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BE IT NOTED: The pronouns "ze", "hir" and "hirs" shall for the purposes of this document describe any person or thing henceforth mentioned or implied; and shall be understood according to the context in which used.
Preamble: It is a goal of the United Radical Communities to protect and facilitate the human freedom to pursue individual fulfillment and development, and to ensure that this freedom exists equally for all persons. In that spirit, we have determined that a community declaration outlining which human rights in particular are recognized and protected is required if our goal of human freedom is to be realized.
We also realize that, because we are not a sovereign community of peoples existing on real territory of the earth and because our members are at the mercy of their national governments, many of the rights we adamantly feel are deserved by people in general and our members in particular, we cannot facilitate with this document or in this community.
Therefore, it is the goal of this Declaration of Human Rights to outline the following:
1. The human rights that we can and do protect.
and
2. The human rights that we expect and demand all the nations of the world recognize and protect.
This document is organized thus into chapters, one of which describes those rights we protect, and another which describes those rights we support and demand, but by our nature cannot protect.
CHAPTER ZERO:
Provisos Which Apply To All Proceeding
Chapters
Section 1:
The human rights outlined in this document apply to natural persons only; in no way shall they be construed to apply to corporations or other articifial or legal entities, nor shall they be construed to apply to human embryos or fetuses.
Section 2:
The human rights in this document may not be violated by any person, group or authority, and these rights must be protected at all costs.
Section 3:
The human rights in this document shall apply to all persons equally; in no way shall they be construed to apply only to those persons who are also members of the United Radical Communities, except where they concern the right to participate in the government of the United Radical Communities.
Section 4:
The enumeration of human rights in this document shall not be construed to deny people rights which are not enumerated in this document
Section 5:
Should it ever happen in the future that a human right which is enumerated in CHAPTER TWO of this document become a right which it is possible for the United Radical Communities to protect, then that right must be protected by the United Radical Communities and shall thereby automatically migrate to CHAPTER ONE of this document.
CHAPTER ONE:
Those Human Rights Both Recognized
and Protected in the United Radical Communities
Section 1:
The United Radical Communities recognizes and protects the following human rights:
1-1: No person or group of people shall be denied the right to freedom of expression.
1-2: No person or group of people shall be denied the right to peacefully assemble or to freely associate and organize.
1-3: No person or group of people shall be denied the right to peacefully protest.
1-4: No person or group of people shall be denied the right to freedom of thought.
1-5: No person shall be forced to incriminate hirself or any other person.
1-6: No person shall be convicted by a jury based on the direction of a Judge.
1-7: All people accused of transgressing regulations shall have the right to an impartial and reasonably speedy trial by a jury of their peers.
1-8: All people shall be guaranteed due process in all ajudicative and administrative procedures.
1-9: Bail shall never be imposed, nor shall excessive or unreasonable fines.
1-10: There shall be an absolute prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments, including but not limited to punishments which degrade, humiliate, or psychologically or physically torture.
1-11: All people who are convicted or otherwise found at fault in a judicial procedure shall have the right to at least one appeal to a second judicial body administered by different individual[s] than ze/those who made the original determination in question.
1-12: All people are to be considered equal by virtue of their humanity regardless of race, national origin, religion or lack thereof, sexual organs, sexual orientation, disability or handicap, age, economic status, political affiliation, previous condition of servitude or any other irrelevant circumstance of the life of that person.
1-13: All people shall have the right to vote and to self-determination through a fairly elected or directly administered governing body.
1-14: No regulation may be established which criminalizes the practice of abstaining from casting a vote.
1-15: All people shall be free from search and seizure without a warrant issued first by a neutral and disinterested judicial body in cases of suspected danger.
1-16: All people shall be considered legally innocent of regulatory transgressions until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
1-17: No law may be established which is retroactive or which issues judicial verdicts.
1-18: Duly elected representatives shall never be purged nor removed from office without due process.
1-19: All people in this community are equally guaranteed the rights outlined in this document and no one person shall have more or less rights than another person.
1-20: A member of this community shall remain a member unless ze voluntarily renounces hir membership or hir membership is revoked in a judicial decision. No person or group, public or private, may otherwise restrict or revoke hir membership.
1-21: All adult persons have the right to (a)commit any act, and to (b)consent to participate in any act with any other adult person, and to (c)commit any act upon a consenting adult person, and to (d)consent to have any act committed upon them, on the condition that those acts do not violate the rights of any other person or persons.
1-21-1: "Adult" as used in CHAPTER ONE, Section 1-21 of this document may not be construed to denote any person below the age of seventeen years.
1-21-2: "Consent" as used in CHAPTER ONE, Section 1-21 of this document shall be taken to mean: a decision when made in the absence of coercion and/or deception.
1-21-2-1: "Deception" as used in CHAPTER ONE, Section 1-21-2
of this document may not be construed to denote any decision made due to
religious or political conviction.
CHAPTER TWO:
Additional Human Rights Recognized
in the United Radical Communities
Section 1:
The United Radical Communities recognizes the following human rights:
1-1: All people accused of transgressing the law and made to stand trial have the right to legal counseling.
1-2: All people have a right to intake the basic nutrients necessary for life.
1-3: All people have a right to access a clean and free supply of water.
1-4: All people have a right to a safe, modern, comfortable and private shelter.
1-5: All people have a right to a job based on their labour skills, or to aquire new labour skills by means of free and comprehensive training programs.
1-6: All people have a right to sustenance.
1-7: All workers have a right to form and/or affiliate with an independent trade union and it is a violation of their rights to refuse to hire a worker or workers on the basis of hir or their trade union affiliation.
1-8: All workers have a right to collectively bargain and to collectively cease working if they become unsatisfied with their conditions.
1-9: All people have a right to comprehensive medical treatment by a high-quality, nationalised health-care system which is collectively maintained.
1-10: All individual persons have a right to an abortion of their pregnancy upon demand of it, provided free of charge by a professional, lisenced doctor who is knowledgeable and competant in the associated procedures and funded by the national health-care system, and also; provided discreetly, without notification of any third party unless such notification is explicitly requested by the party seeking the pregnancy-abortion.
1-11: All people have a right to a free education provided by
a nationalised education system for a period of at least eighteen years
(from grade 0, or Kindergarten, to the sixth year of
college).
1-12: All people over the age of fifty-five or who have been declared injured beyond the ability to humanely work by registered doctors, have a right to retirement from their occupation upon demand of it; and the right to continue to retain still-relevant benifits granted by said occupation. Said people also have a right to a monthly pension equal to at least 80% of their monthly earnings either (a)before the injury in question or, if the person is retiring due to age and not injury, (b)equal to at least 80% of their average monthly earnings over a period of five years preceding their retirement; and in all cases, this pension must be adjusted for inflation or deflation of currency value, if necessary.
1-13: All workers have a right to equally and democratically control the company or companies, corporation[s], or similar industrial or work-related organization[s] they belong to and to equally and democratically control all industries as taken together, by means of any variation of majoritarian or consensus based democracy within the aforesaid.
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