News Stories (19/12/07)

Slave labour that shames America (The Independent) - [text online]

BNP faces inquiry for 'illegal activity' (The Independent) - [text online]

The exploited: 'You work so hard to end up earning hardly anything' (The Independent) - [text online]

Asylum protesters blockade offices (The Guardian) - [text online]

The politics of distraction (The Guardian) - [text online]

Watchdog criticises Heathrow detention facilities (The Guardian) - [text online]

Police called to disturbance at asylum centre (The Guardian) - [text online]

Protesters blockade immigration depots (The Guardian) - [text online]

Congolese refugees return home from Zambia by road and boat (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Iraqi musician Naseer Shamma launches fund-raising campaign (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR chief meets Congolese President Kabila (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Sudan: Protection of civilians - Learning from Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Hell is…Life as an Aid Worker in Sudan, Part 2 (Refugees International WorldBridge Blog) - [text online]

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News Stories (18/12/07)

Iraqis interpreting 'betrayal' (BBC News) - [text online]

Tourist visa times 'to be halved' (BBC News) - [text online]

Heathrow detention 'inadequate' (BBC News) - [text online]

Rome 'umbrella killer' sentenced (BBC News) - [text online]

Planning shake-up of Gypsy sites (BBC News) - [text online]

Families told to pay bond for relatives to visit them in Britain (The Times) - [text online]

100,000 lose out to migrants in hunt for work (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

UK Guantanamo detainee near suicide after years of torture, doctors warn (The Independent) - [text online]

Illegal immigrant was working at front desk of Home Office (The Independent) - [text online]

Donor nations offer billions to boost Palestinian economy (The Independent) - [text online]

Home Office grants 19,000 asylum seekers permission to remain (The Guardian) - [text online]

Migrant workers curb wages and keep interest rates low to boost economic growth (The Guardian) - [text online]

Home Office guard was illegal immigrant (The Guardian) - [text online]

19,000 asylum-seekers are allowed to stay as ministers deny amnesty (The Times) - [text online]

UNHCR chief Guterres calls for end to North Kivu fighting (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Ethiopia-Sudan repatriation resumes with convoy of 610 people (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR issues ATM cards to 7,000 needy Iraqi families in Syria (UNHCR News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : The Humanitarian Monitor Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 19 Nov 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Regional Humanitarian Update Nov 2007: Vol 1, Issue 9 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: UNICEF responding to the urgent needs of women and children (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Afghanistan: At the end of 2007, humanitarian actors operating under much tighter security restrictions (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN mission says recruitment of child soldiers is surging (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Taiwan Migrant Worker Rally - "I want my day off!!" (Global Voices Online) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of Congo: Transition Without Military Transformation (Refugees International) - [text online]

Common Conversation makes common sense for Leeds (Refugee Council) - [text online]

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News Stories (17/12/07)

EU agrees on Kosovo mission (EU Observer) - [text online]

Tourist visa times 'to be halved' (BBC News) - [text online]

African migrants drown off Yemen (BBC News) - [text online]

Darfur rebels 'win major victory' (BBC News) - [text online]

Paris hosts Mid-East donor talks (BBC News) - [text online]

Sweden denies Mogadishu conflict (BBC News) - [text online]

EU offers Serbia deal on Kosovo (BBC News) - [text online]

Romas and travellers fare worst in school exams (The Independent) - [text online]

English a minority language in 1,300 schools (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Row over payments to failed asylum seekers (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

£1,000 bond planned for visits by overseas relatives (The Guardian) - [text online]

Universities fear massive cash loss (The Guardian) - [text online]

Belfast battles to halt deportations (The Guardian) - [text online]

'Sex slaves' win cash in landmark legal deal (The Guardian) - [text online]

Q&A: Why UNHCR cares about migration flows (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Colombian makes fountains to integrate in Brazil's Amazon zone (UNHCR News) - [text online]

More than 200 boat people feared drowned in separate incidents (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Surveys give valuable data on plight of Iraqi refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Central Emergency Response Fund reaches 'important milestone in the history
of humanitarianism' (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: Research looks into lives of refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

New donors contribute to emergency fund (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Hell is…Life as an Aid Worker in Sudan, Part 1 (Refugees International Worldbridge Blog) - [text online]

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News Stories (14/12/07)

Chad sets date for kidnap trial (BBC News) - [text online]

Refugee chief visits Congo crisis (BBC News) - [text online]

Del Ponte leaves 'disappointed' (BBC News) - [text online]

Red Cross demands Mid-East action (BBC News) - [text online]

Asylum rules branded 'inhumane' (BBC News) - [text online]

1995: Bosnia peace accord ends three-year war (BBC News) - [text online]

Two-pronged attack on Smith's plan for 42-day detention (The Independent) - [text online]

Red Cross denounces Israel's curbs on Palestinians ahead of Blair conference (The Independent) - [text online]

'Find the fugitives', urges UN prosecutor as she steps down (The Independent) - [text online]

Baltic states braced for backlash by Russian minorities (The Independent) - [text online]

11,000 illegal migrants licensed to work as private security guards (The Guardian) - [text online]

Smith: 6,000 illegal immigrants worked in security industry (The Guardian) - [text online]

Brown risks losing trust over immigrants row, warns Cameron (The Guardian) - [text online]

Geneva dialogue supports coherent policy on refugees in migration flows (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Afghan minority seeks home in India (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR drivers pay heavy price in black week for UN refugee agency (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Condemning the unborn (IRR News) - [text online]

Evidence on assaults and abuse during deportation collected (IRR News) - [text online]

Kosovo debate to dominate EU summit (EU Observer) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Somali Region Update Humanitarian Response (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA special focus: The closure of the Gaza Strip - The economic and humanitarian consequences (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Humanitarian action still under fire in Darfur (Refugees International) - [text online]

Lahore immigration advisers and education agents hear how the British High Commission wishes to co-operate with them but learn with dismay about abolition of appeals and proposed further restrictions on marriage which would impact (Immigration Advisory Service) - [text online]

Some Iraqis returnees face uncertain lives (Los Angeles Times) - [text online]

Kosovo status talks failed to produce agreement, says report to Security Council (UN News) - [text online]

DRC: Concern over conscription of children, human rights abuses in North Kivu (IRIN News) - [text online]

World Disasters Report: tackling discrimination in disasters (Red Cross Red Crescent) - [text online]

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News Stories (13/12/07)

Doctors Failing to diagnose HIV early in UK Africans (Wellcome Trust) - [text online]

General jailed for Sarajevo siege (BBC News) - [text online]

Afghan women make call for peace (BBC News) - [text online]

A miracle for Christmas (The Independent) - [text online]

Union challenges M&S on migrant workers (The Guardian) - [text online]

Resettlement referrals for Iraqi refugees top 20,000 this year (UNHCR News) - [text online]

For Iraqi refugees, a sense of community in the American west (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR calls on women leaders to empower female refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

EC allocates €50 million to alleviate plight of Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Timor-Leste will need UN assistance for some time, says Security Council team (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: UN envoy vows to build momentum in peace process (UN News) - [text online]

MPs to quiz Ministers on treatment of asylum seekers (Refugee Council Poliblog) - [text online]

Immigration and America's Black Population (Docuticker) - [text online]

Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice (Docuticker) – [text online].

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News Stories (12/12/07)

UN review after Algiers bombing (BBC News) - [text online]

Sudanese peace deal back on track (BBC News) - [text online]

General jailed for Sarajevo siege (BBC News) - [text online]

Spectre of civil war returns as al-Qaeda suicide bombings kill 67 (The Times) - [text online]

Britain's breach of honour over Iraq interpreters (The Times) - [text online]

One baby in five born to mothers who came from outside Britain (The Times) - [text online]

One in five babies born to migrants in UK (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Ex-CIA agent: We used torture and it worked (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Algerian bomb blasts linked to al-Qa'ida (The Independent) - [text online]

CIA waterboarding 'broke suspect after 35 seconds' (The Independent) - [text online]

UN agency seeks over $1 billion to assist millions of refugees worldwide (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Violence and victimization after civilian disarmament - The case of Jonglei (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: For returnees, a complex scenario; for displaced, a desperate one (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

US: Immigration Detention Practices Endanger Health, Life: Government Neglecting Healthcare Needs of Ill Detainees (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Departures of Myanmar refugees from Thailand top 20,000 mark (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Congolese refugees in Uganda prepare to move (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR chief condemns Algiers bombing; mourns dead (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR launches international dialogue on asylum and migration (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR's donors announce contributions of almost US$500 million for 2008 (UNHCR News) - [text online]

BURUNDI: Boost for returnees (IRIN News) - [text online]

More than $2 billion required for humanitarian, recovery projects in Sudan: UN (UN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (11/12/07)

Cuba makes human rights promise (BBC News) - [text online]

UN rights envoy in Burma briefing (BBC News) - [text online]

Serbia blasted over key fugitives (BBC News) - [text online]

Egypt 'fabricated terror group' (BBC News) - [text online]

Independent Appeal: Flight of the young ones (The Independent) - [text online]

Australia scraps 'Pacific Solution' for refugees (The Independent) - [text online]

'Westernised' women being killed in Basra (The Independent) - [text online]

Birth of a nation: But will Kosovo spark another Balkan crisis? (The Independent) - [text online]

Migrants drown near Turkish coast (The Independent) - [text online]

It's time for a museum of British history (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Risk of new displacement heightens as deadline for resolving Kosovo’s final status expires, says report (IDMC) - [text online]

Higher figures for foreign workers undermine ministers' claims (The Guardian) - [text online]

Refugees from Bhutan get first ID cards in Nepal's camps (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UN seeks US$3.8 billion for humanitarian aid next year (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Colombia's Pearl of the Pacific loses its lustre (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UN Human Rights Day: UNHCR to help promote Declaration of Human Rights anniversary (UNHCR News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update, 16 Nov - 07 Dec 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nepal: ID campaign starts for Bhutanese refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Humanitarian Appeal 2008: Addressing the needs of 25 million people (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Risk of new displacement heightens as Kosovo deadline expire (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

GLOBAL: Awareness-raising key to tackling gender violence (IRIN News) - [text online]

Refugee to deliver speech at UN with Sir Richard Branson (Refugee Council) - [text online]

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News Stories (10/12/07)

Time up for Kosovo status talks (BBC News) - [text online]

CIA photos 'show UK Guantanamo detainee was tortured' (The Independent) - [text online]

Kosovo protesters demand declaration of independence (The Independent) - [text online]

Nato ready as Kosovo tension rises (The Telegraph) - [text online]

French workers in Chad protest (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma toll at least 31, UN says (BBC News) - [text online]

The liberties stripped from the weak today could be lost to us all tomorrow (The Guardian) - [text online]

To believe in a European utopia before Muslims arrived is delusional (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR repatriates 45 Congolese to Kinshasa on maiden flight (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Q&A: Plaudits and prizes for powerful migration movie (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Conflicting reports on Iraqi return figures (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Iraq not safe enough for refugee returns, says UNHCR (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

East Africa: Holmes warns on humanitarian outlook (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Crackdown casualties exceed official count - UN (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Chad: Mounting rebel fronts hamper aid efforts (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Burmese refugees in Thailand face food aid cut (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Timor-Leste: IDPs, widespread poverty counteract progress (Reliefeb) - [text online]

Iraq : Returning home not end of story for IDPs and refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Yemen: More Food needed to feed thousands of displaced (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Concern over the fate of civilians in North Kivu (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

SUDAN: Water shortage fears in Darfur camps (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ-JORDAN: Few Iraqis returning home (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: Returning to destroyed, looted or occupied homes (IRIN News) - [text online]

CHAD: Mounting rebel fronts hamper aid efforts (IRIN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (07/12/07)

CIA destroyed interrogation tapes (BBC News) - [text online]

Red Cross visits Iraqi prisoners (BBC News) - [text online]

Councils urged to translate less (BBC News) - [text online]

Serbia warns of a new Balkan war as peace talks over Kosovo fail (The Times) - [text online]

Concerns over Kosovo conflict as talks fail (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Kosovo: A declaration of independence - or war? (The Independent) - [text online]

Smith faces fight to raise detention limit in terror cases (The Independent) - [text online]

From a cleaner to a concert pianist, the Polish immigrant who hit the right note in Britain (The Independent) - [text online]

President leaves behind a people left paralysed by their poverty (The Independent) - [text online]

Serbs: 'We are defending Europe against Muslim aggression' (The Independent) - [text online]

Refugees and displacement (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Zimbabwe Humanitarian Situation Report Issue no. 27 Nov 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin no. 18 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA-oPt protection of civilians summary data tables: Reports to the end of Oct 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report, 7 - 13 Dec 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Teaching Black history: the struggle continues (IRR News) - [text online]

Ministers struggle as plan to increase detention limit to 42 days attracts new round of criticism (The Guardian) - [text online]

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Concluding Observations (39th session) - [text online]

Brazil honours refugee integration initiatives (UNHCR News) - [text online]

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News Stories (06/12/07)

Smith plans 42-day terror limit (BBC News) - [text online]

UN to press Sudan on Darfur force (BBC News) - [text online]

Clarke refused offer of role in repatriating immigrants (The Independent) - [text online]

Legal action by inmates could close Guantanamo (The Independent) - [text online]

Henry's war: One man's fight against rendition (The Independent) - [text online]

Adopt Nazi methods, says Italian councillor (The Independent) - [text online]

Plan to let MPs vote on how long individual terror suspects are held (The Times) - [text online]

Smith seeks to restore trust in immigration system (The Guardian) - [text online]

Smith to ban non-EU unskilled immigrants from working in UK (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR to seek pledges of $1.09 billion for 2008 budget (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Remembering South Africa's revolution (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Anti-Zionist Jews fight anti-Semitism charge (IRR News) - [text online]

Burundi: UN approves regular monitoring mechanism as new tool to promote
peacebuilding (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Chad: Humanitarian aid in jeopardy (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Darfur: UN, African Union envoys meet with regional partners to peace process (UN News) - [text online]

UN appeals for safe, unhindered humanitarian access amid fighting in Chad (UN News) - [text online]

Sudan has failed to cooperate with International Criminal Court, prosecutor says (UN News) - [text online]

JORDAN: Iraqi asylum-seekers fall victim to resettlement scams (IRIN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (05/12/07)

One-fifth of Canadians immigrants (BBC News) - [text online]

UN to join attack on Congo rebels (BBC News) - [text online]

Rice at talks on Africa conflicts (BBC News) - [text online]

World court to open Darfur cases (BBC News) - [text online]

Kosovo stalemate set to open rift between Russia and the West (The Independent) - [text online]

UNHCR suspends returns to Sudan's Jonglei state (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Central African Republic parliament approves refugee law (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UN: Atrocities Fuel Worsening Crisis in Horn of Africa. UN Security Council Should Press Ethiopia and Somalia to Put an End to Abuses (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UN: ICC Needs Backing to Bring Justice for War Crimes. Secretary-General to Address ICC Meeting at UN Headquarters (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Plans to restrict healthcare for asylum seekers and migrants (Observer) - [text online]

Controversial final hearing for Independent Asylum Commission (Refugee Council) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report, 21 - 27 Nov 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia allows aid operations one day after freeze (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Darfur: UN envoy heads to Sudan for talks with all sides to conflict (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: Gov't, UN to cooperate in returnee effort (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: More Congolese displaced by fighting in North Kivu (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR set to ask donors for over one billion dollars for 2008 budget (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan to dominate Security Council’s intensive December schedule – President (UN News) - [text online]

Donors pledge over $160 million for UN agency aiding Palestinian refugees (UN News) - [text online]

Renewed fighting in eastern Chad sparks alarm from UN refugee agency (UN News) - [text online]

Iraqi Government, UN launch plan to help returning refugees (UN News) - [text online]

BURUNDI-TANZANIA: Thousands of refugees still awaiting repatriation (IRIN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (04/12/07)

Wave of violence threatens Darfur camps (BBC News) - [text online]

Writers attack Zimbabwe omission (BBC News) - [text online]

Fierce fighting in eastern Chad (BBC News) - [text online]

Third Uzbekistan 'torture death' (BBC News) - [text online]

An appeal for your help this Christmas (The Independent) - [text online]

I won't let this pass: Morrissey defends stance in immigration row with NME (The Guardian) - [text online]

Amis demands Muslims join in 'factory siren' over terror plots (The Guardian) - [text online]

Street theatre helps spread HIV/AIDs awareness in Nepal (UNHCR News) - [text online]

One tragedy helps young Iraqi overcome another one (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Hundreds flee new fighting in North Kivu; UNHCR closes small office (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Djibouti, 1 December 2007 - Secretary-General's message to seminar on the implementation of the African Union Border Programme (UN News) - [text online]

Mozambique: Number of refugees grows (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Israel to aid Palestinian refugees in peace deal: OImert (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: More aid needed for the displaced in Anbar Province (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: UN humanitarian chief calls for improved cooperation to expedite
assistance to Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Resisting displacement by combatants and developers: Humanitarian Zones in north-west Colombia (IDMC) - [text online]

UK Government needs joined up thinking on Bangladesh and labour migrants (IAS) - [text online]

Burmese Refugees: End the Exploitation of Burmese in Thailand (Refugees International) - [text online]

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News Stories (03/12/07)

RFC rebels 'in new Chad clash' (BBC News) - [text online]

'Humanitarian crisis' facing Ethiopia, says UN (The Independent) - [text online]

Reality TV to help immigrants find a wife – and a US visa (The Independent) - [text online]

Darfur mission 'behind schedule' (BBC News) - [text online]

Morrissey sues NME over racism claim (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Worsening humanitarian crisis as internal displacement escalates in the east (IDMC) - [text online]

The cruellest voyage (The Guardian) - [text online]

Brick Lane losing its flavour as corporates squeeze out curry (The Guardian) - [text online]

Failed asylum seekers face healthcare ban (The Guardian) - [text online]

World AIDS Day: Refugee boy in Namibia inspires AIDS Day poster (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Q&A: Refugee worker turns a disability into an advantage (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Daily struggle for displaced families from Mogadishu (UNHCR News) - [text online]

World AIDS Day: UNHCR chief pledges to continue fight against HIV and AIDS (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Two of Sudan's 'Lost Boys' return home from Cuba (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Continuing dialogue with Sudan vital to expediting assistance, says top UN aid official (UN News) - [text online]

On International Day, Ban Ki-moon calls for eradicating modern forms of slavery (UN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Darfur relief to cost $825 million in 2008 - UN (IRIN News) - [text online]

"Initial decision-making is still shockingly poor" (Refugee Council) - [text online]

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