Term 2: Week 3

Kia Ora Everyone

Catch up on Wednesday via Google Meet at 8.30am

Learning Intentions: We are learning to (WALT)...

• Explore and develop an understanding of various social issue

Success Criteria: I can/have...

• Developed a better understanding of the different types of social issues in developed and less developed countries.

Activities: 

1. Continue exploring Resources on social issues (access the links through Google classroom)

LGBTI Rights
The Guardian. ‘Gay rights in the US, state by state’ [Online] http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2012/may/08/gay-rights-united-states [15 May 2016]
DoSomething.org. ‘11 Facts About Gay Rights’ [Online] https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-gay-rights [15 May 2016]
Socarides, R. ‘North Carolina and the Gay-Rights Backlash’ [Online] http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/north-carolina-and-the-gay-rights-backlash [15 May 2016]

Stop Torture

How to stop torture (July 2011). TEDGlobal 2011. [12.35 minutes] [Online] https://www.ted.com/talks/karen_tse_how_to_stop_torture?language=en [15 May 2016]
Physicians for Human Rights. ‘Stopping Torture Around the World: Building Capacity to Document and Prosecute’ [Online] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/issues/torture/international-torture/?referrer=https://www.google.co.nz/ [15 May 2016]
Stop-Torture. [Online] http://www.stop-torture.com/ [15 May 2016]

Stop the death sentence

Von Drehle, D. ‘The Death of the Death Penalty’ [Online] http://time.com/deathpenalty/ [15 May 2016]
The Editorial Board. ‘The Death Penalty Endgame’ [Online] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/the-death-penalty-endgame.html?_r=0 [15 May 2016]


Gender-based violence in the Pacific

Heise, L. ‘Gender-based abuse: the global epidemic’ [Online] http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0102-311X1994000500009&script=sci_arttext [15 May 2016]
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-based violence. http://www.api-gbv.org/violence/index.php
UN Women. ‘Climate Change, Disasters and Gender-Based Violence in the Pacific’ [Online] http://www.uncclearn.org/sites/default/files/inventory/unwomen701.pdf [15 May 2016]


Refugees
Apa, A. ‘Cross-Examination: New Zealand’s Questionable Commitment to Refugee Settlement’ [Online] http://equaljusticeproject.co.nz/2015/06/cross-examination-new-zealands-questionable-commitment-to-refugee-settlement/ [15 May 2016]
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
Vergel de Dios, M. ‘Sehar’s Story’ [Online]   [15 May 2016]