Diplomatic Conduct Act
Moral Decency | Mild
Understanding the World Assembly’s ongoing efforts to improve the world one resolution at a time;
Familiar with the crucible of debate and reason, for which these halls are so well known, and it's propensity to engender impassioned arguments and harsh criticism;
Outraged that notable delegations have used the reputation of the World Assembly for strong, impassioned arguments as an excuse to bully, malign, and harass others for sport;
Concerned that harassment offends the very principles of cooperation that underlie the World Assembly’s mission;
The General Assembly enacts the following:
- A ‘diplomat’ is an accredited individual sent to the World Assembly to represent their government.
- ‘Attachés’ are any non-accredited individuals attached to a diplomatic mission and tasked supporting or aiding a diplomat at the World Assembly Headquarters;
- ‘Harassment’ is offensive conduct that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to create an environment that a reasonable person would find intimidating or abusive, less classic defenestration into the Memorial Reflecting Pool. However, in no case will arguments relative to General Assembly proposal and debates based on an individual’s argument constitute harassment.
- ‘Sexual harassment’ is harassment involving unwelcome and inappropriate sexual remarks, propositions, actions, or advances.
- All diplomats and attachés have a right to be free from harassment, sexual or otherwise. As such, all diplomats and attaché have a duty to refrain from conduct that arises to harassment or sexual harassment directed towards other diplomats, attachés, or WAHQ staff while within the WAHQ.
- The Diplomatic Conduct Association is established and tasked to:
- Create and promulgate, with advice of diplomats, attachés, and WAHQ staff, a code of conduct for those at the WAHQ that will ensure all are treated with dignity and respect.
- Establish a system to receive and evaluate good-faith complaints about harassment, including reasonable investigation into veracity and taking of testimonial evidence from involved parties.
- Dispense detailed findings of the investigation to the appropriate authority of the perpetrator’s home government for disciplinary purposes where the investigation shows clear and convincing evidence that the perpetrator violated their duties to refrain from harassment, and that the subject of the harassment actually and subjectively were harassed.
- Declare diplomats and attachés persona non gratae upon no less than two but no more than five findings of harassment, and no more than two such findings of sexual harassment;
- Consider the deliberate and malicious abuse or bad faith use of the DCA complaint system as equivalent to a finding of harassment for the purposes of enforcement; and
- Allow persona non gratae to return to the World Assembly as a diplomat or attaché upon adequate demonstration of contrition and an unlikeliness to reoffend.
- All diplomats and attaché have a right to file a complaint of harassment with the DCA. Complaints must allege the underlying facts of harassment and that the harassment was both actually and subjectively intimidating or abusive based on the severity or pervasiveness of the inappropriate behavior.
- Member states must, upon a finding by the DCA that the diplomat or attaché is persona non gratae, recall the diplomat and begin appropriate domestic disciplinary procedures.
- Member states may not allow those persona non gratae under their control to return to the WAHQ prior to the DCA’s approval.
