[Passed] GA Resolution: End Collective Punishment

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GA Resolution: End Collective Punishment

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Civil Rights

Strength: Significant

Proposed by: The Forest of Aeneas

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Demands that all past convictions contravening this resolution by member states be fully rescinded; and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.

This is the discussion thread. To cast your vote, go HERE

[Vivolkha]

Kinda on the fence on the statement about authoritarian regimes, but this resolution is just common sense. For

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End Collective Punishment was passed 14,322 votes to 3,293.