Article: Apple and Nike urged to cut ‘China Uighur ties’ “Corporate giants including Nike face growing calls to cut ties with suppliers alleged to be using “forced labour” from China’s Uighur people. Activists have launched a campaign accusing firms of “bolstering and benefiting” from exploitation of the Muslim minority group. The US Read more…
Article: Indigenous Ainu university student shares her culture with the rest of Japan on YouTube “TOKYO — A Japanese university student with Indigneous Ainu roots has taken to YouTube to share her culture and language, which she has learned to embrace over the years. Maya Sekine, 20, runs “Sito Channel,” Read more…
Article: India expels dozens of Pakistan diplomatic staff “India is expelling half the staff at Pakistan’s high commission (embassy) in its capital Delhi, accusing diplomats of spying and dealing with terrorists. India will also reduce staff by the same number at its high commission in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, the Read more…
Article: Germany coronavirus: Extra police enforce German tower block quarantine “Police reinforcements have been sent to maintain a coronavirus quarantine on a tower block in the German city of Goettingen after violence on Saturday. Seven-hundred people were placed in quarantine, but 200 trying to get out clashed with police. The Read more…
Article: “How Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale became a vivid graphic novel” https://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/how-margaret-atwoods-the-handmaids-tale-became-a-vivid-graphic-novel/ Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has fairly recently been republished in the form of a graphic novel. The language of the quite dense novel has been pared down to a fraction of the original. The “What if” Read more…
“James Bushe had previously wanted to remain anonymous, using the pseudonym “Pilot Anthony” on Twitter to write about his battle to become a pilot. The 31-year-old said he had decided to go public to challenge the stigma which surrounds people living with HIV.” https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-51066420 One key to unlocking November 2020 Read more…
“Maxwell Johnson and his 12-year-old granddaughter were handcuffed in front of a Bank of Montreal in Vancouver while trying to open up an account on Dec. 20. He believes the employee might have been suspicious because he had $30,000 in his account — an amount he and every other member of the Heiltsuk nation received Read more…
Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50740324 The “ourselves” in November 2020 TOK Essay Prescribed Title #3 could be look at from an environmental angle with this RLE. Greta Thunberg and other environmental campaigners are trying to get people to see the damage caused by selfish / short-sighted decisions and to look at things in Read more…
Article: “Japan’s forgotten indigenous people” http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200519-japans-forgotten-indigenous-people The article give an account of the mistreatment of the Ainu people of northern Japan. In this RLE the “ourselves” in November 2020 TOK Essay Prescribed Title #3 could be viewed as the perspective of the dominant non-Ainu Japanese population who were responsible for Read more…
The Pulizter prize-winning photo depicts the execution of a Vietcong spy in Saigon during the Vietnam War. This article provides additional information on the photo: http://100photos.time.com/photos/eddie-adams-saigon-execution The photo played a huge role in U.S. politics at the time and was one of a few powerful photos that influenced public perception Read more…