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  • The United States of Africa is a proposed concept for a federation of some or all of the 55 sovereign states on the African continent. The concept takes its origin from the writing of Marcus Garvey, an influential pan-Africanist leader in the early 20th century.

    Hart House IV 2017 · Open Semis · 2017-10-13

  • This house would give developmental aid to failed states(e.g. South Sudan and Somalia) at the expense of states that are developing but comparatively better run.

    26th ICU Tournament 2017 · 4 · 2017-03-23

  • This house believes that prefers a world where African-American artistes provide message of peace rather than confrontation in their music.

    Taiwan Debate Open 2017 · 5 · 2017-02-08

  • This house believes that developing countries should ban political parties from spreading food and other necessities (infoslide said that this happened in countries like India and South Africa, particularly around election time).

    Roosevelt Open 2016 · Open Final · 2016-10-21

  • This house would let the captured wives and children of former or current Boko Haram soldiers choose to live in open society.

    Infoslide

    Over 50 women and children have been captured by the Nigerian military after raids on Boko Haram campsites. These are the wives and children of former or current Boko Haram soldiers. They are kept in a fortified compound by the government, without access to the rest of society. They are provided with an above average standard of living, and given counselling services as well as moderate Islamic teaching.

    Imperial Novices · Open Final · 2016-10-16

  • This house supports BRICS* countries creating alternatives to the current international economic institutions (i.e. the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organisation) * Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

    Warsaw EUDC 2016 · Open Octos · 2016-08-14

  • This house believes that Western Liberal Democracies should drastically reallocate funds from development aid budgets to research into Neglected Tropical Diseases

    Infoslide

    Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of hard to cure tropical infections which are especially endemic in low-income populations in developing regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. They affect more than 1.4 billion people worldwide and cost developing economies billions of dollars every year. this group of diseases has been arguably overlooked because they mainly affect the poorest countries of the developing world and because of recent emphasis on decreasing the prevalence of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Far more resources are given to the 'big three' diseases, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, because of their higher mortality and public awareness rates.

    Cardiff Open 2016 · 2 · 2016-04-16

  • Sam Childers, the “Machine Gun Preacher” is an American citizen who travelled to Sudan in order to take up arms against the Lords Resistance Army (a terrorist organsation). Childers has set up a local resistance network that does not co-ordinate with the Sudanese state and employs violent methods to resist the LRA. this house supports Sam Childers.

    NZ Easters 2016 · 2 · 2016-03-26

  • Cecil Rhodes was the creator of the Rhodes scholarship for Oxford. He was also a British imperialist known for beginning enforced racial segregation in South Africa and for his belief in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. He is commemorated in a number of ways at Oxford University, including through a prominent statute. A student movement called “Rhodes must fall” is campaigning for the university to remove all references to him from the campus. this house believes that Rhodes must fall.

    NZ Easters 2016 · Open Final · 2016-03-26