It was defeated by a margin of 4,026 votes (about 29%) to 10,056 (about 71%).
This proposal has been submitted to the General Assembly Civil Rights Board.
NOTE: at 1557 BST on the 6th of May 2021, this proposal reached quorum with J-O-E's approval, the 60th all told.
Word count: 269
OOC1: This was written last summer but has only now been published. I do, however, urge you to look hither and thither.
OOC2: I would assume that a mask mandate (as we know it) would fall under the exemption/s in Article b(iii).
Freedom of dress
A resolution to improve worldwidehumansapient and civil rights.Category: Civil RightsStrength: MildProposed by: Tinhampton
Aware that clothing - as well as occasionally serving to express one's beliefs - can also sometimes function simply as items of personal convenience, and
Condemning the various archaic policies on clothing (such as companies forbidding their female employees from wearing flat shoes or trousers) that continue to run rampant today in some member states...
The General Assembly hereby:
- reserves to the individual member states the matter of whether to permit the wearing of clothes, and
- requires those member states choosing to allow clothing to also forbid the imposition of any restriction on what clothing any of their inhabitants may wear, unless doing so is:
- a requirement of prior and standing international law, or of future international law regarding hate speech,
- to provide for the covering of any part of a sapient's body that a reasonable member of that sapient being's species would expect a great level of privacy in relation to, or anything naturally released by those body parts, in any area that can be accessed by the public,
- necessary to preserve the health of its wearer or of the general public,
- necessary to ensure that members of the general public do not wilfully impersonate on-duty members of militaries or national emergency services, or
- a result of an employer prescribing a uniform for their employees or a school prescribing a uniform for their pupils; so as long as such restrictions do not forbid individuals from wearing, nor require individuals to wear, any item of clothing solely as a consequence of their possessing or not possessing an arbitrary and reductive characteristic.
Draft 2b (1,391ch, 217w): exactly as Draft 2c, except without Article b(ii).
Draft 2a (897ch, 140w): mostly as Draft 2b, except without Articles b(iii-iv).