PROVISIONAL WORLD PARLIAMENT
World Legislative Acts for Parliament sessions
1-12
Introduction: Their authority is the Constitution for the Federation of Earth, which, even without yet having ratification by the peoples of Earth, is more legitimate than any nation-state constitution, since the entire system of so-called "sovereign" nation-states has lost its legitimacy. No nation-state government on Earth is any longer legitimate, for no government can protect the ecological environment of its citizens, no government can prevent the massive pollution of its territory by a polluted Earth, no government can prevent war or end weapons of mass destruction or effectively deal with terrorism. And, perhaps most basically, no government can any longer practice genuine democracy, for all governments today are some form of oligarchy, militarized security state, or outright dictatorship. The rationale that once justified nation-state governments has evaporated. The nations insist on lawlessness, and living in a lawless world, for they recognize no enforceable laws above themselves, preferring to remain in a condition of de facto war where power and might rule rather than law and justice. It is truly said that "there is no peace without justice, no justice without law, and no law without government." By denying government over themselves, the nations of the world are simultaneously denying both peace and justice as well. The world is left with the moral, practical, and legal necessity and legitimacy of uniting under the Earth Constitution, the only truly legitimate authority left on Earth. The Parliament is actualizing the imperative, inherent in our human situation, for binding world law. This provisional world legislation serves as building blocks: elaborating, modeling, and extending the legitimacy, authority, and cogency of the emerging Earth Federation under the Earth Constitution.
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List of World Legislative Acts (WLAs) of the Provisional World Parliament (PWP) with links to the original acts.
WLA 1. Prohibition of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_01_bomb_prohibition.html WLA 2. Creation of the World Economic Development Organization (WEDO). http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_02_economic_development.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_03_oceans_and_seabeds.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_04_university_sytem.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/wla_20_world_bench_criminal_cases.pdf
PWP Session 2, New Delhi, India, 1985: WLA 6. Creation of the Emergency Earth Rescue Administration (EERA) to take emergency measures to restore and protect the planetary environment. http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_06_earth_rescue.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_07_funding_corporation.html
PWP
session 3, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, 1987: http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_09_environment_ministry.html WLA 10. Creation of the World Hydrogen System Authority to research and construct clean energy systems based on hydrogen. http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_10_hydrogen_system.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_11_credit_corporation.html
PWP
sessions 4 and 5, Barcelona, Spain, 1996 and
Malta, 2000: WLA 12. Manifesto of 1996 and 2000: World Government Starts with more than 70% of the Earth included. http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_12_manifest_of_1996.html
PWP
session 6, Bangkok, Thailand, March 2003: http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_13_world_peace_act.html WLA 14. World Security Act. Creates and elaborates the elements of the provisional world Enforcement System as this is defined under the Constitution. http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_14_world_security_act.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_15_human_rights_court.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_16_hydrocarbon_resources.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_17_legislative_review.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_18_world_revenue.html
PWP
session 7, Chennai, India, December 2003: http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_19_penal_code.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_21_world_patents.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_22_world_equity_act.html WLA 23. Creates a Global Accounting and Auditing System.
WLA 25. Defines rules and laws for the preservation of provisional world government records.
PWP session 8, Lucknow, India, 2004: Summary:http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/summaries_en/wla_26_summary_education_act.html WLA 27. Child Rights Acts. Describes the rights of children and defines their limited degree of culpability for violations of world law. http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_27_child_rights.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_28_world_juvenile_bench.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_29_world_elections_act.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_30_water_act.html
Declaration of the Rights of Peoples to Ratify the Earth Constitution
PWP
session 9, Tripoli, Libya, 2006: http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_31_world_ombudsmus.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/summaries_en/world_legislation_contents.html
WLA 35. Nuclear Contamination Act. Mandates the World Health Organization (WHO), now empowered with Earth Federation funding and global support, to analyze, review, and report on all radiation research in the world and to recommend health based safety regulations. http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_35_nuclear_contamination.html
WLA 37. Agreement on World Federal Privileges and Immunities. The Parliament approved this memorandum to the Assembly of States Parties sponsoring the International Criminal Court, adapted from their own memorandum on privileges and immunities for the court but strengthened to those of a real court under a real constitution: the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_38_public_utilities.html
PWP session 10, Kara, Togo, 2007: WLA 39. Prohibition of Unauthorized Destruction of Illegal Financial Instruments. This law requires appropriate accounting, disposition and retirement of illegal securities (all war-making investments and securities) to the World Disarmament Agency office of the Earth Federation Funding Corporation. It specifies grace periods and appropriate penalties for non-compliance. WLA 40. Indemnity Bonds. Creates Indemnity Bonds to catalyze rapid divestment from bomb corporation stock, providing an economic incentive for individuals and corporations to convert their assets to non-weapons investments. http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_40_indemnity_bonds.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_41_posting_stock_law.html
Summary at:
PWP
session 11, Nainital, India, 2009: http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_43_on_human_trafficking.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_44_civil_disobedience.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/summaries_en/brief_summaries_pwp11.html
PWP session 12, Kolkata, India, 2010: WLA 48. Collegium of World Judges Act. Activates the provisional Collegium of World Judges to develop the world court system and begin a process of advocating and dispensing judgments under the authority of the Earth Constitution. WLA 49. Shipbreaking Code. Sets the environmental and worker safety regulations for this currently very dangerous and environmentally destructive industry. http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_49_shipbreaking_code.html WLA 50. Nuclear Power Plant Decommission Fund. Defines decommissioning parameters in the case of accidents or failures of nuclear facilities and the parameters for systematic decommissioning of all currently running planets within the Earth Federation as well as negotiations for nuclear facilities in countries outside the Federation. http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_50_decommission_fund.html
http://www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_52_corporation_act.html
PWP 13, Lucknow, India, December 14-17, 2013: These acts have yet to be posted in their final official version in the www.worldproblems.net website. (Full texts of a few are found at: http://www.radford.edu/~gmartin/PWP13.Legisl.pending..htm) WLA 53 “Transition Process for National Governments Joining the Earth Federation.” This act is intended to work out the details to make transition to Earth Federation Membership as smooth as possible. It provides for nations, in consultation with Earth Federation officials, to work out a timetable, an analysis of constitutional arrangements and procedures, economic integration, etc. www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_53_transition_act.html WLA 54. Remedies and Corrections Act. www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_54_remedies_and_correction.html WLA 55. Surveillance Limitations Act. This act prohibits the world government from using surveillance without a warrant, from embedding surveillance chips or equipment in consumer productions without the written consent of the consumer, and from any use of surveillance for political control or censorship purposes. www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_55_surveilliance_limitations.html WLA 56. Crowd Dispersal Ban.
This legislative act
protects the right of people to assemble. It
bans the police dispersal of crowds through
dangerous or potentially lethal means, including
the use of tear gas.
In many places on Earth, people’s right
to assemble is being threatened by police
dispersal of crowds gathered to protest
injustices.
This act protects our fundamental human
right to protest.
WLA 57. “Collegium of World Legislators.” This act sets up training in “dialogue directed toward mutual understanding” and “nonviolent communication skills” for all members of the World Parliament (once the Constitution comes into effect), including all three houses: Peoples, Nations, and Counsellors. It also promotes ways and arrangements to maximize good communication among these 1500 or so members of the World Parliament, who will be from all religions, all cultures, all nations, and all races. www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_57_legislative_collegium.html WLA 58. Neonictinoid Ban. This act bans the manufacture and distribution of the main chemical that is believed to be killing bee populations around the world. If the bees die, we die.
www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_58_neonictinoids.html
www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_59_truth_and_reconciliation.html WLA 60. Paid Informant
Ban.
This
legislative act addressing police corruption.
It bans the
use of paid informants by government officials
attempting to win cases against suspected
lawbreakers. This
ban addresses the widespread corruption, found
in courtrooms around the world, in which
government agents essentially pay people to give
false testimony in order to secure convictions
against those who may well be innocent.
WLA 61. Fracking Ban.
This legislative act bans the terrible practice
of fracking, which is widely known to destroy
the Earth and pollute fresh water supplies
wherever it is used for mining operations.
WLA 62. Fission Power Generation Closure. This act closes all fission power plants and generation and mandates procedures for converting to sustainable and safe forms of energy generation. www.worldproblems.net/english/legislation/full_texts_en_htm/wla_62_nuclear_closure.html WLA 63. Cooperative Communities Empowerment Act. This act mandates the Earth Federation Government to support the development of cooperative, democratically run, sustainable communities worldwide, helping the world convert from the nightmare of unrestrained capitalism and undemocratic nation-state sovereignty. Various amendments to earlier acts were also passed:
* Amendment to WLA29, striking allowance for
private funding of campaigns for public office
to the Earth Federation. * Amendment to annex of WLA29, World Regions, to designate state of Haryana to pertain to World Region 14, instead of World Region 12.
* Amendment to Change name of World Central Bank
to World Public Bank. (Various locations in
world legislation.)
* 2013 World Federal Budget. Parliament Declaration of Hope and Justice.
PWP 14, Kolkata India, 27-29, 2015: Amendments to World Legislative Act number 6: 06.04.2, 06.04.3, and 06.15 [posting forthcoming] Amendments to World Legislative Act number 11: 11.15 and 11.16 [posting forthcoming] WLA 64. United Nations Merger: www.radford.edu/gmartin/UN.merger.act.WLA64.pdf WLA 65. Global Sustainability Directorate: www.radford.edu/gmartin/GSD.Global.Sus.Dir.WLA65.pdf WLA 66. (The Secretary of the Parliament has made this a placeholder) WLA 67. Guideline call for Direct Popular Referendum regarding the Earth Constitution: [posting forthcoming] Kolkata Declaration of the 14th session PWP: www.radford.edu/gmartin/PWP14.call.Feb.14.htm
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