A Selection of News Headlines (01/11/08)

Refugee fears prompt Congo talks (BBC News) - [text online]

Libya compensates terror victims (BBC News) - [text online]

Miliband seeks DR Congo solution (BBC News) - [text online]

Congo fighting is causing humanitarian catastrophe, warn aid agencies (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Fleeing DR Congo army loots rebel-threatened town (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Averting Renewed Regional War in Eastern Congo (Enough Project) - [text online]

Timor-Leste: IDPs returning home, but to ongoing poverty and lack of access to basic services (IDMC) - [Full Overview (html/pdf)]

DRC: Reports of burning and looting of IDP camps; HC's appeal; arrivals in Uganda and Rwanda (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR and CEB sign an agreement in Geneva (UNHCR) - [text online]

Widows and orphans in Myanmar face dangers six months after Nargis (UNHCR) - [text online]

Welcome to Prague: first Myanmar refugees resettle in Czech Republic (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned for 50,000 displaced people in Congo after camps reportedly emptied (UNHCR) - [text online]

Human Rights Watch Reccomendations in Advance of EU-Russia Human Rights Consultations (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Zimbabwe's victims of violence can no longer wait for political solution (Amnesty International) - [text online]. Report - [full text].

UN and development bank partner to assist thousands of European refugees (UN News) - [text online]

UN agency seeks urgent funds to aid Palestinians uprooted from Lebanese camp (UN News) - [text online]

Greater efforts needed to meet gender equality objectives by 2015, says Migiro (UN News) - [text online]

Ban confers with leaders on ending conflict in eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

UNICEF appeals for support six months after cyclone devastates Myanmar (UN News) - [text online]

Top UN officials appeal for safety of civilians caught up in DR Congo fighting (UN News) - [text online]

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