[GA—AT VOTE—AGAINST] The Ethnic Equality Act

The Ethnic Equality Act
Category: Civil Rights | Strength: Strong
Proposed by: The Ice States, Co-authors: Royal Emerald Republic, Wallenburg | Onsite Topic​

Maintaining that the right against arbitrary discrimination based on ethnicity, culture and race is natural and inalienable; and

Cognisant that the repeal of "The Charter of Civil Rights" has lit a metaphorical dumpster fire in what is otherwise an essential topic for this body to legislate, necessitating one more resolution to finally put it out;

The World Assembly enacts as follows.

1. 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, on grounds of the recipient's ethnicity, culture or race, or any real or perceived aspect thereof. The following exceptions apply to this provision, though an action may consist of simultaneous discrimination based on multiple characteristics.
   
   • 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 shall not prohibit an entity from requiring those selected to conduct some task to hold a particular characteristic, if that entity can show that the characteristic would provide a material advantage in carrying out the relevant task. 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.
   
   
2. 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, forced 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 deemed crimes against humanity.
   
   
3. Enforcement: Each member nation shall recognise as arbitrary and reductive any discriminatory categorisations based on individuals' ethnicity, culture or race, or any real or perceived aspect thereof. Every member nation has a duty to prevent ethnic, cultural and racial discrimination to the best of its ability, and accordingly to enforce laws against hate crime and other discrimination based on individuals' ethnicity, culture or race as with any other arbitrary, reductive categorisation.
   
   
4. Interpretation: Terms in the singular include the plural thereof and vice versa. The term "action" includes omissions. 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.

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