Refugee Archive Newsletter (02 December 2009)

Refugee Archive Newsletter

This newsletter is produced on a regular basis to help disseminate news and further information in relation to refugee and forced migration issues. The newsletter is produced by the Refugee Archives service at the University of East London. This will also be available via our Refugee Studies Blog at: http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com/

News and Media Stories

Iraq Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph (01/12/09): Iraq inquiry: Tony Blair asked for war plans to be prepared in June 2002

The Independent (01/12/09): I did not bully Lord Goldsmith, insists Blair

The Independent (30/11/09): Ministers fear Iraq backlash will lose Labour the election

The Daily Telegraph (27/11/09): Iraq inquiry: war ‘not legitimate’, Sir Jeremy Greenstock tells inquiry

The Times (27/11/09): Blair may have ‘signed in blood’ to topple Saddam a year before war

The Independent (26/1109): Iraq: The inquiry cover-up that will keep us in the dark

The Independent (26/11/09): Officials knew WMD evidence was tainted

The Independent (26/11/09): Adrian Hamilton: The one thing Chilcot won't reveal is the truth

The Times (26/11/09): Blair 'knew Saddam did not have WMD before war started'

The Daily Telegraph (25/11/09): Iraq inquiry: Tony Blair told ‘days before invasion’ WMD had been dismantled

The Times (25/11/09): US ‘drumbeats’ about Iraq invasion were heard months before 9/11

The Independent (24/11/09): Iraq invasion discussed in 2001 – but was dismissed as illegal

The Daily Telegraph (24/11/09): Iraq inquiry: Britain rejected regime change as illegal in 2001

Swiss Minarets Vote

The Guardian (01/12/09): Letters: Swiss minarets and democracy

IRR News (30/11/09): Swiss poll crushes minarets

The Independent (30/11/09): Swiss voters back right-wing minaret ban

The Guardian (30/11/09): Swiss minarets: is EU following Arabs down path of self-pity and xenophobia?

The Guardian (30/11/09): Switzerland: Hatred beneath the harmony

Refugees and Asylum Related Stories

Amnesty International (02/12/09): Victims of Peru Amazon violence deserve justice without discrimination

The Independent (02/12/09): Tamils on the road as Sri Lanka opens refugee camps

The Independent (02/12/09): 'Historic' ruling on secret evidence

The Guardian (01/12/09): Blow to home secretary as terror suspects win secret evidence case

Amnesty International (01/12/09): Sri Lankan government must permanently release all civilians

Refugee Council Poliblog (30/11/09): Two takes on Issues facing asylum seeking women...

UK Home Office Press Release (30/11/09) National identity card launched in Manchester

The Guardian (30/11/09): We need a gender-sensitive asylum system

The Observer (29/11/09): Detention of children at immigration 'prisons' attacked by MPs

Amnesty International (27/11/09): Commonwealth leaders must focus on Sri Lanka crisis

Refugee Council News (27/11/09): Safety of child asylum seekers given boost after court ruling

UK Home Office Press Release (27/11/09): Home Office minister welcomes increased Chinese cooperation to tackle serious crime and migration issues

The Guardian (27/11/09): Lady Scotland's ex-housekeeper charged with immigration offences

The Daily Telegraph (27/11/09): Hidden threat from al-Qaeda sleeper cells

BBC News (27/11/09): Khmer Rouge chief Duch stuns court with release bid

The Independent (27/11/09): Why Conservatives failed the test on Islamic schools

IRR News (26/11/09): Dickensian poverty in the twenty-first century

UK Home Office Press Release (26/11/09): Immigration and asylum statistics released

(Further details on Publications below).

The Guardian (26/11/09): Net migration falls by one-third

The Independent (26/11/09): Can a Muslim say happy Christmas to his friends?

ICRC News (25/11/09): Red Cross Red Crescent issues universal call to action to tackle today's humanitarian challenges

The Independent (25/11/09): Congolese 'warlords' deny slaughtering entire villages

The Guardian (24/11/09): The brutal truth of child detention



New Reports and Publications

Asylum Aid, the national independent charity who work with those seeking to flee human rights violations abroad, have issued a new report entitled `Every Single Woman.’ This is published under the banner of the Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum which, in the words of Asylum Aid, `calls on the UK Border Agency to commit to treating women seeking asylum with fairness, dignity and respect. This means creating a system which recognises the particular issues which cause women to seek asylum and understands their particular needs as women.’ Details of the new puiblication and the Charter can be found as follows:

i) Every Single Woman – campaigning brief (16p.)

ii) Every Single Woman – extended brief (26p.)

iii) Every Single Woman – Watch the Film.

iv) Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum – the Charter and accompanying website.

Further Information: 'We need a gender-sensitive asylum system' Debora Singer in The Guardian

Group Denial: Repression of Kurdish Political and Cultural Rights in Syria

Produced by Human Rights Watch

Available to read online and to order in hard copy at: http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/11/26/group-denial

Details from Human Rights Watch:

“This 63-page report documents the Syrian authorities' efforts to ban and disperse gatherings calling for Kurdish minority rights or celebrating Kurdish culture, as well as the detention of leading Kurdish political activists and their ill-treatment in custody. The repression of Kurds in Syria has greatly intensified following large-scale Kurdish demonstrations in March 2004. The report is based on interviews with 30 Kurdish activists recently released from prison, as well as 15 relatives of Kurdish activists still in jail. The Syrian government refused to reply to requests for information or meetings with Human Rights Watch.”

A Press Release is also available. http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/26/syria-end-persecution-kurds

Amnesty International has recently published the following campaign digest on the violence and discrimination experience by women in Yemen:

Yemen’s dark side: Discrimination and violence against women and girls (campaign digest)

Index Number: MDE 31/014/2009 ; Date Published: 25 November 2009

Available online in PDF format at: Yemen’s dark side: Discrimination and violence against women and girls

A news brief is also available entitled `Yemeni women face violence and discrimination.'

The UK Home Office has recently published its Control of Immigration statistics for the Third Quarter of 2009. A direct link to the PDF is available by clicking on the title below, and further information is available from the Home Office Research Development and Statistics page at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html

Direct Link to PDF file: Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom - Third Quarter 2009

Still with the Home Office, the Refugee Council Poliblog posting on the 30^th November entitled `Two takes on Issues facing asylum seeking women...' (detailed above), refers to two recently published documents on dealing with violence against women. These have been published by the UK Home Office and the voluntary organisation Rights for Women, and full details of both will be detailed as follows:

1) Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls: a Strategy (PDF file - 1mb - Warning: large file) Published by the Home Office who state that, ` This cross-government strategy sets out a range of actions for the police, councils, the NHS and other government departments across three key areas: prevention, provision and protection.” Additional annexes to the main report are also available: Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls: Annexes to the Strategy (PDF file - 630kb) ; and an introduction to the report can be found on the Home Office web page entitled: ` Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls: a Strategy.’

2) Seeking Refuge? A handbook for asylum-seeking women is a recently published handbook produced by the voluntary organisation Rights of Women, whose role is to work with women to help empower their legal rights. Further details of the organisation and information on their work and related resources can be found on their website at: http://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/

Posted in News and Publications.

Refugee Archive Newsletter (02 December 2009)

Refugee Archive Newsletter

This newsletter is produced on a regular basis to help disseminate news and further information in relation to refugee and forced migration issues. The newsletter is produced by the Refugee Archives service at the University of East London. This will also be available via our Refugee Studies Blog at: http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com/

News and Media Stories

Iraq Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph (01/12/09): Iraq inquiry: Tony Blair asked for war plans to be prepared in June 2002

The Independent (01/12/09): I did not bully Lord Goldsmith, insists Blair

The Independent (30/11/09): Ministers fear Iraq backlash will lose Labour the election

The Daily Telegraph (27/11/09): Iraq inquiry: war ‘not legitimate’, Sir Jeremy Greenstock tells inquiry

The Times (27/11/09): Blair may have ‘signed in blood’ to topple Saddam a year before war

The Independent (26/1109): Iraq: The inquiry cover-up that will keep us in the dark

The Independent (26/11/09): Officials knew WMD evidence was tainted

The Independent (26/11/09): Adrian Hamilton: The one thing Chilcot won't reveal is the truth

The Times (26/11/09): Blair 'knew Saddam did not have WMD before war started'

The Daily Telegraph (25/11/09): Iraq inquiry: Tony Blair told ‘days before invasion’ WMD had been dismantled

The Times (25/11/09): US ‘drumbeats’ about Iraq invasion were heard months before 9/11

The Independent (24/11/09): Iraq invasion discussed in 2001 – but was dismissed as illegal

The Daily Telegraph (24/11/09): Iraq inquiry: Britain rejected regime change as illegal in 2001

Swiss Minarets Vote

The Guardian (01/12/09): Letters: Swiss minarets and democracy

IRR News (30/11/09): Swiss poll crushes minarets

The Independent (30/11/09): Swiss voters back right-wing minaret ban

The Guardian (30/11/09): Swiss minarets: is EU following Arabs down path of self-pity and xenophobia?

The Guardian (30/11/09): Switzerland: Hatred beneath the harmony

Refugees and Asylum Related Stories

Amnesty International (02/12/09): Victims of Peru Amazon violence deserve justice without discrimination

The Independent (02/12/09): Tamils on the road as Sri Lanka opens refugee camps

The Independent (02/12/09): 'Historic' ruling on secret evidence

The Guardian (01/12/09): Blow to home secretary as terror suspects win secret evidence case

Amnesty International (01/12/09): Sri Lankan government must permanently release all civilians

Refugee Council Poliblog (30/11/09): Two takes on Issues facing asylum seeking women...

UK Home Office Press Release (30/11/09) National identity card launched in Manchester

The Guardian (30/11/09): We need a gender-sensitive asylum system

The Observer (29/11/09): Detention of children at immigration 'prisons' attacked by MPs

Amnesty International (27/11/09): Commonwealth leaders must focus on Sri Lanka crisis

Refugee Council News (27/11/09): Safety of child asylum seekers given boost after court ruling

UK Home Office Press Release (27/11/09): Home Office minister welcomes increased Chinese cooperation to tackle serious crime and migration issues

The Guardian (27/11/09): Lady Scotland's ex-housekeeper charged with immigration offences

The Daily Telegraph (27/11/09): Hidden threat from al-Qaeda sleeper cells

BBC News (27/11/09): Khmer Rouge chief Duch stuns court with release bid

The Independent (27/11/09): Why Conservatives failed the test on Islamic schools

IRR News (26/11/09): Dickensian poverty in the twenty-first century

UK Home Office Press Release (26/11/09): Immigration and asylum statistics released

(Further details on Publications below).

The Guardian (26/11/09): Net migration falls by one-third

The Independent (26/11/09): Can a Muslim say happy Christmas to his friends?

ICRC News (25/11/09): Red Cross Red Crescent issues universal call to action to tackle today's humanitarian challenges

The Independent (25/11/09): Congolese 'warlords' deny slaughtering entire villages

The Guardian (24/11/09): The brutal truth of child detention



New Reports and Publications

Asylum Aid, the national independent charity who work with those seeking to flee human rights violations abroad, have issued a new report entitled `Every Single Woman.’ This is published under the banner of the Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum which, in the words of Asylum Aid, `calls on the UK Border Agency to commit to treating women seeking asylum with fairness, dignity and respect. This means creating a system which recognises the particular issues which cause women to seek asylum and understands their particular needs as women.’ Details of the new puiblication and the Charter can be found as follows:

i) Every Single Woman – campaigning brief (16p.)

ii) Every Single Woman – extended brief (26p.)

iii) Every Single Woman – Watch the Film.

iv) Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum – the Charter and accompanying website.

Further Information: 'We need a gender-sensitive asylum system' Debora Singer in The Guardian

Group Denial: Repression of Kurdish Political and Cultural Rights in Syria

Produced by Human Rights Watch

Available to read online and to order in hard copy at: http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/11/26/group-denial

Details from Human Rights Watch:

“This 63-page report documents the Syrian authorities' efforts to ban and disperse gatherings calling for Kurdish minority rights or celebrating Kurdish culture, as well as the detention of leading Kurdish political activists and their ill-treatment in custody. The repression of Kurds in Syria has greatly intensified following large-scale Kurdish demonstrations in March 2004. The report is based on interviews with 30 Kurdish activists recently released from prison, as well as 15 relatives of Kurdish activists still in jail. The Syrian government refused to reply to requests for information or meetings with Human Rights Watch.”

A Press Release is also available. http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/26/syria-end-persecution-kurds

Amnesty International has recently published the following campaign digest on the violence and discrimination experience by women in Yemen:

Yemen’s dark side: Discrimination and violence against women and girls (campaign digest)

Index Number: MDE 31/014/2009 ; Date Published: 25 November 2009

Available online in PDF format at: Yemen’s dark side: Discrimination and violence against women and girls

A news brief is also available entitled `Yemeni women face violence and discrimination.'

The UK Home Office has recently published its Control of Immigration statistics for the Third Quarter of 2009. A direct link to the PDF is available by clicking on the title below, and further information is available from the Home Office Research Development and Statistics page at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html

Direct Link to PDF file: Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom - Third Quarter 2009

Still with the Home Office, the Refugee Council Poliblog posting on the 30^th November entitled `Two takes on Issues facing asylum seeking women...' (detailed above), refers to two recently published documents on dealing with violence against women. These have been published by the UK Home Office and the voluntary organisation Rights for Women, and full details of both will be detailed as follows:

1) Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls: a Strategy (PDF file - 1mb - Warning: large file) Published by the Home Office who state that, ` This cross-government strategy sets out a range of actions for the police, councils, the NHS and other government departments across three key areas: prevention, provision and protection.” Additional annexes to the main report are also available: Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls: Annexes to the Strategy (PDF file - 630kb) ; and an introduction to the report can be found on the Home Office web page entitled: ` Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls: a Strategy.’

2) Seeking Refuge? A handbook for asylum-seeking women is a recently published handbook produced by the voluntary organisation Rights of Women, whose role is to work with women to help empower their legal rights. Further details of the organisation and information on their work and related resources can be found on their website at: http://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/

Posted in News and Publications.

Refugee Archives Newsletter (24/11/2009)

Refugee Archive Newsletter

This newsletter is produced on a regular basis to help disseminate news and further information in relation to refugee and forced migration issues. The newsletter is produced by the Refugee Archives service at the University of East London. This will also be available via our Refugee Studies Blog at: http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com/

News and Media Stories

Australia and British Child Migrants

The Guardian (16/11/09): Gordon Brown to apologise to care home children sent to Australia and Canada

The Guardian (16/11/09): No harm in saying sorry

The Guardian (16/11/09): Kevin Rudd says sorry to Britons forcibly shipped to Australia as children

The Guardian (16/11/09): Brown to apologise to care home children sent to Australia and Canada

Other Refugee and Asylum Seeker News Stories

The Independent (24/11/09): The terrifying voyage of Burma's boat people

The Independent (24/11/09): Does this picture show British soldiers broke Geneva Conventions?

The Guardian (23/11/09): Who comes to the UK and where do Britons go?

The Observer (22/11/09): Michael Palin's hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face

The Independent (20/11/09): BNP signs its first non-white member... ... but he's only joined because he hates Muslims

IRR News (19/11/09): Calais migrants demand rights

The Guardian (19/11/09): UK lawyers fight to save nine-year-old boy from deportation to Iran

The Guardian (18/11/09): Councils 'lost' 145 child asylum seekers last year

The Guardian (18/11/09): Queen's speech 2009: draft immigration bill

The Times (18/11/09): Iraqis say British Army used Guantánamo interrogation methods

The Guardian (17/11/09 and originally published 17/11/1961): From the archive: Immigration Bill is 'anti-Commonwealth and anti-colour'

The Independent (17/11/09): Christopher Maume: 'The British National party is right about one thing: the country is filling up'

The Daily Telegraph (17/11/09): Terror suspects paid £600,000 for 'living costs'

BBC News (17/11/09): Congo gold 'still funding' rebels

Posted in News.

Refugee Archive Newsletter

Refugee Archive Newsletter

This newsletter is produced on a regular basis to help disseminate news and further information in relation to refugee and forced migration issues. The newsletter is produced by the Refugee Archives service at the University of East London.

News and Media Stories

Gordon Brown Immigration Speech

The Independent (13/11/09): Brown to get tough on student visas and foreign skilled workers

The Independent (13/11/09): Gordon Brown: New rules can make our immigration system tougher and fairer

The Guardian (12/11/09): Gordon Brown's immigration speech: what he said, and meant

The Guardian (12/11/09): Non-Europeans shut out from another 250,000 skilled jobs

The Guardian (12/11/09): Gordon Brown's immigration speech seen as first shot in election campaign

The Guardian (12/11/09): Gordon Brown to announce new migrant controls
The Guardian (11/11/09): Gordon Brown pledges new migrant limits

Australia and British Child Migrants

The Daily Telegraph (16/11/09): Australian PM Kevin Rudd issues apology to British child migrants
The Independent (16/11/09): After 50 years, the 'lost innocents' shipped from home win apology

The Daily Telegraph (14/11/09): Australia to say sorry to abused British child migrants

Other Refugee and Asylum Seeker News Stories

The Times (16/11/09): BNP leader to challenge Cabinet minister at general election

The Independent (16/11/09): Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again

The Guardian (12/11/09): The one-sided debate on asylum seekers

BBC News (12/11/09): African slavery apology 'needed'

IRR News (12/11/09): Cheryl Laws fights deportation

The Guardian (11/11/09): Citizens, do your civic duty

The Guardian (09/11/09): Welcome highlights British hypocrisy as well as French brutality

The Independent (09/11/09): Johnson: we need a debate on migration

The Independent (09/11/09): Leading article: The immigration debate we need

The Guardian (06/11/09): Is the British curry under threat?

The Daily Telegraph (06/11/09): Exeter is a lovely place for the BNP, says actress Emma Thompson

The Independent (06/11/09): Prosecutor arrives in Kenya on trail of war crimes

The Guardian (05/11/09): Disguising the detention of children

The Daily Telegraph (05/11/09): Radovan Karadzic trial delayed until March 2010

The Independent (05/11/09): Saved from the death squads: Darfuris given asylum in UK

The Guardian (05/11/09): British soldiers in Afghanistan helping to curb asylum seekers, claims minister

The Guardian (04/11/09): Why Johnson felt the need to say sorry

The Independent (04/11/09): Saved from the death squads: Darfuris given asylum in UK

The Independent (04/11/09): Zimbabwe to escape censure over abuses in diamond mines

New Reports and Publications

Two recent reports have recently been published by the mental health charity Mind charting the levels of support and provision of services available for refugees and asylum seekers. Further information on these two reports can be found on the Mind website at: http://www.mind.org.uk/news/2368_uk_puts_mental_health_of_refugees_and_asylum_seekers_at_risk

Alternatively, copies of the reports in PDF format are available via the links below:

A civilised society: mental health provision for refugees and asylum seekers in England and Wales

http://www.mind.org.uk/assets/0000/5695/refugee_report_2.pdf

(Source: IRR Weekly Digest 13 November)

Improving mental health support for refugee communities – an advocacy approach

http://www.mind.org.uk/assets/0000/5696/Refugee_Report_1.pdf

(Source: IRR Weekly Digest 13 November)

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Dr. Nik Mai of the Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET) at London Metropolitan University has recently published a research report entitled Migrant workers in the UK sex industry. This publication reports on the recent ESTC funded research led by Dr. Mai and further details can be found on the ISET website at: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/projects/esrc-migrant-workers.cfm

The research report itself can be downloaded here: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/fms/MRSite/Research/iset/Migrant%20Workers%20in%20the%20UK%20Sex%20Industry%20Policy-Relevant%20Findings2.pdf
(Source: ICAR Newsletter)

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A new report has been launched by the Welsh Assembly Government entitled “Refugees living in Wales: A survey of skills, experiences and barriers to inclusion” by Crawley, Heaven and Crimes, Tina, Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR), Swansea University
(Source: ICAR Newsletter)

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A report has been launched by the Innocenti Research Centre at UNICEF entitled “Children in Immigrant Families in Eight Affluent Countries: Their family, national and international context” by Hernandez, Donald J., Macartney, Suzanne et al.
A UK-based case study is also available, entitled: “The situation of children in immigrant families in the United Kingdom” by Crawley, Heaven. Innocenti Working Paper IWP-2009-18
(Source: ICAR Newsletter)

Posted in: News.

Refugee Archive Newsletter

Refugee Archive Newsletter - Tuesday, 3 November 2009.

This newsletter is produced on a regular basis to help disseminate news and further information in relation to refugee and forced migration issues. The newsletter is produced by the Refugee Archives service at the University of East London.

News and Media Stories

Refugee and Asylum Seeker News Stories

The Times (03/11/09): Minister admits: we got it wrong on immigration

The Independent (03/11/09): We got it wrong on immigration, says Johnson

The Guardian (02/11/09): Alan Johnson: Labour has made mistakes on immigration

The Observer (01/11/09): Jim Goldberg: Open See

The Guardian (30/10/09): English tests for migrants will fail

The Guardian (30/11/09): Misery follows the 'jungle camp' raid

The Guardian (29/11/09): Protests greet plan to resume forced returns to Zimbabwe

The Guardian (29/10/09): Home Office offers failed asylum seekers cash to return to Zimbabwe

The New Statesman: Home is where the heartbreak is

Institute for Race Relations News (29/10/09): The new McCarthyism

The Daily Telegraph (29/10/09): BNP could be invited on Question Time yearly

The Daily Telegraph (29/10/09): Schools report 40,000 cases of racism a year

The Independent (29/10/09): Joan Smith: Make no mistake: sex trafficking is real

The Guardian (29/10/09): Asylum woes at the Home Office

Your Ashford News (28/10/09): Staff suspended at Millbank immigration centre

The Independent (28/10/09): Alaa Al-Aswany: When women are sinners in the eyes of extremists

The Guardian (26/10/09): Former Labour adviser denies immigration plot to undermine right

Child Trafficking

The Independent (03/11/09): Revealed: hidden misery of children trafficked to Britain

The Children’s Society (02/11/09): Professionals ‘missing opportunities’ to help hidden children exploited for sex and forced labour - See also the Hidden Children report detailed below.

BBC News: (02/11/09): UK detained 1,300 child migrants

Children and Young People Daily Bulletin (30/10/09): Child trafficking victims ignored by frontline workers

Radovan Karadzic

The Daily Telegraph (03/11/09): Radovan Karadzic regretted that not all Bosniam Muslims died at Srebrenica

The Times (28/10/09): Court hears Radovan Karadzic’s threats of Muslim slaughter

The Daily Telegraph (28/10/09): Radovan Karadzic wanted Bosnian Muslims wiped from the 'face of the earth'

The Independent (28/10/09): Caught by wiretap, Karadzic boasting about genocide plans

New Reports and Publications

Hidden Children – separated children at risk. A new report produced by The Children’s Society. Available online in PDF format on The Children’s Society website at:
http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/resources/documents/media/18843_full.pdf

Posted in: News.

Refugee Archives New Accessions First Quarter 2009

The Refugee Council Archive at UEL is pleased to announce the launch of their latest Accessions List for the First Quarter (January-March) of 2009. A PDF version of this document can be found on our web site at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/new_accessions.htm

Any questions or for further information, please contact the Archivist Paul Dudman at: Library-archives@uel.ac.uk

Posted in: Refugee Studies Current Awareness Blog.

A Selection of News Headlines (06/05/2009)

Russia accused after Georgia puts down 'attempted coup' (The Independent) - [text online]

UN retreats after Israel hits out at Gaza report (The Independent) - [text online]

Britain's least wanted: The 16 barred from the UK (The Independent) - [text online]

Lumley in fresh attack on Labour over rights of Gurkhas (The Independent) - [text online]

Exposed: MI5's secret deals in Camp X-ray (The Independent) - [text online]

UN report condemns Israel over Gaza war (The Times) - [text online]

Jacqui Smith says ID cards could be available from high street shops (The Times) - [text online]

Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili claims to have crushed army mutiny (The Times) - [text online]

Duchess of Cornwall backs campaign against Government's treatment of Gurkhas (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Children disappear from Heathrow care home (The Guardian) - [audio online]

People trafficking: a phone call, a car door opens - and another child vanishes (The Guardian) - [text online]

Revealed: 77 trafficked Chinese children lost by home (The Guardian) - [text online]

What our Kafkaesque immigration laws mean for theatre (The Guardian) - [text online]

Patsy plays patball (The Guardian) - [text online]

Joanna Lumley claims royal backing for Gurkha fight (The Guardian) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Zimbabwe: OCHA Monthly Humanitarian Update, Apr 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR revises guidelines for Iraqi asylum claims (UNHCR) - [text online]

Beasts of burden a boon to the displaced in Baidoa (UNHCR) - [text online]

Number of internally displaced people remains stable at 26 million (UNHCR) - [text online]

Manchester citizens get first chance to apply for ID cards (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

High street stores to help customers get their passports and ID cards (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: ‘Boat People’ Recount Horrors (Human Rights Watch) - [text and photographs online]

Zimbabwe: Human rights and political activists back in detention (Amnesty International) - [text online]

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-CHAD: Violence continues to drive out CAR families (IRIN News) - [text online]

Improving security prompts UN to revise guidelines for Iraqi asylum claims (UN News) - [text online]

UNICEF warns of impact on children of ongoing violence in Southern Sudan (UN News) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: UN launches $50 million appeal for growing mass of displaced (UN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.