A Selection of News Headlines (17/12/08)

Jewish leaders fear anti-Semitic backlash (The Independent) - [text online]

'Thousands made slaves' in Darfur (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe rivals 'should both go' (BBC News) - [text online]

Aborigines win battle over mine (BBC News) - [text online]

Bangladesh lifts emergency rule (BBC News) - [text online]

Chinese asylum seeker held for two years despite wanting to go home (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Victory at last for Zimbabwean asylum seekers following IAS’ case (immigration Advisory Service) - [text online]

Victory at last for Zimbabwean asylum seekers (The Zimbabwean) - [text online]

Asylum seekers need free English classes, urges campaign (NIACE) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : The Humanitarian Monitor Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 31, Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 08 - 21 Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is now spreading to neighboring countries (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Georgia: Victims of the South Ossetia conflict need better protection (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Next census aims to map migrant populations (The Independent) - [text online]

MigrationWatch is twisting the truth (The Guardian) - [text online]. The MigrationWatch report - [here].

Congo crisis call for help in UNHCR "Gimme Shelter" campaign (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: UNHCR deplores murder of Italian NGO staffer; rebels reportedly pressuring IDPs to return (UNHCR) - [text online]

Sudanese refugees depart Iraq for resettlement (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR recommendations for the incoming Czech EU Presidency (UNHCR) - [text online]

Ben Affleck video unveiled for UNHCR "Gimme Shelter" campaign (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned about violence in North Kivu as aid worker killed (UNHCR) - [text online]

LAOS: Finding alternatives to resettlement (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOUTH AFRICA: Sleeping rough better than repatriation to Zimbabwe (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Botswana dismisses its neighbour’s sabre rattling (IRIN News) - [text online]

Piracy problem inseparable from overall Somali crisis, Ban warns (UN News) - [text online]

Rebels reportedly pressuring displaced Congolese to return home – UN (UN News) - [text online]

New UN report highlights challenges to ensuring food security in Timor-Leste (UN News) - [text online]

Flood-stricken Papua New Guinea receives UN assistance (UN News) - [text online]

Stranded Sudanese refugees leave Iraq for Romania, reports UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (16/12/08)

UN chief deplores Mugabe position (BBC News) - [text online]

Turkish thinkers' Armenia apology (BBC News) - [text online]

Lord's Resistance Army uses truce to rearm and spread fear in Uganda (The Times) - [text online]

Britain faces humiliating Iraq withdrawal (The Times) - [text online]

Extra judges drafted in to hear immigration appeals (The Times) - [text online]

Zimbabwe cholera deaths near 1,000 (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Uganda Humanitarian Update: 01 - 30 Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nigeria: Unresolved conflicts cause ongoing displacement (IDMC) - [Full Overview (html/pdf)]

Beyond Crisis Management in Eastern Congo (Enough Project) - [text online]

Speaking up for young people (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Pioneering a new educational forum (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Queen's Speech brings gloom for migrants (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Boris Johnson aide 'deeply regrets' immigration articles (The Guardian) - [text online]

Iraqi sewed up mouth in failed bid to avoid deportation (The Guardian) - [text online]

'Asylum seekers are part of us' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Unsuccessful asylum applicants 'should be given support' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Scottish fishermen accused of exploiting migrant boat crew (The Observer) - [text online]

Ruling frees asylum seekers to work (The Guardian) - [text online]

'Shambolic' attempt to fly Kurds home (The Guardian) - [text online]

Fear and use of force on rise at migrant centre, inspector says (The Guardian) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: the displaced urgently need assistance (ICRC) - [text online]

Sierra Leone: Seven years after peace agreement, ICRC scales back activities (ICRC) - [text online]

UNHCR steps up support in Burundi as record numbers return (UNHCR) - [text online]

Number of Iraqis recommended by UNHCR for resettlement hits 50,000 (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR resumes refugee returns from Kenya to South Sudan (UNHCR) - [text online]

Colombians light up to show solidarity for displaced people (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: Concerns at Kibati camp as transfers continue (UNHCR) - [text online]

Ecuador: Start of pilot refugee registration scheme (UNHCR) - [text online]

[Comment] Sixty years on, human rights are as incomplete as ever (EU Observer) - [text online]

Brazil: Supreme Court vindicates indigenous land rights (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Damning report on Oakington detention centre (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Refugee Council response to publication of Centre for Social Justice report 'Asylum Matters' (Refugee Council) - [text online]

ASYLUM MATTERS: SCRAP POLICY THAT DRIVES ASYLUM SEEKERS UNDERGROUND AND INTO PROSTITUTION, SAYS NEW REPORT (Centre for Social Justice) - [text online]

Zimbabwe cholera death toll nears 1,000, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

Top UN official pleased that Nepal and Philippines agreed to release child soldiers (UN News) - [text online]

Senior UN officials urge greater protection for Afghan children’s rights (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN deploys nearly all its 17,500 peacekeepers to strife-torn east (UN News) - [text online]

Needs are still great for Myanmar’s cyclone victims, says UN-backed group (UN News) - [text online]

European Union naval escort boosts security for UN food aid en route to Somalia (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-mandated group finds evidence Rwanda, army aiding rival rebels (UN News) - [text online]

DRC-UGANDA: Anti-LRA offensive could backfire - activists (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: IDPs enticed to vacate southern camp (IRIN News) - [text online]

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Refugee Archive: Christmas 2008 Opening Hours

The Refugee Archive at UEL will continue to open at the normal times listed on our web site until Wednesday 17 December, the last day of teaching for the MA in Refugee Studies course this semester.

The Archive will then be Closed for Christmas between Thursday 18 December and Sunday 04 January. The Archive will re-open at 9am on Monday 05 January 2009.

Important dates for your for your diary are therefore:

Wednesday 17 December, 2008: Archive Open, 9am-6pm.

Thursday 18 December, 2008 to Sunday 04 January, 2009: Archive Closed.

Monday 05 January, 2009: Archive re-opens, usual times.

Monday 12 January to Friday 24 January, 2009: Reduced Service available to enable Archive stock-checking to be carried out.

Full details are also available on our website at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/using-rca.htm#Xmas

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A Selection of News Headlines (11/12/08)

Cholera is 'S African disaster' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN official slams Israel 'crimes' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN 'accuses Rwanda and DR Congo' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN claims Rwanda is abetting Congo rebels (The Independent) - [text online]

UK runs 'Guantanamo camps', says detainees (The Independent) - [text online]

Ministers under pressure to hold inquiry on Iraq war within a year (The Independent) - [text online]

Independent Appeal: Volunteers go to work in a ravaged country (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian Update: Regional Office for the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Zimbabwe: OCHA Daily Cholera Update, 09 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Immigrant labours lost (The Guardian) - [text online]

Lecturers are not border police (The Guardian) - [text online]

Appeal for refugee funds elicits promising response from donors (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR meeting seeks solutions to end long-term exile of millions of refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Donors pledge more than US$450 towards UNHCR programmes in 2009 (UNHCR) - [text online]

Protracted Refugee Situations: UNHCR meeting seeks solutions to end long-term exile of millions of refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Protracted Refugee Situations: Bangladesh camp life improves, but home is best (UNHCR) - [text online]

France distances itself from Kouchner human rights remarks (EU Observer) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of Congo: Every Delay Costs Lives (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Government steps up the fight against extremism (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

MYANMAR: Anyo, "I don't know whether I will live or die” (IRIN News) - [text online]

Seven human rights fighters receive top UN awards (UN News) - [text online]

UN appeals for funds to meet health needs in cyclone-battered Myanmar (UN News) - [text online]

On Human Rights Day, UN rights chief reminisces, as victim and enforcer (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: talks between government, rebels making headway, says UN envoy (UN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: UN calls for $6 million to fight deadly cholera epidemic (UN News) - [text online]

UN transports another food shipment to displaced people in war-torn northern Sri Lanka (UN News) - [text online]

Ban leads chorus of UN voices calling for action to protect human rights of vulnerable (UN News) - [text online]

Cambodia, UN agree on need to strengthen court trying Khmer Rouge leaders (UN News) - [text online]

UN refugee chief urges help for 6 million long-term displaced (UN News) - [text online]

International Court seeks more information on arrest warrants for Darfur rebels (UN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Human Rights Day is “just another day of suffering” (IRIN News) - [text online]

INDONESIA: Raising awareness of migrant abuse (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (10/12/08)

Zimbabwe search on for activist (BBC News) - [text online]

New French life for ex-Farc rebel (BBC News) - [text online]

Chinese police detain protesters (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel briefly opens Gaza borders (BBC News) - [text online]

'Asylum bid' by football homeless (BBC News) - [text online]

Cholera ravages population weak with hunger in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe (The Independent) - [text online]

How Burma's opposition lost its fear (The Independent) - [text online]

We'll fight invasion, Zimbabwe warns (The Independent) - [text online]

EU begins Kosovo mission (The Independent) - [text online]

oPt: Israel opens Gaza borders to humanitarian aid shipment (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Top UNHCR official warns about displacement from climate change (UNHCR) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: despite letup in fighting, many needs remain (ICRC) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: International Organizations Call for End to Abductions of Activists (Amnesty International) - [text online]

The Human Rights Act: a ‘Villain’s Charter’? (The Refugee Council) - [text online]

NEPAL: Towards ending impunity for human rights violations (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: "Why I am staying in London this Christmas" (IRIN News) - [text online]

MAURITANIA: Child marriage tradition turns into trafficking (IRIN News) - [text online]

Human rights still not a reality for all, top UN official says (UN News) - [text online]

UN health agency visits Zimbabwe to help contain growing cholera outbreak (UN News) - [text online]

Appalling acts still persist 60 years on from pledge to prevent genocide, Ban warns (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: Government, rebels enter into UN-backed talks to end fighting (UN News) - [text online]

Kosovo: European police phase in as UN phases out (UN News) - [text online]

Ban voices serious concern over stalemate in recovering missing Kuwaitis from Iraq (UN News) - [text online]

Slavery, though legally abolished, remains widespread in current forms, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

‘Collective resistance’ best strategy to fight terrorism, says Ban (UN News) - [text online]

UN, regional advocates call on Governments to protect human rights defenders (UN News) - [text online]

Corruption impedes development and human rights, Ban says on International Day (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (09/12/08)

EU split on Congo troop mission (BBC News) - [text online]

New EU travel bans for Zimbabwe (BBC News) - [text online]

Prosecutor dispute at Khmer trial (BBC News) - [text online]

EU launches Kosovo police mission (BBC News) - [text online]

Filipino fishermen in abuse claim (BBC News) - [text online]

Virtual world for Muslims debuts (BBC News) - [text online]

Jacob Zuma thwarts efforts to force Robert Mugabe out (The Times) - [text online]

Muslim war veteran graves hit by vandals (The Independent) - [text online]

Fears for British doctor held captive by relatives (The Independent) - [text online]

DPR Congo: WFP launches air operation to reach thousands of stranded in the northeast (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Zimbabwe: OCHA Monthly Situation Report, Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 37, 15 - 30 Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Situation Report on Cholera in Zimbabwe No. 04, 03 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : oPt: Protection of civilians weekly report 26 Nov - 02 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Teens extend hand of friendship to refugees (Sheffield Telegraph) - [text online]

A place called home (The Guardian) - [text online]

Reminder: High Commissioner's Dialogue on protracted refugee situations (UNHCR) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Red Cross launches campaign to reunite conflict-dispersed families (ICRC) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: ICRC health specialists arrive in Harare (ICRC) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Charlotte’s smile (ICRC) - [text online]

60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Time to Deliver (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Kosovo (Serbia): New EU mission must bring justice (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Belgium stays closed to Bulgaria, Romania workers (EU Observer) - [text online]

Minister unveils new detention facility (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

UN starts airlifting aid to tens of thousands stranded in north-eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Afghan remittances from Iran total $500 million annually, says UN report (UN News) - [text online]

Time to act in DR Congo is now, says UN peacekeeping chief (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (04/12/08)

Zimbabwe 'asks for cholera help' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN urged to support Sudan arrest (BBC News) - [text online]

Dalai Lama urges EU to stand firm (BBC News) - [text online]

Australia stops 'asylum vessel' (BBC News) - [text online]

Tribal leaders to sabotage West's assault on Taliban (The Independent) - [text online]

Zimbabwe's cholera victims find salvation in South Africa (The Independent) - [text online]

Kenya tribunal to punish organisers of poll violence (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 47, 23 - 30 Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Situation Report on Cholera in Zimbabwe 26 Nov (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 36 - 37, 08 - 21 Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Red Cross increases support for cholera victims (ICRC) - [text online]

IRAQ: Low oil prices could affect government aid to IDPs (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: "A hungry and angry soldier can be very dangerous" (IRIN News) - [text online]

Huge challenges remain in Darfur and Chad, UN aid chief tells Security Council (UN News) - [text online]

Next year is ‘make or break’ for Somalia, UN relief official warns (UN News) - [text online]

Further steps needed to enhance human rights in Liberia, UN report says (UN News) - [text online]

UN food agency extends relief efforts in DR Congo amid spreading violence (UN News) - [text online]

UNICEF steps up assistance efforts to Zimbabweans amid humanitarian crisis (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (03/12/08)

Zimbabwe cholera deaths near 500 (BBC News) - [text online]

Singer urged Rwandans to genocide (BBC News) - [text online]

Migrant workers 'left homeless' (BBC News) - [text online]

Baghdad's forgotten migrants who pay for jobs end up lost in hangar ‘hotel’ (The Times) - [text online]

Mugabe seeks revenge on soldiers that rebelled (The Independent) - [text online]

Rwandan pop star jailed for inciting genocide (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : DR Congo: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Update No. 17 - North Kivu, 26 Nov - 01 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Zimbabwe: OCHA Daily Cholera Update, 02 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Humanitarian crisis worsens amid looting and political instability (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

IRR refutes BNP's claims on racist murders (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Mauritania: Government guilty of routine torture (Amnesty International) - [text online]; Mauritania's security forces guilty of routine torture (Amnesty International) - [text online]

16 Days of Activism: Play seeks to broach taboo of domestic violence (UNHCR) - [text online]

EU Kosovo mission delayed amid protests (EU Observer) - [text online]

SUDAN: Civilian disarmament remains elusive as government rethinks process (IRIN News) - [text online]

MYANMAR-THAILAND: Cyclone migrants face challenges (IRIN News) - [text online]

Rwandan singer sentenced to prison by UN tribunal for inciting genocide (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Conjuring up a state of emergency (IRIN News) - [text online]

Gaza crossings from Israel remain closed, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

More children drafted by armed groups in eastern DR Congo, UNICEF finds (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: UN mission dispatches team after clashes between displaced and militiamen (UN News) - [text online]

Human rights abuses continue in Iraq, despite security improvement - UN (UN News) - [text online]

UN expert urges Nepal to act on commitments to indigenous rights (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (02/12/08)

Mob runs riot as Zimbabwe runs out of water (The Times) - [text online]

Unpaid Zimbabwe soldiers fight police (The Independent) - [text online]

DR Congo: Rebels quit border town, urge govt to talk (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Cholera crisis mounts as Harare water system shut down (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

CAR: European Commission allocates EUR 6m in humanitarian aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Timor-Leste: IDPs face difficult journey home (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Humanitarian partners launch USD 919m appeal for 3.2 million people (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

'It's the best video game ever. I love this job' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Johnson policy chief asked to 'clarify' views on immigration (The Guardian) - [text online]

DRC: Camp transfer continues despite precarious security situation (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gulf of Aden: 20 die as smugglers force migrants overboard (UNHCR) - [text online]

16 Days of Activism: South African border shelter helps young Zimbabwean women (UNHCR) - [text online]

World AIDS Day: Challenges ahead for UNHCR in battling HIV and AIDS (UNHCR) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: fresh outbreak of fighting in the east displaces more civilians (ICRC) - [text online]

Fair rules for strong communities (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Human Rights Council: Words are not enough – Civilians in eastern DRC need more than half measures (Amnesty International) - [text online]

PHILIPPINES: New conviction boosts fight against human trafficking (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Police and soldiers clash (IRIN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: UN agency calls for $2 million to fight cholera epidemic (UN News) - [text online]

UN envoy to war-torn eastern DR Congo wraps up latest round of talks (UN News) - [text online]

Ban deeply saddened by deadly inter-communal clashes in Nigerian city (UN News) - [text online]

Senior UN official visits Nepal to probe release of former child soldiers (UN News) - [text online]

Nearly half of all Somalis in need of humanitarian aid, warns UN relief official (UN News) - [text online]

Protection of civilians remains key issue in Sudan, stresses UN humanitarian chief (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (01/12/08)

Congo rebel chief threatens 'war' (BBC News) - [text online]

Phil Woolas: You Ask The Questions (The Independent) - [text online]

Noon calls for ban on immigration (The Independent) - [text online]

Afghanistan: Female UNHCR worker shot dead in eastern province (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Darfur aid groups face harassment - UN officials (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Croydon asylum seeker wins court review based on his genitals (Croydon Guardian) - [text online]

DRC: Kibati transfers begin; thousands crossing to Uganda (UNHCR) - [text online]

16 Days of Activism: South African border shelter helps young Zimbabwean women (UNHCR) - [text online]

World AIDS Day: Challenges ahead for UNHCR in battling HIV and AIDS (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR supports school, sanitation projects in Kyrgyz host communities (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR starts moving vulnerable displaced Congolese to safer area (UNHCR) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC supplies drinking water for 90,000 people in Saké and Kitshanga (ICRC) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: the fates of separated families intertwine (ICRC) - [text online]

MEPs can shore up human rights at the UN (EU Observer) - [text online]

EU countries pledge to host 10,000 Iraqi refugees (EU Observer) - [text online]

The BNP won't divide or rule (The Guardian) - [text online]

Bosnia & Herzegovina: “Refugees United” (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Civil society support is key to success of $919 m relief plan (IRIN News) - [text online]

TIMOR-LESTE: IDPs face difficult journey home (IRIN News) - [text online]

Southern Sudan needs more help to rebuild education, roads, health care – UN aid chief (UN News) - [text online]

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