Prohibiting Forced Sterilization
Category: Civil Rights | Strength: Significant
The General Assembly,
Recognizing the importance of reproductive rights;
Further Recognizing that many nations use sterilization as punishment, which extends beyond their responsibility to provide justice, safety, and security within their borders and causes permanent damage to those harmed;
Asserting that forced or coerced sterilization runs counter to the rights of bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom;
Abhorring the practice of forced sterilization for any purpose, including social engineering for political, cultural or ideological motives;
Desiring an end to the barbaric practice of forced sterilization;
Defines for the purposes of this resolution a “minor” as any individual under the legal age of majority;
Further Defines “sterilization” as a medical intervention by which an individual loses, either temporarily or permanently, the capability to reproduce through physical modification of the reproductive system or alteration of the physiological processes required for reproduction;
Further Defines “forced or coerced sterilization” as the sterilization of an individual without informed consent, under duress, or the sterilization of a minor;
Excludes from this definition of “sterilization” interventions performed with the exclusive goal of alleviating gender dysphoria or out of medical necessity;
Hereby:
1. Prohibits forced or coerced sterilization in all member nations for any reason;
2. Prohibits the use of sterilization as punishment for criminal and/or penal offenses by member states and their citizens, or as a penalty in any other matter, judicially sanctioned or otherwise;
3. Prohibits the extradition of any individual to any state employing sterilization as punishment, or where it is deemed reasonably likely that sterilization may be used as a penalty in any matter;
4. Prohibits member states from using sterilization to achieve ethnic goals by promoting the procedure among target religious, social, ideological, racial, ethnic, or national groups;
5. Requires member states to evaluate whether any nation they interact with are likely using forced or coerced sterilization;
6. Requires member states to enact reasonable consequences to individuals found performing forced or coerced sterilization and their co-operators;
7. Requires member states to provide travel advisories for countries where forced or coerced sterilizations appear to be performed as a penalty in any matter, as judicially sanctioned or otherwise;
8. Implores member states to provide resources to investigate forced or coerced sterilization cases;
9. Encourages member states to allocate resources to victims of forced or coerced sterilization to address resulting psychological and physical trauma.
Co-authored by Countriopia and Ramelia