Whereas ethnic and cultural discrimination occurs in many member nations, yet is inherently unjust such that member nations have a duty both to protect their citizens against, and themselves refrain from, such discrimination; and
Whereas the repeal of “The Charter of Civil Rights” has left an ominous silence regarding protections against ethnic and cultural discrimination;
The World Assembly enacts as follows.
- Definition: For the purposes of this resolution, a “protected characteristic” is any characteristic such as skin colour, nationality and language which is subject to discrimination as a result of its connection to an individual’s culture, ethnicity or race. Culture, ethnicity and race are themselves protected characteristics.
- Services: No member nation, or entity therein, may withhold, delay, or segregate any service, right or privilege, including employment and remuneration as well as sale of goods and property, from an individual on the grounds of any real or perceived protected characteristic possessed or lacked by that individual. The following exceptions apply to this provision, although nothing in the said exceptions preclude exempted conditions from being an unlawful form of discrimination based on another real or perceived protected characteristic.
- Section 2 shall not prohibit a service, right, policy, or privilege clearly related to a protected characteristic, where such a requirement is strictly necessary to mitigate harms towards persons holding a particular protected characteristic without causing similar or worse harms to those lacking it, from being conditional on the recipient’s holding of that protected characteristic.
- Section 2 also shall not prohibit an entity from requiring those selected to conduct some task to hold a particular protected characteristic, if and only if that entity can demonstrate clear and convincing objective evidence that both (a) the task is clearly related to the said protected characteristic, and (b) that protected characteristic is strictly necessary to effectively carry out the relevant tasks if selected. For roles with a language requirement, no person may be discriminated against on the grounds that their language fluency is learnt and not their native language.
- Segregation: Systematic or otherwise intentional and statistically disproportionate violence perpetrated against a group, forceful isolation or internment of a group in designated areas, removal of a group from designated areas, or the forceful institution of population controls on a group are recognised as acts of genocide. The segregation of a population based on any real or perceived protected characteristic, regardless of whether such segregation is enforced by a state, is universally prohibited under World Assembly jurisdiction.
- Classification: Every member nation is to consider protected characteristics to be arbitrary and reductive, and accordingly enforce laws against hate crime, violence, and other discrimination on the grounds of real or perceived protected characteristics as with any other arbitrary, reductive characteristic. No part of this resolution should be interpreted as preventing member nations from jointly or severally enacting further legislation to protect against discrimination on the grounds of any real or perceived protected characteristic. Terms in the singular are to be interpreted as including the plural thereof, absent clarification otherwise.