WEST Treaty of Universal Ethics and Law

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DEFINING THESE TERMS
HUMAN RIGHTS
Human rights are described as rights which apply to every human - regardless of where they come from, who they are, or what they did.

TREATMENT OF SOLDIERS IN WAR
Describing how to morally treat a soldier, captured or not, in a war.

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Interchangeable with war crimes, morally illegal actions which cannot be committed during a war.

CRIMES AGAINST PEACE
Planning and/or initiating a war of aggression, and/or violating international agreements in the initiation of the war.

INTERNATIONAL BODY OF LAW
A stateless judiciary component, granted the ability to charge individuals with no bias to one nation.

HUMAN RIGHTS of the T.U.E.L.
Amendments to this list of human rights can only clarify existing rights.

1. All human beings are born free and equal.
2. Everyone has the right to live, to freedom, and to security.
3. No one shall be a slave.
4. All persons are recognized equally before the law.
5. All must have a fair, impartial, public trial if they are suspected of a crime.
6. No one may be detained or held against their will unlawfully.
7. All are innocent until proven guilty.
8. Everyone has the right to privacy, and to have their reputation defended by the state.
9. Everyone has the right to movement and residence within their state.
10. Everyone has the right to seek and receive asylum from unlawful persecution.
11. Men and women of full age have the right to marry and start a family.
12. Everyone has the right to own property and to not be unlawfully deprived of their property.
13. Everyone has the freedom of thought, conscience, and to practice, worship, and believe in any religion of their choice, and be able to freely change their religion.
14. Everyone has the freedom of opinion and expression, and has the freedom to express their thoughts through medias, including peaceful assembly.
    14a.  Revealing state secrets, of which would result in deaths, that deaths would outweigh lives saved, or for not the greater good in stabilizing or goodness of the world, will not be protected by this document.
15. Everyone has the right to a standard of living, including...
    15a. Healthcare services where they will be treated by qualified doctors and with dignity,
    15b. Free and compulsory education in the elementary and secondary stages, with access to advanced learning in the post-secondary stages.
16. No one shall be deprived of these rights for any reason.

TREATMENT OF SOLDIERS IN WAR
This document describes soldiers as active or inactive combatants, whether engaged or not, in a war, including soldiers, sailors, or otherwise. Prisoners of War, abbreviated to POWs, are defined as soldiers captured by their enemy in a war. Violating the agreements listed below are considered war crimes.

1. Recognizing universal norms, the white flag be recognized as a symbol of surrender.
2. Clearly identifiable soldiers that surrender in combat may not be fired upon.
3. POWs must be treated humanely, which includes access to sustainable food, healthcare, and freedom from torture.
4. POWs may not be executed without a fair trial.
5. Clearly identifiable, non-threatening medics and disabled soldiers may not be fired upon.
    5a. Identifiable hospital ships may not be fired upon as well.
6. POWs are expected to be treated with dignity.
7. Feigning surrender, medic status, soldier status, incapacitated status, or insignia not representing your party/state (i.e. perfidy) are war crimes.

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY/WAR CRIMES
All that was enumerated in the previous section apply here as well.

1. Senseless destruction, meaning destruction in a territory for no strategic purpose other than fear,
2. Forcing a prisoner of war to fight for their enemy,
3. Mass-execution,
4. Hostage-taking,
5. Directed attacks towards civilians,
6. Directed attacks towards humanitarian workers or peacekeepers,
7. Perfidy,
8. Deportation, specifically, deporting inhabitants of occupied territory,
9. Chemical warfare,
10. Using human shields, regardless of positioning, circumstance, or negligence of victim,
11. Using child soldiers,
12. Pillaging,
13. and rape.

CRIMES AGAINST PEACE/CRIMES OF AGGRESSION
The most supreme international crime on-par with crimes against humanity, only that they are committed before a war.

1. Planning and/or initiating a war in violation of an international treaty,
2. Threatening or using force against the independence of a recognized state,
3. In any conflict, that peaceful means of negotiation be attempted first,
4. That states seek the approval of the international assembly to justify a conflict, and states that believe a conflict is justified retain the right to be neutral in said conflict,
5. A state/states defending against a state suspected of aggression is generally clear of being charged of crimes against peace,
6. States defending a state/states from aggressors must answer a call to arms, or otherwise, are not justified in their involvement within a conflict.

INTERNATIONAL BODY OF LAW
A body of law will be established, and its rules following, with negotiations with an international community.

AMENDMENTS
1983 - Late April, amended Human Rights of the T.U.E.L. article 14, added restriction for revealing state secrets.
Amended article 10 on war crimes that you can be charged regardless of circumstance.