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LINKS & RESOURCES
for teaching Global Issues

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Teaching related websites
Global Issues related websites & directories
News sites with EFL material / news search
External search engine

Teaching-related websites

Global Issues Special Interest Group of IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) http://www.countryschool.com/gisig.htm

Global Issues in Language Education Special Interest Group of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/nsig/globalissues/gi.html

TESOLers for Social Responsibility (A caucus of TESOL - Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)
http://www.tesol.org/mbr/caucuses/tsr.html
http://www.tesol.org/mbr/caucuses/articles/tm0006-03.html (An article about this caucus)

UNICEF Page for Teachers http://www.unicef.org/teachers
(mainly geared towards school children, but some material suitable or adaptable for adults)

Major organizations & global issues directories

Address Directory for the Politicians of the World http://www.trytel.com/~aberdeen

Amazing Environmental Web Directory http://www.webdirectory.com
An environmental search engine

Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org

Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org

Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org

INCORE: initiative on conflict resolution & ethnicity http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk
A joint initiative of the United Nations University & the University of Ulster. (Information, data, articles, links & more)

International Labor Organization http://www.ilo.org

International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org/index.htm

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) http://www.dwb.org/index.htm

Oneworld http://www.oneworld.org
An internet community of organisations working for human rights ands sustainable development

Survival International http://www.survival-international.org
(International organization supporting tribal peoples)

United Nations http://www.un.org

UNESCO http://www.unesco.org

UNICEF http://www.unicef.org

Voices Of Youth http://www.unicef.org/voy/index.html
(UNICEF site for children/young people)

World Bank http://www.worldbank.org

World Health Organization http://www.who.int

News sites with EFL material

BBC World Service Words in the News http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/words/index.shtml

The Guardian's EducationUnlimited TEFL section http://www.educationunlimited.co.uk/tefl/

Bangkok Post Educational Services http://www.bangkokpost.net/education/site2000/newssum.htm

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We try to keep these links up to date, but please let us know if you find one that doesn't work - Thanks! rgk@kent.ac.uk

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