Topic Resources: Changing Communities

Introduction

Resource: Girl arrested for use of TikTok as social media influencer 

Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53733841 

Resource: Nigerian village where men and women speak different languages
Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45262081

Resource: Catalan views on independence
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-41356849/why-some-catalans-want-independence-and-some-don-t

Resource: Migration to Europe in charts
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34131911




Local and Global Perspectives 

Resource: Switzerland commits funding for immigrant integration

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-tops-up-migrant-integration-funding/47991340?utm_campaign=teaser-in-querylist&utm_content=o&utm_source=swissinfoch&utm_medium=display

Resource: Last man of indigenous tribe dies near Bolivia

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62712318

Resource: Why Switzerland needs specialist foreign workers

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/why-switzerland-needs-workers-from-abroad/46694984?utm_content=o&utm_campaign=own-posts&utm_medium=display&utm_source=swissinfoch

Resource: Japan backs same sex marriage

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56425002

Resource: Is the western way of bringing up children all wrong?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children

Resource: Europe's last matriarchy

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p095htgq/inside-the-last-matriarchy-in-europe

Resource: Teenagers in the Arctic circle fear losing their homes

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-54572400

A third of Swiss residents have migrant background

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/latest-news/a-third-of-swiss-residents-have-migrant-background-/46093696

Benefits of free movement of labour
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/free-movement-benefits-swiss-job-market--says-report/45867570

Switzerland moves closer to agreeing same sex marriage
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/marital-status_same-sex-marriage-moves-forward-in-parliament-despite-opposition/45803642

Switzerland has lowest teenage pregnancy rate
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/family-planning_teenage-mothers-rare-in-careful-switzerland/45136484

Switzerland predicts shortage of workers due to ageing population
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/latest-news/ageing-societies_half-a-million-swiss-jobs-vacancies-predicted-in-10-years-/45090136

Resource: Fight to save a forgotten language in North America
Link: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181002-north-americas-nearly-forgotten-language

Resource: Tanzanian president calls for end to contraception
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45474408

Resource: Hungarian PM thinks Europe is being invaded
Link; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Viktor_Orban

Resource: Iceland discusses bill to ban circumcision
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43111800

Resource: Threat to Brazil's carnival
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-42998269/rio-carnival-s-last-dance

Resource: Iranian women protesting at having to wear hijab
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-42954970/iran-s-hijab-protests-the-girls-of-revolution-street

Resource: Spanish town resists globalisation of leather products
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-40771807/the-tiny-spanish-town-luring-top-designers

Resource: Namibia's dying traditional lifestyle
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40247310

Resource: Woman defies Saudi dress code
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40660735

Resource: Women sent to a hut during menstruation
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38559566

Resource: How English is changing to accommodate globalisation
Link; http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20161215-you-need-to-go-back-to-school-to-relearn-english

Resource: How photos of women could be seen in some countries
Link; http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36130971

Resource: Women who rule the family
Link: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160916-worlds-largest-matrilineal-society

Resource: Spanish protests against bullfighting
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37329315

Resource: Russians who preferred communism
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37130143

Resource: Controversy in Switzerland over Muslim boys' right not to shake hands in school
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35967349

Resource: Portuguese immigrant workers change culture of Swiss village
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17338922

Resource: Women forced to abort female foetus
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/i-had-to-terminate-my-pregnancies-because-i-was-carrying-girls--the-story-of-a-woman-forced-into-genderselective-abortions-9193623.html


Resource: UK nationalist MP admits immigration has brought diversity to UK culture
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-immigration-has-jollified-britain-and-improved-the-food--but-time-to-stop-changing-our-communities-9163697.html

Resource: Article on Taliban attacks on Pakistan shopping centre
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistans-piccadilly-is-no-1-taliban-target-the-regularity-of-terror-attacks-in-peshawars-bazaar-leads-to-citizens-questioning-their-seemingly-rudderless-leadership-8852025.html

Resource: Article on African immigrants who died trying to escape their culture
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-boat-wreck-hundreds-of-migrants-feared-dead-after-ship-sinks-off-lampedusa-8855735.html

Resource: Story of an Eritrean refugee escaping his country heading for Switzerland
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/lampedusa-survivors-tragedy-at-sea?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position3

Resource: Short film on the threat of rainforest destrution for tribal people
Web Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9RzBX_cdqc

Resource: Consequences for woman who leaves the family faith
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/allah-vs-atheism-leaving-islam-was-the-hardest-thing-ive-done-9069598.html

Resource:  Article showing statistics on global migration

Web Link:  http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/sep/11/on-the-move-232-million-migrants-in-the-world

Resource: Report on woman stoned to death because she owned a mobile phone
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/special-report-the-punishment-was-death-by-stoning-the-crime-having-a-mobile-phone-8846585.html

Resource: Ancient rainforest tribe under threat of extinction
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-fatal-clash-of-civilisations-lost-amazonian-tribe-under-threat-from-illegal-loggers-operating-in-their-traditional-territories-9582973.html

Resource: Attitudes of societies around the world towards homosexuality
Web Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_attitudes_toward_homosexuality

Resource: Girls in Afghanistan not permitted to attend school
Web Link: http://www.irinnews.org/indepthmain.aspx?InDepthID=28&ReportID=69986  

Resource: Saudi women arrested for driving
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30602155 

Resource: Death of last remaing member of 65,000 year old tribe.
Web Link: http://worldobserveronline.com/2013/07/06/last-member-of-65000-year-old-tribe-dies-taking-one-of-worlds-earliest-languages-to-the-grave/ 

Resource: Spanish tradition of bull-fighting causes many deaths in short time
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33957505 

Resource: Elton John wants meeting with Putin to discuss attitude to gay rights
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34235739 

Resource: Death ritual in Papua New Guinea
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151130-one-of-most-bizarre-rituals-of-the-ancient-world

Resource: Burkini challenges French values of liberty and fraternity
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37093420

Scenarios

Resource: Blog discussing whether tribal cultures should be modernised

Web Link: http://tokyo5.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/tribal-people/

Resource: French Nationalists gather support in council elections 2014
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/thunderclap-in-french-politics-as-national-front-looks-set-to-capture-half-a-dozen-town-halls-9212858.html

Resource:  Pakistani woman's stoning for marrying a man for love
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/video/?videoid=3592585117001

Resource:  How UK and Europe's faith populations are changing
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-32722155

Courses of Action and Personal Response

Resource: Charitable organisation promoting rights of girls in developing countries
Web Link: http://becauseiamagirl.ca/

Resource: Protection for Maasai tribes people
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/tanzania-masai-eviction-uturn

Resource: Saudi Women allowed to vote for first time
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35061808