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  • This house believes that pro bono legal work does more harm than good.

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    Typically, professionals in fields like law, medicine, finance, technology, and consulting offer their expertise pro bono to individuals, non-profit organizations, or communities who cannot afford these services otherwise. The intention behind pro bono work is often to increase access to essential services, address inequalities, and contribute to the public good.

    Vistaar: NIT Durgapur PD 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-03-29

  • This house believes that charity organisations should heavily engage in business activities to generate income instead of relying on donations

    NTU DC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-03-22

  • This house believes that charity organisations should heavily engage in business activities to generate income instead of relying on donations

    NTU DC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-03-22

  • This house believes that humanitarian aid organisations, when allocating aid budgets, should allocate towards causes with the percieved highest probability of succeeding at alleviating suffering rather than towards causes perceived to impact the most vulnerable

    Leiden Open 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-02-22

  • This house believes that effective altruism ought to prioritize long-termist causes (e.g. reducing existential risk from AI) over near-termist causes (e.g. fighting malaria).

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    Effective altruism is a social and intellectual movement dedicated to making sure that charity does the greatest amount of good possible. Examples of such activities include cause comparisons, charity efficacy evaluations, political advocacy, and more.

    Hart House High Schools 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-02-15

  • এই সংসদ এমন একটি পৃথিবী চায়, যেখানে একজন মানুষ এনজিওতে চাকরি করার পরিবর্তে অধিক বেতনের চাকরি করে তার সিংহভাগ অর্থ ডোনেশন করবে।

    1st JISCDC Nationals 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-02-14

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of the Vatican to make their finances more transparent.

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    The Vatican’s economy works in a way that it conservatively invests the majority of the donations it accrues from Peter’s Pence to different real estate properties, stocks, and bonds. Historically, the finances of the Vatican has always been shrouded in mystery as it publishes little to no information about it. The Institute for the Works of Religion or the more widely known Vatican Bank, has been subject to numerous frauds and scandals in the past few decades.

    Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Pagdayo Semifinals · 2025-01-25

  • THB that local animal rights groups in local areas should heavily prioritize prevention over preservation strategies in their activism

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    In urban areas, local animal rights groups tend to focus on two major strategies. One is preservation, which often targets getting stray animals adopted or put into shelters. The other strategy is prevention, which involves efforts to reduce the animal population, such as mass spaying / neutering of strays.

    North American Debating Championships 2025 · Novice Semifinals · 2025-01-18

  • A. This house, as the environmental movement, would refuse funding from companies engaged in greenwashing.

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    A. Greenwashing is when a company or organization promotes itself as more environmentally friendly than it is, often through marketing or branding, in order to attract consumers who prioritize sustainability.

    Cambodia Debate League Open S3 2024 · Novice Semi-Finals · 2024-12-21

  • A. This house, as the environmental movement, would refuse funding from companies engaged in greenwashing.

    Infoslide

    A. Greenwashing is when a company or organization promotes itself as more environmentally friendly than it is, often through marketing or branding, in order to attract consumers who prioritize sustainability.

    Cambodia Debate League Open S3 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-12-21

  • A. This house, as the environmental movement, would refuse funding from companies engaged in greenwashing.

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    A. Greenwashing is when a company or organization promotes itself as more environmentally friendly than it is, often through marketing or branding, in order to attract consumers who prioritize sustainability.

    Cambodia Debate League Open S3 2024 · Novice Pre-Semifinals · 2024-12-21

  • This house, as Catholics, P a world where the Catholic church continued to allow quantified indulgences

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    Indulgences in Catholicism are a practice whereby the Church grants full or partial remission from the punishment of sin (reducing the time spent in purgatory). Quantified indulgences refer to quantifying what is being given (i.e. money, alms, prayers, pilgrimages), and quantifying the remission from the punishment of sin (days or years shaved off of purgatory). By the late Middle Ages, indulgences were mostly used to support public works like hospitals, churches, and schools until financial indulgences were banned under pressure from the Protestant Reformation. Reforms in the 20th century largely abolished quantified indulgences.

    Queens's Holiday Open 2024 · Junior Semifinals · 2024-12-14

  • This house would remove charitable status from all private schools

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    There are about 1,200 private schools in England and Wales registered as charities. Not all private schools are charities; some are run for profit. Schools with charitable status receive tax exemptions. E.g. school fees are exempt from VAT; donations received are entitled to gift aid. In return, they are required to ensure that their expenditure is wholly and exclusively applied to their charitable purposes, and are subject to the supervision of the Charity Commission.

    England BP 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-10-26