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Charter of the World Forum

Current version as originally passed on 19 March 2017 and last amended by WFR 14 on 13 May 2022

Preamble

We, the sovereign nations of the world, seeking everlasting peace, order, stability, environmental protection, and social and mutually beneficial economic development of the world, hereby agree to establish the World Forum.

Article I - The Mandate

Section A - Purpose

  1. The purpose of the World Forum shall be to maintain peace, order, and stability in the world. The member states of the World Forum shall take collective action to ensure that all threats to the peace, order, or stability among them are suppressed.
  2. The purpose of the World Forum shall be to facilitate the development of cordial relations amongst the the nations of the world.
  3. The purpose of the World Forum shall be to create an era of peace and prosperity for all states to be able to foster social, economic, and environmental development.

Section B - Responsibilities

  1. The World Forum shall serve as a framework, facilitating multilateral discussion and agreements aiming for adopting broad consensus-based suggestions for national legislation.

    2. 1a. The World Forum shall have the right, to impose binding resolutions, the contents of which must be adopted through national legislation by all World Forum members. Such a resolution requires the approval of two-thirds of the Assembly.

  2. The World Forum shall serve as a channel for consolidating our separate resources in times of great need.
  3. The World Forum shall monitor the fulfilment of adopted agreements and suggest new issues to be brought up before the assembled nations.
  4. The World Forum shall provide an international arbitrary court to settle national and international disputes that are voluntarily submitted, and to help the Forum, should the need for arbitration arise.

Article II - Functions

Section A - The Assembly

  1. The World Forum shall have an organ—the Assembly—which shall serve as a forum of discussion and adopt policy recommendations as well as binding resolutions for member states of the World Forum.
  2. Each member state of the World Forum shall hold one seat in the Assembly, giving equal representation to all member states.
  3. The member states shall respectively decide who shall represent them at the Assembly.
  4. The Assembly shall be able to appoint officers by a simple majority vote.
  5. Observers may speak at Assembly meetings, but shall not have a vote.

Section B - The Committees

  1. The World Forum shall have expert committees reporting directly to the Assembly. These committees shall monitor the fulfilment of adopted agreements and suggest issues for discussion in the Assembly.
  2. By a simple majority vote in the Assembly, committees may be formed, merged, separated, or dissolved. The rules for committee membership shall be determined by the Assembly.
  3. The officers of each committee shall be decided by a simple majority vote in the respective committees.
  4. Observers may speak at committee meetings, but shall not have a vote.

Section C - The Court

  1. The World Forum shall have a court—the International Court—which shall settle national and international disputes submitted to it and to help the Forum, should the need for arbitration arise.
  2. If a party fails to comply with a decision of the International Court, the other party or parties may have recourse to the Assembly, where a recommendation may be made.
  3. The Assembly, through a simple majority vote, shall appoint Justices, the amount of which shall be also be specified by the Assembly.
  4. The Assembly shall also determine the length of time that a Justice shall serve.

Article III - Commonly accepted International Law

  1. The members of the World Forum fully accept the Grovne Conventions on the rules of war, weapons banned in warfare, treatment of non-combattants in national and international conflicts, statehood, borders, navigation of the seas and trade.
  2. The members of the World Forum fully accept the international ius cogens. It includes
    1. the human rights as formulated in the “Declaration of Human Rights” of 1956
    2. the prohibition of the threat and use of violence against another state’s territory or political sovereignty
    3. the prohibition of genocide
    4. the prohibition of slavery, including the trading of humans
    5. the prohibition of racial discrimination
    6. the prohibition of torture
  3. The members of the World Forum recognize the general principles of law:
    1. pacta sunt servanda
    2. lex specialis derogat legi generali
    3. lex posterior derogat legi priori
    4. venire contra factum proprium
  4. The members of the World Forum continue to accept all international treaties they have been a part of prior to their accession to the World Forum. This does not apply to treaties with contents going against any of the binding principles of this organization.
  5. The members of the World Forum accept all binding resolutions passed by the Assembly and any finally effective verdicts spoken by the International Court.
  6. The subsections 1-3 are to be applied in perpetuity unless fully superseded by new legislation.

Article IV - Amendments

  1. Amendments to the Charter of the World Forum require a two-thirds majority in the Assembly and the ratification of the amended Charter by two-thirds of the member states.
  2. If the requirements of subsection 1 are met, the amended Charter affects all members of the World Forum equally.

Article V - Ratification

The Charter shall be ratified in accordance with the constitutional procedures of the signatory states.

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