I'm going to be gone from July 30th until August 5th, I'll be whitewater rafting

Hopefully I get a lot of medals while I'm gone

Unrelated note, but this is "off-topic", so it's OK: I was going to run in the delegate elections (as I said last time), but I'm just not prepared to, and with this week gone, it's not going to happen. So, go whoever else is running

Child Pornography Prohibition

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


Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Gruenberg

Description: The United Nations,

Horrified by the involvement of children in the pornography industry,

Reaffirming its support for freedom of speech, expression, and media,

Recalling Clause 2 of Resolution #138, "Artistic Freedom", and its provision that work that directly harms others does not constitute protected work,

Further recalling its previous Resolutions #22, "Outlaw Pedophilia", and #25, "The Child Protection Act",

Saddened that there are those who would produce material that does harm others, especially where such harm is sexual, and involves minors,

Determining that such material is not protected from restrictions of production and distribution,

Resolving to adopt a strong stance against child pornography in all forms, and work towards eliminating this moral cancer,

Imploring all UN members to think of the children:

1. Defines for the purposes of this Resolution:
- "child pornography" as any explicit representation of real or simulated sexual acts performed by a child, or any explicit image of the sexual organs of a child, for primarily sexual purposes;
- "child" as any person below the legal age of consent in their nation of nationality;

2. Requires member nations to prohibit:
- the possession, production, distribution and trade of child pornography;
- any act of coercing a child to participate in the production of child pornography;
- the trade of children for the purposes of the production of child pornography;

3. Requires member nations to institute appropriately tough penalties for such criminal acts;

4. Promotes international cooperation in:
- the capture of and facilitation of appropriate legal proceedings against those suspected of involvement in the child pornography trade;
- the seizure, and appropriate further action, such as shipment for the purposes of use as evidence, and thereafter full destruction, of all child pornography;
- the extradition of those suspected of involvement in the child pornography trade for questioning and trial;
- the identification and repatriation of children taken abroad through the child pornography;
- the sharing of information on known child pornography producers and distributors between law enforcement agencies;

5. Supports all efforts at providing for the wellbeing and recovery of victims of child pornography.

You have probably done this before, but since I have'nt been around for to long I thought I'd start a thread about it anyway.

what was the political compass verdict on you after taking the test?

for those who do not know what I speak off, check out www.politicalcompass.org. It's fun!

by the way, apperently this is me:
Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.69

UN Counterterrorism Initiative

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


Category: International Security


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Cluichstani UN Mission

Description: BELIEVING that the deliberate killing and maiming of innocent civilians by terrorists is a despicable and heinous crime;

CONVINCED that terrorism that is conducted, instigated, supported or aided across national borders is a valid and critical concern of the international community;

FURTHER CONVINCED that concerted international action is required to stem this menace, and;

BELIEVING that terrorism conducted by or on behalf of recognized governments is a complex issue best addressed by separate legislation related to the laws of war,

The United Nations

1. DEFINES, for the purposes of this resolution, terrorism as the use or threatened use of violence by persons or organizations other than national governments for the purpose of achieving political, religious or ideological goals by primarily and deliberately targeting members of the civilian population;

2. DEFINES, for the purposes of this resolution, a civilian as a person who is (1) not a member of a military, paramilitary or law-enforcement organization of a nation, or (2) a member of such an organization, but not under arms or performing military duties or functions;

3. DEFINES, for the purpose of this resolution, international terrorism as terrorism that is conducted, instigated, aided, or abetted by persons or groups from outside the borders of the nation in which it takes place;

4. CONDEMNS all acts of international terrorism;

5. DECLARES that every state has a duty to refrain from organizing, assisting or participating in international terrorism or acquiescing in activities within its territory which further such acts.

6. MANDATES that all member states shall:

A. Criminalize and suppress the financing, solicitation of, planning, preparation for, aiding, and perpetration of international terrorism;

B. Freeze, without unnecessary delay, funds and other assets of persons who commit, conspire to commit, or demonstrably intend to commit or facilitate the commission of international terrorist acts, of entities owned or controlled directly or indirectly by such persons, and of persons and entities acting on behalf of or at their direction in this regard. Nations shall develop legal mechanisms to ensure that proper due process is provided in such cases where appropriate, but shall ensure that action is taken quickly enough to prevent removal of liquid assets from their jurisdictions.

C. Refrain from providing any form of support, active or passive, to entities or persons participating in international terrorism;

D. Deny, to the best of their ability, safe haven or refuge to those who finance, organize, support or engage in international terrorism;

E. Afford one another the greatest practicable assistance in connection with criminal investigations and legal proceedings related to international terrorism.

7. URGES all member states to cooperate in suppressing international terrorism and in taking action against it though administrative and judicial means and the exchange of intelligence, especially regarding the actions and movements of international terrorists, the use of forged or falsified travel documents, the use of communications technologies by international terrorists, and traffic in arms, explosives, or other sensitive materials ? particularly weapons of mass destruction ? by international terrorists.

8. SUPPORTS the commitment to address significant causes of terrorism, such as poverty, inadequate education, etc.

Happy birthday!!!

Here's the obligatory smiley fest: :pisang: :funky_pisang: :duck: :worship: :yeah: :wave: :wave: :pisang: :duck:

I think it may be a good idea to start up another discussion on the IDU climate, it would be really good wiki-material to have a good solid IDU climate map.

I need a thug from one of your countries.

Essentially I'm working on a few things ...

First:
http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/C...ndra_Thonberger

Thonberger will have represented this individual and secured his release / deportation from Mikitivity (which otherwise would have been a long prison sentence).

I need a name and nationality.

Second:
I want to connect him to the Zodiac Cartel which I invision as the Mikitivity mafia ... it would be nice to make the Zodiac Cartel actually an international mafia, and this character can be a low level guy "rumoured" to be part of the Cartel.

I added an "Events" section to the IDU NSwiki page, please feel free to edit it as you see fit. I do plan on wikifying the IDU Football Championship, so don't worry about the red link.

I thought that it would be a good idea to show people what we're up to

EDIT: Link.

EDIT DEUX: IDU Football Championship Wiki

EDIT TROIS: IDU Cheese Festival Category

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Category: International Security
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Kelssek

Description: WHEREAS the world is more interconnected than ever before, and,

WHEREAS travel between nations is also at a high level, and,

WHEREAS while abroad, persons may require the services of the relevant emergency services, including but not limited to ambulance, police and fire services, and,

WHEREAS different nations have different methods for contacting these emergency services, and,

BELIEVING that lives and property can be saved and protected by introducing an international emergency number throughout the United Nations,

NOW THEREFORE, the United Nations enacts as follows:

1. Member nations shall cause the dialing of "112" on any telephone or similar communication device to redirect to the emergency response service, if such service does not already use that number.

2. Member nations will not be required to change the telephone number of their existing emergency response services.

3. Member nations will ensure that no preferential treatment is accorded based on the number dialled to contact emergency response services.

4. This resolution shall not require member nations which do not already have emergency services or such communication devices to establish or introduce them.
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EDITED TO ADD: As I have no moderation power here, please just ignore the fact that I accidentally went multiple-choice . Everybody can make mistakes, even the most awesomest delegate in the history of forever.

If any of you have roleplaying characters who's past you are trying to lock down, please feel free to have sent them to Mikitivity's premeire university:

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/M...atia_University



Just go ahead and update the alumni section to point to your character.

Furthermore, as I make characters, some of them will naturally have attended schools in the IDU, so if you have a university, plug it here, and I'll wiki-link to your school!