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INSIGHT Magazine - Human Rights Issue, April 2020

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Meet Our Editors

For this issue, our editors have worked together to help craft and display ICHK's different pieces about Human Rights. Together we’ve composed an edition that helps talented writers in our school shine and display their talent in writing.


Our editors:

Charlotte Cheung, Charmaine Pilard, Cherie Chan, Lucia Pareja Lopez.

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Letter From The Editors

Welcome to the fifth edition of ICHK's student-published magazine.


This issue will focus on Human Rights. Human Rights is a topic that impacts each and every person in our community and can be looked at from many different perspectives. In recent years, awareness around this important issue has risen across the globe, with different groundbreaking movements. We believe that as young people, we all deserve to have a voice on this intriguing topic.


Pieces in this issue fall under the categories of Education As a Right, Human Rights Issues based in Hong Kong, Gender and Equality, Global perspectives and Racial Inequality.


This is a historic edition as it was produced during the COVID-19 campus closure. The team used applications such as Zoom, Whatsapp and Gmail to collaborate and share our ideas. We would like to thank everyone who worked on the magazine under the unusual circumstances, including the editors, writers and most importantly Ms Griffiths and Mr Rees.


Thank you for reading our magazine and showing awareness of Human Rights. We hope that you’ll be back for future editions.

Introduction to Human Rights

Ethan Wu, 7.1 - What are Human Rights?

Ethan Wu, 7.1 - What are Human Rights?

Ethan Wu has written an introductory article on what are human rights, why they are important and information on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is a great introduction to the magazine and what lies ahead.


Read the piece here.

Ethan Wu, 7.1 - What are Human Rights?

The Right to Education

Yiling Tang, 10.3 - Education As a Right

Yiling Tang, 10.3 - Education As a Right

Yiling has written a piece about her experience teaching primary school kids in Cambodia, during her CAS week. This piece also talks about the cycle of poverty and how it can affect the right to education. It also includes well-researched information about how education can solve poverty, as well as her own opinions on solving the important issue.


Read the piece here.

Yiling Tang, 10.3 - Education As a Right
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Human Rights Issues in Hong Kong

Charlotte Cheung, 10.1, and Charmaine Pilard, SRC - Human Rights CAS Week Experience

Our INSIGHT editors, Charlotte and Charmaine, decided to spend their CAS week to explore the history of human rights in Hong Kong. This recount shares their experience at these various landmarks. It includes some background information, their own thoughts and feelings about each stop, and some more details for your own visit.


Read the piece here.

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Valerie Chu, 12.1 - Get Redressed Campaign

Valerie Chu, 12.1 - Get Redressed Campaign

Valerie has written a writeup for the Get Redressed Campaign that ICHK previously participated in term one. In her work, she explains what the Redressed organisation is, her experience working with them and what she learned from this experience. This piece of work reminds us that we need to be conscious of the choices we make when buying clothing.


Read the piece here.

Valerie Chu, 12.1 - Get Redressed Campaign
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Cherry Yee, 12.1 - Youth Empowerment Service

Cherry Yee, 12.1 - Youth Empowerment Service

Cherry reflects on her CAS week experience with Youth Empowerment Service, also known as YES, in this writeup. She comments on what YES is, her thoughts and feelings about the organisation, her experience with them and what she took away from this CAS project. Her work gives us a reminder of the inequalities people with special needs face in their day to day lives and of the false presumptions that we as a society label them with.


Read the piece here.

Cherry Yee, 12.1 - Youth Empowerment Service
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Creative Writing

Sam Birnbaum, SRC, and Natalie Wong, 9.2 - Letters To a Hero

In the morning sessions across the last few weeks, Y7-9 students have been working hard to maintain and improve their math, language and literary skills. In Ms. Chan’s literacy class, Sam Birnbaum took a moment to pause and reflect on the life of basketball star, Kobe Bryant. Natalie Wong, 9.2, wrote her response to a “heroic moment” from the perspective of Maleficent in the form of a letter.


Read the piece here.

Gender and Equality

Valeria Lam, 7.1 - Gender Equality and Human Rights

Valeria Lam, 7.1 - Gender Equality and Human Rights

Valeria has written a piece on her research about gender equality and basic human rights. She has also written about different ways we can help fight gender inequality as well as a speech she has given in the past to teach younger years. This piece is very informative and insightful as we can all learn from Valeria.


Read the piece here.

Valeria Lam, 7.1 - Gender Equality and Human Rights

Kiya Chase, 7.3, Laila Sinke, 7.3, and Amelie Chan, 7.3 - Women’s Rights

Kiya, Laila & Amelie have written a piece on women’s rights. Their piece talks about women’s empowerment through songs, sport inequality and education. They also add wonderful quotes near the end of the piece.


Read the piece here.

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Global Perspectives

Aaron Chu, 11.2 - Human Rights and Politics

Aaron Chu, 11.2 - Human Rights and Politics

Aaron has written a piece on the history of human rights and politics. His piece is very informative and detailed. He talks about how people viewed certain topics in the past and how they view them now.


Read the piece here.

Aaron Chu, 11.2 - Human Rights and Politics
Wallace Law, 8.2 - Canadian Residential School

Wallace Law, 8.2 - Canadian Residential School

Wallace has written an informative piece on the Canadian Residential School system. He researches and talks about an event that many people don’t know about but is very interesting in understanding racism. We see how in Indigenous children in Canada were treated back then and how the public reacted.


Read the piece here.

Wallace Law, 8.2 - Canadian Residential School

Creative Writing

Abby Yueng, 10.1, Ambrose Choi, 10.1, and Harry Wong, 10.2 - Looking Into The Mirror

Abby Yueng, 10.1, Ambrose Choi, 10.1, and Harry Wong, 10.2 - Looking Into The Mirror

Following a close reading of Virginia Woolf’s metaphysical modernist short story, The Lady in the Looking Glass, Y10 IGCSE students have been exploring themselves as characters through peeling back the layers of their own physical and psychological depths, and questioning just who it is that staring back at them from the mirror.


Read the piece here.

Abby Yueng, 10.1, Ambrose Choi, 10.1, and Harry Wong, 10.2 - Looking Into The Mirror

Racial Inequality

Cherie Chan, 10.1- Empathic Writing on A Raisin in the Sun

Cherie Chan, 10.1- Empathic Writing on A Raisin in the Sun

Cherie has written an empathic piece on Ruth, one of the characters from the play ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ by Lorraine Hansberry. The play is set in 1959 and is about a black family. The piece talks about their struggles, their worries and how they get treated differently. Cherie uses traditional phrases that people used back then in African American households.


Read the piece here.

Cherie Chan, 10.1- Empathic Writing on A Raisin in the Sun
Imogen Bentote, 7.3 - Anne Frank

Imogen Bentote, 7.3 - Anne Frank

Imogen has written a piece on Anne Frank. She wrote about how the Frank family hid from the Nazis police, Gestapo. This is a very informative piece about Frank’s life and how she uses her diary to ‘escape’ from the real world.


Read the piece here.

Imogen Bentote, 7.3 - Anne Frank
Omar Prete, 9.1 - Malcolm X

Omar Prete, 9.1 - Malcolm X

Omar has written a piece on Malcolm X, the civil rights activist. His piece talks about Malcolm X’s life and how he took part in the civil rights movement during the late 1950s and in the late 1960s. It also talks about Malcolm’s beliefs and how he made an impact on society.


Read the piece here.

Omar Prete, 9.1 - Malcolm X
Jon Juels, 7.1 - Martin Luther King Jr

Jon Juels, 7.1 - Martin Luther King Jr

Jon has written a piece on human rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. His piece discusses how and why he began his human rights activism, how it has improved the lives of many Black people and his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.


Read the piece here.

Jon Juels, 7.1 - Martin Luther King Jr

Photography

Harry Wong, 10.2- Collection of Film Photography from last year’s Deep Learning project.

Harry Wong, 10.2- Collection of Film Photography from last year’s Deep Learning project.

Harry’s beautiful, artistic, black and white photos show his artistic innovation, and they are accompanied by both technical and poetic descriptions of the compositions.


Read the piece here.

Harry Wong, 10.2- Collection of Film Photography from last year’s Deep Learning project.
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Activity Guide

Mr Rees’s Year 10 English Class - Activities For A Memorable Easter

To wrap up our magazine, here’s an Easter activity guide written by Mr Rees’s Year 10 English class to help with boredom during quarantine. We hope everyone enjoys their well deserved Easter break after nine long weeks of difficult online learning. We hope that there is something for everyone in this article and our magazine can make your day better during these difficult times. Please stay safe and we look forward to the next publication of our magazine.


Read the piece here.

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