unit 3英语

Unit 3 Refugees
• Time Allotment: all together 3 periods • Teaching Objectives and Requirements • The students will learn the seriousness of refugee problems in different regions and countries of the world like Africa, former Yugoslavia, Asia, and Caribbean countries. • The students will learn some of the words related to the topic of text like repatriation, UNHCR, Humanitarian concern, mandate, displace, asylum, CIS and so on. • The students will learn the English names of some of the countries and regions which are closely related with refugee problems and can be often heard in radio international news.
contemporary refugee crises
• If you want to know about refugee crisis, you can go to following websites: • /wiki/Refugee • /
UNHCR
• The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly联合国大会. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland， the agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. • /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
• The term refugee is often used to include displaced persons who may fall outside the legal definition in the Convention, either because they have left their home countries because of war and not because of a fear of persecution, or because they have been forced to migrate within their home countries. The Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, adopted by the Organization of African Unity in 1969, employs a definition expanded from the Convention‘s, including people who left their countries of origin not only because of persecution but also due to acts of external aggression外来侵略, occupation, domination by foreign powers or serious disturbances of public order.
Refugee camps
• A refugee camp is a place built by governments or NGOs非政府组织 (such as the ICRC国际红十字会) to receive refugees. People may stay in these camps, receiving emergency food and medical aid, until it is safe to return to their homes or until they get retrieved by other people outside the camps. In some cases, often after several years, other countries decide it will never be safe to return these people, and they are resettled in "third countries," away from the border they crossed. However, more often than not, refugees are not resettled. In the mean time, they are at risk for disease, child soldiering, terrorist recruitment, and physical and sexual violence.
Pre-reading tasks: I
• Students will be given two minutes to solve the vocabulary problems listed in Word Pretest and then check the answers • CCCCAestions (group-discussion): • 1. How much do you about refugees? • 2. What do you think is the most fundamental cause of the world refugee problem? What do you think people in the world should do to sustain the peaceful development of the world? • 3.What are the bad influence of refugee? • Security threat/medical problem
• Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. It also has a mandate to help stateless people. • In more than five decades, the agency has helped tens of millions of people restart their lives. Today, a staff of some 6,600 people in more than 110 countries continues to help about 34 million persons.
• The concept of a refugee was expanded by the Convention's 1967 Protocol and by regional conventions in Africa and Latin America to include persons who had fled war or other violence in their home country. Refugee women and children represent an additional subsection of refugees that need special attention. For the refugee system to work successfully, countries must be prepared to allow Open borders for people fleeing conflict, particularly for countries closest to the conflict. This is a program that has help many people, but people still believe there are flaws. Getting to a refugee camp is extremely difficult.
III Background information
Refugee
• A refugee is a person who is outside their country of origin or habitual residence because they have suffered persecution or for personal reasons on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or because they are a member of a persecuted 'social group'. Such a person may be referred to as an 'asylum seeker' until recognized by the state where she makes her claim. Under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees联合国 难民事务高级专员(办事处) of 1951, a refugee is more narrowly defined as a person who "owing to a wellfounded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country".