Improving public sanitation (draft 3)

[Simone]

Draft 3
[box]The World Assembly (WA),

Affirming the WA’s long-standing commitment to sanitation, through GARs 97, 103, 288 and 702;

Noting the need to formulate additional rules regarding sanitation in public areas, to prevent the spread of diseases and entrench a culture of maintaining a hygienic environment at all times;

The WA hereby enacts the following:

1. Definitions.
   • ”Authority” means one or more entities designated by a WA state as in charge of enforcing and interpreting this resolution.
   • "Public areas" means any indoor or outdoor areas where sapient individuals may frequent or congregate, such as markets, parks, schools, hospitals, offices, factories, transport facilities, and all public restrooms. This is regardless of the ownership of the said areas.
   • "WHA" to mean the World Health Assembly.
2. Hygiene in public areas.
3. All operators are required to meet minimum standards of cleanliness, environmental hygiene, waste disposal, disinfection and maintenance in accordance with WHA standards.
4. Any additional standards imposed by authorities may not be less stringent than WHA standards.

[*]Restrooms in public areas.

• All owners and operators (“operators”) of public areas are required to provide "hygienic restrooms", a term defined as one that complies with all of clauses (4) to (5).
• All hygienic restrooms in public areas shall be free-of-charge at the point of access.
• Operators should ensure that hygienic restrooms are available for both paying customers (such as, say, train ticket holders) as well as visitors.
• Such restrooms shall also accommodate different sapient species if an authority determines that such public areas are frequented by multiple sapient species.
• Existing restrooms that do not meet the said standards are required to convert their restrooms to meet such standards as soon as reasonably practicable.

[*]Facilities in hygienic restrooms. The WHA shall set forth appropriate standards (subject to variations by sapient species) on the following:

• Fixtures and fittings appropriate for individuals of different physical capabilities, as well as protecting the privacy of all users;
• Sanitation facilities, such as water closets, availability of running water (both for cleaning and flushing), plumbing, facilities for changing diapers, sewage disposal, waste disposal, and other auxiliary facilities;
• Hygiene standards, such as air circulation, disinfection, and maintenance.
• The WHA may tailor certain standards for certain areas, such as some restroom facilities in prisons and psychiatric hospitals where privacy is outweighed by other concerns.

[*]Consumables. All hygienic restrooms must provide at least the following consumables of a reasonable quality and quantity, and entirely free-of-charge:

• toilet papers and other sanitary products such as soap, hand sanitizer, disposable towels, and diapers (for both adults and infants);
• menstrual products, regardless of whether restrooms are assigned by gender (or identified gender) or have no gender identification.

[*]Excretion in public.

• Each WA state should provide adequate public restrooms in all public areas frequented by sapient individuals to avoid excretion in public.
• Each WA state shall ensure that its laws are accommodating towards both areas where the presence of sapient individuals is infrequent or inhospitable, and also be tolerant towards sapient individuals who may violate any laws against excretion in public due to unavoidable reasons such as medical conditions.

[*]Education. Each authority is to ensure that education on the following matters form part of their basic education requirements:

• Maintenance of basic public hygiene standards, such as proper cleaning after the use of toilets; and
• Menstruation and its relationship with health, and to prevent any cultural stigma associated with menstruation.

[/list][/box]

Char count : 4,057