News Stories (30/04/08)

EU migrants 'settling across UK' (BBC News) - [text online]

EU migrants '1% of NI workforce' (BBC News) - [text online]

Contrasting views on EU migration (BBC News) - [text online]

Mapping migration from the new EU countries (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe opposition makes UN plea (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenya banned sect members killed (BBC News) - [text online]

ICC seeks DR Congo's 'Terminator' (BBC News) - [text online]

Turkey reforms controversial law (BBC News) - [text online]

Half of migrants from new EU countries have now left UK (IPPR) - [text online]

English not first language for 800,000 children (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Barclays Bank accused of aiding Robert Mugabe regime (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Chinese slave children 'sold like cabbages' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Israel told to tackle West Bank plight (The Independent) - [text online]

Barbican's tribute to 1948 accused of demonising Israel (The Independent) - [text online]

Britain seeks moratorium on arms sales to Zimbabwe (The Independent) - [text online]

Serbia signs EU deal in bid to defeat nationalists (The Independent) - [text online]

Photographic exhibition by Refugee Council volunteer (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Middle East peace must include solution for Palestinian refugees - UN chief (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN mission chief responds to allegations against peacekeepers (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Philippines: First country report on the situation of children and armed conflict (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UN chief says Zimbabwe in 'serious' humanitarian crisis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: UNRWA resumes food aid delivery to Gaza refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Books as building blocks in northern Afghanistan (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Survey shows most Iraqis in Syria still unwilling to return home (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Burundi: Government Should Act to End Police Abuses (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

International Criminal Court calls for arrest of Congolese militia leader (UNNews) - [text online]

Grave human rights violations against children continue in Philippines, UN finds (UN News) - [text online]

UN offers to help to resolve political crisis in Zimbabwe (UN News) - [text online]

Middle East peace must include solution for Palestinian refugees, Ban Ki-moon says (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: I'll show you mine if you show me yours (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Child migrants tell all (IRIN News) - [text online]

Only 4 per cent of Iraqis in Syria plan to return home: UN report (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/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (29/04/08)

Mozambique police 'kill at will' (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe health minister accused as terror campaign reaches hospital wards (The Times) - [text online]

The drain drain: What if all the Poles went home? (The Independent) - [text online]

And those ready to leave... (The Independent) - [text online]

More than 100,000 sign petition to save journalist held in Afghanistan (The Independent) - [text online]

Corporate gift highlights sanitation problems faced by female refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Iraq: Latest return survey shows few intending to go home soon (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

Trade Unions join Refugee Council to call for asylum seekers to be allowed to work (Refugees Council) - [text online]

UN promotes peacebuilding in Kenya after election crisis (UN News) - [text online]

UN officials deny cover-up over peacekeeper probe in DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Kosovo duo facing trial at UN tribunal over alleged intimidation of witness (UN News) - [text online]

Trial of Congolese defendant ‘crucial step’ to end impunity – senior UN official (UN News) - [text online]

Alarmed by post-election violence in Zimbabwe, UN rights chief urges restraint (UN News) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: IDPs reluctant to return home (IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Rosemary Kuria: "These children belong here, where else can I take them?" (IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Henry Mwitirere, Kenya, "I'm displaced but at least I can help other HIV-positive people" (IRIN 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/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (28/04/08)

UN troops 'armed DR Congo rebels' (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe parties to check results (BBC News) - [text online]

Hundreds of Iraq schemes 'failed' (BBC News) - [text online]

Rights groups urge Sudan arrests (BBC News) - [text online]

Smith faces fresh pressure on 42-day terror detentions (The Independent) - [text online]

Barbaric 'honour killings' become the weapon to subjugate women in Iraq (The Independent) - [text online]

Zimbabwe opposition's hold on parliament confirmed (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 16, 17 - 23 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Burundi pleads for international support as violence escalates (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Surge in state-sponsored violence (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: Half of children no longer go to school, more recruited for violent activities including suicide attacks (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Do I stay or do I go? (The Guardian) - [text online]

Migrants targeted as race crime surges (The Guardian) - [text online]

Changes to application process affecting application forms for students and marriages (Home Office: Border & Immigration Agency) - [text online]

KENYA: IDPs remain cautious as leaders preach peace (IRIN News) - [text online]

Renewed east Congo fighting hampers relief efforts (Reuters) - [text online]

Ban Ki-Moon Warns Against Kosovo Violence (Balkan Insight) - [text online]

NEPAL: Former rebels favoured by marginalised communities (IRIN News) - [text online]

Darfur suspect a 'fugitive,' says International Criminal Court Prosecutor (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/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (26/04/08)

Zimbabwe opposition retains gains (BBC News) - [text online]

Angola allows arms ship to dock (BBC News) - [text online]

New fighting stops DR Congo aid (BBC News) - [text online]

UN condemns Turkey border deaths (BBC News) - [text online]

Beijing 'to talk to Dalai aides' (BBC News) - [text online]

Militias 'recruit child bombers' (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenyan leaders in call for peace (BBC News) - [text online]

Port immigration offences surge (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe forces arrest hundreds in MDC raids - (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Freezing assets of terror suspects ruled unlawful by High Court (The Times) - [text online]

Gaza fuel crisis forces UN to stop food aid deliveries (The Independent) - [text online]

Ministers offer concessions to rebels over 42-day limit (The Independent) - [text online]

Aid workers teach Sierra Leone's poor to shun witch doctors' malaria remedies (The Independent) - [text online]

15 Years After Black Hawk Down: Somalia's Chance? (Enough Project) - [text online]

DR Congo: End the Horrific Suffering in Eastern Congo (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Algeria criticises UK's human rights record (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update, 05 - 20 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 11/12, 5-21 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Regional Humanitarian Update Mar 2008: Vol 2, Issue 3 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Hundreds flee violence in North Kivu (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Uganda: Uncertain future for IDPs (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Lebanon: Tribulations of those displaced from Beirut's southern suburbs (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kurdish father-to-be set for deportation to Iraq (The Guardian) - [text online]

Face scans for air passengers to begin in UK this summer (The Guardian) - [text online]

Q&A: Ambush in Somalia fails to deter Austrian aid worker (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Iraqi refugees in Syria hit by increased food and fuel prices (UNHCR News) - [text online]

More than 8,000 flee fresh fighting in Somalia capital (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Somalia: Renewed fighting in Mogadishu sparks fresh exodus (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

DRC: UNHCR suspends aid distribution amid fresh violence in North Kivu (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

UNHCR deplores refugee expulsion by Turkey which resulted in four deaths (UNHCR Press Release) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Surge in State-Sponsored Violence (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Burma: Humanitarianism on the rocks? (Refugees International) - [text online]

More needs to be done to help Iraq overcome divisions, says Secretary-General (UN News) - [text online]

UN refugee agency deplores deaths of four refugees after expulsion by Turkey (UN News) - [text online]

Bosnian Croat commander convicted by UN tribunal to serve jail term in Italy (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Police swoop on injured MDC supporters (IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: IDPs remain cautious as leaders preach peace (IRIN News) - [text online]

Renewed violence drives thousands out of Somali capital – UN (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/

Posted in: News.

Refugee Archives: Saturday Opening (Reminder!)

Refugee Archives at UEL: Saturday Openings.

Just a quick reminder thatthe Archive will be open this coming Saturday from 10am-5pm.

The current dates in question are listed below, commencing with this coming Saturday:

Saturday 26 April 2008: 10am-5pm

Saturday 10 May 2008: 10am-5pm

Saturday 7 June 2008: 10am-5pm*
*(can be switched to Sat 17 May if students would prefer an extra Saturday prior to coursework submissions – please let me know ASAP if you would prefer the earlier date!).

If you would like this last Saturday to be switched, then do please let me know via e-mail on p.v.dudman@uel.ac.uk or 020 8223 7676 or just pop in and let me know. Any feedback on this matter will also be very much appreciated and will help in the planning for the opening hours over the summer and for next semester.

As a consequence of working these Saturdays, I will be taking some time off in lieu. This will mean that I will be out of the office all day on the Fridays listed below:

Friday 25 April 2008 (all day).

Friday 2 May 2008 (all day).

Friday 9 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 16 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 23 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 20 June 2008 (all day)

Friday 27 June 2008 (all day)

Posted in: News and Archives & Libraries.

News Stories (24/04/08)

Gaza fuel embargo blocks UN aid (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenyan leaders tour trouble spot (BBC News) - [text online]

Ethiopian troops 'took children' (BBC News) - [text online]

First results in Zimbabwe recount (BBC News) - [text online]

Robert Mugabe’s men seek coalition to run country until new poll (The Times) - [text online]

UN diplomats walkout after Libya compares Gaza to 'concentration camps' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Poland launches campaign to lure back migrant workers (The Independent) - [text online]

Foreigners 'cut inflation and avert skills shortage' (The Independent) - [text online]

Korea's 'comfort women': The slaves' revolt (The Independent) - [text online]

DR Congo: End The Horrific Suffering in Eastern Congo (Enough Project) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : The Humanitarian Monitor Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 23, March 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 02 - 08 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 15, 13 - 19 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nepal: Children still face serious human rights violations - UN report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Protect civilians, respect international law - UN humanitarian chief (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Rising insecurity brings new challenges for humanitarian reporting (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: ICRC helps victims of Sadr City fighting (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Terror prisoner threatens to sue to get deported (The Guardian) - [text online]

'He actually wants to help British youth in campaigns' (The Guardian) - [text and audio online]

Refugees get fast start at Ecuador sports school (UNHCR News) - [text online]

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Human trafficking on the upswing (IRIN News) - [text online]

Denouncing civilian deaths, UN rights expert urges Somalia ceasefire (UN News) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: Extend transitional justice scheme till 2009 - rights watchdog (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: NGOs withering under foreign currency shortages (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/

Posted in: News

News Stories (23/04/08)

Zuma in London for Zimbabwe talks (BBC News) - [text online]

Darfur deaths 'could be 300,000' (BBC News) - [text online]

Unity government call in Zimbabwe (BBC News) - [text online]

Khmer Rouge leader seeks release (BBC News) - [text online]

Bosnia war crimes trio convicted (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe's church leaders warn the world: intervene to avert genocide (The Independent) - [text online]

Holding terror suspects for 42 days not needed, says DPP (The Independent) - [text online]

Food crisis needs aid on scale of tsunami to avert famine (The Independent) - [text online]

View from the blogs: 'Tsvangirai will soon be dead in the eyes of Zimbabweans (The Independent - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA-oPt socio-economic fact sheet (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Saved from child traffickers, but not for long (The Guardian) - [text online]

'If you care about your family, give us £12,000' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Boston coping with migrants, says Blears (The Guardian) - [text online]

Poland tries to lure back UK emigrants (The Guardian) - [text online]

Migration 'pinch points' coping well, Blears tells MPs (The Guardian) - [text online]

Eastern Nepal's Goldhap camp starts to rise from the ashes (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR delivers emergency aid to indigenous people in Colombia (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR launches US$3 million appeal to help displaced in Yemen (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Emergency aid delivered to isolated Colombian river villages (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

Nepal/Chad: Refugee camps start to rise from the ashes (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

DR Congo: End the Horrific Suffering in Eastern Congo (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

President’s Corner: Off the Headlines, Death and Displacement Continues in Darfur (Refugees International) - [text online]

Onus on Ethiopia, Eritrea to resolve dispute, says top UN peacekeeping official (UN News) - [text online]

Actress, UN officials urge support for campaign to eliminate violence against women (UN News) - [text online]

Start of Sudanese census welcomed by UN peacekeeping mission (UN News) - [text online]

At five-year mark, Darfur crisis is only worsening – UN aid chief (UN News) - [text online]

UN tribunal partially overturns convictions of two Bosnian Muslim commanders (UN News) - [text online]

Gaza: UN and partners set to meet on critical humanitarian situation (UN News) - [text online]

SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: Ship of shame adrift in controversy (IRIN News) - [text online]

Colombia: UN agencies hand out emergency food to isolated indigenous groups (UN News) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN: Afghan refugee settlements demolished at Jalozai (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN rebuilding refugee camps in Nepal and Chad devastated by fires (UN News) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: IDPs continue to flee fighting in northwest (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Intervention needed to avoid "impending catastrophe" (IRIN News) - [text online]

Global food crisis ‘silent tsunami’ threatening over 100 million people, warns UN (UN News) - [text online]

Race thugs put Pole in hospital after attack (Aberdeen Daily Record) - [text online]. (Source: Institute for Race Relations E-mail Digest - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Migrants flee firebombed house after third racist attack in Belfast (Belfast Telegraph) - [text online]. (Source: Institute for Race Relations E-mail Digest - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Asylum seekers self-harm in detention (The Independent) - [text online]. (Source: Institute for Race Relations E-mail Digest - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

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/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (22/04/08)

Africa urged to boycott arms ship (BBC News) - [text online]

Key Sudan census gets under way (BBC News) - [text online]

Saudi women 'kept in childhood' (BBC News) - [text online]

Judges set to deliver new blow on terror (The Times) - [text online]

Amnesty unveils shock 'waterboarding' film (The Independent) - [text online]

Miliband calls on African leaders to isolate Mugabe (The Independent) - [text online]

Islamist rebels seize two towns (The Independent) - [text online]

Anti-Islamic prankster set to be Berlusconi's deputy (The Independent) - [text online]

UN: Mixed Results for New Review Process (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Somalia: Insecurity, displacement, drought, rising food prices - A cumulative impact (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Humanitarian operations curtailed by violence (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: Army distributes humanitarian aid in Basra (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

What are currynomics? (The Guardian) - [text online]

Farmers fear shortage of workers could hit fruit and veg supplies (The Guardian) - [text online]

'Local men have a special liking for foreign girls - but they want it cheap' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Bulgaria gets tougher on Iraqi asylum applications (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Somalia clashes 'the worst since 1991' (CNN) - [text online]

South Sudan to demobilize army but fears violence (Reuters) - [text online]

UN agency warns Bulgaria is clamping down on asylum claims by Iraqis (UN News) - [text online]

Some States still do not recognize racism’s existence, UN rights chief cautions (UN News) - [text online]

Secretary-General meets with Zimbabwean opposition leader over election crisis (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo and Rwanda assess progress in dealing with armed groups – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Thousands gather as annual indigenous forum kicks off at UN Headquarters (UN News) - [text online]

Ban Ki-moon sounds alarm on violence in Somali capital (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Humanitarian operations curtailed by violence (IRIN 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/

Posted in: News.

Refugee Archives: Saturday Openings

Refugee Archives at UEL: Saturday Openings.

In response to recent expressions of interest, I have arranged to open the Archive on the following dates between now and the end of the UEL academic term. The dates in question are list below, commencing with this coming Saturday:

Saturday 26 April 2008: 10am-5pm

Saturday 10 May 2008: 10am-5pm

Saturday 7 June 2008: 10am-5pm*
*(can be switched to Sat 17 May if students would prefer an extra Saturday prior to coursework submissions – please let me know!).

If you would like this last Saturday to be switched, then do please let me know via e-mail on p.v.dudman@uel.ac.uk or 020 8223 7676 or just pop in and let me know. Any feedback on this matter will also be very much appreciated and will help in the planning for the opening hours over the summer and for next semester.

As a consequence of working these Saturdays, I will be taking some time off in lieu. This will mean that I will be out of the office all day on the Fridays listed below:

Friday 25 April 2008 (all day).

Friday 9 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 16 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 23 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 20 June 2008 (all day)

Friday 27 June 2008 (all day)

Posted in: News and Archives & Libraries.

News Stories (21/04/08)

Call for action on Zimbabwe 'war' (BBC News) - [text online]

Restaurants in migrants protest (BBC News) - [text online]

Demo tribute to removed Ghanaian (BBC News) - [text online]

UK told not to fear immigration (BBC News) - [text online]

Villages 'discovered' in DR Congo (BBC News) - [text online]

EU tightens anti-terrorism laws (BBC News) - [text online]

Memorial for head-on-beach victim (BBC News) - [text online]

Enoch Powell: the Great Lie survives (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Nigerians call for boycott of BA after deportation (The Independent) - [text online]

Enoch Powell 'still haunts immigration debate' (The Independent) - [text online]

Saudi women appeal for legal freedoms (The Independent) - [text online]

Zimbabwe opposition pleads for international intervention (The Independent) - [text online]

Alleged jumping of housing queues by new arrivals is a myth, research reveals (The Guardian) - [text online]

Phillips calls for open debate (The Guardian) - [text online]

Curry house staff protest at new UK work rules (The Guardian) - [text online]

Trading places (The Guardian) - [text online]

Migrant myths (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR-assisted returns from Uganda to Sudan top 50,000 (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR transfers 5,400 Sudanese refugees to Chad camps (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Q&A: Pulitzer-winning professor charts slain UN envoy's life (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Chad/Darfur: continuing insecurity (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

UNHCR position document issued (UNHCR News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Uganda: Joint factsheet on Karamoja: Humanitarian and development realities in the region - 18 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 15, 10 - 16 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Gaza Strip inter-agency humanitarian fact sheet, Mar 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian response in Somalia: Monthly cluster report, Mar 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Gaza Humanitarian Situation Report - Gaza fuel crisis 17 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Burundi Weekly Humanitarian News 07 - 12 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: More than 80 die in the heaviest clash in months (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Food security deteriorating, now 830,000 require emergency assistance, the number could increase to 2.4 mil. (Reliefweb) - [text online]

Nepal: Stop Illegally Detaining Tibetans (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF Sets Up ‘Torture Camps’ (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

DR Congo and Iraq: Activism for Refugees on Capitol Hill (Refugees International) - [text online]

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Zimbabwe not on summit agenda (IRIN News) - [text online]

BANGLADESH-PAKISTAN: Bangladeshi migrants struggle in Karachi slum (video) (IRIN News) - [text online]

Darfur: UN, African Union envoys hold fresh talks with leaders of rebel groups (UN News) - [text online]

Delegation from UN Peacebuilding Commission begins visit to Burundi (UN News) - [text online]

Secretary-General Ban deplores deadly fighting around Burundi’s capital (UN News) - [text online]

Ban Ki-moon welcomes imminent census in Sudan to bolster north-south peace (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/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (18/04/08)

Why immigration is no longer a taboo (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe party 'was offered deal' (BBC News) - [text online]

‘Softly-softly’ Thabo Mbeki is urged to quit over tolerance of Robert Mugabe (The Times) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Report No. 61 - Implementation of the agreement on movement and access, 05 - 18 Mar 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: NGO Micro Grant Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund Bulletin No. 6 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Mum goes on hunger strike of detention (This is Swansea) - [text online]

Tsvangirai accused of treason as China arms Zimbabwe (The Independent) - [text online]

Boris boasts on radio: 'I'm down with the ethnics' (The Independent) - [text online]

Islamists guilty of inciting and funding terrorism (The Independent) - [text online]

Fears for Pervez as Afghan court confirms 100 death sentences (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe militia take a bloody revenge (The Independent) - [text online]

Global internal displacement crisis grew in 2007 - survey (IDMC) - [Full text of the press release and Full report]

Zimbabweans pay for opposition vote in post-poll violence (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Pakistan: Violence marks closure of Afghan refugee camp (RelierfWeb) - [text online]

A land of tea drinking, hokey cokey and rivers of blood (The Guardian) - [text online]

Smith assures police chiefs of cash to help cover immigration costs (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR and partners debate how to meet fuel needs in North Kivu (UNHCR News) - [text online]

All refused asylum seekers should be entitled to healthcare, says Judge (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Security Council welcomes signs of progress towards reunification of Cyprus (UN News) - [text online]

New registrar of International Criminal Court vows to strive to protect witnesses (UN News) - [text online]

Number of displaced people highest in a decade: report (AFP) - [text online]

Iraqi Militias Offering Aid To Displaced (Washington Post) - [text online]

SUDAN: Darfur food rations cut, Ban decries rising insecurity (IRIN News) - [text online]

Attacks on food trucks force UN agency to cut rations in Darfur (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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News Stories (17/04/08)

Kenya swears in coalition cabinet (BBC News) - [text online]

Mbeki defends record on Zimbabwe (BBC News) - [text online]

Robert Mugabe stole Zimbabwe election, says Gordon Brown (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Gordon Brown: the world must stop Robert Mugabe stealing election (The Times) - [text online]

Mbeki isolated at UN as leaders demand action on Zimbabwe (The Independent) - [text online]

Smith 'will not cave in' over 42-day terror detention plan (The Independent) - [text online]

Aboriginal stolen children 'were used in leprosy tests' (TheIndependent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: Humanitarian situation report - Sadr city, Baghdad, 15 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 14, 06 - 12 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Tajikistan: Compound crisis OCHA Situation Report No. 7 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: UN SG "extremely disappointed" over Darfur, hopes for political solution wilt under military action (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: IDPs hesitant to return home despite relative calm (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Corporate efforts to 'get down with the kids' keep backfiring. When will they learn? (The Guardian) - [text online]

Police leaders to tell minister of demands caused by migration (The Guardian) - [text online]

Gangmaster stripped of licence for abusing migrant workers (The Guardian) - [text online]

Riding the immigrant crime wave (The Guardian) - [text online]

IDPs in Kenya hesitant to return home despite relative calm (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Burma: Are solidarity and humanitarian response incompatible? (Refugees International) - [text online]

PAKISTAN: Displaced people begin returning to conflict-hit Waziristan (IRIN News) - [text online]

Hopes for political solution in Darfur wilt under military action – UN report (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/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (16/04/08)

Worker 'tricked into going to Iraq' (BBC News) - [text online]

Migrant crime fears 'unfounded' (BBC News) - [text online]

Smith pledges more terror police (BBC News) - [text online]

Mugabe rival sets run-off terms (BBC News) - [text online]

Thabo Mbeki will be taken to task by UN over crisis in Zimbabwe (The Times) - [text online]

ANC breaks with Mbeki to condemn 'evident' crisis in Zimbabwe (The Independent) - [text online]

UN report demands urgent action on soaring food prices (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report: 01 - 31 Mar 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 24, 01 - 14 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Report No. 60 - Implementation of the agreement on movement and access, 20 Feb - 04 Mar 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Chad: Facts and figures snapshot report, 16 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia wants multinational force to help peace process (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Limited fuel supplies in Gaza have 'severe impact' - UN (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

WFP Ambassador appeals for funds for displaced Iraqis in Syria (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Afghanistan: Attacks on NGOs rise sharply in 2008 - report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Refused asylum seekers sleeping rough in Bolton (The Bolton News) - [text online]

Anger as Edinburgh refugee centre closes after funds axed (The Edinburgh Evening News) - [text online]

Migrant crime wave a myth - police study (The Guardian) - [text online]

Roadblock holds up Afghan returns in tribal area of north-west Pakistan (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Pakistan: Roadblock stops Afghan returns in north-west (UNHCR Briefing Notes) - [text online]

Update on fire in Chad's Goz Amer refugee camp (UNHCR Briefing Notes) - [text online]

How we welcome children to the UK (Refugee Council Poliblog) - [text online]

Egyptian actor appeals for funds to help UN feed Iraqi refugees in Syria (UN News) - [text online]

Chad: UN distributes aid to refugees left homeless after camp blaze (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/

Posted in: News.