[EXTREMELY ABANDONED] Safer Nightclubs Act

[Tinhampton]

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ICly by Kevin Mitchell, third-in-line to the post of Delegate-Ambassador.

OOC 1: Drink spiking has been going on for years - if not decades - but has recently reached epidemic proportions in the UK. Refer to the following BBC News articles, in case you're looking for empirical evidence: 1, 2, 3, 4 (read this article if you only have time to read one), 5. Also refer to the petition (UK citizens and residents only, sorry).
OOC 2: The definition of a "nightclub" is based off the definition the Scottish Government is using to enforce its vaccine passport scheme. This should not be interpreted as to mean that I support vaccine passports... I don't.
OOC 3: I'm aware of the problems associated with stop-and-search and am feeling shakier about Article c than any of my other clauses.

Safer Nightclubs Act
A resolution to improve worldwide human sapient and civil rights.

Category: Civil Rights

Strength: Mild

Proposed by: Tinhampton

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Applauding GA#577 "Drug Decriminalization Act" for decriminalising the possession of all recreational drugs (including alcohol), without intent to profit from their distribution or to mislead others into consuming those drugs, in all member states, but

Recognising that this body can still take firm action to prevent drink spiking in establishments such as nightclubs which are particularly popular with university students and other young adults, which is nonconsensual and can lead to lasting harm for its victims,

Aware that drink spiking can take many forms, including the insertion of drugs into drinks directly and even through needles, and

Seeking to avoid the destruction of young lives through no fault of their own...

The General Assembly hereby:

1. defines a "nightclub" - for the purposes of this resolution - as any business which is open and can serve alcohol to its customers throughout the nighttime, has floor space designated for dancing purposes, and plays music in order to facilitate such dancing,
2. requires nightclubs to take effective measures to ensure that drinks are not spiked (such as by placing caps on, or - if necessary - discarding unattended drinks),
3. urges nightclubs to search all of their customers for needles, drugs possessed with intent to harm other customers, and other apparata which could be used to spike individuals or their drinks before they enter the nightclub itself,
4. suggests - but does not require - that other businesses serving alcohol take those measures described in Article b, and
5. expresses its support for all individuals who choose not to patronise non-compliant nightclubs by virtue of their being non-compliant.

[Hulldom]

Section (d) needs to be a mandate in the same vein of (b).

[Separatist Peoples]

"This is entirely unenforceable as written. So much so that I must ask what the point is."

[Bears Armed]

OOC: Do you regard 'drink spiking' as a worse crime than murder? After all, the G.A. hasn't yet passed a resolution requiring member nations to criminalise & take action against that...

[Desmosthenes and Burke]

OOC: Do you regard 'drink spiking' as a worse crime than murder? After all, the G.A. hasn't yet passed a resolution requiring member nations to criminalise & take action against that...

OOC: Not Tin, and agree with Sep this is unenforceable.

That said, no one can agree on the necessary predicates to constitute murder as distinct from any other form of homicide, so it is not exactly surprising we cannot write a resolution about it. I would hope we can all agree that dosing people with drugs against their will with a view towards committing some form of sexual assault is, how does one say, no bueno, but this resolution is not it.

[Bears Armed]

OOC: Also, looking at the only clauses that actually require or urge anything, this is Moral Decency rather than Civil Rights.

[WayNeacTia]

Never fails to amaze me. I thought minutiae had an upper limit, but here we are....

[Qhevak]

OOC: "Injection spiking" is straight-up not feasible to perform by anyone who isn't an extremely skilled medical specialist. The current UK reports are almost certainly just inflated tabloid panic.

[Neo-Western East Korea]

“Ambassador, while we do believe this draft is made in entirely good intent, we cannot support it. This is, well, not really necessary when national governances are perfectly capable of defining and creating such a law in their own system, without the need for the WA to step in”.