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Quote: No Ex Post Facto Laws

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights

Strength: Significant

Proposed by: Yelda

Description: Believing that ex post facto laws are violations of both the rule of law and the right of persons to fair treatment by the criminal justice system;

Asserting that one should not be penalised for doing something that is not prohibited by law;

Further, asserting that there can be no crime committed, and no punishment meted out, without a violation of the law as it existed at the time;

The General Assembly of the United Nations hereby:

Defines, for the purposes of this resolution, an ex post facto law as one that retroactively changes the legal consequences of acts or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law. This includes laws that criminalize acts which were legal when committed and laws which retroactively increase sentences for crimes already committed;

Declares that:

(I) No person may be charged with or convicted of a criminal offense because of any act or omission unless, at the time of the act or omission, it constituted a criminal offense under the law of the jurisdiction in which the charge is brought or under international law.

(II) No nation or governmental subdivision thereof shall enact any law with ex post facto provisions. Any ex post facto provisions in existing laws shall be rendered null and void.

(III) Any persons under sentence as a result of ex post facto laws shall have their sentence for any ex post facto offenses nullified and their criminal record expunged of these ex post facto offenses.

Voting Ends: Fri Jan 19 2007[/quote]

I am working on a resolution to improve overall enviroment by increasing prices for traveling with air crafts

unfortunately more time than 15min a day for nationstates is a luxury I don't have these days. Therefore I have nothing concrete to present at this moment. thought i would throw the idea out and see if any of you had some thoughts.

From our fellow IDU member:

Quote: Extraordinary Rendition

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights

Strength: Significant

Proposed by: Quintessence of Dust

Description: The United Nations,

Recognising the obligations incumbent upon member states to refrain from the use of torture,

Affirming the importance of maintaining a strong stance against all applications of torture,

Seeking means to further eliminate the potential for international complicity in acts of torture,

Deeply concerned by the practice of 'extraordinary rendition', whereby persons are rendered to foreign jurisdictions for the express purpose of having torture conducted,

Believing extraordinary rendition to be a subversion of international law and a significant threat to international human rights,

Determined to prevent member states from any form of involvement in this practice,

1. Defines, for the purposes of this Convention, torture as any act of physical or psychological violence perpetrated against persons for the purposes of coercion, intimidation, punishment, interrogation or the obtaining of information or forced confession;

2. Prohibits member states from any involvement in the rendering of persons to foreign jurisdictions if there is probable cause to believe they would be subject to torture.

Voting Ends: Sun Jan 14 2007
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You don't have to list everything, but I'm curious about some of the things you got for Christmas.

One of the things I got, which I always love in Dec/Jan is a series of DVDs. Between my early Dec. birthday and Christmas I got Seasons 1-4 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I usually like to watch *1* episode of something per night on DVD.

Quote: Sexual Privacy Act

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights

Strength: Strong

Proposed by: Karmicaria

Description: The United Nations,

RECOGNIZING the inherently private nature of sexual intimacy, and

DESIRING to guarantee an individual's right to such privacy,

1. DEFINES sexual activities, for the purpose of this resolution, as behavior, in the form of consensual physical intimacy, that may be directed to reproduction, spiritual transcendence, or sexual gratification. Excluded from this definition are acts that result in the death or serious injury of a participant.

2. FURTHER DEFINES, for the purposes of this resolution, an adult as an individual who has reached the legal age of consent, as defined by the law of the nation in which the activity takes place.

3. BANS the criminalization of any form of sexual activity provided that, a) it is performed in privacy, and b) all participants are consenting adults.

4. FORBIDS governments, their agents and agencies from interfering with, conducting surveillance on, or investigating the private, consensual sexual activities of adults, subject to the exemptions below.

5. EXEMPTS from clause 4:

a. Obtaining evidence for determination of paternity,

b. Collecting information for epidemiological investigations,

c. Criminal or civil investigative activity where probable cause has been established requiring such information, and

d. Actions in situations where there is probable cause that death or serious bodily harm will result without immediate intervention.

Voting Ends: Tue Jan 9 2007[/quote]

Quote: Prohibition of UN Military

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


Category: International Security


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Omigodtheykilledkenny

Description: Determined to maintain the neutrality of the United Nations over international affairs, and to protect the territorial sovereignty and integrity of member states,

This Assembly hereby resolves:

1. Member states shall neither raise nor contribute funds or forces toward the creation of any army or police force under the banner or command of the NationStates United Nations;

2. Member states shall neither request nor expect intervention in any armed conflict by any UN-created military or police force.

Voting Ends: Wed Jan 3 2007
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This proposal has already been submitted, and I don't know where else to post this, so I'll post it here, and if the powers-that-be think it's better elsewhere, they are free to move it.

I would just like to make it clear to the members of the IDU that this was submitted this at the behest of Game Moderators seeking IC justification for the already-effective rule banning UN military forces. This is not a fiendish attempt to deprive the UN of power it does not have, but the response to a request to "enforce" current proposal rules through UN legislation. Thank you.

Quote: Prohibition of UN Military
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Category: International Security
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Omigodtheykilledkenny

Description: Determined to maintain the neutrality of the United Nations over international affairs, and to protect the territorial sovereignty and integrity of member states,

This Assembly hereby resolves:

1. Member states shall neither raise nor contribute funds or forces toward the creation of any army or police force under the banner or command of the NationStates United Nations;

2. Member states shall neither request nor expect intervention in any armed conflict by any UN-created military or police force.[/quote]
Link for approvals here.

I appreciate your support.

Quote: Repeal "Fair Sentencing Act"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal

Resolution: #180

Proposed by: Imperfectia

Description: UN Resolution #180: Fair Sentencing Act (Category: The Furtherment of Democracy; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The United Nations,

AFFIRMING that due to different circumstances different criminals may warrant different sentences for the same crime and such each case should be judged individually, and;

COMMENDING UN#180 in its attempts to encourage member states to provide oversight to their judicial systems to examine trial and sentencing practices, however;

CONCERNED that the second article gives nations the license to use capital punishment too freely;

CONCERNED that individual states may use capital punishment for ANY offense they so choose including, but not limited to shoplifting, illegal drug possession, trespassing, and adultery;

BELIEVING that an internationally recognized standard practice regarding the use of capital punishment is in every member nation?s best interest in order to keep the peace;

HEREBY repeals UN #180, ?Fair Sentencing Act?

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 29 2006 [/quote]

I will vacationing/working over the next few weeks. I was trying to get the map completely updated before my flight, but alas, it shall not happen. I will be in Vancouver, Seattle and San Fran on tour with Van Morrison as sound check guy #4. Anyone want a t-shirt?

Have a joyous Snegurochka and holiday!