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[Dragomerian Islands]

Why would you withdraw sponsorship just because of another sponsor?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrarian

I do not think that being contrary to a person applies to that article you cited.

[United Provinces of Atlantica]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrarian

I do not think that being contrary to a person applies to that article you cited.

I'm basically saying that I'm being a contrarian.

[Dragomerian Islands]

I do not think that being contrary to a person applies to that article you cited.

I'm basically saying that I'm being a contrarian.

It is just a bit rude, and I doubt that the term can be used when applied to contradicting a person.

[People Who Say Ni]

People Who Say Ni, I'd like to sponsor the bill.

Thank you. : )
Does a bill need five sponsors, or just four, like in the old senate?

[Estva]

The Calaverde Defence Act

Author: Senator Léon Suero (Estva - LDP)
Sponsors: Senator Sebastian van Oldenbarnevelt (Sebastianbourg - LDP)

Section 1 - Establishment:
1. This act shall hereby establish the Calaverde Armed Forces (CAF), with the goal of defending the nation and pursuing the collective security of its citizens using lethal force if necessary. In addition the CAF shall participate in humanitarian and peacekeeping missions, for the betterment of humanity as a whole.
2. The CAF shall be comprised of three branches. The Calaverde National Army (CNA), the Calaverde National Navy (CNN), and the Calaverde National Air force (CNAF).
3. Each branch shall have a Chief of Staff, apoointed by the Minister of Defence, who shall be the highest ranking officer of said branch.
4. The three Chiefs of Staff shall convene and make decisions regarding the military as a whole. As a group they shall be known as the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
5. Each Chief of Staff may be removed from office by the President.
6. The President of Calaverde shall be the Commander-in-chief of the CAF. Any order by the President shall overrule orders by a subordinate, so long as the order is within the President's legal powers.
7. The Minister of Defence shall have the same legal power of the President over the CAF, with the exception of overruling the President's orders.
8. Courts dealing with military matters and its laws shall be named the Calaverde Military Court System, and shall be an arm of the judiciary.
9. Funding shall be determined by the Calaverde legislature.
Section 2 - Membership:
1. All Calaverde citizens at or above the age of 18 may petition to join the CAF.
2. Physical and educational requirements may apply to different positions, as well as generally required physical and educational requirements for basic enlistment.
3. These requirements are to be decided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
4. The time period of enlistment obligation shall be decided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
5. These are subject to change by Calaverde legislation.
Section 3 - Limitations:
1. The CAF shall not be used for policing, with the exception of military installations or national emergency.
2. The CAF is not authorized to use lethal force on Calaverde citizens unless they are a) aiding an invading nation, b) aiding or otherwise taking violent part in a rebellion, c) actively taking part in a crime or fleeing from military police officers attempting to arrest them, on a military installation and/or d) attacking members or property of the CAF.
3. The CAF shall be subject to any international treaties or laws regarding human rights Calaverde has ratified.

Need more sponsors.

[Lykens]

People Who Say Ni, I'd like to sponsor the bill.

Thank you. : )
Does a bill need five sponsors, or just four, like in the old senate?

Five.

[Argentarino]

The Calaverde Defence Act

Author: Senator Léon Suero (Estva - LDP)
Sponsors: Senator Sebastian van Oldenbarnevelt (Sebastianbourg - LDP)

Section 1 - Establishment:
1. This act shall hereby establish the Calaverde Armed Forces (CAF), with the goal of defending the nation and pursuing the collective security of its citizens using lethal force if necessary. In addition the CAF shall participate in humanitarian and peacekeeping missions, for the betterment of humanity as a whole.
2. The CAF shall be comprised of three branches. The Calaverde National Army (CNA), the Calaverde National Navy (CNN), and the Calaverde National Air force (CNAF).
3. Each branch shall have a Chief of Staff, apoointed by the Minister of Defence, who shall be the highest ranking officer of said branch.
4. The three Chiefs of Staff shall convene and make decisions regarding the military as a whole. As a group they shall be known as the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
5. Each Chief of Staff may be removed from office by the President.
6. The President of Calaverde shall be the Commander-in-chief of the CAF. Any order by the President shall overrule orders by a subordinate, so long as the order is within the President's legal powers.
7. The Minister of Defence shall have the same legal power of the President over the CAF, with the exception of overruling the President's orders.
8. Courts dealing with military matters and its laws shall be named the Calaverde Military Court System, and shall be an arm of the judiciary.
9. Funding shall be determined by the Calaverde legislature.
Section 2 - Membership:
1. All Calaverde citizens at or above the age of 18 may petition to join the CAF.
2. Physical and educational requirements may apply to different positions, as well as generally required physical and educational requirements for basic enlistment.
3. These requirements are to be decided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
4. The time period of enlistment obligation shall be decided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
5. These are subject to change by Calaverde legislation.
Section 3 - Limitations:
1. The CAF shall not be used for policing, with the exception of military installations or national emergency.
2. The CAF is not authorized to use lethal force on Calaverde citizens unless they are a) aiding an invading nation, b) aiding or otherwise taking violent part in a rebellion, c) actively taking part in a crime or fleeing from military police officers attempting to arrest them, on a military installation and/or d) attacking members or property of the CAF.
3. The CAF shall be subject to any international treaties or laws regarding human rights Calaverde has ratified.

Need more sponsors.

I will sponsor

[Dragomerian Islands]

Need more sponsors.

I will sponsor

I shall sponsor.

[Estva]

Both added. Thank you.

[People Who Say Ni]

Thank you. : )
Does a bill need five sponsors, or just four, like in the old senate?

Five.

Oh, okay. Would anybody else be so kind to offer a sponsorship so I can bump this up to the chamber and forget about it for the time being?

Fair Labour (Occupational Terms and Regulations) Act
Author: (People Who Say Ni - DL) - Sponsors: David Vera Cruz (Heraklea- - WA), Nicolao Epifanio Núñez (United Marxist Nations - CP), (Arkanzia - DL), Genevieve Minerva Duflot (Geilinor - LDP)- Category: Labour/Industry - Urgency: Moderate

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The senate of Calaverde,

BELIEVING in the financial accountability of businesses which cause death or injury to employees due to negligent practices,
WANTING to provide measures to accommodate for this behaviour,
ACKNOWLEDGING that the rights of workers and labourers are to be protected by the state in order to create a fair working environment, nationwide
MAINTAINING that all forms of forced labour, including slavery and child labour, are severe violations of these inalienable rights
RECOGNISING the importance of implementing basic labour law legislation in order to build a more prosperous, egalitarian and friendly nation

hereby passes the following legislation:

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PURPOSES:

This bill sets out to do the following:

• Guarantee the right of the worker not to be bullied or harassed in a workplace environment by prohibiting persistent and unwanted physical and sexual advances, as well as unsociable or aggressive communication abuse
• Put a stop to discrimination in the workplace by providing measures to ensure labourers are entitled to equal pay for equal work and cannot be dismissed on a matter of sex, gender, age or race
• Creating the freedom of association in the country, empowering the unions with legal protections for lobbying and protesting
• Provide a scope for businesses to be held accountable for negligent practices, especially those which harm employees, other workers and the members of the public
• Standardise maximum working hours, creating a forty hour work week to allow for rest and leisure time of workers who wish to take such time off paid work
• Create laws which make for a safer, friendlier working environment through the enactment of basic occupational health and safety legislation
• Stop workers from being dismissed from their job by their employee unfairly or without any reason and at the same time, allow workers to terminate their own employment at any given time
• Prohibit all forms of slavery, including indentured labour, debt bondage (servitude given to pay off a debt or loan), and stopping all forms of unjust and rightly illegal human trafficking through the nation in the belief that human beings should not be treated as commodities
• Set regulations for labour conducted by a minor in order to ensure that some of the most vulnerable members of society are protected from harsh working conditions which inhibit the ability to attend school or educational facilities.
• Provide a basic foundation for labour law in the country by guaranteeing basic workers rights and freedoms and creating a statutory platform for the expansion of such laws in order to build a more prosperous, egalitarian and friendly nation.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS:

"BULLYING" persistent and unwanted harassment.
"COLLECTIVE ENTERPRISE BARGAINING": the process of a group of employees negotiating with their employer in order to agree upon working conditions
"FIRM": a businesses unit or enterprise involved in the manufacture of goods, or else the provision of goods and/or services to consumers,
"HAZARDOUS LABOUR": work which involves manipulating electrical systems or devices, working in confined spaces or involving the use of construction tools.
"HUMAN TRAFFICKING": the movement of those under servitude between national borders
"INDENTURED LABOUR": a system wherein labourers are treated as subservient for a set time, often in a state of peonage.
"NATIONAL EMERGENCY": a disaster, natural or man-made, including war and attacks on any part of the state
"SLAVERY": a condition in which individuals are treated as if they are the chattel of another.
"STRIKE": a mass, collective refusal to undertake labour for any period of time as a protest
"WORKPLACE": a location at which non-itinerant labour is conducted.

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SECTION 1: Workers Rights:

SUB-SECTION 1 - Guarantee of the Individual Rights of the Worker:

1. All employed workers of Calaverde are reserved the following rights and freedoms:
   • The right to attain an equal payment as a peer conducting an equivalent form of work under the same firm, free from racism, ageism, sexism or discrimination taking any form.
     
   • The right to fair remuneration in the form of a monetary reward, on a frequent basis, as compensation for mental or physical labour done for a firm or business institution.
     
   • The right to join or create one or more trade unions to protect and lobby for one's individual or collective labour rights.
     
   • The right to partake in collective enterprise bargaining without fear of dismissal.
     
   • The right to initiate or partake in a strike or collective action.
   • The right to terminate one's own employment at will.
     
   • The right to time taken off work, either paid or unpaid, for the purposes of rest and recovery, without fear of dismissal.
   • The right to have knowledge of all significant terms of employment, including a job description, working conditions, hours, pay and any other pieces of important information.
     
   • Freedom from forced labour by a prison for the financial benefit of the state or private owner of the law-enforcement institution
     
   • Freedom from forced labour conducted under duress for the financial benefit of a firm or business institution.

SUB-SECTION 2: - Regulations on Working Hours

1. Workers are not to conduct labour for a firm for more than forty hours every week, unless wages paid for each extra hour are increased by at least twenty five percent of the ordinary wage.
   
2. Workers may be guaranteed the right to reject overtime work without fear of demotion or dismissal
   
3. Workers are to be given a break from work amounting to sixty minutes after every six consecutive hours of work
   
4. Workers are to be guaranteed twelve consecutive hours of rest from work in every twenty four hour period.

SUB-SECTION 3: - Regulations on Strikes Initiated by Essential Services:

1. Persons employed in such industries, which, when nonoperational, seriously threaten a number of lives or the stability of our nation, must report their intentions to strike to their organisation no less than two hundred hours prior to the commencement of the strike. Examples include:
   • Prison services,
     
   • Emergency service phone operating,
     
   • the hospital sector; and,
     
   • the fire-fighting sector.
2. Immediately after notification of a strike in their sector, the hospital administration, or equivalent of, of all affected hospitals must take provisions to ensure the following:
   • The safety of all hospital patients will not be threatened by the strike; and,
     
   • If it exists, the hospital's emergency or ambulance section must remain operational during the strike.
3. People working in the fire-fighting sector and medical emergency departments, including ambulance operators, are prohibited from initiating and participating in a strike during a time where their services are required to assist with mediating a national emergency.

SUB-SECTION 4 - Cases of Unlawful Dismissal:

1. The measures in this subsection do not apply to government institutions.
   
2. An employer may only dismiss an employee when:
   • The job becomes redundant, that is, the employer no longer requires the employee's job to be undertaken by anybody, or,
     
   • The employee acted in an unsociable or unlawful way whilst actually undertaking their job, or,
   • The employee had exhibited poor performance in the execution of their job, or,
     
   • Terms of dismissal were agreed upon when the job was first accepted by the employee, and such terms were fulfilled in the dismissal of the worker.

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SECTION 2: Slavery and Child Labour:

SUB-SECTION 1 - Ban on Slavery:

1. No form of slavery is to be allowed within the nation of Calaverde, including indentured labour.
   Specifically:
   1. No person within the state of Calaverde may be treated as the personal property of a human owner.
      
   2. No person may be treated as a commodity to be bought or sold.
      
   3. No person may partake in the act of giving oneself up for servitude in order to repay a debt.
      
   4. No person may be forced to undertake a non-consensual act of marriage as an act of servitude.
      
   5. All slaves which currently exist within the state of Calaverde are hereby freed.
2. No entity may use the state of Calaverde as a route for human trafficking.

SUB-SECTION 2 - Restrictions on Child Labour:

1. No person under the age of thirteen may undertake a position as a worker or employee for a firm.
   
2. Jobs which primarily involve a form of performing, competing, composing, or creating visual art are exempt from this ruling, providing:
   • Permission from a parent or guardian is given. (In the case of a job for a firm, this is to be given, in written form, to the employer.)
     
   • This job does not ordinarily take place during school hours, whilst school is running.
     
   • The child's working week does not span more than eight hours per day, four days per week.
3. No person, under the age of eighteen, may take part in hazardous labour, except in cases where:
   • The minor is being trained in order to receive a qualification for the job in question, and,
     
   • The minor is under near-constant supervision from an adult, qualified in the job in question, with first-aid training, and,
     
   • The minor can provide written consent from a parent or guardian, and,
   • Measures have been taken to maximise the safety of the trainee, and,
     
   • The child's working week does not span more than eight hours per day, four days per week.
4. No person, under the age of eighteen, may operate under such working conditions which exhibit a significant threat of death or serious injury.
   
5. Persons between the ages of thirteen and eighteen who undertake a position as a worker or employee for a firm where they will not take part in:
   1. Hazardous labour, or,
      
   2. An apprenticeship, trainee ship or other program designed to assist the student in transitioning into work, or,
      
   3. A form of performing, competing, composing, or creating visual art
   • May not undertake work during such time where school is operational.
     
   • May only undertake a maximum two hours of work each school day.
6. All child labourers are to be provided with the same rights as their adult counterparts, unless otherwise is explicitly legislated.

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SECTION 3: Occupational Health and Safety:

SUB-SECTION 1 - Creation of a Duty of Care:

1. Employers, or persons involved in administrating a firm or business institution must ensure, as far is reasonably practicable:
   • The health and safety of non-employees are not compromised by work which is carried out as part of the conduct of the firm.
     
   • Any risks or hazards to the health and safety of employees are minimised.
   Specifically:
   1. The presence of slippery surfaces or obstacles within a workplace which may cause a trip or fall must be indicated with easily visible signage,
      
   2. Portable electrical construction equipment in frequent use must be tested for electrical faults by a qualified electrician in three month intervals,
      
   3. Each indoor workplace must have multiple, permanent and unobstructed paths of exit from any easily accessible place from within the workplace fitted with working hand-held fire extinguishers,
      
   4. Employees which ordinarily work under threat of lethal or near-lethal falling must have this risk mitigated.
      
   5. Any legitimate safety issues not specifically mentioned in this act must also have measures taken into place to minimise them.

SUB-SECTION 2 - Regulations on the Accountability of Businesses:

1. The injury or death of an amount of employees, which has occurred whilst the worker or workers were undertaking labour for a firm, shall be brought to an inquiry on the business practices of the firm in question.
   
2. In the case of death of one or more employees, should it be found that said death is connected to negligence on behalf of the firm, the business institution will be required to provide the following compensation:
   • Full coverage of funeral costs and any medical bills directly associated with the death of the employee(s).
     
   • A prescribed payment to the household of, or those dependent upon the financial support of, the deceased.
3. In the case of injury to one or more employees, should it be found that said injury is connected to negligence on behalf of the firm, the business institution will be required to provide the following compensation:
   • Full pay and employee benefits to be made out for the recovery time, as determined by a qualified medical practitioner, of affected individuals.
     
   • Full coverage of all medical and insurance bills of the injured worker(s) directly associated with their injury.

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SECTION 4 - Harassment and Discrimination:

SUB-SECTION 1: Prevention of Workplace Discrimination

1. No employer or workplace peer may bully, vilify, or grant privilege to co-workers, including through the implementation of a policy of practice, based upon the following:
   1. Age of the employee.
   2. Gender, gender identity, lawful sexual activity or sexual identity
   3. Any full or partial disability which does not impede upon the employee's ability to conduct his or her physical or mental labour at the same level of job performance exhibited by his or her peers.
   4. The race, nationality or country of origin of the employee.
   5. Religion or non-harmful personal beliefs exhibited by the worker.
   6. Marital or parental status
   7. Socio-economic status, current employment or past careers
   8. Personal association with anybody who displays one of the above protected characteristics
2. No employer may hire or dismiss an employee for displaying one of the above, protected characteristics, so long as they do not impede upon the employee or prospective employee's ability to conduct his or her physical or mental labour at the same level of job performance exhibited by his or her peers.
3. Every worker is entitled to the same wage and working conditions as any co-worker conducting the same work as themselves, regardless of age, sex, sexual identity, race, religion, non-harmful personal beliefs or disability.

SUB-SECTION 2: Prohibition of Bullying and Harassment in a Workplace Environment

1. No employee, volunteer or student in a workplace environment may be bullied by a peer.
   
2. Bullying includes:
   • Verbal harassment, such as:
     1. Persistent name-calling, unwanted by the victim.
        
     2. Persistent insults directed at specific people.
   • Physical harassment, such as:
     1. Unwanted physical contact intentionally made by the perpetrator.
        
     2. Violent or aggressive attacks upon one or more victims.
   • Sexual harassment, such as:
     1. Unwelcome advances of a sexual nature.
        
     2. Persistent requests for favours of a sexual nature, unwanted by the victim.
   • Other persistent unsociable behaviour, including:
     1. Humiliation or defamation of somebody within the workplace.
        
     2. Serious threatening or intimidating behaviour, including extreme pressure intentionally placed upon a victim to act a certain, undesirable way.
        
     3. Victimising or excluding a certain person or group of persons within the workplace.
        

[Lykens]

Sponsor, Kenneth Diaz (LDP).

I thought I had sponsored before, apologies Ni.

[Dragomerian Islands]

Five.

Oh, okay. Would anybody else be so kind to offer a sponsorship so I can bump this up to the chamber and forget about it for the time being?

Fair Labour (Occupational Terms and Regulations) Act
Author: (People Who Say Ni - DL) - Sponsors: David Vera Cruz (Heraklea- - WA), Nicolao Epifanio Núñez (United Marxist Nations - CP), (Arkanzia - DL), Genevieve Minerva Duflot (Geilinor - LDP)- Category: Labour/Industry - Urgency: Moderate

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The senate of Calaverde,

BELIEVING in the financial accountability of businesses which cause death or injury to employees due to negligent practices,
WANTING to provide measures to accommodate for this behaviour,
ACKNOWLEDGING that the rights of workers and labourers are to be protected by the state in order to create a fair working environment, nationwide
MAINTAINING that all forms of forced labour, including slavery and child labour, are severe violations of these inalienable rights
RECOGNISING the importance of implementing basic labour law legislation in order to build a more prosperous, egalitarian and friendly nation

hereby passes the following legislation:

---

PURPOSES:

This bill sets out to do the following:

• Guarantee the right of the worker not to be bullied or harassed in a workplace environment by prohibiting persistent and unwanted physical and sexual advances, as well as unsociable or aggressive communication abuse
• Put a stop to discrimination in the workplace by providing measures to ensure labourers are entitled to equal pay for equal work and cannot be dismissed on a matter of sex, gender, age or race
• Creating the freedom of association in the country, empowering the unions with legal protections for lobbying and protesting
• Provide a scope for businesses to be held accountable for negligent practices, especially those which harm employees, other workers and the members of the public
• Standardise maximum working hours, creating a forty hour work week to allow for rest and leisure time of workers who wish to take such time off paid work
• Create laws which make for a safer, friendlier working environment through the enactment of basic occupational health and safety legislation
• Stop workers from being dismissed from their job by their employee unfairly or without any reason and at the same time, allow workers to terminate their own employment at any given time
• Prohibit all forms of slavery, including indentured labour, debt bondage (servitude given to pay off a debt or loan), and stopping all forms of unjust and rightly illegal human trafficking through the nation in the belief that human beings should not be treated as commodities
• Set regulations for labour conducted by a minor in order to ensure that some of the most vulnerable members of society are protected from harsh working conditions which inhibit the ability to attend school or educational facilities.
• Provide a basic foundation for labour law in the country by guaranteeing basic workers rights and freedoms and creating a statutory platform for the expansion of such laws in order to build a more prosperous, egalitarian and friendly nation.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS:

"BULLYING" persistent and unwanted harassment.
"COLLECTIVE ENTERPRISE BARGAINING": the process of a group of employees negotiating with their employer in order to agree upon working conditions
"FIRM": a businesses unit or enterprise involved in the manufacture of goods, or else the provision of goods and/or services to consumers,
"HAZARDOUS LABOUR": work which involves manipulating electrical systems or devices, working in confined spaces or involving the use of construction tools.
"HUMAN TRAFFICKING": the movement of those under servitude between national borders
"INDENTURED LABOUR": a system wherein labourers are treated as subservient for a set time, often in a state of peonage.
"NATIONAL EMERGENCY": a disaster, natural or man-made, including war and attacks on any part of the state
"SLAVERY": a condition in which individuals are treated as if they are the chattel of another.
"STRIKE": a mass, collective refusal to undertake labour for any period of time as a protest
"WORKPLACE": a location at which non-itinerant labour is conducted.

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SECTION 1: Workers Rights:

SUB-SECTION 1 - Guarantee of the Individual Rights of the Worker:

1. All employed workers of Calaverde are reserved the following rights and freedoms:
   • The right to attain an equal payment as a peer conducting an equivalent form of work under the same firm, free from racism, ageism, sexism or discrimination taking any form.
     
   • The right to fair remuneration in the form of a monetary reward, on a frequent basis, as compensation for mental or physical labour done for a firm or business institution.
     
   • The right to join or create one or more trade unions to protect and lobby for one's individual or collective labour rights.
     
   • The right to partake in collective enterprise bargaining without fear of dismissal.
     
   • The right to initiate or partake in a strike or collective action.
   • The right to terminate one's own employment at will.
     
   • The right to time taken off work, either paid or unpaid, for the purposes of rest and recovery, without fear of dismissal.
   • The right to have knowledge of all significant terms of employment, including a job description, working conditions, hours, pay and any other pieces of important information.
     
   • Freedom from forced labour by a prison for the financial benefit of the state or private owner of the law-enforcement institution
     
   • Freedom from forced labour conducted under duress for the financial benefit of a firm or business institution.

SUB-SECTION 2: - Regulations on Working Hours

1. Workers are not to conduct labour for a firm for more than forty hours every week, unless wages paid for each extra hour are increased by at least twenty five percent of the ordinary wage.
   
2. Workers may be guaranteed the right to reject overtime work without fear of demotion or dismissal
   
3. Workers are to be given a break from work amounting to sixty minutes after every six consecutive hours of work
   
4. Workers are to be guaranteed twelve consecutive hours of rest from work in every twenty four hour period.

SUB-SECTION 3: - Regulations on Strikes Initiated by Essential Services:

1. Persons employed in such industries, which, when nonoperational, seriously threaten a number of lives or the stability of our nation, must report their intentions to strike to their organisation no less than two hundred hours prior to the commencement of the strike. Examples include:
   • Prison services,
     
   • Emergency service phone operating,
     
   • the hospital sector; and,
     
   • the fire-fighting sector.
2. Immediately after notification of a strike in their sector, the hospital administration, or equivalent of, of all affected hospitals must take provisions to ensure the following:
   • The safety of all hospital patients will not be threatened by the strike; and,
     
   • If it exists, the hospital's emergency or ambulance section must remain operational during the strike.
3. People working in the fire-fighting sector and medical emergency departments, including ambulance operators, are prohibited from initiating and participating in a strike during a time where their services are required to assist with mediating a national emergency.

SUB-SECTION 4 - Cases of Unlawful Dismissal:

1. The measures in this subsection do not apply to government institutions.
   
2. An employer may only dismiss an employee when:
   • The job becomes redundant, that is, the employer no longer requires the employee's job to be undertaken by anybody, or,
     
   • The employee acted in an unsociable or unlawful way whilst actually undertaking their job, or,
   • The employee had exhibited poor performance in the execution of their job, or,
     
   • Terms of dismissal were agreed upon when the job was first accepted by the employee, and such terms were fulfilled in the dismissal of the worker.

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SECTION 2: Slavery and Child Labour:

SUB-SECTION 1 - Ban on Slavery:

1. No form of slavery is to be allowed within the nation of Calaverde, including indentured labour.
   Specifically:
   1. No person within the state of Calaverde may be treated as the personal property of a human owner.
      
   2. No person may be treated as a commodity to be bought or sold.
      
   3. No person may partake in the act of giving oneself up for servitude in order to repay a debt.
      
   4. No person may be forced to undertake a non-consensual act of marriage as an act of servitude.
      
   5. All slaves which currently exist within the state of Calaverde are hereby freed.
2. No entity may use the state of Calaverde as a route for human trafficking.

SUB-SECTION 2 - Restrictions on Child Labour:

1. No person under the age of thirteen may undertake a position as a worker or employee for a firm.
   
2. Jobs which primarily involve a form of performing, competing, composing, or creating visual art are exempt from this ruling, providing:
   • Permission from a parent or guardian is given. (In the case of a job for a firm, this is to be given, in written form, to the employer.)
     
   • This job does not ordinarily take place during school hours, whilst school is running.
     
   • The child's working week does not span more than eight hours per day, four days per week.
3. No person, under the age of eighteen, may take part in hazardous labour, except in cases where:
   • The minor is being trained in order to receive a qualification for the job in question, and,
     
   • The minor is under near-constant supervision from an adult, qualified in the job in question, with first-aid training, and,
     
   • The minor can provide written consent from a parent or guardian, and,
   • Measures have been taken to maximise the safety of the trainee, and,
     
   • The child's working week does not span more than eight hours per day, four days per week.
4. No person, under the age of eighteen, may operate under such working conditions which exhibit a significant threat of death or serious injury.
   
5. Persons between the ages of thirteen and eighteen who undertake a position as a worker or employee for a firm where they will not take part in:
   1. Hazardous labour, or,
      
   2. An apprenticeship, trainee ship or other program designed to assist the student in transitioning into work, or,
      
   3. A form of performing, competing, composing, or creating visual art
   • May not undertake work during such time where school is operational.
     
   • May only undertake a maximum two hours of work each school day.
6. All child labourers are to be provided with the same rights as their adult counterparts, unless otherwise is explicitly legislated.

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SECTION 3: Occupational Health and Safety:

SUB-SECTION 1 - Creation of a Duty of Care:

1. Employers, or persons involved in administrating a firm or business institution must ensure, as far is reasonably practicable:
   • The health and safety of non-employees are not compromised by work which is carried out as part of the conduct of the firm.
     
   • Any risks or hazards to the health and safety of employees are minimised.
   Specifically:
   1. The presence of slippery surfaces or obstacles within a workplace which may cause a trip or fall must be indicated with easily visible signage,
      
   2. Portable electrical construction equipment in frequent use must be tested for electrical faults by a qualified electrician in three month intervals,
      
   3. Each indoor workplace must have multiple, permanent and unobstructed paths of exit from any easily accessible place from within the workplace fitted with working hand-held fire extinguishers,
      
   4. Employees which ordinarily work under threat of lethal or near-lethal falling must have this risk mitigated.
      
   5. Any legitimate safety issues not specifically mentioned in this act must also have measures taken into place to minimise them.

SUB-SECTION 2 - Regulations on the Accountability of Businesses:

1. The injury or death of an amount of employees, which has occurred whilst the worker or workers were undertaking labour for a firm, shall be brought to an inquiry on the business practices of the firm in question.
   
2. In the case of death of one or more employees, should it be found that said death is connected to negligence on behalf of the firm, the business institution will be required to provide the following compensation:
   • Full coverage of funeral costs and any medical bills directly associated with the death of the employee(s).
     
   • A prescribed payment to the household of, or those dependent upon the financial support of, the deceased.
3. In the case of injury to one or more employees, should it be found that said injury is connected to negligence on behalf of the firm, the business institution will be required to provide the following compensation:
   • Full pay and employee benefits to be made out for the recovery time, as determined by a qualified medical practitioner, of affected individuals.
     
   • Full coverage of all medical and insurance bills of the injured worker(s) directly associated with their injury.

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SECTION 4 - Harassment and Discrimination:

SUB-SECTION 1: Prevention of Workplace Discrimination

1. No employer or workplace peer may bully, vilify, or grant privilege to co-workers, including through the implementation of a policy of practice, based upon the following:
   1. Age of the employee.
   2. Gender, gender identity, lawful sexual activity or sexual identity
   3. Any full or partial disability which does not impede upon the employee's ability to conduct his or her physical or mental labour at the same level of job performance exhibited by his or her peers.
   4. The race, nationality or country of origin of the employee.
   5. Religion or non-harmful personal beliefs exhibited by the worker.
   6. Marital or parental status
   7. Socio-economic status, current employment or past careers
   8. Personal association with anybody who displays one of the above protected characteristics
2. No employer may hire or dismiss an employee for displaying one of the above, protected characteristics, so long as they do not impede upon the employee or prospective employee's ability to conduct his or her physical or mental labour at the same level of job performance exhibited by his or her peers.
3. Every worker is entitled to the same wage and working conditions as any co-worker conducting the same work as themselves, regardless of age, sex, sexual identity, race, religion, non-harmful personal beliefs or disability.

SUB-SECTION 2: Prohibition of Bullying and Harassment in a Workplace Environment

1. No employee, volunteer or student in a workplace environment may be bullied by a peer.
   
2. Bullying includes:
   • Verbal harassment, such as:
     1. Persistent name-calling, unwanted by the victim.
        
     2. Persistent insults directed at specific people.
   • Physical harassment, such as:
     1. Unwanted physical contact intentionally made by the perpetrator.
        
     2. Violent or aggressive attacks upon one or more victims.
   • Sexual harassment, such as:
     1. Unwelcome advances of a sexual nature.
        
     2. Persistent requests for favours of a sexual nature, unwanted by the victim.
   • Other persistent unsociable behaviour, including:
     1. Humiliation or defamation of somebody within the workplace.
        
     2. Serious threatening or intimidating behaviour, including extreme pressure intentionally placed upon a victim to act a certain, undesirable way.
        
     3. Victimising or excluding a certain person or group of persons within the workplace.
        

I have an issue with your notation of one of your sponsors. You have Senatoe Nicolao Epifanio Núñez listed as a member of the Capitalist Party (CP), when there is no such member in said party. I request that you get that fixed.

[Lykens]

Oh, okay. Would anybody else be so kind to offer a sponsorship so I can bump this up to the chamber and forget about it for the time being?

Fair Labour (Occupational Terms and Regulations) Act
Author: (People Who Say Ni - DL) - Sponsors: David Vera Cruz (Heraklea- - WA), Nicolao Epifanio Núñez (United Marxist Nations - CP), (Arkanzia - DL), Genevieve Minerva Duflot (Geilinor - LDP)- Category: Labour/Industry - Urgency: Moderate

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The senate of Calaverde,

BELIEVING in the financial accountability of businesses which cause death or injury to employees due to negligent practices,
WANTING to provide measures to accommodate for this behaviour,
ACKNOWLEDGING that the rights of workers and labourers are to be protected by the state in order to create a fair working environment, nationwide
MAINTAINING that all forms of forced labour, including slavery and child labour, are severe violations of these inalienable rights
RECOGNISING the importance of implementing basic labour law legislation in order to build a more prosperous, egalitarian and friendly nation

hereby passes the following legislation:

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PURPOSES:

This bill sets out to do the following:

• Guarantee the right of the worker not to be bullied or harassed in a workplace environment by prohibiting persistent and unwanted physical and sexual advances, as well as unsociable or aggressive communication abuse
• Put a stop to discrimination in the workplace by providing measures to ensure labourers are entitled to equal pay for equal work and cannot be dismissed on a matter of sex, gender, age or race
• Creating the freedom of association in the country, empowering the unions with legal protections for lobbying and protesting
• Provide a scope for businesses to be held accountable for negligent practices, especially those which harm employees, other workers and the members of the public
• Standardise maximum working hours, creating a forty hour work week to allow for rest and leisure time of workers who wish to take such time off paid work
• Create laws which make for a safer, friendlier working environment through the enactment of basic occupational health and safety legislation
• Stop workers from being dismissed from their job by their employee unfairly or without any reason and at the same time, allow workers to terminate their own employment at any given time
• Prohibit all forms of slavery, including indentured labour, debt bondage (servitude given to pay off a debt or loan), and stopping all forms of unjust and rightly illegal human trafficking through the nation in the belief that human beings should not be treated as commodities
• Set regulations for labour conducted by a minor in order to ensure that some of the most vulnerable members of society are protected from harsh working conditions which inhibit the ability to attend school or educational facilities.
• Provide a basic foundation for labour law in the country by guaranteeing basic workers rights and freedoms and creating a statutory platform for the expansion of such laws in order to build a more prosperous, egalitarian and friendly nation.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS:

"BULLYING" persistent and unwanted harassment.
"COLLECTIVE ENTERPRISE BARGAINING": the process of a group of employees negotiating with their employer in order to agree upon working conditions
"FIRM": a businesses unit or enterprise involved in the manufacture of goods, or else the provision of goods and/or services to consumers,
"HAZARDOUS LABOUR": work which involves manipulating electrical systems or devices, working in confined spaces or involving the use of construction tools.
"HUMAN TRAFFICKING": the movement of those under servitude between national borders
"INDENTURED LABOUR": a system wherein labourers are treated as subservient for a set time, often in a state of peonage.
"NATIONAL EMERGENCY": a disaster, natural or man-made, including war and attacks on any part of the state
"SLAVERY": a condition in which individuals are treated as if they are the chattel of another.
"STRIKE": a mass, collective refusal to undertake labour for any period of time as a protest
"WORKPLACE": a location at which non-itinerant labour is conducted.

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SECTION 1: Workers Rights:

SUB-SECTION 1 - Guarantee of the Individual Rights of the Worker:

1. All employed workers of Calaverde are reserved the following rights and freedoms:
   • The right to attain an equal payment as a peer conducting an equivalent form of work under the same firm, free from racism, ageism, sexism or discrimination taking any form.
     
   • The right to fair remuneration in the form of a monetary reward, on a frequent basis, as compensation for mental or physical labour done for a firm or business institution.
     
   • The right to join or create one or more trade unions to protect and lobby for one's individual or collective labour rights.
     
   • The right to partake in collective enterprise bargaining without fear of dismissal.
     
   • The right to initiate or partake in a strike or collective action.
   • The right to terminate one's own employment at will.
     
   • The right to time taken off work, either paid or unpaid, for the purposes of rest and recovery, without fear of dismissal.
   • The right to have knowledge of all significant terms of employment, including a job description, working conditions, hours, pay and any other pieces of important information.
     
   • Freedom from forced labour by a prison for the financial benefit of the state or private owner of the law-enforcement institution
     
   • Freedom from forced labour conducted under duress for the financial benefit of a firm or business institution.

SUB-SECTION 2: - Regulations on Working Hours

1. Workers are not to conduct labour for a firm for more than forty hours every week, unless wages paid for each extra hour are increased by at least twenty five percent of the ordinary wage.
   
2. Workers may be guaranteed the right to reject overtime work without fear of demotion or dismissal
   
3. Workers are to be given a break from work amounting to sixty minutes after every six consecutive hours of work
   
4. Workers are to be guaranteed twelve consecutive hours of rest from work in every twenty four hour period.

SUB-SECTION 3: - Regulations on Strikes Initiated by Essential Services:

1. Persons employed in such industries, which, when nonoperational, seriously threaten a number of lives or the stability of our nation, must report their intentions to strike to their organisation no less than two hundred hours prior to the commencement of the strike. Examples include:
   • Prison services,
     
   • Emergency service phone operating,
     
   • the hospital sector; and,
     
   • the fire-fighting sector.
2. Immediately after notification of a strike in their sector, the hospital administration, or equivalent of, of all affected hospitals must take provisions to ensure the following:
   • The safety of all hospital patients will not be threatened by the strike; and,
     
   • If it exists, the hospital's emergency or ambulance section must remain operational during the strike.
3. People working in the fire-fighting sector and medical emergency departments, including ambulance operators, are prohibited from initiating and participating in a strike during a time where their services are required to assist with mediating a national emergency.

SUB-SECTION 4 - Cases of Unlawful Dismissal:

1. The measures in this subsection do not apply to government institutions.
   
2. An employer may only dismiss an employee when:
   • The job becomes redundant, that is, the employer no longer requires the employee's job to be undertaken by anybody, or,
     
   • The employee acted in an unsociable or unlawful way whilst actually undertaking their job, or,
   • The employee had exhibited poor performance in the execution of their job, or,
     
   • Terms of dismissal were agreed upon when the job was first accepted by the employee, and such terms were fulfilled in the dismissal of the worker.

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SECTION 2: Slavery and Child Labour:

SUB-SECTION 1 - Ban on Slavery:

1. No form of slavery is to be allowed within the nation of Calaverde, including indentured labour.
   Specifically:
   1. No person within the state of Calaverde may be treated as the personal property of a human owner.
      
   2. No person may be treated as a commodity to be bought or sold.
      
   3. No person may partake in the act of giving oneself up for servitude in order to repay a debt.
      
   4. No person may be forced to undertake a non-consensual act of marriage as an act of servitude.
      
   5. All slaves which currently exist within the state of Calaverde are hereby freed.
2. No entity may use the state of Calaverde as a route for human trafficking.

SUB-SECTION 2 - Restrictions on Child Labour:

1. No person under the age of thirteen may undertake a position as a worker or employee for a firm.
   
2. Jobs which primarily involve a form of performing, competing, composing, or creating visual art are exempt from this ruling, providing:
   • Permission from a parent or guardian is given. (In the case of a job for a firm, this is to be given, in written form, to the employer.)
     
   • This job does not ordinarily take place during school hours, whilst school is running.
     
   • The child's working week does not span more than eight hours per day, four days per week.
3. No person, under the age of eighteen, may take part in hazardous labour, except in cases where:
   • The minor is being trained in order to receive a qualification for the job in question, and,
     
   • The minor is under near-constant supervision from an adult, qualified in the job in question, with first-aid training, and,
     
   • The minor can provide written consent from a parent or guardian, and,
   • Measures have been taken to maximise the safety of the trainee, and,
     
   • The child's working week does not span more than eight hours per day, four days per week.
4. No person, under the age of eighteen, may operate under such working conditions which exhibit a significant threat of death or serious injury.
   
5. Persons between the ages of thirteen and eighteen who undertake a position as a worker or employee for a firm where they will not take part in:
   1. Hazardous labour, or,
      
   2. An apprenticeship, trainee ship or other program designed to assist the student in transitioning into work, or,
      
   3. A form of performing, competing, composing, or creating visual art
   • May not undertake work during such time where school is operational.
     
   • May only undertake a maximum two hours of work each school day.
6. All child labourers are to be provided with the same rights as their adult counterparts, unless otherwise is explicitly legislated.

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SECTION 3: Occupational Health and Safety:

SUB-SECTION 1 - Creation of a Duty of Care:

1. Employers, or persons involved in administrating a firm or business institution must ensure, as far is reasonably practicable:
   • The health and safety of non-employees are not compromised by work which is carried out as part of the conduct of the firm.
     
   • Any risks or hazards to the health and safety of employees are minimised.
   Specifically:
   1. The presence of slippery surfaces or obstacles within a workplace which may cause a trip or fall must be indicated with easily visible signage,
      
   2. Portable electrical construction equipment in frequent use must be tested for electrical faults by a qualified electrician in three month intervals,
      
   3. Each indoor workplace must have multiple, permanent and unobstructed paths of exit from any easily accessible place from within the workplace fitted with working hand-held fire extinguishers,
      
   4. Employees which ordinarily work under threat of lethal or near-lethal falling must have this risk mitigated.
      
   5. Any legitimate safety issues not specifically mentioned in this act must also have measures taken into place to minimise them.

SUB-SECTION 2 - Regulations on the Accountability of Businesses:

1. The injury or death of an amount of employees, which has occurred whilst the worker or workers were undertaking labour for a firm, shall be brought to an inquiry on the business practices of the firm in question.
   
2. In the case of death of one or more employees, should it be found that said death is connected to negligence on behalf of the firm, the business institution will be required to provide the following compensation:
   • Full coverage of funeral costs and any medical bills directly associated with the death of the employee(s).
     
   • A prescribed payment to the household of, or those dependent upon the financial support of, the deceased.
3. In the case of injury to one or more employees, should it be found that said injury is connected to negligence on behalf of the firm, the business institution will be required to provide the following compensation:
   • Full pay and employee benefits to be made out for the recovery time, as determined by a qualified medical practitioner, of affected individuals.
     
   • Full coverage of all medical and insurance bills of the injured worker(s) directly associated with their injury.

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SECTION 4 - Harassment and Discrimination:

SUB-SECTION 1: Prevention of Workplace Discrimination

1. No employer or workplace peer may bully, vilify, or grant privilege to co-workers, including through the implementation of a policy of practice, based upon the following:
   1. Age of the employee.
   2. Gender, gender identity, lawful sexual activity or sexual identity
   3. Any full or partial disability which does not impede upon the employee's ability to conduct his or her physical or mental labour at the same level of job performance exhibited by his or her peers.
   4. The race, nationality or country of origin of the employee.
   5. Religion or non-harmful personal beliefs exhibited by the worker.
   6. Marital or parental status
   7. Socio-economic status, current employment or past careers
   8. Personal association with anybody who displays one of the above protected characteristics
2. No employer may hire or dismiss an employee for displaying one of the above, protected characteristics, so long as they do not impede upon the employee or prospective employee's ability to conduct his or her physical or mental labour at the same level of job performance exhibited by his or her peers.
3. Every worker is entitled to the same wage and working conditions as any co-worker conducting the same work as themselves, regardless of age, sex, sexual identity, race, religion, non-harmful personal beliefs or disability.

SUB-SECTION 2: Prohibition of Bullying and Harassment in a Workplace Environment

1. No employee, volunteer or student in a workplace environment may be bullied by a peer.
   
2. Bullying includes:
   • Verbal harassment, such as:
     1. Persistent name-calling, unwanted by the victim.
        
     2. Persistent insults directed at specific people.
   • Physical harassment, such as:
     1. Unwanted physical contact intentionally made by the perpetrator.
        
     2. Violent or aggressive attacks upon one or more victims.
   • Sexual harassment, such as:
     1. Unwelcome advances of a sexual nature.
        
     2. Persistent requests for favours of a sexual nature, unwanted by the victim.
   • Other persistent unsociable behaviour, including:
     1. Humiliation or defamation of somebody within the workplace.
        
     2. Serious threatening or intimidating behaviour, including extreme pressure intentionally placed upon a victim to act a certain, undesirable way.
        
     3. Victimising or excluding a certain person or group of persons within the workplace.
        

I have an issue with your notation of one of your sponsors. You have Senatoe Nicolao Epifanio Núñez listed as a member of the Capitalist Party (CP), when there is no such member in said party. I request that you get that fixed.

Do you know if the Communist Party registered before yours?

[Dragomerian Islands]

I have an issue with your notation of one of your sponsors. You have Senatoe Nicolao Epifanio Núñez listed as a member of the Capitalist Party (CP), when there is no such member in said party. I request that you get that fixed.

Do you know if the Communist Party registered before yours?

They have not.

[Ainin]

Neither the Communist nor Capitalist Party has been registered with the acronym CP as far as I can tell.

[Lykens]

Neither the Communist nor Capitalist Party has been registered with the acronym CP as far as I can tell.

Nope.

Drago put it in his application two days before Boji, but neither posted actual applications for the parties.

[Dragomerian Islands]

Neither the Communist nor Capitalist Party has been registered with the acronym CP as far as I can tell.

I did HERE, where it explicitly mentions the Capitalist Party with the abbreviation of (CP)

[Lykens]

Neither the Communist nor Capitalist Party has been registered with the acronym CP as far as I can tell.

I did HERE, where it explicitly mentions the Capitalist Party with the abbreviation of (CP)

That's not a party application though.

[Ainin]

Neither the Communist nor Capitalist Party has been registered with the acronym CP as far as I can tell.

I did HERE, where it explicitly mentions the Capitalist Party with the abbreviation of (CP)

Doesn't count.

[Dragomerian Islands]

Neither the Communist nor Capitalist Party has been registered with the acronym CP as far as I can tell.

Nope.

Drago put it in his application two days before Boji, but neither posted actual applications for the parties.

The Capitalist Party has been accepted, as it appears in the OP, it is just not an official party.

I can not submit a form to become an 'official party' until I have at least 10 members.

[Dragomerian Islands]

I did HERE, where it explicitly mentions the Capitalist Party with the abbreviation of (CP)

Doesn't count.

On another note, read the TG I sent earlier.

[The Nihilistic view]

Doesn't count.

On another note, read the TG I sent earlier please.

Edited for politeness.

Demanding stuff from admins is unlikely to get you far.

[People Who Say Ni]

In any case, it would probably be best if I removed the acronym in case of confusion.

[The Nihilistic view]

In any case, it would probably be best if I removed the acronym in case of confusion.

The only confusion was over the fact the capitalist party actually still existed.

[Estva]

The Calaverde Defence Act

Author: Senator Léon Suero (Estva - LDP)
Sponsors: Senator Sebastian van Oldenbarnevelt (Sebastianbourg - LDP), Senator Cristobal Araullo (Argentarino - LDP) Senator Drago Dragomere (Dragomerian Islands - CP)

Section 1 - Establishment:
1. This act shall hereby establish the Calaverde Armed Forces (CAF), with the goal of defending the nation and pursuing the collective security of its citizens using lethal force if necessary. In addition the CAF shall participate in humanitarian and peacekeeping missions, for the betterment of humanity as a whole.
2. The CAF shall be comprised of three branches. The Calaverde National Army (CNA), the Calaverde National Navy (CNN), and the Calaverde National Air force (CNAF).
3. Each branch shall have a Chief of Staff, appointed by the Minister of Defence, who shall be the highest ranking officer of said branch.
4. The three Chiefs of Staff shall convene and make decisions regarding the military as a whole. As a group they shall be known as the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
5. Each Chief of Staff may be removed from office by the President.
6. The President of Calaverde shall be the Commander-in-chief of the CAF. Any order by the President shall overrule orders by a subordinate, so long as the order is within the President's legal powers.
7. The Minister of Defence shall have the same legal power of the President over the CAF, with the exception of overruling the President's orders.
8. Courts dealing with military matters and its laws shall be named the Calaverde Military Court System, and shall be an arm of the judiciary.
9. Funding shall be determined by the Calaverde legislature.
Section 2 - Membership:
1. All Calaverde citizens at or above the age of 18 may petition to join the CAF.
2. Physical and educational requirements may apply to different positions, as well as generally required physical and educational requirements for basic enlistment.
3. These requirements are to be decided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
4. The time period of enlistment obligation shall be decided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
5. These are subject to change by Calaverde legislation.
Section 3 - Limitations:
1. The CAF shall not be used for policing, with the exception of military installations or national emergency.
2. The CAF is not authorized to use lethal force on Calaverde citizens unless they are a) aiding an invading nation, b) aiding or otherwise taking violent part in a rebellion, c) actively taking part in a crime or fleeing from military police officers attempting to arrest them, on a military installation and/or d) attacking members or property of the CAF.
3. The CAF shall be subject to any international treaties or laws regarding human rights Calaverde has ratified.

I would enjoy more sponsors as this is kind of necessary.