News Stories (13/03/08)

Peers lobby Smith to halt deportation of gay Iranian (The Independent) - [text online]

Balkans: 'Kosovo shall remain a part of Serbia forever' - foreign minister (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nepal: IDPs being neglected by government, say aid workers (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Humanitarian action in Iraq: Putting the pieces together - ODI-HPG (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Reconciliation key to returning home, say IDPs (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Mogadishu's IDPs receive shelter - NRC (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

'The treatment is humiliating' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Iraqi asylum seekers given deadline to go home or face destitution in UK (The Guardian) - [text online]

Refugees in PNG travel the road to self-reliance (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Border policing strengthened (Home Office: Border & Immigration Agency) - [text online]

Burundi: Investigate Attacks on Opposition (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

4 out of 10 of the asylum seekers seeking our help are destitute, say refugee agencies (Refugee Council) - [text online]. The full report by the Refugee Council et al is also available online - [download report here].

Refugee Council repsonse to Lord Goldsmith's citizenship review (Refugee Council) - [text online]. The report can also be viewed online at: http://www.justice.gov.uk/reviews/citizenship.htm

Burma: Meeting Humanitarian Needs (Refugees International World:bridge Blog) - [text online]

China: Beijing’s Migrant Construction Workers Abused (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

BURUNDI: Returning home after 35 years (IRIN News) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: UN Secretary-General warns of threats to "still fragile" country (UN News) - [text online]

Uganda defies war crimes court over indictments (The Guardian) - [text online]

Sudan warns west of 'Iraq-style disaster' in Darfur (The Guardian) - [text online]

Ban Ki-moon attends ‘mini-summit’ on Sudanese-Chadian relations (UN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

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