Motions

EFL Finals

  • 1
    THBT multinational companies should be liable for human rights abuses that occur anywhere in their supply chain

    • EFL Semi-Finals

  • 1
    THBT the gay rights movement should abandon the claim that sexuality is not a choice

    • ESL Finals

  • 1
    THW allow countries to pay other countries to settle asylum-seekers who reach their borders

    • ESL Semi-Finals

  • 1
    THBT Pope Francis should publicly encourage Catholics to support radically redistributive government policies

    • ESL Quarter-Finals

  • 1
    THW remove all copyright protection for material deemed to be morally objectionable

    • Open Finals

  • 1
    THBT India should adopt aggressive free market policies, including but not limited to deregulating of labour markets, allowing foreign investment and privatising state owned enterprises

    • Open Semi-Finals

  • 1
    THBT women should reject practices that alter the appearance of their genitalia, such as waxing and labiaplasty

    • Open Quarter-Finals

  • 1
    THW auction off the long-term right to govern bankrupt cities for profit

    • Open Octo-Finals

  • 1
    THBT Japan should shame its soldiers who participated in WWII, including those who did not commit war crimes themselves

    • Open Partial Double-Octo-Finals

  • 1
    THW abolish gated communities in the developing world

    • Round 9

  • 1
    TH regrets the commodification of indigenous cultures

    • Round 8

  • 1
    THBT NATO should unconditionally offer membership to the states of the former Soviet Union, excluding Russia

    • Round 7

  • 1
    THBT government agencies that regulate drugs should only test whether a drug is safe, not whether it is effective, before approving it for public use [info slide: http://goo.gl/gomgDI]

    • Round 6

  • 1
    THW make the receipt of welfare payments to raise children conditional on the use of long-term, but reversible, contraception

    • Round 5

  • 1
    THBT the Trans-Pacific Partnership is in the interests of the small and medium-sized negotiating countries

    • Round 4

  • The motions for this round have not been released.

    • Round 3

  • 1
    TH regrets the rise of a 'hookup culture' (one which accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters focused on physical pleasure, without necessarily including emotional bonding)

    • Round 2

  • 1
    THW allow first-time offenders to, with the consent of the victims, pay compensation to them in place of a prison sentence

    • Round 1

  • 1
    THBT the United States of America should fund moderate Madrassas (schools of Islamic study) throughout the Islamic world