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VOTING ON THE REGIONAL STANCE IS NOW OPEN ON THESE PROPOSAL(S):

General Assembly:
- Prohibition of Honor Killings
Security Council:
- Commend Valentine Z

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GA Recommendation Dashboard: Vote FOR 'Gay Panic Defense Ban' | OWL
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SC Recommendation Dashboard: Vote FOR 'Commend Roavin' | OWL
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15 hours ago via The South Pacific	The Kingdom of Greater Scottdascoda	Commend Roavin For
14 hours ago	The South Pacifican Government of Office of WA Legislation	Omniathrus wrote:For Please make sure to include the name of the proposal you are voting for in your post. Thanks!
6 hours ago	The South Pacifican Government of Office of WA Legislation	Vote for proposal Commend Roavin has been ended. Result: For: 17 Against: 1 OWL recommendation: For Link: SC Recommendation Dashboard: Vote FOR 'Commend Roavin' \| OWL by The South Pacifican Government of Office of WA Legislation . ———— · · · —— —— —— · 'Commend Roavin' · · —..— · Background Information Proposal title: 'Commend Roavin' Author: Vippertooth33 Purpose: To honor Roavin's immense contributions to the South Pacific and The Order of the Grey Wardens, and the Defender community in general, with a shiny badge of commendation. Links On-site drafting forum thread Join the discussion on OWL's message board! Vote .For. · The Office's Analysis The at-vote resolution "Commend Roavin" seeks to award Roavin a badge of commendation, citing previous work for the Defender community and the South Pacific, including the development of many useful technologies. All those achievements listed in the proposal show the incredible talent and leadership Roavin has demonstrated throughout the years, and with this combination of contributions to the larger NationStates world and those that made TSP specifically a better place, OWL believes the nominee's worthiness of a commendation to be out of question. While the proposal itself is rather list-heavy, this in turn has it present a much larger quantity of information on the nominee than the average SC proposal, which was judged positively by OWL voters. Thus, OWL recommends a vote FOR the at-vote proposal, "Commend Roavin". Supplementary Opinions · · —FOR— \| —AGAINST— · For From TSP Citizens Tepertopia is the Director of OWL and a Deputy Chair of the South Pacific. Tepertopia wrote:Roavin has been doing an incredible job in TSP alone, and while many of their other achievements noted in the proposal predate my time in NS, I've still heard of Roavin's great leadership ‒ and I'm not even a person particularly involved in the R/D sphere, which makes the fact that that information trickled down even to me even more impressive. I also don't have anything to complain about regarding writing or formatting of the proposal, so full support from my side. Concrete Slab is a legislator and member of the Coral Guard of the South Pacific. Concrete Slab wrote:This proposal is a well-written and well-deserved commendation for a pillar of our community. Aumeltopia is a Senior Staff member of OWL and a former Delegate of the South Pacific. Aumeltopia wrote:A good commend for a great South Pacifican. From the World Eumaeus is a member of The Black Hawks. They posted the following on the NS forums: Eumaeus wrote:Despite the length of my critique (which is mostly just a reflection of the proposal's length), this is a very well-written and well-argued proposal. The vast majority of the feedback that I have provided above are minor stylistic suggestions; even though there are a handful of actual grammar corrections, there aren't nearly enough to justify pulling the currently submitted proposal. Structurally, while this proposal does go ham with its use of lists, it does so in a well-executed manner that enhances what was already its greatest strength: it is extremely informative. While individual-clause resolutions tend to have an advantage in enhancing rhetoric and ability to argue one's case, list formatting gives the advantage of organizing large quantities of information that would be incomprehensible in the individual-clause format, making it well-suited to the extensive list of accomplishments prepared by the authors in this case. Against From TSP Citizens At the time of writing, OWL had not found a solid opinion against the resolution from TSP citizens. You can make your own opinion heard by posting it on the Regional Message Board of the WA Voting Center! From the World Junitaki-cho is the Councillor of World Assembly Affairs of Refugia. They posted the following on Refugia's RMB: Junitaki-cho wrote:For tonight, brief thoughts on Commend Roavin: - This is probably the poorest writing I've seen in an SC proposal that's made it to vote. It's nothing but lists, with no real order or thematic structure, no context, and no real sense for why the things they did are important. Much of the substance here is nigh on impossible to digest without significant backstory information. The lack of storytelling or sequencing made this a chore to read all the way through, and it weakens their arguments. In a laundry list of ways Roavin contributed to The South Pacific, they include writing a commendation of another TSP user for their contributions. That doesn't track to me. - The "Applauding" clause lists a number of other users, but these are nicknames rather than actual nation names, and no effort is made to clarify who these people are. This should be illegal in the SC, but for now it's only illegal in our hearts. - The "Extolling" clause uses the word "them" in a way that comes very close to violating the personal pronouns rule, in my opinion. I doubt it's actually a rules violation, but it's very shoddy editing that it made it in. I can't really walk away from this understanding whether Roavin deserves a commendation or not. Certainly if he does, this is a lousy way to go about it, and I'm not inclined to support this piece of writing. · — —WELCOME— —BEGINNER'S GUIDE— —WRITING GUIDE— —VOTING CENTER— —DISCORD— — · · —— · · Read dispatch
6 hours ago Edited	The South Pacifican Government of Office of WA Legislation	NEW GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROPOSAL DISCUSSION AND VOTE --------------------------------------------------- Title: Prohibition of Honor Killings Author: Greater Cesnica Purpose: To ban any practice of killing an individual for violating an honor code, and ensure such get treated equally to "normal" cases of killing in criminal proceedings. Greater Cesnica wrote:The General Assembly, Believing that honor killings are especially heinous acts that represent a fundamental betrayal of the trust afforded by a person to their relatives and members of their community, Appalled that such atrocities occur in this current day and age, often with the tacit or explicit support of local authorities, Seeking to put an end to this vile practice, Hereby: Defines an "honor killing" as the killing of an individual by or at the direction of a relative or any other member of a community due to the perception that the individual has brought shame or dishonor upon their family or community, or has otherwise violated an honor code. Prohibits: honor killings from being carried out in any member state and; the belief that the victim of a killing brought shame or dishonor upon their family or community, or otherwise violated an honor code, from being permitted as a part of: any defense in criminal proceedings questioning whether such a killing was a criminal offense or; any argument to reduce the severity of criminal penalties potentially applicable to the perpetrator(s) of such a killing. Requires member states to prosecute alleged honor killings with at least the same severity as they prosecute other forms of alleged unlawful killings. View submitted proposal \| View on-site drafting thread --------------------------------------------------- Please discuss and vote on how regional nations and the Delegate should vote on this proposal. Always remember to include the name of the resolution you are talking about in your posts to avoid confusion! Click here to read voting instruction (Please do this if you have never voted before!) Unojo
6 hours ago via The South Pacific	The Malnjist Queendom of Unojo	Office of WA Legislation wrote:NEW GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROPOSAL DISCUSSION AND VOTE --------------------------------------------------- Title: Prohibition of Honor Killings Author: Greater Cesnica (co-authored by Praeceps) Purpose: To ban any practice of killing an individual for violating an honor code, and ensure such get treated equally to "normal" cases of killing in criminal proceedings. View submitted proposal \| View on-site drafting thread --------------------------------------------------- Please discuss and vote on how regional nations and the Delegate should vote on this proposal. Always remember to include the name of the resolution you are talking about in your posts to avoid confusion! Click here to read voting instruction (Please do this if you have never voted before!) Prohibition of Honor Killings Against Honor killings ar part of a culture that we ourselves might adopt. It shows one's love for their nation and could even have spiritual ties. The definition could also be abused.
6 hours ago via The South Pacific	The Noice of Arvan Irawer	Prohibition of Honor Killings Present
5 hours ago via The South Pacific	The Stick Like Stickpire of The Stickmin Empire	Prohibition of honor killings Present
5 hours ago via The South Pacific	The Democratic Republic of Trozzo	Prohibition of honor killings Against Unojo
2 hours ago Edited via The South Pacific	The TSP Cool Kids Endorse Beepee of Volaworand	Commend Roavin For This is why we have commendations. EDIT: oops i was too late :)
81 minutes ago via The South Pacific	The Ruler of Voids of Doge Land	Prohibition of Honor Killings Abstain