DRAFT 5
The World Assembly,
Recognizing that - while many previous resolutions (such as GA#35, GA#430, and GA#436) guarantee basic rights to individuals - there remains a need for the rights of associations and organizations to be clarified,
Believing that all individuals should be able to freely associate in a way that benefits their own interests and does not harm others, regardless of their government's position on such an association, and
Admitting that the limitations to these rights are often better specified by individual nations than international organisations, but must nonetheless be outlined by these organisations,
Hereby declares that:
- For the purposes of this resolution:
- An "organization" shall be defined as an organized group of people with a particular purpose (such as a business - private or public depending on a nation's economic structure - or political pressure group), and
- "Associating with an organization" shall be defined as allowing oneself to be officially connected with or seen to be supportive of an organization.
- All organizations and associations between these organizations or individual beings must be recognised as legal, with the following limitations:
- If a significant number of an organisation's members or leaders have, during their membership, been found guilty of crimes (by national or WA law) of violence or crimes regarding property/economic law committed in furtherance of the organisation's goals, and the organisation has failed to take proportionate disciplinary measures in response, member nations may dissolve it, ban membership of it, or otherwise penalise it within the boundaries of their national jurisdiction, subject to extant international law.
- If an organization actively promotes hatred towards a specific minority or delimited group of individuals beyond their freedom of speech, consistently enciting violence or terrorist crimes through actions or verbal expressions that would fall under hate speech, member nations may impose penalties or dissolve them in accordance with their national law.
- Member nations must allow any individual, regardless of their possession (or lack of possession) of any arbitrary and reductive characteristic, or any organization to associate with an organization as long as both parties involved agree to the association, including contracts or similar documents in the case of organizations that keep track of membership. Similarly, organizations shall not discriminate against other individuals solely due to their possessing or not possessing any arbitrary and reductive characteristic. Furthermore, organizations must not deny historical genocides or similar repression of marginalized groups, as this will be considered discrimination.
- No individual may be incarcerated, punished or otherwise penalised solely for being a member of, or associated with, an organization, unless that individual has joined an organisation in the circumstances listed in Articles 2a or 2b.
Co authored by Tinhampton.
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