General Assembly Resolution #247 “Rights of Crime Victims” (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Believing in the intent behind Resolution 247, “Rights of Crime Victims”, in protecting the victims of crimes from the accused perpetrators, and in securing various rights that victims necessarily should have,
Concerned that several flaws present in Resolution 247 may render it doing a net harm to society and government in member-nations, notably:
- Ambiguities in clause one that lead to a not-unreasonable interpretation that crime victims must be updated on critical stages of prosecution, regardless of their actual desire to know of the ongoings, which may lead to further trauma or harm to their psyche,
- The ability for victims to make a statement at any critical stage of the prosecution may lead to particularly vindictive victims to be able to draw out a trial beyond a point reasonable or necessary for the deliverance of justice,
- The failure of the definition of “the accused”, resulting in all clauses regarding the accused to apply to acquitted individuals, due to the past tense of the clause possibly meaning “any person who has been charged in the past with a crime”,
- The failure of the resolution to connect “the accused” with the “crime victim” explicitly, possibly allowing any person considered a crime victim to be afforded all the rights in the resolution against any person considered to be the accused, even if the cases are wholly unrelated,
- Not inherently allowing the immediate family of a crime victim to be afforded the rights as listed under Resolution 247 if death or incapacitation falls upon the crime victim, but is unrelated to the crime in question, which may lead to awkward, unfortunate, or otherwise harmful situations to the families of incapacitated crime victims,
Certain that while a resolution can be written in order to further protections of victims, Resolution 247 fails to uphold a standard ensuring a fair trial to all, as well as having notable ambiguities that make the proposal ineffective in tempering malicious or otherwise incompetent nations,
Hopeful that most reasonable member-nations will impose rights similar to those intended to be applied by the target, and unfortunately knowing that due to subpar writing, unreasonable or malevolent nations can find holes to bypass the intent of the resolution and further their own agenda regardless of this legislation on the topic,
Hereby repeals Resolution 247, “Rights of Crime Victims”.
