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OOC: I'm back. Given that Article 3f of the newly-submitted Limiting Animal Pathogens prohibits wet markets from denying entry to those who "don personal protective equipment on the[ir] premises" and in light of Uan aa Boa's comments on the original thread, I suspected that the addition of a few bits and pieces here and there would be a good idea. This is far from perfect; comments on anything and everything are always welcome, as ever.
Freedom of dress
A resolution to improve worldwidehumansapient and civil rights.Category: Civil RightsStrength: MildProposed by: Tinhampton
Aware that clothing can not only serve to express one's beliefs, but may also function simply as items of personal convenience,
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, and
Resolving to prevent not only the imposition of restrictions on clothing which are obviously discriminatory, but also those which do not obviously seek to protect public order or public health...
The General Assembly hereby:
- forbids member states from imposing any restriction on what clothing any of their inhabitants may wear, except that they may impose restrictions which:
- are required by prior and standing international law, or future international law regarding hate speech,
- prohibit the wearing of clothing in a public place which conveys an illegal message or would otherwise grossly offend a typical person who regularly attends that place (such as clothing worn on a religious site which advocates for acts of genocide against adherents of that religion or expresses support for those who have committed such acts),
- provide for the covering of any part of its wearer's body that a reasonable member of their species would expect a great level of privacy in relation to, or anything naturally released by those body parts, in a public place,
- are necessary to preserve the health of its wearer or of the general public (such as requiring the wearing of hard hats, high-visibility jackets and steel-toed boots on construction sites), or
- are necessary to ensure that members of the general public do not wilfully impersonate on-duty members of militaries or national emergency services,
- forbids public places in any member state from imposing any restriction on what clothing anybody may wear within their grounds, except that they must install whatever restrictions that member imposes pursuant to Article a, may impose Article a restrictions where that member does not do so, and may prescribe uniforms as provided by Article c, and
- clarifies that:
- any employer in a member state may prescribe a uniform for those providing services for them, any organiser of an event in a member state may require a particular costume to be worn by those actively participating in that event, and any school in a member state may prescribe a uniform for its pupils, so long as their uniform codes neither forbid nor require individuals to wear any item of clothing solely as a consequence of their possessing or not possessing an arbitrary and reductive characteristic, but that
- actors in fictional visual entertainment productions (such as films and plays) may nonetheless be required to wear particular costumes while those productions are taking place.