This thread is where I'll point you to the working NSWiki entries for my country. When I type geographical and international political / cultural issues, I'd love to link to other IDU nations. Please feel free to post in this thread to point me to things from your nation that you feel are appropriate for connections / links!

Repeal "National Systems of Tax"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal
Resolution: #105
Proposed by: Powerhungry Chipmunks

Description:
UN Resolution #105: National Systems of Tax (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument:
The United Nations,

APPLAUDING ?National Systems of Tax? for upholding nations? rights to self-determination in the area of tax systems,

RECOGNIZING the short treatment, however, which ?National Systems of Tax? gives some very important, international issues concerning tax systems (such as tariffs and international tax incentives),

NOTING, ESPECIALLY, the resolution author?s willingness and desire to address such issues,

ACKNOWLEDGING, with reluctance, the mechanical need to repeal ?National Systems of Tax? in order to re-address those important international issues and to more adequately secure national rights,

ASSURING member nations of future legislation, which will be more comprehensive and explanatory in scope, more serviceable to member nations in protecting their rights to determining their own tax systems, while more permitting of international determination of international taxation issues:

REPEALS ?National Systems of Tax?.

Voting Ends: Mon Jul 18 2005

I don't know how many of you knew this, but NASA is about to resume the Space Shuttle Program today:

http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/main/

I'm pretty excited!

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?

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

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

Hi all,

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

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.

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.]

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.