Portal:World Schools Debate

World Schools Debate (WSS) is a team debate format used by the World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC). The WSDC aims to be a global debating circuit, for which all debates take place in English. The WSDC slogan is "Excellence in debating. International understanding. Freedom of speech."

Below is a list of current World Schools topics. For a complete list of World Schools Debate Topic pages, view Category:World Schools Debate Topics.

• This House supports military intervention to deliver emergency aid in humanitarian crises.
• This House believes that governments have a duty to bail out failing financial institutions.
• This House would ban the use of unethically obtained data in scientific research.
• This House would make the directors of multinational companies personally liable for environmental abuses committed by their companies in the developing world.
• This House would expand the permanent membership of the UN Security Council.

• Debate: Abortion for physical deformities

• This House would make the development of clean industry a condition for receiving non-emergency aid.
• This House would ban the use of models who are below a healthy weight.
• This House believes that holocaust denial should be a crime.
• This House believes that governments should not place limits on the areas which scientists may research.
• This House believes that the US should withdraw its military bases in Asia.
• This House would legalize all drugs.
• This House believes free trade harms the developing world.
• This House would limit media reporting of terrorist atrocities.

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