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  • This house would make humanitarian aid a justifying circumstance.

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    A justifying circumstance in criminal law refers to instances where a person's actions, though may technically constitute a crime, are deemed lawful due to the specific circumstances surrounding them, thus negating both civil and criminal liability. For the purpose of this debate, this justifying circumstance means that crimes or violations done in furtherance or in the process of humanitarian aid should be absolved if the end-goal for which is humanitarian justice.

    2nd PRC IHL Debate Open · Round 3 · 2025-08-25

  • This house believes that journalists working for state-controlled media outlets with lacking editorial independence should not be granted protection under IHL when reporting during armed conflicts.

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    Editorial independence refers to the freedom of journalists and media organizations to make content decisions (including what to report, who to report, and how to report it) without pressure and/or censorship from the government. Examples of State-Controlled Media Organizations are People’s Television (Philippines), China Central Television Network, and Russia Today.

    2nd PRC IHL Debate Open · Round 1 · 2025-08-25

  • This house believes that India should abolish the ‘first-past-the-post’ system for elections in favor of the PR system.

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    In First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) electoral system, in each constituency, the candidate who receives the most votes wins the seat- even if they do not have an absolute majority. For example, if Candidate A gets 40% of the votes, Candidate B gets 35%, and Candidate C gets 25%, Candidate A wins the seat. In a Proportional Representation (PR) system, voters typically vote for political parties rather than individual candidates. Parties then receive seats in the legislature in proportion to the percentage of votes they receive nationwide or across large regions. For example, if a party wins 30% of the national vote, it would receive roughly 30% of the seats in Parliament.

    K Pre-ABP Debate 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-23

  • This house would accept the offer

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    You are a prominent social activist leading an influential NGO fighting for human rights in an undemocratic country. The ruling government has been engaging in systemic human rights violation. The government offers you a deal. They would give you an important position in the government that would allow you to work closely with influential leaders internally. This will potentially allow you to make policies related to human rights protection. But in return, you have to denounce and dissolve your organisation

    K Pre-ABP Debate 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-08-23

  • This house believes that the gang member is more likely than the computer software executive to be the mayor’s murderer

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    Redwater is a high-crime city with a major gang presence. This morning, Redwater’s mayor was found dead, stabbed repeatedly inside the house he’d lived in for years. For this debate, the mayor’s murderer is one of these two suspects: Suspect 1: A member of the city’s largest, most notorious gang. The mayor campaigned on aggressively cracking down on the gang. During the mayor’s two months in office, Redwater’s police department arrested hundreds of gang members and seized millions of dollars' worth of illegal drugs from the gang. Suspect 2: The chief executive of a midsize computer software company that’s headquartered in the city. The computer software executive and the mayor were friends for many years, but their friendship became increasingly fraught after the mayor took office. Two days before the murder, the mayor told the executive he'd cancel the city’s multi-million-dollar contract with the software company and strongly recommend that the city's chief prosecutor open a criminal investigation into the executive for felony tax evasion. The day before the murder, the mayor publicly condemned the executive as “greedy and corrupt,” but at the time of the murder, he hadn't yet canceled the contract or recommended the criminal investigation to the chief prosecutor. Details about the crime: - The mayor’s body was stabbed several times in the chest and neck. The coroner estimates that the mayor, who bled to death in minutes, likely died between 12:15 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. - CCTV footage from across the street shows a car pulling into the house’s driveway at 12:02 a.m. and leaving at 12:14 a.m. The footage shows one unidentifiable person exiting the vehicle and entering the house. - The house’s on-duty bodyguard was found dead with a single gunshot to the back of the head. - The computer software executive did not pay the gang member, or any other criminal, to kill the mayor. Alibis: - The gang member claims he was at a local restaurant from around 11 p.m. to around 1 a.m. the night of the murder. Although the restaurant's cameras were off the whole night, several other gang members at the restaurant confirmed his alibi to the police, as did the restaurant’s head chef. - The computer software executive first told police he was asleep, at home, the night of the murder. He later told police he was stressed out preparing for an upcoming business meeting for most of the night.

    Drexel Pre-WUDC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-23

  • This house believes that ASEAN should abandon the China-ASEAN South China Sea Code of Conduct negotiations.

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    The China-ASEAN South China Sea Code of Conduct negotiations seek to manage inter-state relations within the South China Sea area and address disputes over territorial claims in the contested waters. The COC is based on a 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea signed by China and the 10 ASEAN States. Both ASEAN and China have agreed to complete the COC by 2025.

    Friday Night Debates 2025: An African Debate Super League · Power Pair 11 · 2025-08-22

  • This house would grant the rights and responsibilities afforded to human beings to "huminoid artificial intelligence".

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    For the purposes of this debate; a "humanoid artificial intelligence" is a robot resembling the human body in shape and able to perform tasks such as decision making, holding conversation, displaying and interpreting emotions, walking and holding objects.

    Friday Night Debates 2025: An African Debate Super League · First Leg Round Robbin 7 · 2025-08-22