Welsh Bac YGS: Global Citizenship
Thursday 16 July 2015
KS5 Pestle: Environmental (E-waste)
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Grim forecast for e-waste as technology trash to top 65m tons by 2017
China: The electronic wastebasket of the world
Toxic 'e-waste' dumped in poor nations, says United Nations
Electronic Waste Disposal
Where your computer goes to die: Shocking pictures of the toxic 'electronic graveyards' in Africa where the West dumps its old PCs, laptops, microwaves, fridges and phones
Think your television is recycled when you get rid of it? This is where it is likely to end up... dumping grounds such as this one, dubbed the world's biggest e-waste site
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
India's e-waste burden
KS5 Pestle: Legal (gender equality)
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At Day Two of Women’s Commission, Delegates Offer Innovative Suggestions on Ways to Integrate Gender Equality into Post-2015 Goals
11 laws from around the world that stand in the way of gender equality
Less pay, more work, no pension: the 21st-century woman's lot laid bare
The Guardian view on a year in feminism: 2014 was a watershed
International Day of the Girl Child - considering gender inequality globally
Legal barriers prevent women's empowerment in more than 170 countries
GENDER EQUALITY AND THE WELSH ASSEMBLY
KS5 Pestle: Technology reading resources (natural disasters)
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How technology can help reduce the impact of natural disasters
Minimizing the Damage From Natural Disasters
Reducing the Impact of Natural Disasters in Malawi: Empowering Citizens and Taking Charge
Game on: Thai mobile phone app makes flood safety child's play
Access to technology 'aids survival in natural disaster'
Local people 'need access to technology to survive disasters'
How technology is changing disaster relief
KS5 Pestle: Social reading resources (ageing)
View the video focused on the social issue of ageing
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What it’s like to grow old, in different parts of the world
Honor or abandon: Societies' treatment of elderly intrigues scholar
7 cultures that celebrate ageing and respect their elders
Is Europe ready to cope with an ageing population?
How the elderly are treated around the world: Karina Martinez Carter
ELDERLY CARE IN SWEDEN
Germany 'exporting' old and sick to foreign care homes
WHY PEOPLE ARE SCARED OF GROWING OLDER
KS5 Pestle: Economics reading resources (sugar cane)
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Resource 1: Jamaican farmers face bleak future as EU axes cap on sugar beet production
Resource 2: Bristol, how we can sweeten the Sugar Crash? By Roger James
Resource 3: STAND BY SUGAR CANE FARMERS FAILED BY EU, URGES FAIRTRADE
Resource 4: The end of the EU sugar quota and the implication for African producers
Resource 5: Reforming Global Sugar Trade: What do changes in sugar policy mean for the future?
Resource 6: Support for Sugar Cane farmers
KS5 Pestle Analysis: Politics reading resources
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Resource 1: F1 reach agreement in Bahrain
Resource 2: F1 reverses human rights stance
Resource 3: Ecclestone gives Azerbaijan green light
Resource 4: Eccleston: Bhrain 'stupid' 2
Resource 5: Eccleston with 'stupid' remark in Bahrain
Resource 6: F1 should be 'kept apart' from politics
Resource 8: Bahrain GP: Tear gas used to quell protests
Resource 9: Bahrain GP:Background to protests
Resource 10: Bahrain Country Profile
Saturday 11 July 2015
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