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  • This house, as the feminist movement, W actively ostracise women who hold views traditionally deemed as anti-women (e.g. being against pro-choice policies, saying that women should dress modestly, believing a woman's duty is as a wife or mother)

    DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports the partition of Sudan

    Infoslide

    Sudan is currently in a state of civil war between two factions - the official military forces of Sudan (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). After a military offensive, the SAF has taken control of Sudan's capital Khartoum away from the RSF. The RSF remains in control of parts of the south of the country and nearly all of the large western region of Darfur. The RSF has unilaterally declared its own rival government.

    Prague Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-01

  • This house would abolish conscription in South Korea.

    Infoslide

    In South Korea, conscription has been a legal requirement for all male citizens since 1957. According to the countrie's rules, all men who turn 18 are required to serve in the armed forces for a minimum of 18 to 21 months.

    South Atlantic Debate Championship 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports the rise in civil disobedience within the EU

    Infoslide

    Civil disobedience is the nonviolent refusal to obey certain laws or commands of a government, often as a form of protest against perceived injustice. It aims to bring about change by highlighting the moral issues associated with specific laws or policies. Examples include Dutch farmers protesting by blocking roads, German climate protestors gluing themselves to the Munich airport runway, French students creating encampments on campuses, etc.

    DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-01

  • In functional democracies, This house would grant courts the power to bar certain parties and/or candidates from running for office on the basis that them holding office would pose significant threats to democracy.

    Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-10-24

  • This house believes that Singapore should re-introduce the jury system for capital offences

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, the jury system refers to a sworn body of randomly selected adult citizens (jurors) in criminal courts who are convened to hear evidence, make findings of fact, and render an impartial verdict officially submitted to the court, or to set a penalty for the offender. The jury system was imported into Singapore under colonial rule. In 1960, Singapore restricted jury trial to capital offences (i.e., offences that are punishable by death), and abolished the system altogether in 1970.

    Institution of Business Administration Debating Championship 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-10-24

  • This house believes that civil action groups should prioritize petitioning the Supreme Court as opposed to pursuing appeals from lower-court cases

    Infoslide

    In most legal systems, a petition and an appeal are distinct processes for bringing a case before the supreme court. An appeal is a continuation of an existing case, where a higher court reviews the legal correctness of a regional court's decision. A petition, in contrast, is a formal request by a certain entity (e.g., civil action groups, corporations, government entities, individuals) for the Supreme Court to choose to hear a new case. While appeal trials are guaranteed to any party who demonstrates credible doubt in the lower court's decision, petitions are not guaranteed to any party; the Supreme Court chooses which petitions to hear.

    Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-24

  • This house regrets the Down to the Countryside Movement

    Infoslide

    The Down to the Countryside Movement was a policy instituted in China between 1968 and 1980. It was declared that privileged urban youth should be sent to mountainous areas or farming villages to learn from the workers and farmers there. In total, around 17 million urban youth were sent to rural areas as a result of the movement.

    Malaysia Pre-WUDC 2025 · Pre-Semifinals · 2025-10-18

  • This house would allow citizens to sue politicians for policies that cause unnecessary and reasonably foreseeable harm

    Infoslide

    "A government policy that causes "unnecessary and reasonably foreseeable" harm can be defined as follows: "Unnecessary harm" means harms that are not essential to achieving the policy’s core objective, and which could have been avoided through reasonable alternative designs or implementations. For example, if building a highway requires demolishing a home, that demolition is a necessary harm. However, if the chosen route displaces more homes than reasonably required, the excess displacement constitutes unnecessary harm. "Reasonably foreseeable" harm means harms that, at the time the policy is enacted, could be predicted with a material likelihood of occurring based on the information then available. This excludes remote, speculative, or trivial risks."

    Oxford Schools Debating Championship Australia New Zealand Round 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-11

  • Within Netherlands, This house would mandate political parties to be internally fully democratic (including allowing open access to become member)

    Infoslide

    For the purpose of this debate, political parties are all organisations who take part in elections. Fully democratic parties are ones in which most if not all decisions about policy, campagining, positions in the party, etc. are voted on directly by party members. Party members can call for a referendum at any time if an (internal) threshold is met. Parties that are not fully democratic have many decssions made by selected bodies such as commissions or party elites. The includes parties who do not allow any (new) members, such as the PVV .

    Dutch Debating League 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-11