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Abolition of Forced Labour
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Iron Felix
Description: Deploring the practice of forced labour, including bonded labour, debt-servitude and other forms of unfree labour, and
Believing that all persons have the right to leave their employment at any time and to be free from threats, violence or coercion from their employer,
The United Nations
1. Abolishes the practice of forced labour in all UN member nations;
2. Defines "forced labour" as a situation in which persons are required to enter jobs by any means other than freely agreed contracts or to perform work against their will, under coercion or threat of extreme hardship to themselves or their families, including violence or detention;
3. Notes that for the purpose of this resolution the term 'coercion' shall be defined as excluding
a. the use of legal systems to enforce contracts;
b. the withdrawal of state-paid allowances from unemployed persons who refuse work that is offered to them and that they are capable of performing;
4. Accepts that nations may allow work to be compelled from
a. Persons performing either military service or alternative national service, as required by law;
b. Persons who are sentenced to such labour as a punishment for crimes;
c. Prisoners of War, and civilians interned during wartime, as allowed under international law;
5. Declares that no person may be committed to a contract against his or her will, except as clause #4 allows. Additionally, in the case of minors who are legally old enough to work the consent of a parent or other legal guardian may be required as well as the consent of the child itself;
6. Declares that any person who is currently bound to an employer because of any hereditary arrangement rather than by his or her own consent has the right to leave that employer's service. Persons willing to remain in such service are entitled to have a fair contract drawn up under binding independent arbitration;
7. Declares that all persons have the right to leave their jobs at any time unless required, by a stated condition of employment or a contract freely entered into, to give specific and reasonable prior notice of abandoning the position. Failure to provide such notice may release the employer from any contractual or similar obligations;
8. Declares that the specified duration of a contract of employment may only be extended or shortened by the freely given consent of both parties, or by an order from a relevant court;
9. Declares that all persons have the right to be free from violence, threats of violence, enforced indebtedness, and other forms of undue coercion by their employers;
10. Prohibits all other forms of labour which would meet the definition of forced labour as stated in this resolution.
Votes For: 290
Votes Against: 28
[Delegate Votes]
Voting Ends: Tue Jan 8 2008
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Now this is an odd one. As it stands, this resolution is good enough to stand on its own merits. However, considering that the last resolution passed was Abolition of Slavery, the question could be asked - is this resolution really necessary?
Well, after a brief recap of the last resolution, that one appeared to focus more on the economic and politcal side of things (such as restricting trade with countries using slave labout) whilst this one seems to focus more on individual human rights.
Therefore, I shall say YES to this one. |
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| QUOTE | 4. Accepts that nations may allow work to be compelled from
a. Persons performing either military service or alternative national service, as required by law;
b. Persons who are sentenced to such labour as a punishment for crimes;
c. Prisoners of War, and civilians interned during wartime, as allowed under international law; |
BIG FAT LOOPHOLE, especially subclause a.
I could, in theory, compel my people to provide labor in accordance to national laws.
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An Open Letter From Christopher Davis, President of 95X:
95X and our people are deeply concerned about the rights of individual nations.
After careful thought and discussion, our transitional government felt that it would technically be impossible for individual nations to govern themselves under the laws the United Nations creates.
Therefore, one of our overseas provincial nations has joined the Gatesville region, where it has joined the UN and adamantly fights against the heightened United Nations control that each new approved "proposal" brings.
Thank you for your consideration. |
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