the mother's life.Illegal, contradicts Abortion Legality Convention.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #4


Proposed by: Kids Woeld

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: there must be some kind of rule against this petition. every united nations delegate has consistedly agreed to every proposal and my regional delegate Great Britain does not even read it he just says yes. Action must be taken as soon as possible. i sent a proposal and nobody even read it and its not posted the united nations must keep balance or like the words of bejamin frnaklin "we must all hang together or else we will be hung separately." my point is that if the united nations does not post every proposal and posts porposals like the one im repealing to there will be no balance in the united nations. Thank You and God bless.What the heck does this argument have to do with the UN Taxation Ban.

Category: Education and Creativity


Area of Effect: Educational


Proposed by: Kids Woeld

Description: we must keep education the first priority in the united nations and the world of NS. we must keep balance in the united nations. we must hang together or we will all eb hung separately and educations must be our first priority not the economy but educationAh the classics, an education proposal with spelling and grammatical errors.

What the heck does this argument have to do with the UN Taxation Ban.
Not to mention the meta-gaming and RL reference (at least I think "bejamin frnaklin" would be an RL reference).

Education need fundraising
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.

Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Educational
Proposed by: Jonas Brothers

Description: The nation has to get a good education system soon or the working force will lower in numbers but in order to do that, they will have to take away from the money of the center of Defense

Approvals: 5 (WZ Forums, Brazykystan, The Artic Republics, Jake and Elwood Blues, Cordova I)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 100 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Mar 10 2008

:headbang:

Pot, is it Really that bad?
A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.

Category: Recreational Drug Use
Decision: Legalize
Proposed by: Taterdic

Description: Most People Hurt So Why Not Do Something About it. Like Give Them POT!!!!!!!!!!

Approvals: 1 (WZ Forums)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 104 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Mar 10 2008

Illegal, contradicts the UN Drug Act.

Free Prostitutes
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.

Category: Free Trade
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Nocid

Description: Shouldnt all people have sex? Make prostitutes have sex for free

Approvals: 2 (New Drakon, WZ Forums)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 103 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Mar 10 2008

Bloody silly...

For Stability
A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.

Category: Political Stability
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Radumi

Description: Elections everywhere should be illegal. Voting just takes too much time. People fight for government positions instead of the good of the country.

Approvals: 2 (Radumi, WZ Forums)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 103 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Mar 10 2008

Illegal, for ideological ban.

The Iron First Laws
A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.

Category: Political Stability
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Diasair

Description: Crime is a major problem in some nations. Within these nations, the common factor are drugs, vast freedom, and a weak military. I propose that a new set of laws called the Iron Fist Laws are set in place to fix these atrocities that plague the world

Law 1. All criminals, no matter the crime, shall be severely punished for their crime. Select individuals that have committed the worst of these crimes shall be made example of by public means.

Law 2. All drugs of any kind are hereby illegal anywhere within the nations borders. Anyone or ones caught with drugs of any kind will be made example of by public punishment.

Law 3. All children, after they have finished their highest level in education set by the nation, shall be sent into the military to serve for one years time.

Law 4. A form of State Police will be formed within all nations. Their job will to keep all laws of the nation and the Iron Fist Laws in order. They will be allowed to search anyone or any residence without warrant if suspicion is high.

These Law are not to turn any country into a Dictatorship or any Fascist form of government. These are set up just so that law and order may be reached in all nations.

Proposed sole by the Holy Empire of Diasiar.

Approvals: 2 (Cordova I, WZ Forums)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 103 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Mar 10 2008

Illegal, for contradiction of existing resolutions (Fair Sentencing Act, UN Drug Act, and probably others...) and branding.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #4


Proposed by: New Hope UN

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: This Ban is meaningless as the UN does not have any authority to collect tax from nation states.

In fact it implies, that the UN has power over nation states unless it is formally ruled out by UN resolution.

We hereby recognise that this position and repeal UN Resolution 4 - The UN Taxation Ban.Oh look, another person who doesn't understand what the taxation ban does.

Category: Social Justice


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Onglay

Description: RECOGNIZING that millions of people in the world are in poverty;

RECOGNIZING that overcoming poverty is is hard, and in some cases, almost impossible;

NOTING that low interest loans are a great tool to help build personal wealth;

NOTING that most people who are poor and/or in a state of poverty have poor credit; therefore, often unable to be eligible for low interest loans;

FINDING this situation to be detrimental in the advancement of the poor to become more productive members of society, hereby proposes the compulsory adoption of the financial institution of "micro-credit" as follows:

1. OFFERING the extension of very small loans (called micro-loans) to the unemployed, to poor entrepreneurs, and to others living in poverty who are not considered "bankable."

Whereby poor or impoverished individuals would be defined as individuals (1) lacking necessary collateral, (2) lacking steady employment, (3) lacking a verifiable credit history, and (4) cannot meet even the most minimal qualifications to gain access to traditional low interest loans.)

2. REQUIRING member nations to adopt a new, radically efficient, large-scale, banking operating infrastructure.

Whereby investment in self sustaining institutions that finance poor residents is a cost-effective use of monetary subsidies for economic development. The costs in the micro-credit area is extremely low compared to other strategies to stimulate economic development such as tax abatement or continued support for welfare programs.

3. RECOGNIZE that traditional private banks should not be replaced with micro-finance institutions, but also should not be expected to offer micro-credit.

Existing banks with a traditional operating philosophy typically have significant investments in facilities and costly operating structures. Because of the significant overhead of such banking operations, these bank operations naturally gravitate to large, profitable transactions with affluent borrowers. By allowing these banks to co-exist with micro-financial institutions, these institutions will still be able to offer services to traditional clientele.

4. RECOGNIZE that savings and/or investment is preferable once an individual has been able to come out of poverty.

Independent borrowers earn the dignity and lasting self-confidence associated with responsible loan repayment. Institutional managers are more careful to ensure borrower success and generally perform better when there are risks involved.

CONCLUDING that the compulsory adoption of the institution of micro-credit will successfully enable extremely impoverished individuals to engage in self-employment projects that allow these individuals to produce an income and, in many cases, begin to build on personal wealth via savings and/or investment in order to exit poverty. In a more efficient and economically beneficial way. It's been done. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9439182&postcount=118)

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: HeadAroundU

Description: Kosovo's independence is a violation of the international law!

Albanians are dealers with guns, drugs and white meat!I'm going to assume that this is a RL reference.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Common German States

Description: The United Nations hereby requires all member states to fully recognize the rights of Transgender people - those who have transitioned from one sex to the other. These individuals will not face discrimination in government, employment, and will be protected by appropriate hate crimes legislation.

Regardless of personal beliefs or morals, we as an international body declare that all our citizens be treated with equality and respect.For the love of God, please tell me Agnostic Deeishpeople isn't back.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Skenderbeg

Description: Throughout our glorious world there are a number of extremists who wish to abuse and treat other people of different ethnicity inhumanely.

This is a proposal to:

1. Stop the violence against other ethnic groups in each respective country.

2. Put International police of the UN in each country to monitor the treatment and policing of interethnic people.

3. Bring justice to those who abuse other's rights to live where they want with the freedoms that everyone else shares.

This is a very serious matter which we all need to put serious effort into stopping.

Each day people are being abused and mistreated because they are of a different origin or ethnicity.

Lets stop the violence and leave in a world of peaceful relations with each other.

A vote for this resolution is a vote for your brother, mother, wife and upcoming child.

For he who signs this resolution gives his future generations the right to live a free, proud and life full of dignity!We don't and can't have international police.

Repeal "Ban Single-Hulled Tankers"

Category: Repeal
Resolution: #11
Proposed by: Vrall

Description: UN Resolution #11: Ban Single-Hulled Tankers (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: UNDERSTANDING the environmental reasons for this resolution.

ARGUING for the sake of industry and economy world-wide.

POINTING OUT that tankers also frequently carry wine and fresh water.

SUGGESTING that some industries (public, private or otherwise) may not be able to AFFORD double-hulled tankers.

RECOMMENDING a better law be passed, banning single-hulled tankers carrying OIL.

Thank you for your time.

Chancellor Scelestus
Dominion of Vrall

Approvals: 3 (Vrall, Karkelbania, Vaantage)

Illegal, branding.

Category: Gambling


Legalize/Outlaw: Legalize


Proposed by: Aronutre

Description: I belive that gambling should be legalized but it should have its limits. Come on, how can a test cricket match or a game of lawns bowls can be exciting without having a few euro, dollars, sterling, yen or whatever the hell currency your country uses. Here are these limits I propose:

1. Only 3 bets per week and a maximum of €100 per bet. If a person does not comply, they shall be fined 5 times of what they paid in for the bet.

2. Every bookmaker should take a picture or get the person to sign the slip and get a copy of the betting slip. If book makers do not comply with this rule, the premises shall be closed forever.

3. No person working in the army, the guards or the government can bet. If they do, Imprisonment for 5 years and demotion from rank and if there is repeated offence of this, Imprisonment for 15 years and his/her loss of position.

4. All fines have to be payed within two days. If the fines aren't paid, Imprisonment for 3 years and Imprisonment for 10 years if it is for a second offence.

This is my proposal. I hope you vote yes but if you don't it doesn't matter. I know you are a book maker, I understand you need the money. Illegal, RL reference and contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Pope Konstantine

Description: As you all know discrimination and racial violence is a huge part of the world. People kill, discriminate and segregate others not of their own race. This must be put to an end. I propose the creation of a special department entirely for the prevention of racial discrimination, segregation, and violence.
The department would be called "The Department for the Prevention of Discriminatory Racial Violence," or DPDRV.


I believe this will make our world a better place. Your support is appreciated. Great, how are they going to do it?

Category: International Security


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Isithol

Description: It is imperative for the nations of the world to respect one another and declare war only on legitimate grounds. In the past year, several nations and empires have declared holy wars on other nations over land disputes, religious disputes, and property disputes. Many of these disputes were grounded in incorrect intelligence; the legendary Catholo-Mormon wars (Christian Empires v. Utah) were based on the incorrect knowledge that Mormonism is not Christianity.

The United Nations hereby resolves that, in order to protect nations from unjust wars, every member nation shall establish a religious preference. This can be as broad as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism or as specific as Baptist or Pastafarian. Nations will also have the option to declare "all religions" the national religion, as well as "atheism" or "no preference".How the hell is this International Security?

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Clupawesto

Description: WHEREAS people will be free to seek political asylum anywhere they want without needing permission,

RECOGNIZING that many people must be forced to stay in a place where they would be in danger of death,

REALIZING the possibility of saving many people's lives by protecting them with political asylum.

HEREBY, the United States of Clupawesto:

1. DECLARES that political asylum should be able to be chosen by an individual without consent,

2. ENCOURAGES troubled citizens to be able to escape a situation that they do not like if The Political Asylum Act is passed,

3. NOTES that there is a Freedom of Choice available for all United Nations countries, which should also be exercised in this situation,

4. ESTABLISHES the fact that many people's lives could be saved due to this act, and

5. SUGGESTS that, if said Act be passed, governments should:
a) Create a "Political Protection Group", a government-funded group to protect all citizens who need political asylum and also:

b)Check the backgrounds of individuals before admitting asylum, as certain individuals may possess a harm to some countries.

Authored by the leader of the United States of Clupawesto, President Chubchub PipieIllegal, branding.

Repeal "Territorial Waters"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal
Resolution: #235
Proposed by: Radumi

Description: UN Resolution #235: Territorial Waters (Category: Political Stability; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: Every Nation should be allowrd to control its whole territory. This resolution acts upon the soverignty of each country.

Approvals: 7 (Radumi, United States of Kamon, WZ Forums, Ivan silva, Cordova I, Leocardia, Compulsoria)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 98 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Wed Mar 12 2008

Illegal, because it relies on National Sovereignty as its sole argument.

Common Currency for Regions
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.

Category: Free Trade
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Ledronia

Description: This resolution is aimed at having a common currency for every region.

Accepting the fact that Free Trade has been improved but not much;

Acknowledging UN's efforts to maximise Free Trade;

Regretting the fact that despite all this, there is not much of Free Trade going on;

Proposing the Resolution to introduce common currencies in every region;

Suggesting that the Regional UN Delegate and/or the Region Founder shall arrive at a decision on what the currency will be;

Acknowledging the fact that Free Trade shall be improved and barriers to this effectively reduced when Common Currencies are introduced in every region;

The United Nations hereby introduces the law to have Common Currencies for individual regions.

Approvals: 7 (Ledronia, WZ Forums, Jake and Elwood Blues, 46566, Santa clauses8, Cordova I, RUSH-DOM)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 98 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Thu Mar 13 2008

Illegal, Game Mechanics and Metagaming.

Torture During Interrogation
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Category: International Security
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Aytaria

Description:
UNDERSTANDING the severity of torture.
AWARE that the use of torture may cause debate.
1) If all other methods of interrogation are found futile, then torture should be used to obtain information.
2) If torture is used before all other methods of interrogation are tried, then the torturer shall be convicted of a felony.
3)Torture shall only be used on high-level suspected criminals, for example terrorists.

Approvals: 0 Status:
Lacking Support (requires 105 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Thu Mar 13 2008

Illegal for contradiction of an existing resolution.

Category: International Security


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: New Alex World

Description: Seeing that some nations of the world are at a military disadvantage when compared to other nations, the need for such an 'army' has never been higher. So, the following will hereby be implicated with this resolution:

All United Nations members who wish to participate may do so at their own cost. They may send any soldiers, above the age of 21, to join. They can not be drafted into it by any nation, nor the UN itself. Any registered citizen of a UN nation, who is over the age of 21, may also apply to join either representing their home country, or applying seperatly. If they apply seperatly, their home nation does not have to specificly pay for them, but can support them by any meens possible that isn't against any UN resolution. ALL nations who do send troops MUST pay what the UN says for them to pay. To decide what the payment is for each nation, the UN will form a Peace keeping Troops payment board once a year, and will decide the budget for the year ahead. Then they will subtract the amount that UN can pay for. That amount will be divided by the number of UN nations participating, and that amount is what every participating UN nation must pay.

Role of the Troops:
The 'troops', also known as peace keepers, will do the following:
Peace keepers monitor and observe peace processes in post-conflict areas and assist ex-combatants in implementing the peace agreements they may have signed. Such assistance comes in many forms, including confidence-building measures, power-sharing arrangements, electoral support, strengthening the rule of law, and economic and social development.
They will not militarly any war unless the UN deems it absoloutly necessary. They will not specificly support or oppose any war either.

All participating persons will be payed what the UN deems necessary, but that amount must support them in everyday neccesities. Peacekeepers will be insured by the UN for every health reason whatsoever, and will recieve all of the benefits that they would receive with thier nation, unless the UN doesn't approve of it. All persons can be deployed for whatever reason the UN believes necassary, but for a time period of no more than five(5) years in row, and thier must be at least a two(2) year time period
between every deployment. Also, any paricipating persons may volunteer for specific 'missions' too, unless the UN deeems it not 'appropriate'. All participating persons will also stay a registered citizen of thier own country.
All participating persons may also live and travel in their home country and beyond, but may not during thier deployment.Do I even have to say it?

Category: Gun Control


Decision: Tighten


Proposed by: Valoel

Description: A Bill

To allow militia and the right to bear arms

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

a). A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

SECTION 2. ABUSE OF RIGHT.

a). If Freedom Arms Act is abused while using criminal action, subject or citizen looses rights under Freedom Arms Act.

SECTION. 3. RULEMAKING.

a). No U.N nation may make law prohibiting right. Unless The Freedom Arms Act is repealed.

SEC. 4. GENERAL DEFINITIONS.

1). The term subject meaning visitor or tourist Shouldn't this be under Relax?

Category: Social Justice


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Alba-Caledonia

Description: While recognising the right of every human being to self-defence;

Considering the unfair advantage an automatic weapon provides to it's owner in a struggle;

Recognising the equality of the evolutionary theory;

This bill seeks to outlaw the production of any automatic weapon from this date on. All existing weapons should be retired to the country's point-of-contact and recycled.

Automatic weapons does include:

Handguns;
Nuclear weapons;
Any projectile weapon involving an automated process. Illegal, wrong category and contradicting Nuclear Armaments (although how the hell a nuke could be considered an automatic weapon is beyond me).

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Republic United States

Description: i come to the proposal about the ways to prevent crime is to have interpol and to create more law enforcment agencies and that we have military boosted up. we need also to have a UN Peacekeeping troops to help us and we could have police trainers and mps to teach other nations and to learn each other differences about police roles and procedures and ways to make it a better policing to do and have more ems and firefighting and that we declare war on terrorism from destroying our nations's foundations that we work so hard to build and to prevent terrorism from harming our nation and to get better security to keep our nations safe and have a new appts from one region to another to the un and nations to have ambassadors for better support. Illegal, attempts to create a UN military/police.

Illegal, wrong category and contradicting Nuclear Armaments (although how the hell a nuke could be considered an automatic weapon is beyond me).



Hey, this is the UN where difining things into terms where they shouldn't be is an artform

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Valoel

Description: Prisoners can seek release by filing a petition for a right of habeas corpus. A right of habeas corpus is an official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody. A habeas corpus petition is a petition filed with a court by a person who objects to his own or another's detention or imprisonment. The petition must show that the court ordering the detention or imprisonment made a legal or factual error. Habeas corpus petitions are usually filed by persons serving prison sentences. In family law, a parent who has been denied custody of his child by a trial court may file a habeas corpus petition. Also, a party may file a habeas corpus petition if a judge declares her in contempt of court and jails or threatens to jail her.We already have a Habeas Corpus resolution.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Isithol

Description: The United Nations
RECOGNIZES
the right of persons to own and use a currency, as established by their nation of residence or origin, and to retain a supply of such money as proportional to their income.

To this end, the United Nations will
PREVENT
an unfair graduated income tax,
PRIVATIZE
retirement plans, and
ESTABLISH
a maximum tax rate of 50.Illegal, game mechanics.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Small Island Nations

Description: The General Assembly of the United Nations,

· NOTING that in several UN member nations, the death penalty is still in use. In addition, we are aware that many of the offenders on the death row are under 18, and that in some countries, the death penalty is for non-violent crimes.

· BELIEVING the death penalty and capital punishment to be an inhumane, unjustifiable, and outdated practice.

· NOTING that the death penalty is ineffective in reducing the number of serious crimes, because higher proportions of serious crimes are committed in countries which have the death penalty than in countries which do not.

· BELIEVING that it is never right to take another human being's life, regardless of what they have done.

· BELIEVING that no government has any more right to kill criminals than criminals have to kill other people, and by doing so the government are stooping to the levels of murderers.

· BELIEVING that the death penalty is a blatant invasion of the universal human right to life, as well as the universal right human right to a life free of torture. Offenders have been known to be kept on death row for more than ten years, knowing that they will face death. The psychological trauma inflicted on these people is no different to torture.

· BELIEVING that in most, and if not, all cases, the offender cannot be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. We live an age of latex suits and plastic surgery, when DNA can be planted and confessions can be forged. Unfortunately, the criminal will always be one step a head of the detective.

· NOTING that in thousands of cases, the perpetrator of the crime has been proven "not guilty" after the execution, and in such circumstances, a retrospective apology is of little use to the victim or their family and friends. Such cases will always exist as long as the death penalty is in place, and the murder of innocent people is one of the reasons why we call for the death penalty's abolition.

· NOTING that when a country abolishes the death penalty, it is not thrown into chaos. A consistent trend is that the number of cases that would have got the death penalty decline after its abolition.

· ABOLISHES the death penalty immediately in all UN member countries.
Illegal, contradicts FSA.


Category: Political Stability
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Diasair

Description: Crime is a major problem in some nations. Within these nations, the common factor are drugs, vast freedom, and a weak military. I propose that a new set of laws called the Iron Fist Laws are set in place to fix these atrocities that plague the world

Law 1. All criminals, no matter the crime, shall be severely punished for their crime. Select individuals that have committed the worst of these crimes shall be made example of by public means.

Law 2. All drugs of any kind are hereby illegal anywhere within the nations borders. Anyone or ones caught with drugs of any kind will be made example of by public punishment.

Law 3. All children, after they have finished their highest level in education set by the nation, shall be sent into the military to serve for one years time.

Law 4. A form of State Police will be formed within all nations. Their job will to keep all laws of the nation and the Iron Fist Laws in order. They will be allowed to search anyone or any residence without warrant if suspicion is high.

These Law are not to turn any country into a Dictatorship or any Fascist form of government. These are set up just so that law and order may be reached in all nations.

Proposed sole by the Holy Empire of Diasiar.
Illegal; this manages to contradict the Fair Sentencing Act, the UN Drug Act, and commit branding, all in one.


Category: Free Trade
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Technocratic Unionates

Description: 1.0 - PREAMBLE

1.1 - Recognizing that repealed Resolution #24 attempted to establish a standardized system of weights and measurements but failed due to its vague nature,

1. 2 - Seeking to establish a standardized system of weights and measurements with the intent of simplifying research and business ventures within and amongst nations.

2.0 – DEFINITIONS

2. 1- The standard measure of length being the meter (metre), with the abbreviation "m", defined as the length of a straight path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

2. 2 - The standard measure of weight being the kilogram (kilogramme), with the abbreviation "kg", currently defined by a machined right-cylinder construct of 10% Iridium and 90% Platinum (by weight), with a diameter of 0.03917 meters (metres).

2.3 - The standard measure of time is the second, with the abbreviation "s", currently defined as 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation which corresponds to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.

2.4 - The standard measure of electric current is the Ampere, with the abbreviation "A", defined as the constant current that would produce a force of 2 x 10^(-7) Newton per meter (metre) length in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length and of infinitesimal circular cross-section in a vacuum.

2.5 - The standard measure of thermodynamic temperature is the Kelvin, abbreviated as "K", defined exactly as 1/273.16 of the temperature of the thermodynamic triple point of water.

2.6 - The standard measure for the quantity of matter is the mole, abbreviated “mol”, which is defined as the number of atoms in 0.012 kilograms of pure Carbon-12, which is approximately equal to 6.0221415 × 10^(23).

3.0 – ENFORCEMENT

3.1 – A council, defined as the “International Standards and Measurements Council”, shall be formed, consisting of the delegates from the top twenty-one (21) most populated regions as of May 11, 2008.

3.1.1 – The purpose of this council is to enforce the sections and clauses found in this resolution, by the means explained in this resolution.

3.1.1 – This council shall remain permanent from this point forward unless the council members elect to remove a member.

3.1.2 – Thirty (30) days following the creation of the council, council members will elect a presider who will act as a tie-breaker and as a spokesperson for the council. The presider’s term length is ninety (90) days, following which a new election shall take place.

3.2 – ALL member nations of the UN are REQUIRED by this Resolution to obtain and preserve the following:

A Helium-Neon laser for measuring the meter (metre);

A copy of the aforementioned Iridium-Platinum construct in Section 2.2;

Two (2) Caesium-133 fountain atomic clocks for measuring the second;

Exactly 0.012 kilogram (kilogramme) of pure Carbon-12 for measurement of the mole.


3.3 – Member nations that fail to comply with the requirements by July 11, 2008 will be charged a fine equivalent to the transportation and procurement purchases of the equipment for each day in violation.

3.4 - Member nations that do not have the funds to purchase the equipment defined in Section 3.2 MUST file a petition by July 11, 2008 to receive financial support. Pending the Council’s approval, they will have an extended deadline of thirty (30) days to procure the necessary materials.
Mercifully, this breaks the committee formation rules. I've lodged a Help request since it's so close to Cob's proposal in name.


Category: International Security
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Global Allegiance

Description: Why don't we make it compulsory for all travellers overseas or intercountry to have tracking and ID chips in their wrists so that human trafficing and security are improved in a worldwide effort. This would also stop identity theft.
I don't know, why don't we?


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Republic United States

Description: To guarantee protection of the laws. we need to have civil rights increased and to prevent slavery from happening because it causes poverty and also it is violating the human rights and we need to enforce the law strongly and we are all creative equal. we all treat each other equally. if anyone causes a slavery or anything, they will be fined and charged with slavery and also to help poors with jobs to find and a govt housings to refresh the start. We are all different under many races and religion but there is one race that we are all are as one together, we are the human race.
Er, we already do this. Thoroughly.

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Royal jihad

Description: Advantages of consociationalism

In a consociational state, all groups, including minorities, are represented on the political and economic stage. Supporters of consociationalism argue that it is a more realistic option in deeply divided societies than integrationist approaches to conflict resolution.[4] It has been credited with supporting successful and non-violent transitions to democracy in countries such as South Africa.[citation needed]Illegal, RL reference and plagurizing wikipedia.

Mercifully, this breaks the committee formation rules. I've lodged a Help request since it's so close to Cob's proposal in name.It does? It sets definitions in addition to the committee...

Unless you're referring to the make-up of the committee, which is more metagaming.

Also, he never defines Newton, despite using it to define the Ampere. In fact, he never gives a measurement for force at all. Why all the hate for the Pascal?

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Trainspotter

Description: This Assembly,

Holding it self-evident that education, work and leisure are an utterly tedious waste of time and space, resolves

1. That all schooling in member nations be made voluntary;

2. That all members of the UN commit themselves to the goal of full unemployment;

3. That all media in member nations be closed down and the peoples of the world encouraged to make their own entertainment.Illegal, contradicts the UN Educational Aid Act.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: HoughtonGoogle

Description: anyone found guilty of murder must face an automatic death penalty
anyone found guilty of solicting to murder will face a minimum of 20 years in jail.
anyone found guilty of manslaughter will face an automatic life sentence
anyone found guilty of threatening to kill anyone else, will face a minimum of 10 years of jail
anyone found guilty of Wounding or causing "grievous bodily harm," with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, or to resist arrest. Grievous bodily harm can in fact include psychological harm. It is punishable with life imprisonment.
Inflicting bodily injury, with or without weapon. This is much less serious than an offence contrary to section 18, carrying a maximum prison sentence of 5 years
being found guilty of Assault with intent to resist arrest leaves a minimum sentence of 6 months
anyone found guilty of bigamy shall face 18 months in jail. Illegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Small Island Nations

Description: The General Assembly of the United Nations,

· NOTING that in several UN member nations, the death penalty is still in use. In addition, we are aware that many of the offenders on the death row are under 18, and that in some countries, the death penalty is for non-violent crimes.

· BELIEVING the death penalty and capital punishment to be an inhumane, unjustifiable, and outdated practice.

· NOTING that the death penalty is ineffective in reducing the number of serious crimes, because higher proportions of serious crimes are committed in countries which have the death penalty than in countries that do not.

· BELIEVING that it is never right to take another human being's life, whatever they have done.

· BELIEVING that no government has any more right to kill criminals than criminals have to kill other people, and by doing so that the government are stooping to the levels of murderers.

· BELIEVING that the death penalty is a blatant invasion of the universal human right to life, as well as the universal right human right to a life free of torture. Offenders have been known to be kept on death row for more than ten years, knowing that they will face death. The psychological trauma inflicted on these people is no different to torture.

· BELIEVING that in most, and if not, all cases, the offender cannot be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. We live an age of latex suits, plastic surgery, when DNA can be planted and confessions can be forged. Unfortunately, the criminal will always be one step a head of the detective.

· NOTING that in thousands of cases, the perpetrator of the crime has been proven "not guilty" after the execution, and in such circumstances, a retrospective apology is of little use to the victim or their family and friends. Such cases will always exist as long as the death penalty is in place, and the murder of innocent people is one of the reasons why we call for the abolition of the death penalty.

· NOTING that when a country abolishes the death penalty, it is not thrown into anarchy. A consistent trend is that the number of cases that would have got the death penalty decline after its abolition.

· ABOLISHES the death penalty immediately in all UN member countries. Didn't anyone tell this guy that his proposal is illegal?

Bigamy? All those horrible things and then bigamy? And it has a higher penalty than assault with intent to resist arrest? Seems a bit skewed to me. Good thing we already have GOOD legislation.

The Wolf Guardians;13522713']Bigamy? All those horrible things and then bigamy? And it has a higher penalty than assault with intent to resist arrest? Seems a bit skewed to me. Good thing we already have GOOD legislation.

I didn't even read that far, I just read the first line and thought, "well this is illegal."

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Bryco victory

Description: proposal will encourage countries to make allies. Encourage countries to strenthen border. Encourages peaceOK, how?

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Philosphical Debate

Description: For far too long the UN and other nations have been imposing certain meta-ethical theories onto others when there is definitely no way to determine rather an action is right or wrong.

Therefore the United Nations should adapt a stance of Moral Nihilism and let nations do as they please within their respected boarders.

Thus this would improve human and civil rights as it grants more of these rights to nations by allowing them to do as they please.Illegal, pure blocker.

Illegal, pure blocker.

Also no way is that a human rights resolution!


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Parsonopolis

Description: we should host nudist pep rallies to boost civilians self esteem
::Tries to imagine the average person having their self-esteem boosted at a nudist rally::
::Reaches for brain bleach::


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Devastaionofpeople

Description:
My nation wants to have peace with the un but when every time i get a message of compliance from them its like they want to rule my country i will vote and be apart of the un for peace but when you call peace is with freedom rights everything controlled with un i say yea you giving the people freedom but not the governments or the dictators full freedom from people who want to do the real bidding you say the un is not a dictator just a democracy that helps solve the worlds problem its just a form of a conspiracy to cover up as a dictator. we the devastaionofpeople only ask to allow this resolution of limiting the laws on controlling other governments in the un as long as there is peace between our nations and 1 is not harming the others then you shouldn't be worrying about my country if my people wanted to move to your nation ill let them but guess what they don't want to they are still in my nation and we are growing we are fine with my dictatorship so let me ask of you to show real freedom anarchy is the only freedom but anarchy with peace is the freedom beyond you site were people cannot reach so here us this we ask for limits and more freedom while still helping other nation and voting we want peace just leave certain controls to us as nations
Breathe, man, breathe! I think there's some branding in there, but my brain gave out before the end of the first sentence.

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: The Armed Yegals

Description: 1. A flax tax of 15% will be instituted. People of all income levels will pay a 15% tax, no matter how small their income is.
2. All government subsides, such as farm subsides, subsides to the arts, and other subsidies, will be stopped.
3. The giving of welfare money by the state will be halted.
4. Aid to foreign nations will be halted.
5. Social Security will become privatized.
6. Tax breaks for religious organizations will be stopped.Illegal, game mechanics also not Political Stability.



Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Saudi kewait

Description: I would like Nationstates to make a map of the nations in the world. Maybe not a full map, maybe you just look at a certain region, and on a ****** map show where regions are compared to one another.

I dont see how this would really help anything, i just think it would make the game more fun.Illegal, game mechanics also not Global Disarmament and submitted 3 times.

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: The Armed Yegals

Description: This resolution will make it illegal to be gay.
1. A person may be fired for being gay.
2. Gay marriage will be forever be banned.
3. Any gay act in public such as, two men or two women kissing each other on the lips, will be illegal. Anyone involved in these activities will be prosecuted by the state and if convicted face a mandatory 3 year jail sentence.Illegal, contradicts the Marriage Protection Act at least.

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: The Armed Yegals

Description: This religion would make practicing religion illegal.
1. Anyone caught practicing religion would face a minimum $5,000 and if the fine can not be paid 6 months in jail.Illegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: The Armed Yegals

Description: Any hate group, such as the KKK or the Skin Heads, will have all of its members executed by the state.Illegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Recreational Drug Use


Decision: Outlaw


Proposed by: Halo1994

Description: Nations of the UN , we need to outlaw bad drugs every where. 1: kids will have better lifes.
2: average muders will go down.
3: And it will give the police a brake.Illegal, contradicts UN Drug Act.

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Slide-rules

Description: The resolution shall call for the revsion of section four in resoltion #239 (Humanitarian intervention) stating that the UN may call for intervention in nonmember states. Upon revision this clause would be removed without replacementIllegal, attempted amendment.

Repeal "Free Trade of Durable Goods "
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal
Resolution: #236
Proposed by: Malacype

Description: UN Resolution #236: Free Trade of Durable Goods (Category: Free Trade; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The General Assembly of the United Nations

Realizing that free trade of durable goods had good intentions

Commending the resolve of UN members to attempt to aid poorer nations

Notes that under Resolution 128, the UN is not allowed to interfere in national policies, specifically "DETERMINING, in the interest of fair representation and greater democratic freedoms, that taxation of national, domestic activities and products is best dealt with, at highest, by national government"

Realizing that quality control of products coming in and out is not mentioned anywhere within this document.

Also Realizing that this resolution gives no rules set on quality, just on certain products, which could cause the products life to not exceed three years.

Also Noting the numerious holes located in Resolution 236, most directly the lack of policies surrounding the United Nations Free Trade Commission (UNFTC), and the lack of concrete wording of "non-protectionist",

Recognizing the double-redundancy regarding articles 3 and 6, where tariffs are eliminated within eleven years, but then allows them to be put on non-UN nations.

Noting that free trade does not essentially mean an increase in the economics of all countries involved.

Observes that restrictions on the limitation of supplies that extend more then three years can be a good idea, such as limiting certain types of dangerous automobiles or shady business practices.

Also Observes that Resolution 33 bans all embargos on any type of medicine

Calls for the repeal of Resolution 236, Free Trade of Durable Goods.

Approvals: 4 (Noshan, WZ Forums, Krankor, Minyos)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 101 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Mar 17 2008 Mostly fails on false/illegal arguments, alleges contradictions of past resolutions where no contradictions exist, alleges loopholes where none exist, implies the illegality of a duly passed UN resolution (which wasn't at all illegal), author apparently too stupid to know what words like "domestic," "redundant," "protectionist" and "embargos" [sic] mean.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Warsaw and Poland

Description: We again propose freedom for gays, hoping you will agree with this. Everybody must decide for himself and we ask the establishment of gay marriages in all countries of U.N.Illegal, contradicts Marriage Protection Act.

Category: Recreational Drug Use


Decision: Promote


Proposed by: Jumamma

Description: many countries already have marijuana legalized so why not make it legal in all UN countries but leave the hard core drugs illegal. it will help all economies.Illegal, contradicts UN Drug Act.

Mostly fails on false/illegal arguments, alleges contradictions of past resolutions where no contradictions exist, alleges loopholes where none exist, implies the illegality of a duly passed UN resolution (which wasn't at all illegal), author apparently too stupid to know what words like "domestic," "redundant," "protectionist" and "embargos" [sic] mean.
Much as I hate to say it of a pile of rubbish like that repeal, since when has being utterly wrong been illegal?

Honest Mistakes

This usually happens with Repeals. Someone will misread the Resolution and submit a Repeal that supports the Resolution, or tries to undo a Resolution because they think it does something it doesn't (UN Taxation Ban comes to mind...).

Mm. I'm always somewhat unwilling to invoke this on anything that isn't truly stunningly obvious, particularly given the stuff that's been passed (while I've been around!) that has outright lied. There's a fine line between "honest mistake" and "debateable point that could make for an entertaining thread."

Category: Education and Creativity


Area of Effect: Educational


Proposed by: Twilight Land

Description: The fact the obesity and overweight children has become a fact. We need to take care of this now.The UNAPE will take care of that. The way to do this is to make physical education a mandatory activity throughout high school. The benefits of this will include:
-Fitter, more active youth
-Improved lifestyles
-Habits that will carry on through their adulthood and the rest of their life.

The sooner we act on this bill, the sooner we can our youth.Illegal, contradicts UN Educational Aid Act.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Royal Canadien Yaksmen

Description: For the last twenty years the thought of a communist dictatorship was a joke. Although its not this is why the communist and democracies ask for the Unite Nations permission. May the creator of nation states create a section for war and expansion this would be a more interesting and meaningful option to the game where nations of the world could change the nations and take them over. I beleive that all the communist and Democracies would agree on this purposal. The issue over communism and democracies or any problem coul be better enforced with war. This would help the game and governments with bright ideas!

Vote Agree- for the ability to enforce government with war.
Vote Disagree- for no ability to enforce government with war.Illegal, game mechanics.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #4


Proposed by: Kaple

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The UN has no right to take money those governments earn. That is theres and alwasy should be thers. With the approval of all nations, by vote, shall you tax us. Like its been said "Taxation without representation" is wrong.Speaking of Honest Mistakes.

Category: International Security


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Kushed

Description: This act is for the protection of U.N leaders when they gather in the U.N.

A small amount of the budget will go toward having a U.N guard to protect world leaders from terrorist attacks. Would this be considered a military or police force?

Homosexuality
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Kaple

Description: Homosexuality should be abolished in every nation.

Approvals: 1 (Extremation)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 104 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Mar 18 2008

Illegal, for contradiction of existing resolutions and being in the wrong category.

Repeal R25
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: The Popotan

Description: UNDERSTANDING the original intent of the proposal, the attempt to better protect of children,

ARGUING that different cultural and ethnic histories and background have affected what many cultures view age an appropriate age of maturity,

POINTING OUT several other resolutions conflict with the stated age of resolution 25's maturity listed,

SUGGESTING that each culture is better at determining what its own maturity age is,

RECOMMENDING a better law be passed that better reflects the ability of states to deal with their own society more flexibly.

Approvals: 2 (Brazykystan, DesMonies)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 103 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Mar 18 2008

Illegal, wrong category.

Repeal "END BARBARIC PUNISHMENTS"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal
Resolution: #41
Proposed by: Disallusioned youths

Description: UN Resolution #41: END BARBARIC PUNISHMENTS (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: Although the principals upon which 'END BARBARIC PUNISHMENTS' are just and honourable, the definition of Barbaric Punishments needs to be clarified. We must understand that the term 'Barbaric Punishments' is defined by;
ARTICLE #1. Any form of punishemnt that involves significant pain, e.g. whipping/lashings, branding/burning shapes or digits into peoples skin.
ARTICLE #2. Any form of punishment that will have permanent physical or psychological damage, e.g. dismembering, neural attacks.
ARTICLE #3. Any form of obtaining evidence that involves physical torture, e.g. electrical shocks, burns, whipping.
ARTICLE #4. Any form of obtaining evidence that involves psychological torture, e.g. water torture, damage to the accused family or friends.

NOTE: The Death sentence for crimes that would otherwise be punished by a sentence of 20 years may be used, providing that it is a quick and relatively painless death.

We must understand that the above mentioned must not be used on:
Foreign 'Prisoners of War' or other foreign captors
Citizens of the nationstate
Citizens of other nationstates
Unconvicted temporary prisoners
Convicted criminals, prisoners

We must also understand that evidence obtained under torture (see Articles #3 and #4) MAY NOT be used in any courts of law, and MAY NOT be used to convict any persons.

Once this has being instituted all member nations must REPEAL the Resolution: 'END BARBARIC PUNISHMENTS' and must abide by the above, and nationstates must publicise their accordance with this law.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 105 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Mar 18 2008

Illegal, tries to make new legislation in a repeal.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Warsaw and Poland

Description: We, the representants of the nation of Warsaw and Poland,
looking at the sad situation in so many parts of the world,
believing in the value and in the respect of human life,
considering no state can decide for life of its citizens,
We ask for the abolition of DEATH PENALTY in all countries of the United Nations, because we can't allow to answer blood with blood. We propose LIFE IMPRISONMENT for the most important delicts and strong sentences, but there is a need to abolish death penalty even for the most hateful criminal.
We hope you will agree with this our proposal. It is a matter of humanity and civilty. Illegal, branding and contradicting Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #4


Proposed by: Spirithaven

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: Exchange,currency,trade and other means of emporium is the main way of internal and external economic and
social advnacement.The majority of the world is not advanced enough to fund their developmental moves with by any other means.We fear that this act not only violates in some way the constitution of the UN as taxation is a part of economy and economy is the spine of most ideologies,but also compromises security among nations as the right to defend ones self is connected to his and every other ones economy. I'm not sure, but I think we've got another honest Mistake here.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: New Alex World

Description: Seeing that the world of Prostitution is incredibly and increasingly dangerous, that there are more health risks associated with prostitution
than with many other jobs, despite the incredibly safer teachings of sex, this resolution would hereby outlaw the commercial sex industry, along with many other resolutions passed similar to this.

The commercial sex industry includes street prostitution, massage brothels, escort services, outcall services, strip clubs, lapdancing, phone sex, adult and child pornography, video and internet pornography, and prostitution tourism. Most women who are in prostitution for longer than a few months drift among these various permutations of the commercial sex industry.

All prostitution causes harm to women. Whether it is being sold by one’s family to a brothel, or whether it is being sexually abused in one’s family, running away from home, and then being pimped by one’s boyfriend, or whether one is in college and needs to pay for next semester’s tuition and one works at a strip club behind glass where men never actually touch you – all these forms of prostitution hurt the women in it.

In 1974, police estimated that there were 400,000 prostitutes in Thailand, procured primarily for the U.S. military on R & R from the Vietnam War. As of 1993, an unofficial estimate is that there are 2 million prostitutes in Thailand, whose national economy is dependent on tourism. Prostitution is the largest commodity for the 450,000 Thai men who purchase prostitutes daily as well as for a large percentage of the 5.4 million tourists a year who arrive in Thailand for "sex tours." (From http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/factsheet.html ) If it's "Illeagel," isn't it already outlawed? Also, illegal, RL references.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Bay Islands

Description: Education rights should be created. Here is some that we should have:

1. Any form of education is legal.

2. Education should be free in all countries.


3. Children under 16 years old, should not work in any activity, instead the government and the United Nations, should make a program to give founds to education proposes, so every children go to a school*.

4. Every 16 year old teenager or older that is working, should finish his school*.


5. The United Nations will create free universities having the example of some countries that are giving free education.

6. Schools* should give free food to the poor students that can’t afford to pay food.
7. The United Nations countries should give work to all parents that have their children working, so the children don’t need to work for getting money for living.

8. A United Nations Program should be created to protect and make sure that all schools* and other educational centers promote world’s science, history, education, and culture.


9. More museums should be created.

10. The basic classes should be math, world history, art, music, (any 2 language that the U.N. decides to enforce and the official language of the country), computers, and science.


11. Elective classes should be enforced.

12. School* hours should be from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., from Monday to Friday.


13. Uniforms are not allowed, they are against form of expression.

14. All school* rules should be decided by the U.N. educational program.


15. 2 times a month students will not receive classes, instead they will have any form of entertainments for classes.

16. There will not be discrimination of any form in schools*.


17. Students with excellent grades should have the opportunities to study for free in private schools*(this school* will be paid by the government)

18. Home school is exempted of rules 11, and 12-16.


19. Home school students will go to the government educational program to take a test, to prove that they are learning something.

20. Education for old people should exist in all the countries.


*Note: referring school as nursery, kinder garden, primary school, middle school, high school, university, collage, home school, or any form of education. Gee, is there anything in here that doesn't contradict the UNEAA?

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: HeadAroundU

Description: Kasavo's independence is a dangerous precedent to international security!

Kasavo's people are drug, gun and white meat dealers!Illegal, attempts to affect only one nation? If nothing else, it's bloody stupid.

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Hyturon

Description: we need to repeal the "End Barbaric Punishment" law to save the suffering of many innocent people and their families. it is one thing to make one person suffer but to make a whole family suffer is wrong.If you want to repeal something, try filing it as an actual repeal.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Parsonopolis

Description: all citizans will be reguired to go to a government hosted nudist pep rallies to boost moral rate among civiliansSomehow I doubt compulsory nudism will boost morals.

ategory: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Kaple

Description: 1. We ban any homosexuality in all UN nations.
2. Any homos who resist arrest will be sentenced to death.
3. Kill all homos by gun in a mass Genocide.Illegal, contradicts multiple resolutions and just down right offensive.

Category: Education and Creativity


Area of Effect: Artistic


Proposed by: Kinat

Description: All nations in the UN, would be required to take a dump in other peoples yards, and have sex with all women to the right of thier householdsI didn't know that nations could take a dump.

Illegal, attempts to affect only one nation? If nothing else, it's bloody stupid.He probably means Kosovo, so it's a real world violation.

He probably means Kosovo, so it's a real world violation.

I figured that was what they meant too, but that's not what it says.

Category: Education and Creativity


Area of Effect: Artistic


Proposed by: Noveninsk

Description: REALIZING that creativity is a major part of education and creativity
BE IT RESOLVED that creativity is now MANDATORY and this can be enforced by UN troopsWe have troops?

Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Saudi kewait

Description: This is a resolution to make a map of the nations in Nationstates. Maybe not of the whole world, a map of each region. Then a larger map will show the regions in comparison to one another.Illegal, game mechanics.

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: All Businesses


Proposed by: Malacedonia

Description: Green taxes enactment is of essential importance nowadays.
The result is that we will create a tax system that encourages resource depletion and discourages investments in machinery and labor...such taxes have been used for two primary purposes:

* to generate revenue to pay for damages created from past pollution and for measures to reduce future pollution

* to change behavior

A third type of green tax discussed below has been gaining visibility. It combines a significant pollution tax with a major restructuring of the tax system to make the overall economy more efficient. This process is called "tax shifting". These taxes are used to generate revenue to pay for the damages and cleanup costs from pollution and to pay for measures to reduce future pollution.A portion of this money can be used to finance recycling and waste minimization programs and to provide loans and grants for recycling businesses. Another portion goes to close down polluting landfills.
Greeen taxes will include:

1)An additional 12% tax on toxic chemicals.

2)An additional 25% tax for tobaccos. (These funds are used to finance aggressive public education programs and nicotine addiction treatment programs as well as to pay for health costs associated with tobacco use.)

3)Environmental costs ranging from 2 to 20 cents per kWh, depending on the type of plant and the type of fuel. In all nations utilities must include these environmental costs when choosing the least expensive source of additional electricity.

4)Prohibit the use of once-through water systems in Cities after 2010 and immediately raise the price of using once-through water 200% for commercial users and 50% for non-profits and schools.

and 5)2% of the value of each product recycled will be returned from the municipality.This will be checked by special staff.

Recently the debate about green taxes has included the issue of tax shifting, that is, of using green taxes as a means to restructure national tax systems. This debate is most vigorous and visible in Europe where there are strong environmental political parties and high unemployment. As European President Jacques Delors declared in Copenhagen in June 1993, "Taxation of natural resources allows us to reduce the excessive load on taxing productive labor, thereby increasing Europe's international competitiveness."
Recently the debate about green taxes has included the issue of tax shifting, that is, of using green taxes as a means to restructure national tax systems. This debate is most vigorous and visible in Europe where there are strong environmental political parties and high unemployment. As European President Jacques Delors declared in Copenhagen in June 1993, "Taxation of natural resources allows us to reduce the excessive load on taxing productive labor, thereby increasing Europe's international competitiveness."
In the future this shift can be also added on current green taxes, resulting on a more realistic, fair and representative tax system that will leadsocieties to higher standards of living. Illegal, RL references.

Category: International Security


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: MuchAdo AboutNothing

Description: Noting with zest the harm that could come from a potential Zombie war against humans,
Remembering the atrocities committed by Hitler's zombies during WWII,
1. Encourages all nations to spread zombie awareness, in the forms of books, such as the "Zombie Survival Guide", to all citizens, so that they may have hands on knowledge of zombies in case of a zombie war;
2. Suggests the creation of a committee ZPL (Zombie Prevention League), made up of member nations that shall
a. Shall work with the international community to become aware of any zombie acivity, and shall then coordinate with the apporpriate regions as to the best methods to destroy any such zombies
b. Shall conduct research on Zombies and any possible cures to zombificationIllegal, RL references.

Originally Posted by Repeal Kasavo's independence
Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: HeadAroundU

Description: Kasavo's independence is a dangerous precedent to international security!

Kasavo's people are drug, gun and white meat dealers!


Illegal, attempts to affect only one nation? If nothing else, it's bloody stupid.

Not to mention that it would put a major dent in our boneless chicken breast imports.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #4


Proposed by: Bespin IV

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: you cannot ban taxes. people do not like them but some form of taxation is requiredI think we've got another confused one here.

Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Protective Tariffs


Proposed by: HoughtonGoogle

Description: all members of the un will unify their currencies under 1
this currecy will be called the pound. and a hundred pence will make up a pound.
doing this will give all member states the same intrest rates, decided by the Independent Monetry Policy Committee. the IMPC.
these will be made up of 1 person from each member of the un that is not part of any government party or has an buisness holdings.
doing this will elimante the need for red tape that their is when changing currency and make it eaiser to change currency, because you dont ave to anymore.This is not protective tarriffs.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Warsaw and Poland

Description: We propose the same-sex marriages for everybody in all nations and we ask the end of persecutions and discriminations for homosexual people!Illegal, contradicts Marriage Protection Act.

Category: Education and Creativity


Area of Effect: Educational


Proposed by: Caleonskia

Description: RECOGNIZING that not all children have the same academic capabilities,

REALIZING that students who show below average performance in schools should have the education necessary to survive in the world,

BELIEVING, however, that doing so should not hold back those who are academically gifted from becoming great intellectual thinkers,

The United Nations, hereby:

1) ESTABLISHES the Educational Administrations Bureau (EAB),

2)GRANTS the EAB permission to advise on a school's curriculum and proceedings. This includes but is not restricted to:
a) Ensuring that honors and advanced level courses are offered,
b) Also Ensuring that intellectually gifted students have the opportunities to pursue an advanced education outside of their school,
c) Establishing those items where they are not present,

3) MANDATES that all schools rid of standardized tests that are administered by age or grade level. If a school feels that standardized tests are necessary, then they should be administered by intellectual capability. This will ensure that those with lower intellectual talents will not be compared to, and/or reprimanded for not performing as well as those students with academic gifts.

4)ENCOURAGES nations to test students with an IQ test, and take the top 3% and create a gifted seminar program to help them reach their potential, and remove all limitations.Illegal, contradicts UN Educational Aid Act.

Sorry, I'm new here and I didn't know that I shouldn't make real references...:rolleyes:

Category: Education and Creativity


Area of Effect: Artistic


Proposed by: Ummah-Jamilah

Description: bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahiim

ACKNOWLEDGING that art is one of the single most unifying efforts human beings can apply themselves to, and also that an education in the arts is key to the development of critical thinking and reasoning,

The Most Serene Republic of Ummah-Jamilah proposes the creation of an international conference for the promotion and sharing of the arts amongst nations. It is our hope that this gathering will foster both international cooperation as well as cultural exchange and development.Illegal, branding.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Whoala

Description: No nation, which does not embrace a democratic government, shall be permitted to gain membership in the United Nations.Illegal, game mechanics.

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Uranium Mining


Proposed by: Tindera

Description: The testing of Nukes sould be done Outer space not on Earth.Is that you George W. Bush?

Category: Social Justice


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Kinat

Description: All nations, who call some propsals "silly", shall be bombed with 10,000 megatons of Hydrogen BombI'd call this proposal silly, but that would be an insult to all the truly silly proposals.

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Aronutre

Description: WHY should anyone be allowed run around in the nude? Its indecent and just wrong especially if they are fat or ugly.
Here is what I propose to stop this disgusting and vile practice.

1. WHOEVER does it will become an automatic PROSTITUTE.

2.THE person will be automatically DEPORTED if they don't want to become a prostitute

3. IF they don't want to be deported, they will be sent to jail.

4. IF they do it a second time, they will suffer a good old-fashioned PELTING OF ROTTEN VEGETABLES while being tied to the STOCKS.

5. A third offence will result in the DEATH PENALTY.

IT may sound harsh but that is what we shallk do to eliminate NUDISTS once and for all. Illegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Gun Control


Decision: Tighten


Proposed by: Bloodhound Town

Description: The United Nations recognizes the rights of individuals to own and bear firearms, recognizing the existence of a well-trained militia being essential to the furthering of democracy. However, it must be noted, that there is no realistic reason other than violence against other humans for individuals to be allowed to own weapons of high calibers or excessive destructive power. As such, it would be beneficial for all people's safety to place tighter restrictions on weapons over a specific size or power.

Article I: Defining "Excessively Powerful" or "Overly Large": Weapons considered overly large and/or excessively powerful for civilian ownership will be any firearm that does any of the following:
- Fires explosive projectiles (i.e. Mortars or Rocket Propelled Grenades)
- Fires projectiles of a caliber of over .50 with standard powder charges in the round.
- Fires projectiles of a caliber of over .38 with magnum (extra-strength) powder charges in the round OR has fully automatic fire capabilities.

Article II: Restrictions Enacted by Resolution:
This resolution will enact the following controls over the manufacture, distribution, purchase, and ownership of the above mentioned weapons:

- Weapons that fall under the parameters outlined above will NOT be produced for civilian purchase or use. Violators will have a fine not exceeding $1,000 USD per product that violates this measure, and/or will be imprisoned for a period not exceeding 180 days, depending on the severity of the offense.
- Said weapons will not be available for purchase. Violators will be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 90 days.
- Said weapons will not be distributed for ANY purpose. Violators will face either a fine not exceeding $750 USD and/or 180 days in prison, depending on the severity of the offense.
- While said weapons already in the possession of private citizens will not be confiscated, they may not be carried or discharged in public. Furthermore, they may not be passed to other individuals EXCEPT in the case of inheritance. Violators will face a fine not exceeding $500 USD for bearing the weapon in public, may face appropriate charges(including murder if another person is harmed by the discharge) if the weapon is discharged, and violators of passing the weapon to others will face a fine not exceeding $500 USD.
This measure will increase the security of human beings from those who wish them harm, including criminals and militant groups such as terrorist organizations.Illegal, RL references and contradicting Fair Sentencing Act,

Category: International Security


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Cookiton

Description: I propose that this game should allow you to add allies.

I feel that it is necessary for regions to have allies. You can then determine if that is the correct region for you, which in truth can show you how strong it is.


I find this helpful to all regions when and if they need help against another region they will have people to back them up.Illegal, game mechanics.

A Maximum Carbon Emission
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.

Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses
Proposed by: Macadress

Description: This proposal would make every single country produce less than 1000g of CO2 per person per year.

Approvals: 3 (WZ Forums, Yangoon, Ventei)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 101 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Mar 24 2008

How?
And would that figure supposedly include their own metabolically-produced CO2?

Monitering of Dictatorships
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Swarthmorian

Description: As many of us know, there is a great deal of dictators in the land. Tragicaly, the citizens living under their rule are faced with extreme hardships such as poverty and starvation. Political freedoms are unheard of to these people and civil-rights sound like the topic of a myth to many. It is our duty as political leader to better the world. So, it is my proposal that we put "nanny's" to moniter the outlandish acts of the iron fist gripping many nations. It will make happier people. AND, with happier people, productivity world-wide will rise. It is a win/win situation for all, except the corrupt ruler...

Approvals: 7 (Proxyl, Frennierstan, WZ Forums, United Kana, South Lorenya, Yangoon, Warsaw and Poland)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 97 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Mar 24 2008

This does nothing except "moniter" those Dictatorships, as nothing at all is said about intervening to actually prevent any of their actions, so it certainly isn't 'Strong'...

High Powered Rifle Act
A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.

Category: Gun Control
Decision: Tighten
Proposed by: Copelandom

Description: Introduction: With the instance of the previous shootings in several countries everyone here has dealt with them. This is not a ban on high powered weapons. This is a tightening of the restrictions to having a firearm of that magnitude.

Article 1: Have mandatory background checks for all persons purchasing any firearm and those persons must also wait 7 days in order to posses a firearm and ammunition.

Article 2: No wholesales of .336 ammunition to persons possessing a high powered automatic weapon. No ammunition sales to people that have not taken a weapons safety course and posses knowledge of a firearm.

Article 3: No sales of any firearm to individuals under 21 years of age. No bits and pieces of firearm kits are to be given out, that includes ammunition and other parts such as holsters, cleaning kits, scopes, sights, fore grips, and lights.

Article 4: If in violation of this firearm bill (if its passed) violators will face fines, jail time, and confiscation of all weapons violating the aforementioned rules. Please take into account that guns don't kill people ,people kill people. If you disarm the machine there is nothing to worry about.

Conclusion: The steps above provide a very real scenario that affects dozens of police and SWAT members every day. Although they train for it doesn't mean that every thing will go according to plan. When you take the high power out of the picture the police will succeed more often without taking casualties.

Approvals: 0
Status: Lacking Support (requires 104 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Tue Mar 25 2008

Illegal, contradicts the Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Gun Control


Decision: Tighten


Proposed by: Evynopia

Description: Weapons of mass distruction, such as nuclear bombs, and biological bombs (disease causing weapons) should be banned. the effects of a nuclear bomb can be felt long after war, and is inhumane to hurt people in such ways. as respectable nations, we should rise above the cruelity of nuclear and biological warfare and ban it. Illegal, contradicts Nuclear Armements, duplicates the bioweapons ban we already have and wrong category.

Category: Gun Control


Decision: Tighten


Proposed by: Shukini

Description: In every nation there are going, and already are, people who own guns, or criminals, or future criminals that get there hands on them and use them for the wrong reasons. Its time that we do three things about this issue.

1) Put harsh taxes on people who own firearm.

2) If a minor is seen with a firearm, he/she should be given a hefty fine.

3) Anyone seen with a firearm loaded in non firearm allowed area's should be thrown into jail.

Unless this actions aren't used, there will be more violence, more police struggles and more deaths no matter there this situation, or no matter the circumstances. Illegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #243


Proposed by: Szabonia

Description: UN Resolution #243: International Measurements Act (Category: Free Trade; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: There is a system invinted that covers all measurements called the SI (International System).
-the meter for distance,
-the kilogram for mass,
-the second for time,
-the ampere for electric current,
-the kelvin for temperature,
-the mole for amount of substance, and
-the candela for intensity of light.
-the radian and steradian for plane and solid angles, respectively;
-the newton for force
-the pascal for pressure
-the joule for energy
-the watt for power;
-the degree Celsius for everyday measurement of temperature
UNITS FOR MEASUREMENTS OF ELECTICITY
-the coulomb (charge)
-volt (potential)
-farad (capacitance)
-ohm (resistance)
-siemens (conductance)
UNITS FOR MEASUREMENTS OF MAGNETISM
-the weber (flux)
-tesla (flux density)
-henry (inductance)
-the lumen for flux of light
-the lux for illuminance
-the hertz for frequency of regular events
-the becquerel for rates of radioactivity and other random events;
-the gray and sievert for radiation dose;
-the katal, a unit of catalytic activity used in biochemistry.
-the traditional mathematical units for measuring angles (degree, arcminute, and arcsecond);
-the traditional units of civil time (minute, hour, day, and year);
-two metric units commonly used in ordinary life: the liter for volume and the tonne (metric ton) for large masses;
-the logarithmic units bel and neper (and their multiples, such as the decibel); and
-three non-metric scientific units whose values represent important physical constants: the astronomical unit, the atomic mass unit or dalton, and the electronvolt.
-the nautical mile and knot, units traditionally used at sea and in meteorology;
-the are and hectare, common metric units of area;
-the bar, a pressure unit, and its commonly-used multiples such as the millibar in meteorology and the kilobar in engineering;
-the angstrom and the barn, units used in physics and astronomy.

All of these then have the follow prefixes:
yotta- (Y-)
10to the 24th power
1 septillion

zetta- (Z-)
10to the 21st power
1 sextillion

exa- (E-)
10to the 18th power
1 quintillion

peta- (P-)
10to the 15th power
1 quadrillion

tera- (T-)
10to the 12th power
1 trillion

giga- (G-)
10to the 9th power
1 billion

mega- (M-)
10to the 6th power
1 million

kilo- (k-)
10to the 3rd power
1 thousand

hecto- (h-)
10to the 2nd power
1 hundred

deka- (da-)**
10
1 ten

deci- (d-)
10to the -1st power
1 tenth

centi- (c-)
10to the -2nd power
1 hundredth

milli- (m-)
10to the -3rd power
1 thousandth

micro- (µ-)
10to the -6th power
1 millionth

nano- (n-)
10to the -9th power
1 billionth

pico- (p-)
10to the -12 power
1 trillionth

femto- (f-)
10to the -15th power
1 quadrillionth

atto- (a-)
10to the -18th power
1 quintillionth

zepto- (z-)
10to the -21st power
1 sextillionth

yocto- (y-)
10to the -24st power
1 septillionthWhat the heck kind of reason is that?

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Eirikiren

Description: All nations band together to allow one major security force, governed by the nations and designated toeradiacated all hostile activity or terrorism directed at one nation's people. They are the first to respond and the leaders are currently changed to prevent an dictatorship.Illegal. attepmts to create a UN military.

Category: Social Justice


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Zeusia

Description: Fixed universal energy output per person.
Since Adam Smith did not consider energy output in his economic theory, here is the chance to give each person enough electricity to start their own workshops. Small businesses can flourish once more. Illegal, RL reference and probably wrong category.

Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Bahapia

Description: Requires all member states to renounce their militaries. This would promote world peace and global cooperation. It would subsequently eleminate fanatical dictators and we would all get along. And it would allow any nonmember nation to steamroll over all of us.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #4


Proposed by: Copelandom

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: If you don't tax the public then there wont be any revenue for the government to do its job and then the entire system fails.

however, don't raise taxes at all keep them low enough to where everyone is happy and able to pay them to keep the country running Oh look, the usual problem with taxation ban repeals.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #19


Proposed by: Kaple

Description: UN Resolution #19: Religious Tolerance (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: Thare shall be one religion in the name of God it shall be christianity. No other and no more religious wars. Only one religion under one god and that god shall be the cristian god and no other.Illegal, contains new legislation (and nothing else).

Category: International Security


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Aronutre

Description: Suppose if your country has a major riot over government or other issues, you will need police or military, right? Right, so I propose two, just two ideas.

1. there will be a minimum of €300 million spent on Police & Military combined in the national budget. Those who don't will suffer a heavy fine.

2. A commitee will be set up to enforce this law.

It is short and sweet.
Fredrik Van Frsef
Aronutres UN RepresentitiveIllegal, game mechanics and branding.

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Totkorps

Description: This will increase each nation's military spending by an additional 1-2% of their total GDP, this will allow creation of a global security force that will be able to react to regional conflicts.


Spagett.Illegal, UN military.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Small Island Nations

Description: The General Assembly of the United Nations,

· NOTING that in several UN member nations, the death penalty is still in use. In addition, we are aware that many of the offenders on the death row are under 18, and that in some countries, the death penalty is for non-violent crimes.

· BELIEVING the death penalty and capital punishment to be an inhumane, unjustifiable, and outdated practice.

· NOTING that the death penalty is ineffective in reducing the number of serious crimes, because higher proportions of serious crimes are committed in countries which have the death penalty than in countries that do not.

· BELIEVING that no government has any more right to kill criminals than criminals have to kill other people, and by doing so that the government are stooping to the levels of murderers.

· BELIEVING that the death penalty is a blatant invasion of the universal human right to life, as well as the universal right human right to a life free of torture. Offenders have been known to be kept on death row for more than ten years, knowing that they will face death. The psychological trauma inflicted on these people is no different to torture.

· NOTING that in thousands of cases, the perpetrator of the crime has been proven "not guilty" after the execution, and in such circumstances, a retrospective apology is of little use to the victim or their family and friends. Such cases will always exist as long as the death penalty is in place, and the murder of innocent people is one of the reasons why we call for the abolition of the death penalty.

· NOTING that when a country abolishes the death penalty, it is not thrown into chaos. A consistent trend is that the number of cases that would have got the death penalty decline after its abolition.

· ABOLISHES the death penalty immediately in all UN member countries.Illegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #236


Proposed by: Wencee

Description: UN Resolution #236: Free Trade of Durable Goods (Category: Free Trade; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The Confederacy of Wencee well recognizing and commending the attempt at 'free trade' Wishes to repeal this resolution.

Citing that no nation should be forced to lift it's own protections for its economy by the united nations to the determent of it's own citizenry. And further argues each nations right to be protectionist in its trade. Citing in our opinion the lack of true protection against' various forms of Price dumping and job loss.Illegal, branding.

Category: Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Lidgeland

Description: all empires within the UN must be kicked out or turned democratic as empires are inherently against the un charter and self determinalism of sovereign nationsIllegal, idealogical ban and attempts to remove nations from the UN.

Category: Free Trade


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Ratcliffe city

Description:

It has come to the attention of our highest military scientists that the security of not only our country but of all countries is at risk, at risk due to a chronic lack of powerful soldiers.
In response to this problem our nation has been working to create a new cast of soldiers genetically engendered for fighting on a wide variety of landscapes, we feel that this has helped us to ‘pad up’ our ranks and keep our people safe, in fact we have been able to produce so many solders that we are now considering selling these products to our close allies as a way of protecting our interests and forging good relations.
With these highly trained well armed killing machines no nation would dare threaten you, as the only nations to who these products are available to be our allies and so will sign a non aggression pact with each other.

Unfortunately are progress in this field has be stunted by ‘human rights’ activists who claim that forcing people to fight just because of how they were born is uncivilised. This is criticism that we never expected as in our land everyone is duty bound to join the ‘ratclifften protective army’ or EPA as soon as they are able to hold a gun, in fact we start training for a military carrier from the moment our local priest baptises us in the blood of our parents first kill. By this ideology creating soldiers who have a edge in the competition is not wrong and certainly not slavery as just like any of our people as soon as they have finished their tour of duty or have been maimed they are allowed to return home and settle in our city as honed citizens.

As for the selling to private business or other nations go, that has long been a proud tradition of our people as our country was founded by a rich chicken farmer who sent his security safe to our other un-united settlements as a way of protecting his customers from thieves so that they could continue to buy his products, from this we founded our state by uniting all our settlements under the slogan ‘provide, protect and lead’.

After this I hope you will see how our genetically enhanced solders are not an attack on the moral fibbers of the world and so will pass legislation to legalise the production and distribution of our solders across the world.
Thank you for your time and consideration, yours ‘General S.Burke’ prime minister of the disputed territories of ractcliffe city. Illegal, branding and appears to be nothing more than an ad.

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Azerbajazerstan

Description: Recognizing that all nations have different cultures, morals, and customs.

Noting that not all UN laws can apply to every member country

Emphasizing that the United Nations was created as an organization to monitor world affairs, and not as an organization for the implementation of individual domestic laws

Realizing that there is no practical means of enforcing UN mandated law

Regretting that disagreements about domestic law will always occur

This resolution proposes a ban on proposals that regulate the internal affairs of individual states, as this is not in accordance with the original purpose of the United Nations. We recognize the importance of the UN as a monitor of world affairs, but not as a monitor of individual states' laws, as this is a violation of sovereignty.Illegal, pure blocker.

Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Tort Reform


Proposed by: Jubatia

Description:


The Region of Sparta proposes that:
All United Nations Members be unified under one form of currency
This Currency be implemented not only in UN Member Nations, but in every Region that is represented in the UN
The act take effect IMEDIATLY after being aprooved, if it is aprooved

In aprooving this Act, Regions and Nations enlisted in the United Nations would:
Improve trade
Promote a Unitarian, peacful image
Increase the wealth of all nations
Under one currency, all UN nations would benifet.

The Region of Sparta also proposes that the Unitarian Currency's name be voted on seperatly, each Region proposing one name, and their Delegate voting once on the name. Once the votes are counted, The name will be implemented in a fair, Democratic fashion.Illegal, branding, attempting to change user defined fields, attempts to affect non-member nations, and this is not tort reform.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #56


Proposed by: Jubatia

Description: UN Resolution #56: BioRights Declaration (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The Region of Sparta Proposes that UNR #56, BioRights Declaration be repealed on the grounds that cloning is an immoral,unnatural practice. Giving genetically engineered clones the same rights as naturally born citizens would cause population fluxuations, a need for more housing, and a need for more jobs. Given these facts, the overall economic strength of every member-nation would diminish, and eventually crumble. By acknowledging the rights of unnaturally concieved human beings, we aknowledge the rights of any science experiment. This is why The Region of Sparta proposes that not only UNR#56 be repealed and rendered null and void, but the idea and practice of human cloning be outlawed. Illegal, branding and attempts to include new legislation in a repeal.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Saudi kewait

Description: All white supremacy groups will be outlawed. Anyone who discriminates against any other race/religion will be prosecuted to the full extent possible.Shouldn't this be "Moral Decency?"

Petroleum Industry Taxes
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.

Category: Social Justice
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Remanence

Description: RECOGNIZING that petroleum industries are over-charging citizens for a simple gallon of gasoline.

FURTHER RECOGNIZING that the industries are becoming overly greedy by over-inflating prices.

ALSO STATING that the industries are making a surplus of money and ruing economy.

Taxes should be placed on industries who receive profit off of the petroleum/gasoline industry(however you say it). These industries are doing their jobs without a doubt but gasoline is turning into diamonds, we have a surplus of it but only sell little for a high cost. These industries are charging way too much and prices are inflating out of control.

A baseline price needs to be set of gasoline for the everyday man or a tax should be placed on the industries. a 19.5% tax rate should be placed on them and that money will go towards military enlistees, social workers (such as teachers, plumbers,etc.) and the common man.

Approvals: 12 (Santa clauses8, Jake and Elwood Blues, Rykkland, Keydude, Ventei, Most Excellent Pharaoh, Cordova I, WZ Forums, Trecalaenia, Mikel_aa, Hjul, Spaz Land)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 91 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Mar 26 2008

Illegal, contradicts 'Representation in Taxation'.

Category: Gun Control


Decision: Relax


Proposed by: Minimetros

Description: Creation of Doomsday Devices

Although This Will Probably Be dismissed As a Joke I feel that this is a Matter of Great importance for we cannot see round the corner.

I Propose that the Countries Of the UN Unite And Create a “Doomsday” Device This will not only allow us to Stop wars With Single Threat But In the case of Alien Invasion (Yes I’m Serious It could Happen) Give us the Edge and Allow us to defend are planet

Now obviously there will have to be some Restrictions to using the dooms day device we can’t just go blowing stuff up.

[Rules]
1. Before the Doomsday Device is used In Any way Shape or form there will have to be a bill run through the UN comity to sanction it. (This Includes Movement, Construction, Upgrades, tests and attacks.)

2. The “Doomsday” Device is not to be controlled or possessed by any one nation and can only be operated by a majority verdict in the UN.

3. Construction of the “Doomsday” Device is to have input from every nation of the UN Boosting Economies Globally.

4. Any Nation of the UN can request access to the Doomsday Device by running an Act through the UN If it is successfully passed then it will happen.

I Believe that the Creation of a “Doomsday Device will Make the world a safer place and is the way forward

Robert Houghton

The Common wealth of the minimetros Illegal, wrong category, branding and probably more.

Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Exertia

Description: Saving 25 Billions of pounds from trident missiles is the right way to improve social welfare, education and crime. Nuclear warheads create a defensive country even though the country itself is not a prime target. The Damage bombs do such as Nagasaki and Hiroshima still show the inhumanity within society. Disarming nuclear weapons saves Billions of taxpayers money which could improve other areas of life.

choose wisely Illegal, RL references and contradicting Nuclear Armaments.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #131


Proposed by: Minimetros

Description: UN Resolution #131: IT Education Act (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: I agree that it is important to teach children about computers but it must be done properly
I agree with trying to keep costs down but I disagree with teaching children on free ware and open source software.
Open source software is normally free but the whole point in open source software it so it can be altered reprogrammed to suit the user but if you are teaching children to use computers then it should all be on standard software . also as open source software and free ware are very rarely used in the world we should be teaching children to use the standard software such as Microsoft windows and office that are the normal. Although this might be expensive it means that children will then be able to use any computer they are sat at rather than just their own which they have programmed to suit them.

[COSTS]
Buying licensed software will cost more money but Teaching children to build their own computers will not only help to keep costs down but also make it possible for the poorer citizen to build a cheap PC but also give them the knowledge to upgrade at minimum costs. Also the Knowledge of being able to build a maintain a computer is important in a world were computer dependency is growing
[THE POINT]
This repeal is to make sure that all children learn a standard computer language allowing them to use any computer with ease rather than learning on one that has been programmed to suit them (open source software) and also giving children the basic knowledge to build and maintain computer systems. Also making it easier for programmer to write their educational software on one platform so that everyone can use it on their own system

[Standards]
There is no point teaching With Obsolete computers therefore every computer should be built to a Certain Spec And Be put on a 5 year upgrade Program All the Software should be current and up to date and then everyone can learn the same things so that they can use any machine any were. This will mean that everyone can run the same software and be synchronised to allow efficiency and purpose to teaching Information Technology Illegal, RL references.

Category: Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Fleetsbury

Description: I was in the World archives and am appalled to see that many nations choose not to join the UN.I believe that by increasing the regional influence of the UN states and by giving a free endorsement for joining the UN many new states would like to join the great global establishment of the UN
Illegal: game mechanics.


Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Artistic
Proposed by: Exertia

Description: Increasing and giving rights to individuals to host art festivals is a great way to show freedom, and prosperity for people of all ages. This resolution gives artists such as musicians and painters a greater chance to increase festivals in countries and at the end of the day, to show artistic prowess of talented individuals.
Um, how?

Common Television Format
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.

Category: Free Trade
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Filencha

Description: RECOGNIZING that in today's world, various countries use different formats for television broadcasts.

FURTHER RECOGNIZING that this complicates the production of various electronic components for use with televisions.

ALSO STATING that this causes compatibility issues with various media forms, limiting the ability of people to enjoy media from around the world.

Each country should switch to the DVB-T format, which provides better picture quality, and introduces a common broadcast format, that would be compatible around the world.

This will stimulate the economies of the world, because with the introduction of a common format, televisions would be able to be used with media such as DVDs, regardless of where it came from, opening people up to other cultures around the world.

Approvals: 3 (Cordova I, Brazykystan, Crapooza)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 100 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sat Mar 29 2008

Wouldn't "the DVB-T format" be a RL reference and therefore illegal?

One Last fight
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Category: International Security
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: KingdomHeart

Description: Argument: why would we decrease in military spending. i know its great for world peace and harmony, and im gonna prove that
but mates there are militant groups out there that want to destroy our nations just fir a silly reason tht our religion isnt the same as ours an theywant war because of that one silly thing.

Reason: these people live for the destruction that war causess, they live to see your citizens die in agony. thet want it more than anything else Women,money,power.they might be even planning somthing so hatefull i cant even think of the daiobolical stuff that goes through their minds

Proposal: i propose that anyone who wants to join the fight. build up your armys . and be ready to face these pple

conclusion. after this is done .lets disand our armys and olney let the UN have an army.

Approvals: 1 (Crapooza)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 102 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sat Mar 29 2008

Illegal, as it would -- at least potentially -- create a UN army.

A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Category: International Security
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: KingdomHeart

Description: Argument: why would we decrease in military spending. i know its great for world peace and harmony, and im gonna prove that
but mates there are militant groups out there that want to destroy our nations just fir a silly reason tht our religion isnt the same as ours an theywant war because of that one silly thing.

Reason: these people live for the destruction that war causess, they live to see your citizens die in agony. thet want it more than anything else Women,money,power.they might be even planning somthing so hatefull i cant even think of the daiobolical stuff that goes through their minds

Proposal: i propose that anyone who wants to join the fight. build up your armys . and be ready to face these pple

conclusion. after this is done .lets disand our armys and olney let the UN have an army.

Approvals: 1 (Crapooza)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 102 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sat Mar 29 2008
Illegal, as it would -- at least potentially -- create a UN army.
Not to mention that they're trying to decrease military spending with the International Security category.

Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Environmental Deregulation


Proposed by: Saudi burmia

Description: one way for industrys advancment to explode would be to teraform (gradually change an areas surface over time) antarctica.

if we teraformed it, we could buil a lot of factorys their. and the huge hole in the ozone layer there wont matter to the industrys because they destroy it anyway.

sure it would cost a lot, require advanced technologies, and a huge work force, but it would be worth it in the end.


those factorys would massproduce the technologies in that time period. the one bad thing is that the ice sheets will still be their and might cause huge damage. so we will build manmade steel structured walls underneath them.

i really hope you will approve of this. think of the futur.I wonder what those nations already in Antartica would think about this?

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Supremebeings

Description: Ban Smoking! SMOKING IS MURDER! THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH
TO PROVE THAT IT IS! I PROPOSE WE EXECUTE ON SIGHT TO ANYONE DISOBEYING THE BAN!Illegal, wrong category and contradicts both the UN Drug Act and Fair Sentencing Act.

I wonder what those nations already in Antartica would think about this?


"Git yer dam hands off mah' continent, ya dam lawmakers!"

Odd you need a new category for "Silly and/or illegal proposals", as all UN proposals fit into that category.

Actually, it's not new. 5,800 posts? Been around a while. And, if you don't like it, get out. Or be constructive.

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: All Businesses


Proposed by: Holenland

Description: Single Hull Tankers carrying hydrocarbon products such as oil, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and liquefied natural gas (LNG)chemicals, such as ammonia, chlorine, and styrene monomer can cause enormous environmental damage and cost millions of dollars to clean up. Millions of dollars in Economic damage is caused when these chemicals are spilled. As in previous legislation we recognize there would also be a boon to fishing, tourism, and shipbuilding industries if environmental disasters such as oil spills could be reduced.

1.The construction of single hulled tankers shall be banned immediately.

2.All existing single hulled tankers that meet the safety requirements of the nation in which they are registered will be allowed.

3.The refit and major overhaul of single hull tankers to bring them back into regulation is banned if the ship in question is over 20 years old.Illegal, the repeal hasn't passed yet.

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Johnmcain

Description: Seeing that alchohol results in many injuries, arrests, and deaths by drunk drivers and victims alike, this resolution, if passed, will outlaw all consumation of alchoholic beverages. This does not include any alchohol used in hospitals for disinfecting purposes. While I note that alchohol may not be harmful when in controlled doses, many people go out of control and binge when they start drinking.Illegal, contradicts UN Drug Act.

Repeal "No Embargoes on Medicine"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal
Resolution: #33
Proposed by: Rosieka

Description: UN Resolution #33: No Embargoes on Medicine (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: Resolution #33 say's "modern medicine can improve life he is right but some medicines can hurt poeple and there should be 3 Act's for nations to fellow

Act 1- there should be the Medication committee (to make sure that the medicaine is safe and not harmful to humen life.

Act 2- all nations should be alound to tell if the medicaine is aloud to be up for sale.

Act 3- The Medicaine that is oked by the Commitee and the nation should be albe to be accessable for people in times of war, like in Resolution

Approvals: 2 (Extremation, Architeuthis)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 102 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Mar 30 2008

Illegal, for including new legislation in a repeal.

Repeal "Freedom of Assembly"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal
Resolution: #179
Proposed by: Rosieka

Description: UN Resolution #179: Freedom of Assembly (Category: Furtherment of Democracy; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: Resolution #179 Should remain up to the governments of nations because many nations in the UN are not Democracy’s some are Dictatorship’s and do not give there people freedom and would not like to give there people freedom which would make civil wars in nations like that. There should be 5 acts or rule’s that the protesters and UN member nations should fellow.

There should be a committee called the UN Assembly Committee so all that assembly must file to get an Assembly license by the UN.

Act 1. All people that chose to assemble should say there name to prevent any one from saying they weren’t there at the time.

Act 2. The UN must respect all nations that chose not to let there people to ASSEMBLE.

Act 3. Nation that Chose to let there people to ASSEMBLE they should have to fellow the UN assembly laws and should let there citizens know about the new laws past by there nation and the UN.

Act 4. All UN Nations should let the people aware about the nation’s stance about the freedom of assembly.

Act 5. And all protest’s should have Army or Police to which to make sure all protesters are fallowing there nation’s laws.

And that’s why the I think this Resolution #179 should be Repealed.

Approvals: 3 (Architeuthis, Birkstantinopal, Extremation)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 101 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Sun Mar 30 2008

Illegal, for including new legislation in a repeal... I think. Or is the author simply saying what he thinks a subsequent replacement should contain? It's hard to tell...

Allow Scientific Freedoms
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Jedi8246

Description: We nations need our scientific freedoms. If we restrict scientific freedoms then there will be no new ideas. We are falling behind. With new freedoms we can improve our nations with new and better technology.

Approvals: 1 (Jake and Elwood Blues)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 103 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Mar 31 2008

Illegal, for dupication of an existing resolution (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11421331&postcount=167) (and this one (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10737951&postcount=152) might also be considered relevant...).

Right To Bear Arms
A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control
Decision: Relax

Description: NOTING: That many nations wish to legalise the posession of Arms

DECIDING: These nation's populations deserve the right to mount these arms and utilise them as they see fit

DECLARING: That every citizen is hereby legally permitted to mount a SINGLE pair of Bear Arms in their home or place of business

DECLARING: This resolution only applies to Bear Arms, and not other animals arms including humans.

NOTING: The dangers and security risks of improper use of Bear Arms

FOUNDS: The United Nations Commision of Bear Arms Control, Design and Enforcement (UNCBACDE)

CALLS UPON: All member nation's governments work in conjunction with the UNCBACDE to enforce proper mounting of Bear Arms

ENACTING: That nations put immediately into effect laws imposing a fine, imprisonment, or other such forms of correctional action that are allowed by the UN be imposed upon improper users and illegal traffickers

CONCLUDING: That properly utilizing and governing the use of Bear Arms is in the best interest of all nations

AUTHORIZES: All citizens to display or utilize a properly mounted pair of Bear Arms as they see fit.
:D

Right To Bear Arms
A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control
Decision: Relax

Description: NOTING: That many nations wish to legalise the posession of Arms

DECIDING: These nation's populations deserve the right to mount these arms and utilise them as they see fit

DECLARING: That every citizen is hereby legally permitted to mount a SINGLE pair of Bear Arms in their home or place of business

DECLARING: This resolution only applies to Bear Arms, and not other animals arms including humans.

NOTING: The dangers and security risks of improper use of Bear Arms

FOUNDS: The United Nations Commision of Bear Arms Control, Design and Enforcement (UNCBACDE)

CALLS UPON: All member nation's governments work in conjunction with the UNCBACDE to enforce proper mounting of Bear Arms

ENACTING: That nations put immediately into effect laws imposing a fine, imprisonment, or other such forms of correctional action that are allowed by the UN be imposed upon improper users and illegal traffickers

CONCLUDING: That properly utilizing and governing the use of Bear Arms is in the best interest of all nations

AUTHORIZES: All citizens to display or utilize a properly mounted pair of Bear Arms as they see fit.:D
Posting joke proposals in this thread is all well and good, submitting them however is not.

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Justantinopia

Description: For centuries, the world has been exploiting animals through their meats and bi-products, but in this century of "supposed" intellectual faculty, we as a majority still support the trade of animals as commodities even though most of society knows the immense disadvantages to eating meat and the subsistence on dairy and egg products.

This bill will ban the use of animals in trading them over the global market, but it will not be implemented into the industrializing horticulture or agrarian societies such as Egypt, Turkey, China, and a list of others who must have meat to subsist.
We, industrial societies, who are so advanced are easily capable of not producing or subsisting on meat, so this bill only applies to the European countries, Australia, and North America.
There is an immense collection of data that goes against animal exploitation, and I ask you, the members of the UN, that you should read about this subject before voting on it.Illegal, RL references.

Right To Bear Arms
A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control
Decision: Relax

Description: NOTING: That many nations wish to legalise the posession of Arms

DECIDING: These nation's populations deserve the right to mount these arms and utilise them as they see fit

DECLARING: That every citizen is hereby legally permitted to mount a SINGLE pair of Bear Arms in their home or place of business

DECLARING: This resolution only applies to Bear Arms, and not other animals arms including humans.

NOTING: The dangers and security risks of improper use of Bear Arms

FOUNDS: The United Nations Commision of Bear Arms Control, Design and Enforcement (UNCBACDE)

CALLS UPON: All member nation's governments work in conjunction with the UNCBACDE to enforce proper mounting of Bear Arms

ENACTING: That nations put immediately into effect laws imposing a fine, imprisonment, or other such forms of correctional action that are allowed by the UN be imposed upon improper users and illegal traffickers

CONCLUDING: That properly utilizing and governing the use of Bear Arms is in the best interest of all nations

AUTHORIZES: All citizens to display or utilize a properly mounted pair of Bear Arms as they see fit.
:D

"Grrrrrrrrrr....

We are NOT amused."

Borin O Redwood,
Chief Observer at the UN
for
The Free Bears of Bears Armed.

Humane slaughter
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.

Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Hawkinsania

Description: It is incumbent on all civilized nations to ban methods of slaughter where the animal is not treated humanely but rather offered in the name of the slaughterer's god. These practices should be consigned to the Dark Ages.
Approvals: 2 (Crapooza, Intelligenstan)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 102 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Mar 31 2008
Illegal for RL reference ("the Dark Ages")?

Free Education Act
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.

Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Educational
Proposed by: St Franky

Description: In this Act I propose that education be provided by the government for no cost to the student. This will ensure that every person has a free and equal chance to better themselves and thier nation. The money to pay for the educational supplies, faculty and manegement will come from a slight raise in taxes and non profit scholerships that will be rendered useless if this bill is passed. If this bill is passed it will allow students from every class of life to get into top schools, entering solely based on merit.

Approvals: 1 (Brazykystan)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 103 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Mar 31 2008
Illegal, contradicts the UN Educational Aid Act.

UN Scholarship Fund
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.

Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Educational
Proposed by: Rosieka

Description: This Bill asks the UN to start a Scholarship Fund for students going out side of there nation but still going to other UN member Nations for there higher Education. The amount given to the students should be $10,000 There should be the UN Scholarship Committee that will choose the students that apply to the scholarship. All students that apply must and should have a 3.5 GPA and there GPA in College should be 2.5 or Higher I ask the UN members to help out the yours and other nation students.

Approvals: 1 (Brazykystan)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 103 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Mar 31 2008

Illegal for RL references ($, GPA), even apart from the question of where the UN's supposed to get the money for this Fund...
and, as is so often the case for 'Educational' proposals, its author needs a lesson in spelling... ;)

*ka=snip*
Illegal for RL references ($, GPA), *snip*;)

GPA isn't a real life reference. A Grade Point Average is simply a unit of comparative measurement across multiple educational systems. Disallowing GPA because of RL references would be like disallowing percentages.

GPA isn't a real life reference. A Grade Point Average is simply a unit of comparative measurement across multiple educational systems. Disallowing GPA because of RL references would be like disallowing percentages.

Across multiple American educational systems, maybe, but not worldwide... so it's a reference to something that's local to only part of the RL, rather than a universally recognised term (especially as the author doesn't actually explain what 'GPA' stands for), so by my reckoning it should count as a RL reference-- just as much as an assumption that every nation already has a 'TUC', for example, or an 'SAS', should do -- but obviously that's up to the mods...

And now_

Scrap Anti trade Union Law
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Exertia

Description: In Modern society, especially in Britain, Trade Unions have been squashed to a small minority, the rights of workers are being undermined by big businesses and a minority of people are being paid unfair wages. Many see the downfall of Britain due to the trade unions, when however it was Britain being forced to go to the IMF for loans, which meant pursueing thatcherite policies within a socialist government. increasing power to trade unions can stop exploitation and therefore create trade boards e.g 1909, vote to repeal the 1982 closed shops act which banned secondary picketing and give rights to the workers again.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 104 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Apr 1 2008

Illegal: Presumably nobody's going to claim that this proposal doesn't breach the 'No RL references' rule... ;)

Right To Bear Arms
A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control
Decision: Relax

Description: NOTING: That many nations wish to legalise the posession of Arms

DECIDING: These nation's populations deserve the right to mount these arms and utilise them as they see fit

DECLARING: That every citizen is hereby legally permitted to mount a SINGLE pair of Bear Arms in their home or place of business

DECLARING: This resolution only applies to Bear Arms, and not other animals arms including humans.

NOTING: The dangers and security risks of improper use of Bear Arms

FOUNDS: The United Nations Commision of Bear Arms Control, Design and Enforcement (UNCBACDE)

CALLS UPON: All member nation's governments work in conjunction with the UNCBACDE to enforce proper mounting of Bear Arms

ENACTING: That nations put immediately into effect laws imposing a fine, imprisonment, or other such forms of correctional action that are allowed by the UN be imposed upon improper users and illegal traffickers

CONCLUDING: That properly utilizing and governing the use of Bear Arms is in the best interest of all nations

AUTHORIZES: All citizens to display or utilize a properly mounted pair of Bear Arms as they see fit.
"Grrrrrrrrrr....

We are NOT amused."

Borin O Redwood,
Chief Observer at the UN
for
The Free Bears of Bears Armed.

Change the text to read "Bare arms" and you should be fine. :D

Farmer's Rights Act
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Holy Freedom land

Description: Farmers will have the right to own their own land, be given financial services when in need, will not be treated as slaves by their landlords, and have the right to live however they may choose.


Illegal, duplicate of "Ban Slavery". And I wouldn't consider this mild...

Repeal "UN taxation ban"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution
Category: Repeal
Resolution: #4
Proposed by: Serpientus

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: APPLAUDING the attempts of Resolution #4: "UN Taxation Ban" to prevent the UN from taxing individuals for little reason;

NOTING WITH REGRET that Resolution #4 is impractical because the UN may need more funds for some actions than its members can supply, so it must be able to tax citizens to meet its requirements for the betterment of all;

UNDERSTANDING that it is in the interests of the United Nations to eliminate legislation that may hinder its future operations;

BELIEVING that a better way to acquire funds for the UN should be found, but needing a way to acquire further funds at the moment;

REPEALS Resolution #14: "UN Taxation Ban"

Uh, since governments tax its citizens, if the UN taxes national governments, I don't see why governments couldn't increase taxes, or cut funds to unnecessary areas.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #31


Proposed by: Khalaima

Description: UN Resolution #31: Wolfish Convention on POW (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The government of Khalaima beleives that this resolution is a danger to the citizens of all nations world wide.

TORTURE, although disgusting, may work - be it physical or mental. A nation should be able to use ANY means whatsoever to defend itself from an attack, even if it includes the inhumane treatment of one working to attack.

CONSIDER that Nation A was planning a suprise attack on the lands and territories of Nation B. The area where the attack is going to occur is a residential area with little military resistance. Nation B captures someone from Nation A and tries to extract information to prevent this attack. This resolution denies Nation B the right to defend its people.

Repealing this resolution is in the best interest of any civilized nation in the world, big or small.Illegal, branding.

so by my reckoning it should count as a RL referenceI've told you, we're not that pedantic.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #14


Proposed by: Camborgia

Description: UN Resolution #14: CHILD LABOR (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: We're sure a lot of states will maybe vote for this repeal as already done, but because of this resolution has been approved many years ago and noting that from 2003 about 10.000 palyers entered in NationStates, We think it should be important to propose an other time a so important resolution. Don't make children mature workers at the age of 12, let's leave them being children.I'm not sure if this author wants to repeal CHILD LABOR or not, in fact I'm not sure they know.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Small Island Nations

Description: The General Assembly of the United Nations,

· NOTING that in several UN member nations, the death penalty is still in use. In addition, we are aware that many of the offenders on the death row are under 18, and that in some countries, the death penalty is for non-violent crimes.

· BELIEVING the death penalty and capital punishment to be an inhumane, unjustifiable, and outdated practice.

· NOTING that the death penalty is ineffective in reducing the number of serious crimes, because higher proportions of serious crimes are committed in countries which have the death penalty than in countries that do not.

· BELIEVING that no government has any more right to kill criminals than criminals have to kill other people, and by doing so that the government are stooping to the levels of murderers.

· BELIEVING that the death penalty is a blatant invasion of the universal human right to life, as well as the universal right human right to a life free of torture. Offenders have been known to be kept on death row for more than ten years, knowing that they will face death. The psychological trauma inflicted on these people is no different to torture.

· NOTING that in thousands of cases, the perpetrator of the crime has been proven "not guilty" after the execution, and in such circumstances, a retrospective apology is of little use to the victim or their family and friends. Such cases will always exist as long as the death penalty is in place, and the murder of innocent people is one of the reasons why we call for the abolition of the death penalty.

· NOTING that when a country abolishes the death penalty, it is not thrown into chaos. A consistent trend is that the number of cases that would have got the death penalty decline after its abolition.

· ABOLISHES the death penalty immediately in all UN member countries.Nice try at sneaking a "ban the death penalty" resolution by not titling it "Bn the Death Penalty." Not that it matters, since it still contradicts the Fair Sentencing Act and in this case it's also branded since the title is the same as the authoring nation.

Look what's back again, for about the third time...

International Trade Federation
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.

Category: Free Trade
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Egvertor

Description: To cope with the ever-present threat to traders or bankers from criminals or eventual hostilities, the UN must see to the formation of an international trade federation. The federation must consist of neutral UN officers who will physically protect frequently used trade routes and commercial centers against possible physical harassment by either criminals or (an) eventual government agent(s).

Details of the UN Trade Federation:
Highlight: The Federation concerns, only under very special circumstances not, only international trade.
1. The Federation will choose the side of the trader in danger, unless the trader is illegal (according to UN laws). The federation will be exist for security and fairness of trade.
2. The Federation will try to run a tight ship on the various trade routes by patrolling it constantly with cars, ships and aircraft, generously provided by taxes/fees on/from UN corporations and countries that allow free enterprises. According to the law the UN is allowed to tax/fee corporations and Governments. This tax/fee will not be significant. (although this may be decided in debate)
3. the UN may appoint a director of the Federation, who will be tasked with rallying forces and money for the Federations ranks. (this may be decided in debate)
4. the Federation will never be allowed to intervene with the details of trade, only if it is to preserve the security of trade.
5. The location of the HQ of the federation may vary. (may be decided in debate)
6. In the event of hostilities, the federation will make sure trade between nations can continue, unless an official trade embargo is in place.
7. In the event of an armed robbery (if that is still possible in these modern times) the federation may defend the trader by any means necessary.
8. ''Trade'' is a broad term, but the trade federation will mainly concern goods similar to oil, wood, food, gold or any other physical trade ware.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 104 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Apr 3 2008

Illegal, as it tries to give the UN armed forces.
WHY can't its author understand this point?

I've told you, we're not that pedantic.

In this case, you should seriously consider being that pedantic. GPA isn't a well-defined concept outside the US -- I can't think of anything remotely equivalent in the UK, for example -- so as St Ed says it isn't universal enough to justify assuming that it's a meaningful thing in the NS world(s).