T4+Refugees

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/btn/story/s2551598.htm
 * Issues in the news: Asylum seekers**

Watch the video (see link above) and answer the questions below.
 * Homework:**
 * 1) What was the main point of the BtN story?
 * 2) Who is a refugee?
 * 3) What is the Australian Government’s policy on refugees?
 * 4) Who is an asylum seeker?
 * 5) What does `asylum’ mean?
 * 6) How are asylum seekers protected by international law?
 * 7) What can happen if the Government decides an asylum seeker is not a genuine refugee?
 * 8) What are people smugglers?
 * 9) Describe recent events in Australia involving people smugglers and asylum seekers.
 * 10) What do you think should happen next?

Some more good videos to watch:

Doctors report from the inside of the Woomera centre (2002): [] [] []

The Refugees Research Assessment Task
Over the next two weeks you will be working on an information sheet about your assigned refugee story. Click here or click on "T4 Refugee Research Task" on the right hand side menu.

Google Earth:
Download Google Earth UNHCR layer

Google Maps:
Another incredible map, showing over 700 current refugee camps around the world http://millionsoulsaware.org/map/

Be a refugee:
This is an interactive game designed by the United Nations Education team to help you understand how people go from having normal lives and become asylum seekers, and refugees.

Play here: http://www.playagainstallodds.com/

Video: 250,000 displaced by DRC fighting
21 November 2008. At least 250,000 civilians, most of them women and children, have been displaced by recent fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. From Amnesty.org media type="custom" key="4465057"

Documentary Trailer: A Refugee like me: media type="youtube" key="5lNs5bnljhg" height="344" width="425"

A video about Congo, made by Ben Affleck. media type="youtube" key="ZXmxTJnKDM8" height="265" width="320"