World Assembly General Assembly Voting Direction (with reasons)

The World Assembly Delegation from the Nomadic Peoples of Damanucus
General Assembly Voting Record

Intangible Cultural Heritage: Approved, Voted For
Culture is not simply made up of locations and objects; it is also made up of traditions, customs, and skills, and these need to be protected alongside their locations.

Resolving WA Trade Disputes: Not Approved, Voted Against (after initial period of indecision resulting in abstinence)
While I believe in arbitration, clause 3 worried me more than anything, since, if any nation involved in trade disputes has exhausted all other existing channels of arbitration, they are not likely to agree to mediation from the Trade Dispute arbitration Board.

Repeal "Nuclear Power Safety Act": Not Approved, Abstained
While I do agree that a degree of disconnect exists between the NESC and individual nations, there does not seem to be enough to warrant overhauling the entire resolution, despite the claims of the resolution.

Legal Safety for Travelers: Not Approved, Voted Against
The intention of the act is noble, but the act itself fails to live up to its own expectations, especially for a significant-strength act.

Defense from External Menaces: Not Approved, Abstained
The resolution is concise and well-written. However, as it stands, something, doesn't sit well in regards to the resolution, and as yet I haven't picked what it is.

World Assembly Trade Rights: Not Approved, Voted For
The resolution seems pretty thorough on the surface, without infringing upon the basic rights of nations.

Repeal "Numismatics Appreciation Act": Not Approved, Abstained
The original resolution is a bit of a hotchpotch. It's difficult to pick heads or tails of it. While I would like to see a better (and better written) resolution on the books, I'm going to abstain while I try and pick heads or tails of it.

Repeal "Organ and Blood Donations Act": Not Approved, Voted Against
While the resolution does need to be improved, the repeal does not address the reasons for its replacement, and instead covers fairly minor and insignificant reasons.

Protecting Privacy: Not Approved, Voted Against
From the given evidence from the debate and the resolution, I have decided to vote against the resolution. There are a few reasons behind it:

1. There is no reason for a nation to infringe on the privacy of persons in order to obtain a job, let alone one in the government;

2. There is no need to infringe on a person's privacy in order to receive benefits;

3. The necessity to search someone entering a high risk area should be the same as that for a criminal search;

4. No evidence should made public before, during or after a trial;

5. The choice to publish census data should be up to the nation itself.
   

Repeal "On Expiration Dates": Not Approved, Voted For
The major flaw noted in the original resolution does, as the repeal states, make it difficult to properly implement the resolution, and hence, in the light of a more workable replacement, the vote for the repeal.

Repeal "Nuclear Power Safety Act": Not Approved, Abstained
The repeal states that the original resolution covers already-turfed ground. At the moment, if this were true, then the resolution would've been pulled on submission.

Protecting Privacy: Not Approved, Voted Against
I still remain against this resolution, despite it being rewritten. My main complaint is with Clause 4c, which is vaguely enough written that it can be easily exploited by any government for any reason they see fit.

Repeal "Intangible Cultural Heritage": Not Approved, Voted Against
I see no reason for this resolution to be repealed, especially as I supported it originally, and could see no loopholes in the resolution.

Repeal "Organ and Blood Donations Act": Not Approved, Voted For (after initial period of abstinence)
While I honour Mousebumples' overhaul of the core medical resolutions, the fact that the repeal referred to the donation safeguards being unnecessary stopped me from supporting the repeal. (I won't, however, vote against it, purely because of the intended overhaul.) (The previous debate no longer applies.)
The fact that the original resolution forbids transplantation of infected organs into already-infected patients makes this repeal a necessity.

Repeal "Stem Cells for Greater Health": Approved, Voted For
The main fault with the previous resolution was the absence of any kind of consent request.

Biomedical Donor Rights: Approved, Voted For
The resolution is thorough and sound; combined with the other two resolutions currently in queue, this will be a great improvement in biomedical rights.