End Collective Punishment
Category: Civil Rights | Strength: Significant
Proposed by: The Forest of Aeneas | Onsite Topic
Note: Only votes from TNP WA nations and NPA personnel will be counted. If you do not meet these requirements, please add (non-WA) or something of that effect to your vote.The World Assembly:
Believing that collective punishment is grossly unfair, as it purposefully targets the innocent, and therefore a serious violation of sapient rights; and
Observing that collective punishment is a favoured tool of authoritarian regimes to suppress opposition;
Hereby, within the confines of past, standing World Assembly law:
- Bans member states from purposefully punishing, convicting, or otherwise targetting for punishment, any individual for:
- Any act they did not personally commit or knowingly conspire, suppress evidence of, encourage, or facilitate; or
- Connection or relationship to an individual, on the basis that that individual has committed a punishable or unlawful act;
- Demands that all past convictions contravening this resolution by member states be fully rescinded; and
- Clarifies that this resolution does not ban member states from purposefully punishing, convicting, or otherwise retaliating against persons for:
- Membership in a proscribed organisation; or
- A punishable act unambiguously committed under their authority.
Voting Instructions:
- Vote For if you want the Delegate to vote For the resolution.
- Vote Against if you want the Delegate to vote Against the resolution.
- Vote Abstain if you want the Delegate to abstain from voting on this resolution.
- Vote Present if you are personally abstaining from this vote.
For | Against | Abstain | Present |
16 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
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