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  • This house would require all historically major polluters to open their borders to environmental refugees

    Infoslide

    Over the last decade, scientists have identified a range of chemicals that exist naturally in the brain and shape individuals’ moral behaviour. Significant amounts of research is now being carried out to create “moral enhancement drugs”, which would alter the levels of such chemicals. Such drugs have been shown to increase individuals’ tendencies to display empathy and care for others, to behave in altruistic way, and to resist pressures to act in ways that violate their personal and ethical beliefs.

    ATUDC 2023 · Round 5A · 2023-03-18

  • This House believes that South Korea should not continue to repatriate North Korean refugees or "defectors"

    Infoslide

    South Korea's peace initiative seeks to establish a nuclear weapons-free and peaceful Korean peninsula. South Korea follows this by neither seeking a regime change in North Korea, nor unification on their terms. In early November 2019, two North Korean fishermen were repatriated to the North where they are likely to face execution. This was the first time since the end of the Korean War (1953) that the country had expelled North Korean refugees — or “defectors” , who were already on South Korean soil and expressed a desire to stay.

    Lloyd Parliamentary Debate · Novice Semifinals · 2023-03-01

  • This House believes that South Korea should not continue to repatriate North Korean refugees or "defectors"

    Infoslide

    South Korea's peace initiative seeks to establish a nuclear weapons-free and peaceful Korean peninsula. South Korea follows this by neither seeking a regime change in North Korea, nor unification on their terms. In early November 2019, two North Korean fishermen were repatriated to the North where they are likely to face execution. This was the first time since the end of the Korean War (1953) that the country had expelled North Korean refugees — or “defectors” , who were already on South Korean soil and expressed a desire to stay.

    Lloyd Parliamentary Debate · Quarterfinals · 2023-03-01

  • This house would introduce a quota for climate change refugees, where refugees are allocated in proportion to countries’ carbon emissions

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    Carbon dioxide emissions or CO2 emissions are emissions stemming from the burning of fossil fuels and other process, they include carbon dioxide produced during consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels as well as gas flaring. Carbon dioxide is largely associated with global warming and its regulation have been the target of environmental policies.

    Asia Schools Open - Spring 2022 · 4 · 2022-01-14

  • That we as Belarus regret manufacturing the border crisis with Poland.

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    Belarus has artificially created a border crisis with Poland by bringing in a significant number of migrants and asylum seekers – mostly from the Middle East – and taking them to the border with promises of an easy crossing into the European Union. Poland is a member of the European Union while Belarus is not.

    Nepal Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2021 · 7 · 2021-12-28

  • This house, represented by the EU, will go to aggravate the conflict with Belarus (imposing crippling economic sanctions, complete trade blockade, military threat, etc.).

    Infoslide

    At the end of May 2021, the flow of illegal migrants to Lithuania, Poland and Latvia from the territory of Belarus increased sharply. The European Union accused the Lukashenka regime of provoking the migration crisis and organizing the transfer of illegal immigrants to the EU borders as revenge for the sanctions imposed against the regime. Lithuania Latvia and Poland declared a state of emergency and strengthened the borders. Despite this, cases of breakthroughs by migrants continue. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offered the EU to pay Belarus for the containment of migrants, comparing a similar situation with refugees who went through Turkey

    Турнир Новичков 2021 · Open Semis · 2021-11-14

  • This house (as the UN) will actively fund this organization in the attempt to bring back foreigners who want to quit ISIS.

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    Around 40% of ISIS’s foreign recruits want to quit. An organization in Turkey has been working to bring them back after thorough vetting. However, countries like Germany refuse to take these people back, citing the reasons of backlash, security, and how they no longer identify these people as citizens of their state. this leads to the ostracisation of ISIS recruits who are willing to start over, leaving them with no place to permanently relocate to.

    19th Annual Premchand Debates 2021 · Open Quarters · 2021-11-12

  • Western countries must take back relatives of ISIS militants.

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    At present, special camps or prisons in Iraq and Syria are occupied by women who in the past usually joined ISIS with their husbands. In many of them, the countries from which they left revoked their citizenship. Some of them are in camps with their children.

    3V · 3 · 2021-11-06

  • This house believes that it is in the interests of the EU to offer Turkey accession into the union in exchange for a permanent commitment to housing refugees from the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts

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    In 2016 Turkey began accepting refugees from the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts to limit their entry into the EU and taking in refugees who had entered Greece in exchange for fast-tracking negotiations for its potential accession into the EU. In 2020 Turkey stopped policing its border with the EU and has allowed refugees to enter into the EU again.

    Zimbabwe National Trials 2021 · 3 · 2021-10-17

  • This house believes that developed countries should grant asylum to economic migrants from developing countries in their region.

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    An economic migrant is someone who emigrates from one region to another, including crossing international borders seeking an improved standard of living, because the conditions or job opportunities in the migrant's own region are insufficient

    Hollatz Debates 2021 · 4 · 2021-09-24

  • This house believes that pro-refugee advocacy groups should portray refugees as valuable contributors to society, rather than victims of their circumstances.

    Advanced Open · Round 3 · 2021-09-14

  • This house would not leave Afghanistan

    Infoslide

    You are an influential female journalist in Afghanistan. The Taliban recently took over the government and you have been threatened to leave the country. The UK government has offered you safe passage in their country.

    Regatta IV 2021 · Open Final · 2021-09-11

  • This house would allow countries to pay other countries to settle asylum-seekers who reach their borders and refugees who are settled within their borders.

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    Refugees are asylum seekers whose applications for asylum have been accepted. If asylum seekers (or refugees) reach the borders of country a or are resident in country a country a may pay country b to take on those asylum seekers / refugees instead.

    DSP Inaugural Championship 2021 · Open Octos · 2021-09-01

  • This house believes that pro-refugee advocacy groups should portray refugees as valuable contributors to society, rather than victims of their circumstances.

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    Refugees are people fleeing conflict areas. They are defined and protected in international law, and must not be expelled or returned to situations where their life and freedom are at risk. Refugees are currently seen as victims of their circumstances.

    Online Summer Debate Championships 2021 · Open Quarters · 2021-08-28