Displaced People - Empathy to Impact - HS MYP Lang & Lit

Empathy to Impact

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UNICEF
UNICEF is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre or IDMC is an International non-governmental organization established in 1998 by the Norwegian Refugee Council in Geneva. It is focused on monitoring and providing information and analysis on the world's internally displaced persons.
Refugees International
Refugees International advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crises around the world.
UNHCR: Internally Displaced People
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Books from the Library

The Human Tide by Paul Morland
Call Number: 304.6 MOR
ISBN: 9781541788367
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
A history of demographic changes and mass migrations of human populations, that argues that periods of rapid population transition shaped the course of world history.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: F ADI
ISBN: 9780307455925
Publication Date: 2014-03-04
A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected.
City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson
Call Number: F AND
ISBN: 9780399547584
Publication Date: 2017-01-24
Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled by Wendy Pearlman
Call Number: 956.9104 PEA
ISBN: 9780062654618
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
During the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom, democracy and human rights. The government's ferocious response, and the refusal of the demonstrators to back down, sparked a brutal civil war that over the past five years has escalated into the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our times

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History Today
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Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review aims to provide professionals around the world to help lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact

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