Hot Motions

1. This house believes the development of computing was the most significant technological advance of the 20th century. (The Economist)

2. This house believes that religion is a force for good. (The Economist)

3. This house believes that governments must do far more to protect online privacy. (The Economist)

4. This house would recognize a Palestinian State.

PIDC 2009 Motions

Elimination Rounds:

Round 1: Gender

· THBT gay rights movements should compel openly gay celebrities to actively support their causes
· THBT feminist politics must transition from the halls of Congress to the bedroom
· THBT Muslim universities should grant professional subsidies to feminist scholars living in radically conservative Muslim states.

Round 2: Europa

· THW ban the ownership of multiple properties in land strapped European countries
· THBT it is justified for EU countries with bailout responsibilities to excuse themselves with financial commitments to the union
· THBT the European Union should subsidize rehabilitation clinics for computer addicts

Round 3: Culpability

· THBT sober passengers of a drunk driver should be held criminally liable
· THW punish bystanders of a crime
· THW allow witnesses of gruesome murders to claim emotional damages against the criminal

Round 4: Environment

· TH celebrates the use of emotional blackmail as part of environmental strategies
· THBT Earth Hour is a meaningless, faddish, exercise
· THW make waste-disposal a mandatory requirement for free trade agreements

Round 5: Print Media

· THBT print media is dead
· THW ban government officials from obtaining board positions in print media
· THW require print media to grant criticized individuals compulsory reply space

Round 6: Pop Culture

· THW remove the foreign films category in the Academy Awards
· TH regrets the rise of vegetarianism
· THW shut down the World Wrestling Entertainment for good

Round 7: Geopolitics

· THBT China should revise its amoral foreign policy by sanctioning North Korea
· TH regrets Obama’s stance of reducing investments for foreign policy initiatives
· THBT it’s time to grant statehood to Taiwan

Break Rounds

Octofinals: Local Headlines

· THB in extending the land distribution program
· TH overreacted Chip Tsao
· THBT it is time to shut the doors on visiting forces

Quarterfinals: Rights

· THW lift the moratorium on blood donations for men who have sex with men
· THBT parents who are minors should be allowed to retain custody of their offspring
· TH supports the preferential disclosure of sexual harassment issues to religious leaders over state authorities within some religious communities

Semi-finals: Football

· TH regrets the recruitment of Third World football players by European football clubs
· TH celebrates players walking-off the field in response to racist crowd hooliganism
· THBT all players should donate majority of their advertising revenue to league development of the clubs they play for

Finals: Education

· TH celebrates the rise of political activism among students in public universities
· THW accommodate student-teacher relationships among consenting adults in universities
· THB in mandatory sex education in all religious schools

Source:

Debate Philippines

Hot Motions

TH supports UN suspension of food aid deliveries to Gaza.

THBT English courts stifle free speech around the world.



Sources:

International Herald Tribune
The Economists

Motions: 2009 WUDC

Final : That this house would allow abortion at all stages of pregnancy

Semi Final: This house believes governments should subsidise private home ownership.

Qtr Final: This house believes that the international criminal court should prosecute crimes against the democratic process.

Octo Final: This house would arm local militia to fight the taliban in Afghanistan.

ESL Final: This house would implement quotas for domestic players in national football leagues.

EFL Final: This house would prohibit all private health care.

Round 9: This house would ban the publication of political opinion polls.

Round 8: This house would apply a lower rate of income tax to women.

Round 7: This house believes that the west should recognise the independence of Abkhazia.

Round 6: This house would criminalise adultery.

Round 5: This house believes that China and India should bear the same obligations as the West in fighting climate change

Round 4: This house would force the religious desegregation of Northern Irish schools.

Round 3: This house would allow soldiers to sue their government for negligence.

Round 2: This house would fire the senior managements of all corporations which receive government bailouts.

Round 1: This house would ban all forms of gambling.

Womens Debate: This house would ban all forms of religious gender discrimination.

Adj Test: This house would allow insurance companies to view genetic test results in assessing potential customers.


Sources:

World Debating Website
Global Debate Blog

2008 NDC Motions

Round 1. THBT Affirmative actions in South Africa has gone too far.

Round 2. TH Supports a referendum on Bangsamoro Secession.

Round 3. THW Ban negative campaign advertising.

Round 4. THW Audit and publish the financial records of the Catholic Church.

Round 5. THBT the State should assist healthy consenting adults to commit suicide.

Round 6. TH regrets the dominant historical narrative that depicts Aquino as a hero and Marcos as a villain.

Round 7. THBT teacher-centered teahing methods and traditional education at the primary level have done our children more harm than good.

Master Cup: THTB being torn between two lovers should be decriminalized.

Octos: THBT the West should allow its allies to negotiate with terrorists.

Quarters: THBT we should provide assylum for sexual minorities in danger of persecution in their own country.

Semis: THBT the State should support religious and atheist organizations.

Union Cup: THBT the Philippines is better off with latin american populism.

Finals: THBT the embracing of materialistic consumerism has led to economic disempowerment across the world

Master Cup Finals: THW decriminalize corporal punishment at home

** Special thanks to:

1. Cristina Miclat for giving me fresh updates from NDC in Davao.

2. Anna Marie Dominggo

I'll see you guys soon. Sayang im not there to join you.

At the moment, im preparing for a law moot court competition! Good luck!

Hot Motions

THW veto climate-change reduction plans.

THW give economic aid to solve economic crisis.

THBT bail-out will work.

THBT markets are always right.

THW have a security deal with Iraq.

THW emulate the US Presidential Election Process.

Motions: Claremont National Open

1. This House opposes international adoption.

2. Governments should require medical personnel to act against their personal ethics in the performance of their medical duties.

3. Free speech should include Holocaust denial.

4. This House supports diversity quotas for legislative assemblies.

5. This House supports substantial increases in fuel taxes.

6. Pakistan is more an enemy than an ally to the West.

Semis:

This House would use political assassination.

Finals:

This House supports slave reparations.

Hot Motions

This House believes that the West must be bolder in its response to a newly assertive Russia.

This House would take ownership of bad mortgages to avoid another Great Depression.

This house would regulate the use of Melamine.

This house believes that secularism leads to nihilism.

This House would call for a positive laïcité.

This House supports ancient alternative remedies.


Suggested reading:

International Herald Tribune.
The Economist.

2008 WSDC Impromptu Motions

Preliminary rounds

This House would ban strikes by workers in essential state services

This House would make humanities subjects compulsory at undergraduate level

This house would cease the use of detention without trial in the war on terror

Octo-final

This House believes that heads of government should be required to have a parliamentary majority to govern

Quarter-final

This House regrets the holding of the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Semi-final

This house would drop all US sanctions on Cuba.


Source:

New Zealand School's Debating
World Schools Debating Championship

"Dialogue NSU 08" Motions

Round 1
THW recognise the independence of South Ossetial

Round 2
THW ban Digital Enhancement in magazines and billboards.

Round 3
THW ban all Blood Sports.

Round 4
THW Ban Coca Cola.

Semi Final
THW legalize voluntary ethunasia for lifetime inprisoned War Criminals.

Grand Final
THW Build the Wall.

Motions for the day

This House Believes That U.S forces should withdraw from Iraq.

This House Would regulate Salvia.

This house would penalize advertisers for gender stereotyping.

This house vows to stick with Samak.

This house needs another web browser.


Reference: International Herald Tribune

Hot motions

This house would nationalize oil distribution.

This house would wage war against Russia.

This house would worry about nitrogen.

Motion: University of Helsinki Debating Society

The University of Helsinki Debating Society is exhibiting a debate show on September 3, 2008 on the motion that:

"This House Would Immediately Accept Georgia into NATO"

The Next Doha Debate

Below is the motion of the next Doha Debate:

September 16^th, 2008

'This House believes that progress towards democracy has halted in the Arab world.'

Source: The Doha Debates

Cross-training Motions: Quezon City Science Highschool and Southville International School and Colleges

Congratulations to Quezon City Science Highschool and Southville International School and Colleges for having successfully staged a cross-training on August 31, 2008 in the Quezon City Science Highschool Campus.

The motions during the debate rounds are as follows:

Round 1: THBT Marriage should have an expiration date

Round 2: THBT the 2008 Olympics is a failure

Round 3: THW expand the permanent membership of the UN Security Council

WSDC 2008 motions

PRELIMINARY ROUND PREPARED MOTIONS

That this house supports military intervention to deliver emergency aid in humanitarian crises

That this house believes that governments have a duty to bail out failing financial institutions.

That this house would ban the use of unethically obtained data in scientific research

That this house would make the directors of multinational companies personally liable for environmental abuses committed by their companies in the developing world

GRAND FINAL MOTION:

That this house would expand the permanent membership of the UN Security Council

Source: World Schools Debating Council Executive Committee

Debate Motions for the Youth

THW introduce child curfews.

THBT the State should ban all private schools from sanctioning students who exhibit homosexual behavior.

THW allow Universities to allot slots for the admission of children of alumni.

THBT the Sangguniang Kabataan is irrelevant today's youth.

THW abolish tuition fees.

THBT any pupil participating in a school activity should be expelled.

THBT drugs education should be carried out by outside agencies and not by teachers.

THBT allowing young people to drink legally would result in more responsible attitude towards alcohol.

THBT the youth's political maturity is ill-served by their generation's representatives in the print media

THW abolish fraternities and sororities.

THBT youth should participate in country's decision making.

THW allow divorce in the Philippines.

THW allow child labor.

THW penalize youth engaging in pre-marital sex.

THW penalize youth involved in military juntas.

THBT the conduct of achievement test is the way to go.

THW ban smoking.

THW allow abortion.

THW introduce sex education.

Motions: 10th Turkish Nationals

Round 1: Thbt Income of gambling addicts should be directly given to their spouses

Round 2: Thbt University graduates should not be sent to places of war for fulfilling their military service.

Round 3: Thbt all football clubs should have salary cap

Round 4: Thbt people in drunk drivers’ car should be also punished

Round 5: Thbt local governments should not forcibly move residents for ‘Urban Renewal Projects’

Round 6: Thbt Central Bank should stop being guarantor to bankrupt banks

Round 7: Thbt Political party leaders should have a time limit of duty

Quarter: Th would force media agencies not to use any word other than 'terrorist groups' for whom state declares to be 'terrorist group'.

Semi: Thbt UN Food Office should have all the responsibility of distribution, pricing or sale of wheat across the world

Final: Th would abolish inheritence

Source: Debate Topics/ Debate motions

Motions: ICRC International Humanitarian Law Debate 2008

Round 1: Intervention
THBT the UN's responsibility to protect is more important than itsrespect to national sovereignity
THBT constructive engagement works better than military intervention
THBT invasion into other sovereign countries is justified only in thename of counter-terrorism

Round 2: Nukes
THBT all nations have the right to possess nuclear weapons
THBT only democratic states have the right to civilian nuclear energy
THBT South Korea should provide unconditional aid to North Korea

Round 3: Negotiating with terrorists
THBT Israel should include Hamas in its dealing with Palestine.
THW not recognize Hezbollah as the rulers of Lebanon.
THW not negotioate with violent separatist movements.

Round : Food Security
THBT the World Bank and other bilateral donors should tiedevelopmental aid to investment in agriculture.
THW curb the production of biofuels to address the growing food crisis.
THBT the EU should not bow to the pressures of WTO in reducingagricuktural subsidies.

Quarter Finals: Cluster Munitions Treaty
THBT the greatest impact of the ban on cluster munitions is not inprotecting civilians but in hampering the military capability.
THBT the "Big Players" persistence on the option of using clustermunitions is a threat to collective security.
THW criminalize countries that cooperate with other nations usingcluster munitions.

Semi Finals: Responsibility
THW force countries to make contributions to relief funds proportionalto their GDPs
THW hold states responsible for collateral damage
THW allow America soldiers to not respond to the call of war

Third Placing: Justice - 3rd
THBT perpetrators of crimes against humanity should only be tried ininternational courts or tribunals, not local courts
THBT the ICC is ineffective in delivering justice to victims of crimesagainst humanity
THBT TRCs are a sufficient form of recourse afforded to victims ofcrimes against humanity

Grand Finals: The Geneva Conventions
THBT the Geneva Conventions have no place in modern warfare
THW include terrorists as combatants under the Geneva Conventions
THBT rendition has no place in a democratic world.

Source: Prasad (IMU)

Motions: Israeli National Championships

1. Thw send over-weight children to weight watching groups.
2. Thw return fire to its sources, even at the cost of harming citizens.
3. Thw introduce progressive inheritance tax.
4. Thbt its legitimate to publish the sexual orientation of public figures.
5. Thw oblige doctors to inform parents before performing an abortion on a minor.
6. Thw force Haredic jewish people to change their way of living.

Semi-Final: Thbt drunk driving is equivalent of attempted murder.

Final: Thw not interrogate an active prime minister.

Source: World Debating Website