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[notquitethere]

Muska Roko—Miria
: Apologies fellow delegates for the delay, let us get the Committee to Promote Justice underway. Now... what were the outstanding legal disputes we needed to settle?

[Varee]

"The outstanding issue for CPJ is CPJ-SIvBW-001-D"

[Playergamer]

"Yes, the whole affair with the dental company, and the property dispute between those two brothers."

[hector13]

Humanitarian Committee

Spoiler: Resolution on Election Standards (click to show/hide)

Section 1 - The Resolution

This resolution sets forth the standard that all nations will adhere to in the event of elections to their national government, and any punitive action to be taken should these standards not be met.

Section 2 - The Standards

i) Every individual adult of the world has a right to have their voice heard, and exercise their political will. There will be no discrimination of any person's right to stand or vote in an election based on their ethnicity, sex, religion, social status or political opinion. An adult is defined as anyone who has reached the 'age of majority', which will be 18 years old for the purposes of this document.

ii) Genuine democratic elections will be held periodically in all nations. The time between any genuine democratic election shall not exceed 10 years, under any circumstances. This allows the ever changing political will of the governed peoples to be exercised continuously.

iii) Any election shall be announced at least one year before it is to occur, to allow for monitoring.

iv) For member nations of our United Assembly, classes will be offered for every adult - teachers/lecturers of which will be paid for and provided through us - and added to the curriculum of every school detailing the basics of the political system in their nation to allow everyone who has an interest in the political process to learn about it.

Section 3 -Who Will Monitor These Standards

A team of experts drawn from every member nation of the United Assembly, irrespective of which councils or committees they sit on, or if any disciplinary action has been taken against them. This allows the team(s) to have a broad spectrum of knowledge regarding political processes - as no two systems are identical - and also negates any bias. The expenditure of sending these experts, and maintaining a library of knowledge based on their experiences in the political field, shall come from our budget, again to prevent any bias toward the host nation. They will monitor everything to do with electoral proceedings for a year prior to the chosen date, including, but not limited to:

- The selection of candidates.
- Freedom of movement and speech of every candidate, political party and potential voter, to make certain no person or group is discriminated against.
- The actual process of voting and vote counting, to make certain that no individual or group of voters is being forced or intimidated into voting a particular way, and to negate electoral fraud.
- The immediate aftermath of the vote, to make sure that the will of the people is being followed.

The monitors will be supported by an international and independent group of camera teams, allowing review of anything that requires further investigation. Again, to avoid bias, they will be paid for through our budget.

Section 4- The Monitors' Monitor

The team(s) shall report to the General Assembly as a whole. Political freedom is something to which all people have the right, therefore no nation should be excluded from voicing their opinion on whether they think anyone has met or fallen below these standards.

Any decision to investigate a suggestion that these standards were not met will be voted on by members of the General Assembly, and if necessary, any punitive action to be taken against the nation, political party or individuals involved.

If the suspected nation is a member of the United Assembly, their votes regarding investigations will be counted as an abstention.

If the member nation is found to have fallen below these standards, any punitive action to be taken against this nation will be through normal channels: the Security Council. Again, if the now punishable nation is a member of the Security Council, their vote regarding their punishment will count as an abstention.

Section 5 - Amendments

As previously stated, everyone has the right to a political opinion. Any member of the General Assembly may suggest an amendment to this document, which will be voted on by the General Assembly. Ratification of any amendments will be voted on by the Humanitarian Committee, and passed on to the Assembly Leader.

I feel this document could potentially form the basis of a complete resolution on the protected rights that every individual in the world should have. Hopefully enough of you agree!

General Assembly

As my proposal requires funding from us, and also a large contingent of our non-delegate staff are complaining about working for free, I think it is now important to vote on another budget. Given that we did not secure one for the previous week, and we need money, would it be possible for a temporary extension to any new budget to which we commit, for example 4 weeks instead of the 1 week we currently have? This would allow us time to amend the charter permanently, while not being bogged down every week arguing over finance.

((edit so you know what the resolution actually is for before reading it))

[notquitethere]

Committee to Promote Justice

Muska Roko—Miria
: First, let us deal with CPJ-SIvBW-001-D. The Mirian position is that there are a number of complaints that have been conflated here, most of which are not relevant for this Committee. Barbara Wilson's payment, though perhaps personally inadequate, appear not to be in breach of Avalian law. Likewise, the truth or falsity of the Company Shop claims and counterclaims are impossible to tell at this juncture. However, the atrocious safety record of Smile, Inc. is something that we can rule on. Smiles, Inc claim the 17 injured and dead were from 'unavoidable' accidents. This is not acceptable! Have they not heard of guard rails, shut-off mechanisms, basic safety procedures? I offer the following legal opinion:

Employers have a legal duty to maintain safe working conditions for employees and that any and all costs incurred by on-the-job injury are to be paid in full by the employer.

As such, we should uphold the Avalian Federal Court of Appeals decision. What say you all?

General Assembly

Muska Roko—Miria
: I would assent to a four week extension on whatever budget we now decide. This would clear up precious time going forward.

[Parsely]

Minister Fezzik Uharo — Jegula
: Mister Roko's ideas are well thought and voiced, Jegula seconds the opinion.

[Varee]

" We do not agree with representative Roko's point of view. While it maybe true that it is possible to svoid these sccident, the process is just unreasonable. It is like saying all trafic accident can be avoid by removing all the cars on the street. We see that it is the worker's fault to not be careful around sssembly line and her own foolishness to stick her hand into heavy machinery. And about her pay, we see no reason for her complain. If it is really true that her pay is lower than normal, why would she be still working there? There nothing that force her to stay in her job so if there better pay somewhere else then she probably left smile inc by now. So by deduction, we see that her pay from smile inc is the highest pay she got. If she still want more pay then she should have been better qualify for a better job. Even then we also believe that this complain is partly the government fault. If they manage there resource better and use the company tax fund to support their people like our glory New Gavalon, the problem wouldnt even exist in the first place. But we understand that we cant expect everyone to share our glorious goal and extreme effort to help each and every citizen of Our country.


On other topic, i request that the economic council call to vote on creation of peace gency immediately, to minimise the amount of casualty in Tyland the effort needs to be deploy immediately."

[Squeegy]

TODAY’S TOP HEADLINE: The Avalia World Post

Data Leak Threatens Stock Market
October 3rd, 2014
Avalia's entire stock market has dropped up to 3% on several indices after news broke that a major tech company, VitaLink, the nation's leading cybernetics manufacturer, had suffered a serious data leak. Hackers had gained entry to the company's account database through a back door and had been siphoning information off for weeks before administrators noticed that anything was wrong. The company's stock plummeted in the wake of the announcement, which left some calling for stricter regulations on what safeguards companies must put in place to protect consumer's databases. This incident comes hardly more than a month after VitaLink announced that it had bought out its sole competitor, Strongarm, and that Strongarm would now be VitaLink's prosthetic limb brand.

[Jiharo]

After days of quietly drinking cheap packeted tea with disgruntled Assembly staff members, Morh Diban idly contemplates petitioning Ordian government to establish their own Assembly, preferably with card games and entertainers.

[Sheb]

Sire Gustav Hertmann - Tirinia, Addressing the Economic Council

"Very well, while we do not have a complete agreement, I don't think that further discussions will solve them. As such, I thereby open a 24 hours period for delegates to submit formal proposals, we will then start the discussion and voting process. As a courtesy to our colleague of the Humanitarian Committee, we will discuss proposals regard the Aid agency first, however, I would like to remind them that as we're trying to set up permanent, durable institutions, and cannot simply rush things through. As pointed earlier, they can set up a temporary Program under their own authority if they want faster action."

Spoiler: EC-CA-001-P01-R-0 (click to show/hide)

Section 1: What is the Emergency Responce Agency (ERA)?

The ERA is a specialised natural disaster response unit whose members will be drawn from volunteers, the military and international aid charities around the world. Its mission is to coordinate disaster response and rapidly deliver aid to disaster victims worldwide.

Section 2: Training

There will be various types of training involved to allow the members to operate effectively in regions hit by natural disasters. The training will be provided continuously, and refreshed at regular intervals.

Section 3: Supplying the agency

The United Assembly will pay for a small cadre of trained professionals that will coordinate and manage disaster response, as well as deliver aid. Actual aid as well as extra manpower, vehicles and security will be provided by individual United Assembly members.

Section 4: Deploying and overseeing the agency

The Humanitarian Committee will elect a temporary board of five nations - eligible to all members of the General Assembly, so long as there have been no disciplinary measures taken against them in the previous month - to oversee the operations and assess the effectiveness of the agency, and decide when the crisis has been dealt with. This board will act separately from the Humanitarian Committee, though it will be answerable to said committee. Any decision to be made by the board must be agreed by a majority of its members, and any decision to end the agency's deployment must be ratified by the Humanitarian Committee. The board will be elected once the decision to deploy the agency has been agreed by the Humanitarian Committee and the General Assembly. Once the crisis is over, the board will be dissolved, and a new board will be elected in a future crisis. The new board must not have a member which served on the board immediately prior to the current crisis.

Section 5: When the agency will be deployed

If the affected nation is a member of the United Assembly, either the delegate responsible for their nation or the national government must submit an official request to the Humanitarian Committee to deploy the agency to their nation. If the nation is not a member, the government of the affected nation should request the deployment to the Humanitarian Committee.

Section  6: How the agency will work on the ground

Upon the agency's deployment, local civic leaders will be allowed involvement in logistical decisions - where the aid goes and how much of it - but it must be made clear to both the agency, the affected nation and these leaders that they are to operate under strict neutrality. This is an aid agency, not a battalion. They will not involve themselves in any political conflicts, and there must be no discrimination as to who receives the aid. An exception to this will be if there is a particular group that is attacking civilians or non-combatants. Any known affiliates of this group will be denied aid and involvement in decision-making. This may require a larger security force in highly volatile areas in order to avoid conflicts with these groups.

In major cities, large buildings (like a sports stadium) or open areas must be secured in order for the agency to supply the food and medical aid to the populace. In more remote areas it will be necessary to bring the supplies to them, by road or air.

There should be a minimal military or UA police presence to keep the people - both of the agency and those needing the service - and the materials safe.

Section 7: Amending this document

Any member of the Humanitarian Committee may put forth an amendment for any section of this document, to be voted on by the Humanitarian Committee and ratified by the General Assembly.

This is, more or less, the proposal that was forwarded to me by he Humanitarian council. As no objections were raised, I do not suppose it will cause problems.

Spoiler: EC-CA-001-P02-R-0 (click to show/hide)

1) Missions
The United Assembly Bank (hereafter 'UAB') is an Agency tasked with managing the United Assembly funds. The UAB allocates money to the various agencies as per the budget, makes sure the UAB staff is paid and fund projects approved by the Economic Council (See section 3.

2) Reports
Before each budget session, the UAB will prepare and present to the General Assembly a report on the United Assembly's finance.

3) Projects
In order to benefits mankind or earn return on the United Assembly's money, the Economic Council can task the UAB with funding project of special interests. Such project, if they are voted, must be approved by the General Assembly.

4) Amendment
This charter can be amended by the Economic Council. Any amendment has to be ratified by the General Assembly.

The new, revamped UAB proposal. The office of Director has been axed entirely as per the Assembly Leader's wish.

Spoiler: EC-CA-001-P03-R-0 (click to show/hide)

1) Missions
1) Missions
The United Common Market (henceforth, 'UCM') is an agency tasked with creating and administrating a common market in goods. Any nation joining the UCM will let other UCM nations buy its resources and will have the right to buy other nation's resources, without tariffs or trade barriers of any kind.

2) Amendment
This charter can be amended by the Economic Council. Any amendment has to be ratified by the General Assembly.

The UCM's stripped-down proposal. The currency has been left out as I don't see an agreement happening.

[Jiharo]

Morh Diban - Ordia
Economic Council.

There are no objections on EC-CA-001-P01-R-0 and  EC-CA-001-P02-R-0.
About  EC-CA-001-P03-R-0 I'm still on the fence. It seems like there are two visions for the UCM. In Tirinia's it is a group of countries who have completely opened their markets to each other and joining that group or not is each country's own decision. In Avalia's everyone is in on it and it's function seems to be more of setting standards for trade. I don't see why both of those agencies can't coexist as different institutions.

If we absolutely have to compare them against each other, I'd peg the last one as more appropriate for Economic Council to consider since it concerns everyone in Assembly. First one might as well be called Tirinian Trade League.

However, it is likely that I am wrong. Since we're all in the same room anyway, I'd love to hear opinions from not only other members of Economic Council, but General Assembly as well: what do you think about this free trade zone? Would you join it as it is now?

[Varee]

Vin dong shakes his head.
" the situation we are talking about, Tyland unrest, is by not mean "natural disaster" so the proposal is useless "

[Squeegy]

TODAY’S TOP HEADLINE: The Queen's Spyglass

Royal Family Looking at Twins?
October 6th, 2014
The news broke last Saturday that the Jegulan royal family may soon be expecting two new members. Photographers had already captured the Princess with what some suspected was a "baby bump," but those suspicions were confirmed by the monarchy's announcement of her pregnancy. There is little doubt that the names and sexes of both children will be forthcoming in the following days.

[Squeegy]

TODAY’S TOP HEADLINE: The Avalia World Post

Study Finds Travel Times Lacking
October 7th, 2014
A new study released yesterday found that 40% of Avalians have a commute that is more than an hour long. The study suggested a connection between these lengthy travel times and the rising rates of depression and feelings of discontent among Avalian citizens. The study suggests that Avalia's crumbling infrastructure and lack of high speed rail, as well as a lack of innovation in the automobile industry, is to blame.

[Sheb]

Sir Gustav Hertmann - Tirinia, Addressing the Economic Council

The time for putting up proposals is over, if Avalia wishes to put forward its own vision for an international standard agency, it'll have to either put up an amendment or wait for a later session of the Council.

Since it is of the utmost urgency, we shall now turn to the first proposal, EC-CA-001-P01-R-0. For the sake of expediency I'll restrict the amendment proposals period to 24h, but I would like to reassure my colleagues that we will deliberate in more details the others proposals.

Now, I will propose an amendment to my own proposal to address the concerns of my esteemed colleague Vin Dong, which should have voiced his concern earlier in the discussion.

Spoiler: EC-CA-001-P01-R-1 (click to show/hide)

Change all references to "natural disaster" to reference to "disaster".