11-15-2006, 10:53 PM
Hello guys,
that's my first draft of a resolution ever. Does anyone have any proposals, annotations etc?
Quote: Abolishment of the Death Penalty
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Saidercray
The United Nations,
KNOWING that due to UN resolution #180, "Fair Sentencing Act", member nations have the right "to determine for themselves the sentences for violations of laws committed within their jurisdictions",
KNOWING that due to UN resolution #26, ?The Universal Bill of Rights?, ?all human beings must not be subjected to torture or to cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment?,
COMBINING the provisions of UN resolutions #180 and #26 by deciding that member nations have the right "to determine for themselves the sentences for violations of laws committed within their jurisdictions" unless these sentences result into "torture" or into "cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment",
REGARDING executions as a cruel and inhuman punishment,
ACKNOWLEDGING every nation?s right to protect its citizens from crime,
EMPHASIZING that the death penalty has no extraordinarily large deterrent effect but represents the opinion that violence is a suitable means to solve problems,
TEARING THE CONCLUSION that the death penalty is less qualified for protecting people from crime than other forms of punishment,
UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECTING the feelings of people close to a criminal?s victim and expressing strong regret and sympathy to both the victim and the people close to him,
BEING CERTAIN that in a fair trial as guaranteed to everyone due to UN resolution #21, ?Fair Trial?, such feelings must not influence the trial and especially the judgement,
NOTING WITH REGRET that it can never be prevented that innocent people are taken for guilty and sentenced,
1. CONDEMNS the death penalty
2. CONGRATULATES all nations which have already abolished the death penalty
3. OBLIGES all other member nations to abolish the death penalty
4. URGES all member nations to transform sentences of death into other sentences
5. ENCOURAGES all member nations to stand up for the abolishment of the death penalty in nations which aren?t members of the United Nations.[/quote]
Thanks a lot for any co-operation!
that's my first draft of a resolution ever. Does anyone have any proposals, annotations etc?
Quote: Abolishment of the Death Penalty
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Saidercray
The United Nations,
KNOWING that due to UN resolution #180, "Fair Sentencing Act", member nations have the right "to determine for themselves the sentences for violations of laws committed within their jurisdictions",
KNOWING that due to UN resolution #26, ?The Universal Bill of Rights?, ?all human beings must not be subjected to torture or to cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment?,
COMBINING the provisions of UN resolutions #180 and #26 by deciding that member nations have the right "to determine for themselves the sentences for violations of laws committed within their jurisdictions" unless these sentences result into "torture" or into "cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment",
REGARDING executions as a cruel and inhuman punishment,
ACKNOWLEDGING every nation?s right to protect its citizens from crime,
EMPHASIZING that the death penalty has no extraordinarily large deterrent effect but represents the opinion that violence is a suitable means to solve problems,
TEARING THE CONCLUSION that the death penalty is less qualified for protecting people from crime than other forms of punishment,
UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECTING the feelings of people close to a criminal?s victim and expressing strong regret and sympathy to both the victim and the people close to him,
BEING CERTAIN that in a fair trial as guaranteed to everyone due to UN resolution #21, ?Fair Trial?, such feelings must not influence the trial and especially the judgement,
NOTING WITH REGRET that it can never be prevented that innocent people are taken for guilty and sentenced,
1. CONDEMNS the death penalty
2. CONGRATULATES all nations which have already abolished the death penalty
3. OBLIGES all other member nations to abolish the death penalty
4. URGES all member nations to transform sentences of death into other sentences
5. ENCOURAGES all member nations to stand up for the abolishment of the death penalty in nations which aren?t members of the United Nations.[/quote]
Thanks a lot for any co-operation!