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Bill: Children's Rights Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pharaoh's People's Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2482
Description[?]:
| A Bill to secure the rights of children in the Homeland. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state does not provide child benefit.
Current: Child benefit policies are left to local governments.
Proposed: The state guarantees child benefit to families classified as low-income or poor.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning child labour.
Old value:: Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers.
Current: Child labour is forbidden.
Proposed: Child labour is forbidden.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are not made to sing the national anthem, but are required to show respect when it is played at the commencement of school each day.
Current: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Proposed: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Current: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Proposed: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:53:25, November 05, 2007 CET | From | Robotic Anarcho Syndicalistic Party | To | Debating the Children's Rights Bill |
| Message | Requiring respect of the national anthem is a valid law during wartime, and should not be changed. The other clauses, we can approve of. |
| Date | 12:09:34, November 05, 2007 CET | From |  Ma'avak | To | Debating the Children's Rights Bill |
| Message | "Why should be ban child labour? If a little boy wants to get a paper round to make a little extra pocket money then that is a good thing for him to do but you are denying him this right." -- Avidan Matusevitch |
| Date | 17:36:49, November 05, 2007 CET | From | Red Anarchy Faction | To | Debating the Children's Rights Bill |
| Message | We support all articles except article 1, we think a child should have the ability to get a job if they want to. |
| Date | 19:14:28, November 05, 2007 CET | From | Pharaoh's People's Party | To | Debating the Children's Rights Bill |
| Message | The existence of child labor devalues adult labor, by opening up a large seciton of the population to employment. It thus decreases adult wages, requiring families to secure additional income by employing their children, preventing them from developing properly. What is at stake here is not a middle-class 12 year old who want a paper route, but an impovershed 12 year old who needs to sew soccer balls so his family can eat an extra few meals a week. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 225 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 125 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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