Affirming that all persons, regardless of arbitrary factors such as ethnicity, culture and race, have a civil right to dignity which is essential to have a fair society free from discrimination;
Resolute in its belief in individuals' rights to cultural self-determination and freedom from discrimination are natural and inalienable; and
Cognisant that the repeal of
"The Charter of Civil Rights" necessitates the enactment of comprehensive legislation to uphold this body's commitment to safeguarding individual rights against ethnic, cultural, and racial discrimination;
The World Assembly enacts as follows.
- Societal rights: No member nation, or entity therein, may withhold, delay, or segregate any service, right or privilege, including employment and remuneration as well as sale of goods and property, from an individual on the grounds of that individual's ethnicity, culture or race, or any real or perceived aspect thereof. The following exceptions apply to this provision, although nothing in the said exceptions preclude exempted conditions from being an unlawful form of discrimination based on another characteristic covered by this clause.
- Section 1 shall not prohibit a service, right, policy, or privilege substantially related to a characteristic of an individual from being conditional on the recipient's holding of that characteristic, if such a requirement legitimately mitigates harms towards persons holding that characteristic without causing similar or worse harms to those lacking it.
- Section 1 also shall not prohibit an entity from requiring those selected to conduct some task to hold a particular characteristic, if and only if there exists an important, substantially related governing purpose that both (i) the task is clearly related to the said characteristic of the individual, and (ii) that characteristic is essential to effectively carry out the relevant tasks if selected. For roles with a language requirement, no person may be discriminated against on the grounds that their language fluency is learnt and not their native language.
- Segregation: No member nation or entity therein may undertake any action or enforce any policy which segregates a group of persons according to their ethnicity, culture or race. Accordingly, forceful isolation or internment of a group in designated areas, or segregation, separation or persecution of a population in daily life, where such measures are based on their ethnicity, culture or race, are crimes against humanity.
- Enforcement: Member nations have a duty to actively work towards preventing ethnic, cultural and racial discrimination in their respective jurisdictions, and accordingly to enforce Sections 1 and 2 to the best of their ability. Every member nation is to classify discriminatory categorisations on the grounds of an individual or group's ethnicity, culture or race, or any real or perceived aspect thereof, as arbitrary and reductive. Accordingly, every member nation must enforce laws against hate crime, violence, and other discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, culture or race as with any other arbitrary, reductive categorisation.
- Interpretation: Terms in the singular are to be interpreted as including the plural thereof, absent clarification otherwise. Acts not specifically prohibited or mandated under this resolution are subject to other applicable law; as such, exceptions in Subsections 1a and 1b shall not preclude further member nation or World Assembly restriction of such practices. No part of this resolution prohibits affirmative action so long as it complies with Sections 1 and 2; nor does it restrict treaties between member nations and indigenous groups, which should be addressed via separate legislation on indigenous rights.
