TOK Teacher
A human rights education resource on child
soldiers, based on a talk by a former child
soldier, Ishmael Beah. For use with young
people aged 11-14 in Citizenship, PSHE,
PSE, English or Art.
The Left’s anti-Brexit hysteria, however, is based on a mixture of bad economics, flawed understanding of the European Union, and lack of political imagination. Not only is there no reason to believe that Brexit would be an economic apocalypse; more importantly, abandoning the EU provides the British left — and the European left more generally — with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show that a radical break with neoliberalism, and with the institutions that support it, is possible.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/brexit-labour-party-socialist-left-corbyn
The former French president is accused of accepting campaign cash from the Libyan leader. The rush to bomb Gaddafi gets a necessary second look.
https://theintercept.com/2018/04/28/sarkozy-gaddafi-libya-bombing/
Preliminary inquiry into Philippine president is ICC’s first in a south-east Asian nation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/08/icc-claims-crimes-against-humanity-duterte-philippines
For years, the number of democracies in the world had been on the rise, but recently the trend has stalled. The New York Times journalists Max Fisher and Amanda Taub explore why some democratic countries have backslid, while others never quite made it.
“There are two kinds of people along the border, people who fight every day along the creeping border and people who have lost everything,” said Ms. Robakidze, who grew up in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and documented the crisis in “Creeping Borders,” a new project. “Overnight, you can find out your land or your house is now in occupied territory.”
After nearly seven years and hundreds of thousands of deaths, the war in Syria continues to defy attempts at a resolution, and it has reached a new level of intensity in recent weeks.
Six episode Podcast series that explores, “South Africa’s xenophobic demons through the death of 14-year-old Siphiwe Mahori”
https://pod.link/1052444623/episode/65f2e4e778bfd2960de9e7919ae914f8
An IB Global Politics Site 