Early childhood care refers to the care and education of children from birth-5, this includes pre-school, school, daycare, Parental support visiting, and comprehensive medical support
Post-Secondary education refers to any non-compulsory education after secondary school. This includes but is not limited to Trade/Vocational school, community college, and University

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental organisation promoting economic and political integration amongst the following ten countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. They do not currently have a common currency - for example, Malaysia uses the Malaysian Ringgit; Singapore, the Singaporean Dollar

In 2019 Quebec passed Bill 21, which violates the federal constitution by prohibiting provincial employees (doctors, lawyers, bus drivers, teachers, etc.) from adorning religious symbols (hijab, turban, kippah, etc.), lest they be terminated.

Russia maintains a substantial military presence in Syria, having helped stabilize the Assad regime. Over the past two years, Israel has been conducting repeated aerial strikes against Iranian / Hezbollah targets in Syria.

A truth and reconciliation commission is a temporary body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government and non-state actors in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. Truth commissions are set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship and by engaging the affected population, both perpetrators and victims in direct testimony. They have been used in post apartheid South Africa, Canada and El Salvador.

For the purposes of this debate, a polytheistic society is one that believes in multiple gods, and a monotheistic society is one that believes in a single god.