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Contemporary Slavery
Published
2012
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Teacher's Pack
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This education pack has been produced through a collaboration between the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool and the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. It provides: background information on contemporary forms of slavery; a set of lesson plans with supporting materials; a list of resources that can help with researching further informatio...
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Fair Play
Published
2012
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Tom Palmer is an author who brings sport (mainly football) into his children's books. This Fair Play pack is based on Tom's trip to Ghana where he was doing research for one of his books, Foul Play 3: Off Side - which is a detective story exploring murky issues like people trafficking and hostile takeovers . It would be ideal to use this pack at the same time as reading Off Side with your stude...
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Ethical Textiles
Published
2011
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DVD
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£45.00
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Filmed in Bangladesh, one of the world's largest textile manufacturers, this resource explores the social cost of our cheap textiles. With footage filmed inside a number of Bangladeshi textile factories, it explores the issues of sweatshop labour, poor working conditions, a fair wage and the right to unionise and asks who is responsible? It then compares the social impacts of this mass-scale te...
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Digital Explorer - Culture
Published
2010
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- Website
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Digital Explorer has developed a series of online teaching resources for secondary students based on the first-hand experiences of young people who participated in two expeditions in 2010, Journey to the UK and Journey to Pakistan. The young teams worked with artists, politicians, social entrepreneurs and other young people to build up a portrait of these count...
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Me, You, Everyone
Published
2010
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- PDF
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Me, You, Everyone is the third in the series of Lift Off materials, which have been developed for use in the primary school classroom to promote understanding and respect for human rights. It has been written for 9 - 11 year old children by a team of experienced and practising teachers from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Me, You, Everyone enables children in 5th and 6th c...
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Products of Slavery
Published
2010
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- PDF
Poster- Website
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There are at least 12.3 million people, both children and adults, working in forced labour, a modern form of slavery. A study by the US Department of Labor found a high incidence of forced labour being used in 29 countries to produce 50 products.
This free poster and website from Anti-Slavery International show all the products, list the countries they come from and locates them on a ma...
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Slavery Today
Published
2008
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- Website
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More than 200 years since the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the shocking reality is that new forms of slavery are still prevalent today. It is estimated that there are currently at least 12 million men, women and children in slavery around the world. The modern face of slavery includes forced labour, sexual slavery, child labour, bonded labour, forced marriage and descent-based sl...
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Chaga and the Chocolate Factory
Published
2007
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- PDF
- Website
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We all know the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but this version of the tale turns out a little different. Set in Mali, Chaga, from a poor family, is invited to go to a chocolate plantation where he dreams of having his own bicycle, eating lots of chocolate and even having a chocolate bicycle! However, once he gets there he does not find rivers of chocolate or flowers made of candy,...
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Issues Series
Published
2004
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Book
Booklet
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£7.45
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'Issues' is a series of photocopiable resource books which aim to "improve awareness of today's social issues". Each one covers a variety of different opinions on the subject in question, drawing information from newspaper reports, magazine articles, journal extracts, academic reports, government surveys and statistics, charity and lobby group literature, and website material.
Six new t...
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- Animal welfare,
- Bullying,
- Child labour,
- Child rights,
- Crime,
- Education,
- Employment,
- Energy,
- Environment,
- Food,
- Gender,
- Globalisation,
- HIV/Aids,
- Homes and Homelessness,
- Human rights,
- Media,
- Population,
- Poverty,
- Racism,
- Refugees / Asylum,
- Religion,
- Sustainable development,
- Tourism,
- Transport,
- Waste,
- Water
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For Every Child
Published
2004
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- Book
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£6.99
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This book for children, with a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, illustrates and summarises the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The book is suitable for children of primary school age. It includes images by leading children's literature illustrators, along with photos from around the world. The text explains the UNCRC in simple language, showing how it is releva...
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