Quote: Diplomatic Immunity

A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.


Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Cobdenia

Description: REALISING that national law can restrict diplomatic and consular personnel (hereafter referred to as diplomats) from carrying out their assignment

NOTING that unrestricted diplomatic immunity is subject to abuse

FURTHER NOTING that a lack of diplomatic immunity can lead to the abuse of diplomats by national governments for political reasons and cause undue interference with their official duties

EMPHASISING that the decision to grant diplomatic immunity is the exclusive prerogative of the nation in which the diplomat is to be serving (hereafter referred to as the host nation), and that diplomatic immunity may be revoked by either the host nation or the nation that the person represents (hereafter referred to as the home nation)

PROCLAIMS that a person holding diplomatic immunity is immune from arrest and prosecution by the host nation. The person may be detained by host nation officials only when necessary to prevent death or injury of that person or others. In such case, the law enforcement officers shall immediately notify the mission to which the person is assigned. The person shall be promptly released to the custody of an authorised representative of that mission upon request.

FURTHER PROCLAIMS that diplomatic missions and other property declared extraterritorial by agreement between the home and host nations are inviolable from search by host nation officials. Such property may be entered by host nation officials only upon request by the mission involved. Nations may negotiate other circumstances in which such entry is permitted

PROCLAIMS that goods and documents in transit to or from to or from diplomatic missions and identified as diplomatic bags or pouches are inviolable from seizure or search by host nation officials, and exempt from customs and excise duties

AFFIRMS that, if the host nation revokes diplomatic immunity and there is probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime under the host nation's law, the person must be tried for said crime under the rules of judicial procedure of the home nation. Evidence and testimony from the host nation must be weighed if admissible under those rules. The trial shall be conducted within the home nation's mission in the host nation whenever feasible. If found guilty, the person shall be immediately returned to the home nation for appropriate punishment

AFFIRMS that if the host nation revokes immunity the diplomat remains immune for prosecution by the host nation for any crime committed whilst the person had immunity

URGES nations to prosecute diplomats charged with crimes whose immunity has been revoked for non-political reasons

AFFIRMS that, if the home nation revokes a person's diplomatic immunity, he or she may face prosecution by the host nation for a crime committed while the immunity was in effect under the host nation?s laws and judicial system

PROCLAIMS that no nation may wilfully send any diplomat with the express purpose of committing a crime in the host nation

RECOMMENDS that nations cooperate in providing diplomatic missions with appropriate security.

Co-authored by Ausserland
Voting Ends: Wed Oct 19 2005[/quote]

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=449409

I don't know whether I should mention Agnostic Deeishpeople as co-author. Oh, and trust Love and Esterel for not getting it (see jolt forum)


Description: We, the United Nations, recognize the basic human rights of all individuals. This resolution seeks to reduce Old Age Identity/Expression Discrimination in order to give old people and others their chance to live dignified lives.

Believing that human right is rooted in the belief of human dignity; everyone deserves to be treated with dignity regardless of their old age identity and/or expression.


Defining Old Age Identity as a person?s innate sense of self -age; age expression is the external presentation of a person?s mental age.

Noting that Old Age Identity/Expression Discrimination affect not only trans-age individuals.

Recognizes that Old Age, is a recognized physical condition that can be diagnosed even by amateurs.


Convinced than people who are diagnosed with Old Age should have the right to seek for different types of treatment with the approval of a mental health professional.

Deeply disturbed that Old Age Identity or Expression discrimination has taken and destroyed many lives.

Be it resolved that that the following articles be recognized by the United Nations.

Article 1: Everyone has the legal right to express their mental age freely without unreasonable interference from the state.

Article 2:

1.) Old Age Identity and/or Expression alone are not grounds for any form of discrimination in the work place unless such identity/expression are clearly proven to preclude satisfactory performance of required duties; Discrimination includes, but is not limited to, unequal treatment in hiring, training, promotion and termination, be the source from other employees or employer(s).

2) Declares that this Article does not apply to:

A.) Situations where Employers wish to establish age specific dress codes or bathrooms at work.

B.) Religious Institutions. (Except in their For-Profit activities)

C.) Non-Profit organizations. (Except in U.N countries where For-Profit organizations do not exist or are an anomaly)

Article 3:

A.) The U.N is neutral on the subject of plastic surgery; however, these "age reassignment treatments" must be legal options available to people diagnosed with Old Age by the tabloids.

B.) U.N countries reserve the right to determine the source of funding for "age reassignment treatments".

C.) Health insurance companies do not have to include coverage for age reassignment treatments but must not discriminate people simply because of their old age identity and/or expression.

D.) Old Age identity and/or Expression alone are not justifiable grounds for hospitals and health care providers to refuse appropriate medical treatments to patients whose lives are at immediate risk.

Article 4: Any person who had undergone a Age Reassignment Surgery must be allowed to change his or her legal age. The issue of whether to grant non post-operative seniors or others the right to change their legal age will be for individual nation to decide.


Article 5:

Urges:

A.) Member nations to consider putting pre operative old inmates
in isolated cells if their personal safety is in danger.

B.) Member nations to accommodate mental age diversity if they haven?t already.

Article 6: If any member nation has rights and protections that go beyond those enlisted in this resolution, the Old Age Freedom Law will not remove them.

A bit early, but just so no-one forgets: happy 29th birthday Lawtonia! :wave: :duck: :pisang: :funky_pisang: :123hup: :wave:

Happy Birdie Keeslandia!

My my, it seems to be catching...

:123hup: :duck: :pisang: :wave: :funky_pisang: :lol: B)

Quote: Worldwide Media Act

A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.

Category: Social Justice

Strength: Significant

Proposed by: Richard2008

Description: The United Nations,

-A- NOTING that the artistic, cultural and entertainment media industry is a growing sector and is essential to the economic development of our Nations and the happiness of our people,

-B- RECOGNIZING that this industry includes a wide assortment of businesses and individuals that create and produce video, music, graphics, books and various other types of content,

-C- DEFINES a ?regional system? as any method to prohibit the transmitting or viewing of media from one region or nation in another region or nation,

-D- NOTING that some regional systems are designed to prevent access to graphic or restricted types of media content in individual nations,

-E- CONVINCED that the universal standards are likely to increase consumer confidence, further adding to the practical and economic viability and success of these standards,

-F- REGRETTING the problems consumers face when using incompatible media formats, and when attempting to transport media from other cultures, which is a barrier to cultural awareness,

-G- REGRETTING that the current restrictions on media use increase piracy and hurts artistic, cultural and entertainment media creation,


-1- URGES all Nations to promote artistic, cultural and entertainment use of media and encourage its development, in particular its online distribution ,

-2- URGES STRONGLY all nations to regulate commercial DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems and duplication protections for commercial media, in order to assure compatibility for customers with most media players,

-3- BANS any "regional system" for commercial DRM?s and for all past, present and future commercial media formats. These formats include but are not limited to:
-Blu-ray disc
-Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)
-High Density Digital Versatile Disc (HD DVD)
-Universal Media Disc (UMD)
-Super Audio CD (SACD)
-DualDisc
-Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD)
-Holographic Versatile Disc (HDV)

-4-URGES all Nations to uphold legislation against any media sharing, distribution, or reproduction methods which are widely considered piracy,

-5- MANDATES developed nations where companies propose a commercial media support or DRM system standard to regulate the cost of its patent licensing in order to be financially reasonable and available to developing and less economically stable nations.

Co-authored by Love and esterel

Voting Ends: Thu Oct 13 2005 [/quote]

:123hup: Happy 21st Adam Island! :123hup:
:wave:

Greetings to the International Democratic Union,

The nation of Caradune is planning to submit to the UN the following proposal.
Caradune submitted it last month and it get more tahn 100 approvals.
As we gave Caradune many ideas and helped them, they proposed us to be the co-author.

This draft is currently being debated on the UN forum, and even if we had some desagreement last time we posted our proposal on your regional forum, we will always be happy to listen to your critics and ideas, as we really appreciate the great work of your region for the UN.


Thanks a lot


here is the current, non final, draft
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-A- SHOCKED by the amount of children worldwide who do not have basic access to a computer

-B- CONVINCED that the mastering of Information Technology is essential in the education of every child worldwide and for his/her own future

-C- FULLY AWARE of the difference of technology level between member nations

-D- SEEKING to minimize the cost of the following clauses

-E- FULLY AWARE of the availability of cheap and basic computer designed by non-profit organisations


-1- MANDATES all nations to provide each child, aged more than 12, Information Technology education; which can be integrated into National Education programs.

-2- URGES all nations to secure for every child, aged more than 12, some access in school to information technology school equipment with educational software and internet access,

-3- ENCOURAGES all Nations, where the cost of this clause will not be significant, to secure that every child, aged more than 12, has a operational computer for himself with internet access and educational software, or more powerful high-tech educational tool. Computers, internet access or others tools could be bought or rented at a very modest price for children not able to afford them

-4- ENCOURAGES all Nations to try to limit the cost induced by paragraphs [2] and [3], by different means such as:

-4.1- providing cheap and basic computer designed by non-profit organisation as those that already exist

-4.2- Running the computers mentioned in [2] and [3] with needed open-source software, freeware or software graciously paid or discounted by companies, as a sponsoring operation for them or by non-profit organisation

-4.3- Proposing some non-profit organisation or some companies to graciously offer some computers, internet access and technical support, as a sponsoring operation for them which can prove more efficient than a TV ad campaign

-5- ENCOURAGES all developed Nations to help developing Nations to implement this program, by different means such as:

-5.1- Sharing technologies with nations who don't have yet access to them

-5.2- Giving access to these nations to a low rate loan/bonds system, which will be repaid in middle term by the growth of the amount of taxes collected due to the growth of information technology economic sector
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ps: here are 2 real world important links to better approach this topic

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptop-images.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4292854.stm

Sorry about my week long absence!

Work has been really busy ... so much so that when I get home at night, I've often been EXHAUSTED. :/

I suspect next week I'll have more time to get active again, but this fall is going to be touch in go. My office is short staffed, so my group is working overtime and they are now sometimes giving us downtime to prevent our "burn out"

Quote: Fossil Fuel Reduction Act

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

Category: Environmental

Industry Affected: All Businesses

Proposed by: Ateelatay

Description: NOTING: that using fossil fuel as an energy source cannot continue indefinitely, because of damage to the environment and finite supply.

NOTING: that long-term energy sustainability requires drastic reduction of the use of fossil fuels as energy sources and the eventual reliance on clean, renewable energy sources.

NOTING: that the current level of energy generation may itself be unsustainable in the long term and that programs that promote conservation and increased energy efficiency, as well as reassessing what are energy needs and what are unnecessary luxuries, will be key parts.

NOTING: that environmental damage caused by burning fossil fuels is not localized to the country burning them but rather of global concern.

REALIZING: that the drastic reduction of the use of fossil fuels is a monumental task requiring the help, cooperation, and commitment of all UN nations.

DEFINITIONS

Fossil fuels: Hydrocarbon deposits, such as petroleum, coal, or natural gas, derived from living matter of a previous geologic time and used for fuel.

Clean, renewable energy sources: energy derived from sources that do not completely use up natural resources or do significant harm the environment in the long-term.

The UN hereby enacts the following:

ARTICLE I: Terms of the resolution

Section A: Each nation must calculate the average amount of fossil fuel consumed per year over the last 3 years, this is their "ceiling consumption rate." Each nation is required to reduce consumption by a minimum of 2% of the ceiling rate every year, until rates are at or under 10% of ceiling consumption rate. This means that, after one year, rates should be at 98% of the ceiling consumption rate; after two years, at 96% of the ceiling consumption rate; and so on.

Section B: Each nation must increase funding for research, development, and implementation of clean, renewable energy sources and increased energy efficiency and conservation programs by a minimum of 1% per year, until Section A has been satisfied.

Section C: Nations may use energy sources that are ultimately not sustainable, such as nuclear fission, to supplement power until they are able to use clean renewable energy sources only.

Section D: Nations' governments are strongly encouraged to give incentives to the private and nonprofit sectors to help it comply with the requirements set out in Sections A through C.

Section E: Nations that meet the requirements at least 5 years before the minimum required term of 45 years, implied in Section A, shall receive a 5% increase in any UN aid they are receiving, until said 45 year term.

ARTICLE II: Special Cases

Section A: If a nation is trying to comply with the resolution, but having trouble, it may apply for a time extension, but must demonstrate significant need. Legitimate significant needs are extensive damage to infrastructure or economy because of:
Natural disasters
War
Severe economic depression
If significant need is established, an appropriate time extension relative to need will be granted.

Section B: If a nation refuses to comply with the resolution, the UN grants the right to UN member nations to impose trade sanctions on the offending nation, except for sanctions previously banned by the UN, until the nation comes into compliance.

Voting Ends: Sat Oct 8 2005 [/quote]

Got a TG today from a fellow IDU member:

Quote: Hello, there. I'm just passing on something from a relative to you, you may remember her.

"Random says hello!"
-Randomerica[/quote]

Because Randomerica was a very active member of the IDU when I arrived, and definitely the force behind the Off-Topic forum, I thought some people might like to see it posted here. Newer members might want to investigate the old forum.