Beverley Naidoo
Where is Berveley Naidoo from?
South Africa
What is the difference between a refugee and an immigrant?
An immigrant leaves their home for financial reasons or to rejoin family, while refugees are forced to leave their homes for fear of imprisonment or death.
Origins
Where someone or something is from.
Where does Beverley Naidoo live now?
The UK
What are the primary reasons for people becoming refugees?
Persecution, war, ethnic or political violence, natural disasters
Oppression
The mistreatment of a person or group based on race, gender, sexuality, religion or age
What political system did Beverley Naidoo grow up with?
Apartheid
Where do most refugees currently come from?
Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine, Afghanistan, South Sudan (72% of all displaced people come from these five countries)
Morals
Standards of behavior; principles of right and wrong
Beverley Naidoo includes a pronunciation guide in her novel for the name of one of her characters. What is the character's name and how is their name pronounced?
Sade, pronounced "sha-deh"
How many displaced people are there currently
The total is 103 million, while 32.5 million are refugees (53.2 million are internally displaced)
Apartheid
A system of institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.
Name the title of a Beverley Naidoo book other than The Other Side of Truth
Escape to Jo'burg or any other from her bibliography
Which document promises protection for asylum seekers and refugees?
The Geneva Convention (more specifically the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, or more simply the 1951 Refugee Convention)
Human rights
Human rights are rights accorded to all humans under international law