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  Trouble With the NS Site?

Posted by: Keeslandia
07-12-2005, 10:35 PM
Forum: Fun & Games
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Didn't know where else to put this thread. Just checking to see if anyone else is having difficulty accessing the NS web site today (July 12, 2005)? I've tried several time at different points during the day and keep getting nothing.

Just wondering if it's NS or me?

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  Map Country Flags

Posted by: Federation of Disjunction
07-12-2005, 10:25 PM
Forum: Nations of the IDU
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Domnonia,

Can you update Disjunction's flag to match my current one? I bet there have also been some other countries who have changed their flags as well.

Thanks!

D

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  Civilian Rights Post War

Posted by: Mikitivity
07-10-2005, 08:29 PM
Forum: General Assembly Resolutions
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Civilian Rights Post War
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Waterana

Description:
Recognising war is an inevitable part of the NationStates world.

Fully aware there is a standing resolution already protecting the rights of POWs.

Alarmed by the absence of protections for non-combatants living in an occupied nation after a war has ended, and the possible abuses that can and are being perpetrated against conquered civilians by invading nations.

Convinced measures are necessary for the protection and fair treatment of non-combatants not involved in the armed forces of any nation involved in the war.

A non-combatant is a civilian of any age who did not take up arms against the invading nation either before or after the cessation of hostilities.
The invading nation(s) is those who are in occupation of all or part of the conquered nation after the cessation of hostilities.

Declares that immediately following the cessation of hostilities in any war all UN invader nation(s) involved in the occupation will implement the following?.

- All conquered non-combatants must be treated with dignity and respect regardless of sex, age, position in society, religion or cultural group
- The invading nation must, immediately after cessation of hostilities, provide protection and security to the conquered civilian population against violence and looting.
- No non-combatant will be prevented from leaving the conquered nation with any personal possessions they wish to take, however the invading nation is within its rights to prevent anyone entering said nation.

- No non-combatant will be subjected to summary execution.
- No arrests are allowed without just cause and any person who is detained must be charged with a recognised crime and brought to trial as quickly as possible.
- No searches of private homes, businesses or places of worship may be carried out without just cause.
- Body searches of non-combatants are not allowed without just cause and if done the procedure must be carried out in a private setting. Any searches of women must be carried out by and only in the presence of female soldiers or police. No such searches of children are permitted.
- No non-combatants will be forcibly removed from their home or district and relocated unless such a move is necessary for their own safety in cases of unsafe structures, insurgent activity or other just reasons. They must be allowed to return as soon as possible after the problem is solved.

- The invading nation must rapidly restore medical services and hospitals within the conquered nation and provide medical aid to those non-combatants who require it.
- The invading nation must rapidly restore any essential services, including but not limited to water, sewerage, electricity and food distribution networks destroyed or disrupted because of the war.
- The invading nation must repair any infrastructure, including but not limited to bridges, roads, homes, places of worship, schools and businesses destroyed or damaged because of the war.
- Any non-combatants drafted to assist the rebuilding must be paid a fair wage for their work.

Any civilian who takes up arms after the cessation of hostilities and actively seeks confrontation with the invading nation may no longer be considered a non-combatant.

Votes For: 4,256
Votes Against: 1,265
Voting Ends: Wed Jul 13 2005

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  Holliday

Posted by: Groot Gouda
07-08-2005, 04:04 PM
Forum: WA Proposal Clinic
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Hi all,

I'll be on vacation for the coming two weeks; please make sure Vice Delegate Scoopy can do his job.

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  United Nations Security Act

Posted by: Groot Gouda
07-04-2005, 12:06 PM
Forum: General Assembly Resolutions
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United Nations Security Act

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


Category: International Security


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Texan Hotrodders

Description: The NationStates United Nations,

NOTING that warfare and violence are not acts which this body wishes to encourage.

NOTING WITH REGRET that there are certain unavoidable situations in which warfare and violence are necessary for the defense of sovereign persons and nations.

CONCERNED that many member nations are ill-equipped to conduct an effective defense of the sovereign persons and nations.

FURTHER CONCERNED that there are many nations that are not members of this body and are hostile to it and may attack the member states of this body.

ENCOURAGES all member states to ensure that they have the ability to effectively defend their sovereign nation from attack in the interest of protecting their citizens.

DECLARES that all member states have the right to construct and utilize any and all weapons that are necessary to defend their nation from attack, except where previous legislation by this body that is still in effect has placed restrictions on that right.

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  Anadromous Fish Protection

Posted by: Mikitivity
07-02-2005, 07:35 PM
Forum: General Assembly Resolutions
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Hello,

Today in the UN there was a discussion on the subject of hydroelectric dams. As a nation rich with potential dam sites, and a few such dams, we've always tried to work with fellow IDU nations in order to prevent our generation of hydroelectric power from resulting in environmental deregation of your rivers and beaches.

However, it seems that this sort of regional cooperation might not exist in other areas of the world, and my government wanted to ask for opinions from fellow IDU members about the possibility of introducing a UN resolution recommending the research and development of more sustainable temperature and sediment control devices for hydroelectric facilities in order to promote commerce via increased navigatibility and fisheries, as well as to promote reliability in drinking water supplies.

The idea would largely focus on a preamble discussing the known negative regional / international impacts of hydroelectric plants, with the activating clauses including several suggestions for national governments to take.

A better title might perhaps be "Mitigation of Hydroelectric Plants", since we could build drinking water and erosion control issues into the resolution, but Anondromous Fish Protection would allow for a more focused resolution on simply temperature control devices.

Thoughts?

[OOC: I'm again trying to use a NS UN resolution to introduce a complex liberal issue to the thousands of players of the game.] Smile

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  Vote: Nuclear Armaments

Posted by: Groot Gouda
06-30-2005, 10:36 AM
Forum: General Assembly Resolutions
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Nuclear Armaments

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


Category: International Security


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Flibbleites

Description: REALIZING that UN members are outnumbered by non members by about 3 to 1,

ACKNOWLEDGEING the fact that UN resolutions only affect UN members,

NOTICING the fact that many non member nations are hostile towards UN members,

REALIZING that the UN members need to be able to defend themselves if attacked,

NOTICING that the UN has twice defeated resolutions attempting to ban UN members from possessing nuclear weapons,

1. DECLARES that UN members are allowed to possess nuclear weapons to defend themselves from hostile nations,

2. PRESERVES the right for individual nations to decide if they want to possess nuclear weapons.

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  ANARCHY!

Posted by: DataGenesis
06-28-2005, 12:27 PM
Forum: Nations of the IDU
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With the Intersteller Federation of DataGenesis at a population of 2.32 billion; the inevitable has occured. Aliens have landed in response to the supreme desire to gamble in our casinos with our children.

The nation has now reached the SUPREME form of government! ANARCHY! Big Grin Ahhh yes.... some say it is the lowest form of government (or no government at all), but others believe it to be the extreme.

From our daily description; It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 65%. A substantial private sector is dominated by the Gambling industry.

Corporations are either above the law or corrupting it, public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people", young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, and citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a serious problem. DataGenesis's national animal is the Puppy, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Shiney.

Ahhh the sweet sounds of commerce at work.........

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  Vote: Repeal "Elimination of Bio Weapons"

Posted by: Groot Gouda
06-25-2005, 11:48 AM
Forum: General Assembly Resolutions
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Repeal "Elimination of Bio Weapons"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal


Resolution: #16


Proposed by: Reformentia

Description: UN Resolution #16: Elimination of Bio Weapons (Category: Global Disarmament; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: NOTING: UN resolution 16 for the "Elimination of Bio Weapons", although expressing an admirable goal, is completely inadequate to that goal. The text of the resolution contains nothing more than one statement describing the undesirable aspects of biological weapons and one statement saying it?s important to eliminate them. Unfortunately there are no statements:

-- Defining a single criteria for what specific weapons it's talking about
-- Establishing that they actually BE eliminated, rather than just saying it?s important.
-- Specifying how they should be eliminated (such as forbidding their elimination through using them all up on other nations).
-- Accounting for what should be done about the fact that non UN member nations will still have these weapons.
-- Etc?

FURTHER NOTING: That given these shortcomings it is currently possible for any nation to do ALL of the following without EVER being in breach of resolution 16:

--Produce biological weapons.
--Stockpile biological weapons.
--Trade in biological weapons.
--Actually USE biological weapons.

IT IS PROPOSED: This resolution be repealed so that it may be replaced with a new, effective resolution.

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  An idea for the UN

Posted by: Groot Gouda
06-24-2005, 02:54 PM
Forum: WA Proposal Clinic
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Fellow UN members,

As you all know, there are frequent discussions in the UN between several groups. Some of them are organized more or less. For example, there are a National Sovereignity coalition and a Morality coalition.

The International Democratic Union has worked on establishing ties with other, like-minded regions. Now is the time to use those friendships. What the UN needs is a progressive alliance. A group of regional delegates who want to make the world a better place by supporting well-written resolutions that incease human rights, freedom and democracy, and social welfare.

A network like that can be used to create more and better resolutions by working together. It would also be more easy to campaign for proposals. If one region in the network has created a resolution, others will know sooner and are able to support the proposal.

The central place for the network could be placed here, on the IDU forum. Here proposals will be discussed before they're "released into the wild", and proposals that are worthy of our attention can be posted here.

The working-title for this is the Progressive Alliance.

How do you feel about this?

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