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Selon un communiqué de l'American Agency, ABC News, la Chine a obligé 1 000 réfugiés Birmans à retourner sur la zone de conflit militaire dans le nord de la Birmanie au cours des semaines passées, et la Chine compte encore renvoyer 4 000 refugiés de plus. Les réfugiés qui se sont enfuis en Chine sont des réfugiés de l'ethnie Kachin, qi ont commencé à se battre contre le gouvernement Birman lorsque l'armée a essayé de fermet une base militaire Kachin proche du barrage hydro-électrique en construction. Le combat a commencé en Juin dernier et mis fin à dix-sept ans de cessez-le feu entre le gouvernement en Birmanie et l'armée Indépendant de Kachin (KIA). Ce combat mobilisa 75 000 personnes. La sauvegarde des droits de l'homme basée à New York a fait appel au gouvernement Chinois pour stopper le renvoi des réfugiés Birmans en Birmanie, et demanda de leur fournir une protection temporaire à la province de Yunnan situé à la frontière Nord de la Birmanie. «La Chine méprise ses obligations légales internationales en forçant les réfugiés Kachin à retourner dans une zone de conflit sous l'abus de l'armée Birmane, » selon Bill Frelick du HRW. De l'autre côté de la Birmanie, les Bouddhistes organisent une protestation contre ce qu'ils appellent l'interférence des Nations Unies dans l'Etat Rahkine Occidental - où des douzaines de personnes sont tuées dans des affrontements entre les Bouddhistes et les Musulmans. Les manifestations viennent après la décision du Président de la Birmanie sur la formation d'une commission indépendante pour enquêter sur cette violence, en même temps que la requête faite par l'envoyé spécial des Nations unies, Thomas Ojea Quintana, qui a visité la région concernée il y a quelques mois. Aux alentours de 100 manifestants se sont rassemblés sous la direction du député du Rahkine Nationalities Development Party au parlement en dehors de la maison du parl

Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

National Science Foundation's online library of resources and collections for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research. A digital library is a coherent, organized collection of resources, usually accessible via the Internet. A digital library may appear to be a single entity, but often links to other libraries or information services in an effort to present a unified view of a topic or collection to the end user. Despite the strong connotation with printed resources that the term library carries, digital libraries usual contain far more than electronic versions of textual documents, and can include any type of information that is "born digital" or can be converted into an electronic format.

The new 3 E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged, Emplwered: How students are leveraging emerging technologies for learning. National report of technology use in the classroom.

Making the News 2 (MTN2) is a website designed to introduce students to the world of online media publishing and broadcasting for the 21st century. Teachers may register, doing so will create a homepage on MTN for their school. The teacher may then create student accounts. Students can then login and create articles and programmes which will be submitted to the teacher and if approved published on the school homepage. Well rated articles will be added to the National MTN2 site. Articles may be text and images or they may be video, audio or a sequence of images.

At the end of a long hadeeth, beloved prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said, '..Then it will be a Khilafah on the premises of the Prophet Hood', then he (the Prophet) kept silent. (Musnad Ahmed) This hadeeth foretold about a future regime which to be established before the last day and not yet happened. The Muslim Ummah (society) has gone through almost every stages noted unless through a Khilafah (a perfect regime) after its drop in 1923 in Istanbul. And it's glad to say that some nations, some leaders and some movements throughout the Muslim community have started their try towards a Khilafah and to establish it soon. Anyhow it won't be a regime same as which was in Medina, Bagdad, Damascus, Delhi, Cairo and then in Istanbul. As to conditions of an era change the features of a rule and regime too change as it goes. Every one could easily understand this thing. In this situation, whoever tries for a Khilafah, which is same as in past won't be suitable and won't last almost wont starts.

AwesomeStories is large resource filled with primary-source information. Its purpose is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. The site is very easy to use and is would be helpful to use with many projects across the curriculum.

a free web service that provides various data and statistics related to different interesting topics and global issues. Gapminder was built to present a picture of the world using a unique approach to reading data. This website also aims to promote global development with the purpose of accomplishing the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Multiple choice questions give students food for thought on how other nations eat and share their meals, manners included.

Lure of the Labyrinth is a digital game for middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which students work to find their lost pet - and save the world from monsters! Linked to both national and state mathematics standards, the game gives students a chance to actually think like mathematicians.

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The purpose of this resource is to provide "Just in Time" training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students, as well as the new MMC Online Experience requirement. Participants who fulfill all of the requirements have the opportunity to earn SBCEU's. To learn more about the session, look under the tab "The 21 Things". We hope you take advantage of this unique opportunity.

The Career and Technical Education Consortium of States (CTECS) (formerly known as VTECS) is nationally recognized for its expertise in developing standards and assessment systems based on a valid occupational analysis process. The organization has a thirty-seven year history of operating as a consortium of states where members pool their human, material, and financial resources to develop competency-based career and technical education products that are validated by business, industry, and labor.