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  • This house would ban religious charities from engaging in proselytization (i.e. the act of attempting to convert or persuade individuals to adopt a particular religious belief, often through preaching, teaching, or promoting religious doctrines)

    Western Canada BP Champs · Quarterfinals · 2024-01-13

  • This house regrets the institutionalisation of social justice organisations

    Infoslide

    The institutionalisation of social justice organisations refers to the establishment of formal structures to control the organisation of social justice movements. (e.g. Mardi Gras being run by an incorporated board, establishing registered charities to run campaigns like the Women's March)

    Sydney Mini 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-12-16

  • This house believes that altruists should pursue occupations where they can earn-to-give over directly working in charities to solve social problems.

    Infoslide

    Earning-to-Give refers to the idea that one can take up a high-paying job (banker, lawyer etc.) and put their profits into charitable causes. This looks like becoming an investment banker and donating your earnings to charity as opposed to becoming a Red Cross volunteer and treating the wounded in war zones.

    Taiwan Schools Debate Challenge 2023 · Junior Quarterfinals · 2023-11-18

  • This house believes that altruists should pursue occupations where they can earn-to-give over directly working in charities to solve social problems

    Infoslide

    Earn-to-Give refers to the paradigm that one can take up a lucratively paying job and put their profits into charitable causes. This looks like becoming an investment banker and donating your earnings to charity as opposed to becoming a Red Cross volunteer and treating the wounded in war zones.

    Taiwan Schools Debate Challenge 2023 · Quarterfinals · 2023-11-18

  • This house would rank all charities by their Effective Altruism score and remove charitable status from all but the most effective

    Infoslide

    Organisations that are granted Charitable Status don't pay tax on the majority of their income. The ""effective altruism score"" of a charity is a representation of how much positive impact on humans it creates for each £1 of donations received. It is therefore a function of both the efficiency and the aims of the charity. Examples of charities with high effective altruism scores are the Against Malaria Foundation and the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative. Charities with low effective altruism scores include the RSPCA and Eton College.

    Eton Schools 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-10-03

  • A. This house believes that humanitarian organizations (IFRC, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF etc) should pivot away from the principle of "do no harm" to the principle of "harm minimization".

    Infoslide

    The "do no harm" humanitarian principle is derived from medical ethics and specifies that all humanitarian actions must not cause direct harm to a stakeholder or stakeholders in the immediate or foreseeable term. In contrast, the "harm minimization" principle considers the course of action that minimizes the nett harm inflicted on all stakeholders, even if some stakeholders are directly harmed in the process.

    Ho Chi Minh Debate Open 2023 · Open Semifinals · 2023-08-12

  • This house supports voluntourism.

    Infoslide

    Voluntourism is where tourists participate in volunteer work, typically for a charity.

    Auckland Schools' Debating Impromptu Cup 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-08-05

  • This House regrets the use of visceral imagery by charities & aid organisations to gain donations for their causes. (Use of visceral imagery - use of images of extreme poverty & suffering)

    Mahasangram 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-08-04

  • Assuming that this prediction is true, This house supports the Western philanthropic foundations' recent diversion of funding from supporting grass-roots civil societies to pro-democracy movements in China.

    Infoslide

    Recently, several Western philanthropic foundations (e.g. National Endowment for Democracy, Open Society Foundation, etc.) experienced a series of restructuring of decision-making executives. After the restructuring, it was noticed that these foundations have been decreasing their funding for grass-roots civil organizations in East Asia (e.g. disability welfare institutions in South Korea). Based on the political background of new executives, there is a prediction that these foundations are aggressively diverting their funding in East Asia exclusively for the pro-democracy and human rights movements in China. Although the diversion has not been explicitly confirmed, these foundations have been actively reaching out to activists and organizations that are radically critical of the Chinese government.

    Malaysia United Asian Debating Championship 2023 · EFL Finals · 2023-06-16

  • This house believes that charities should not accept donations made by public figures as part of a public apology (e.g. public figures who are criticized for being misogynists and then they donate to charities working against domestic violence)

    Heritage Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-06-02

  • This house would rank all charities based on their effectiveness and give tax breaks accordingly

    LSRPD 2023 · 3 · 2023-04-14

  • This house regrets the narrative that professionals working for nonprofits perform a public service" or "sacrifice.""

    Infoslide

    Performative radicalism" refers to a type of political engagement that focuses on publicly sharing and displaying one's political beliefs or stances to create a court of public opinion rather than directly influencing policy change."

    HKDC 2023 · 1 · 2023-03-25