Our function, we believe, is to investigate democracy. While many theorists would have it that democracy and 'human rights' are unalienably linked, there is plenty of evidence that democracy can exist where social freedoms are denied, so long as popular consent is given for the State to take those freedoms. As Ms. Mayday quite evidently accepts that the latest Hobrazian election results are legitimate, we find it highly questionable how they can reconcile this with the view that democracy cannot exist in Hobrazia when the Rutanian standard of human rights clearly are not.
While we remain fully committed to human rights, the scope of this committee is to investigate the political freedoms, not the social freedoms, of Hobrazia. Barmenia is therefore forced to vote against the inclusion of human rights abuses.