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This house believes that African Countries should pivot towards the Global East rather than the Global West.
Joynt Scroll 2019 · 2 · 2019-09-06
This house supports traditional feminist leaning ideologies that preserve and promote their rights and interests regardless of the ensuing externalities.
- Feminism
- Law
- Social Justice
- Human Rights
- Africa
Infoslide

Malawi’s “Protecting a Woman’s Modesty Law” is used to punish people who publicly disrobe and assault women but also to punish women who don't speak or act in traditionally “modest” ways.

2019 Accra Open Debate · 5 · 2019-08-22
This house would grant amnesty to members of the military in Sudan in exchange for them stepping down
14th EU in Thailand National Intervarsity Debate Championship 2019 · Open Semis · 2019-08-09
This house would grant amnesty to members of the military in Sudan in exchange for them stepping down
14th EU in Thailand National Intervarsity Debate Championship 2019 · Open Semis · 2019-08-09
This house supports China’s attempt to become a global dominant power (eg establishing its own global financial/development institutions; increased FDI in Africa South America Asia; increased military spending)
WSDC Thailand 2019 · Open Quarters · 2019-07-28
This house believes that development aid that goes to the global south should only be used to fund grassroots NGOs rather than International NGOs.
Infoslide

The Global South is an emerging term which refers to countries seen as low and middle income in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean by the World Bank. These nations are often described as newly industrialized or in the process of industrializing

9th Zamboanga Debate Open · Open Semis · 2019-07-05
Assuming the Sudanese civilians manage to take power from the military That the new civilian government should revert to its pre-1970 flag.
Bali Australs 2019 · 3 · 2019-07-01
That the international community should recognize Somaliland as an independent and sovereign nation.
Infoslide

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Sudan in December 2018 and protests are still ongoing. It led to the removal of Omar al-Bashir from power who had ruled Sudan with an iron fist for 3 decades. The Transitional Military Council (TMC) was set up which promised elections in around a year. However most of the protesters are not satisfied and have continued to protest because they want an immediate transition to civilian rule. The TMC ‘arrested’ Omar al-Bashir but he has been kept in very comfortable conditions and protesters suspect it is just a ruse.

Bali Australs 2019 · 3 · 2019-07-01
That as Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) we would hand Omar al-Bashir over to the International Criminal Court.
Infoslide

The current flag of Sudan was adopted on 20 May 1970. The flag is based on the Arab Liberation Flag shared by Egypt Iraq Syria and Yemen that uses a subset of the Pan-Arab colours symbolising a shift towards Pan-Arabism. Prior to the 1969 military coup of Gaafar Nimeiry a blue-yellow-green tricolour design was used. The colours of the flag represented the River Nile (blue) the Sahara (yellow) and farmlands (green). They were chosen as they were neutral between ethnic groups and political parties.

Bali Australs 2019 · 3 · 2019-07-01
This house believes that former British colonies should no longer allow the maintenance of all physical remnants of colonial history (architecture paintings etc.)
- Culture
- Historical Memory
- Colonialism
- Law
- Africa
Vietnam UADC 2019 · EFL Final · 2019-06-24
This house supports South Africa's land-expropriation-without-compensation reform
Infoslide

South Africa's land-expropriation-without-compensation reform is an act that takes away land owned by white South Africans without any form of compensation from the state, and distributes them to black South Africans.

Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 · 5 · 2019-06-07
This house, as Western Liberal Democracies, would actively support civil disobedience in Sudan
Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 · 4 · 2019-06-07
This house believes that feminist movements in the developing world should integrate religious messages and institutions into their advocacy, rather than distancing themselves from them.
- Feminism
- Religion
- Social Justice
- Asia
- Africa
Cambridge IV 2019 · 2 · 2019-05-11
In countries with a history of conflict, discrimination and/or ethnic tension (for example: Nigeria India Myanmar Iraq). this house would establish models of ethnic rotation
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A model of ethnic rotation is one in which the presidency rotates among ethnic groups. In other words, when the head of state (president or prime minister) is part of an ethnic group, a person from that same group cannot become head of state again until a person from all the main ethnic groups has held the position. Therefore, if there are four ethnic groups in the following four mandates, there will be four presidents of the four ethnic groups.

CMUDE 2019 · 4 · 2019-04-15
This house believes that the international actors who had supported Fayulu should actively support Tshisekedi’s attempts to form a new government.
Infoslide

In 2018, Joseph Kabila, generally seen as an authoritarian leader, agreed to step down as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and hold a presidential election. In that election, most of the opposition coalesced around the candidacy of Martin Fayulu. When votes were announced, however, a surprise victory was awarded to Félix Tshisekedi, a less-popular opposition candidate. International and domestic observers generally concluded that Kabila, knowing a candidate from his own party would lack credibility, had brokered a deal with Tshisekedi and successfully rigged the election in his favor, and against Fayulu. For the first two years of his term as President, Tshisekedi governed in alliance with Kabila’s legislative faction, while much of the international community continued to support Fayulu and declare the Tshisekedi government illegitimate. In late 2020, Tshisekedi announced he was dissolving his alliance with Kabila’s party and attempting to form a new government comprised of various opposition groups.

Colgate Open · 5 · 2019-03-30
This house as the international community would actively oppose recent election results in the DRC.
- Democracy
- Africa
Infoslide

General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2018. The outgoing president Joseph Kabila was in power for 18 years. Kabila’s Father overthrew a dictator in 1997 and was president before Kabila. The winning candidate was sworn in January 2019. this is the first peaceful transition of power in the DRC since 1960. Félix Tshisekedi won with 38.6% of the vote. The candidate backed by the ruling party Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary and another opposition candidate Martin Fayulu lost. However Fayulu claims that the winning candidate and the outgoing president made a deal to rig the vote. Election observers have cast doubt on the results claiming possible stuffing of ballots.

28th ICU Tournament 2019 · Open Semis · 2019-03-22
This house believes that humanitarian aid organizations should condition their aid to the eradication of practices against human rights in these African countries
Infoslide

In African countries such as Tanzania, Burundi, Malawi or Kenya, the ancestral practices of 'muti witchcraft' or 'medicinal murder' are very common and deeply rooted in the population. Within these practices, there is the dismemberment of albino children, animal and human sacrifices, the violation of albino girls to cure HIV among other practices.

IV Torneo Rosarista de Debate 2019 · 7 · 2019-03-22
This house, as an upper-middle-class African American, would resettle in Africa.
GWU IV / US Universities Debate Eastern Championship 2019 · Open Semis · 2019-02-22
This house would establish an independent African electoral commission to run national elections on the continent.
Taiwan Debate Open 2019 · Open Final · 2019-02-08
In the lead up to the 1994 negotiated settlement in South Africa, this house believes that the ANC should have demanded further concessions (e.g. removing the amnesty provision in the TRC, greater land and economic rights) even at the expense of prolonging the conflict.
Cape Town WUDC 2019 · ESL Final · 2019-01-01