A Selection of News Headlines (28/01/2009)

Israeli jets target Gaza tunnels (BBC News) - [text online]

Sharia imposed at Somali MPs base (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma's 'abused Chin need help' (BBC News) - [text online]

Iraq minutes 'must be released' (BBC News) - [text online]

President Obama leads US drive to topple Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe (The Times) - [text online]

Hamas roadside bomb shakes fragile ceasefire with Israel (The Times) - [text online]

Minutes of the cabinet meeting that took us to war must be released (The Independent) - [text online]

Massacre in the Sri Lanka 'safe zone' (The Independent) - [text online]

Israel jets strike Gaza tunnels (The Independent) - [text online]

Israeli strikes leave Blair project with £140m repairs (The Independent) - [text online]

Obama reaches out to Iran with message to Muslims (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza ceasefire strained as Mitchell flies in (The Independent) - [text online]

OPT: Israeli aircraft strike Gaza tunnels - residents said (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Great Lakes: Lord's Resistance Army number two plans to turn himself in (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR fears for safety of indigenous people in north-east Colombia (UNHCR) - [text online]

Congolese refugees flee to Sudan to escape Lord's Resistance Army (UNHCR) - [text online]

Universities and colleges warned - sign up now to new points system (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: Major humanitarian crisis unfolding (ICRC) - [text online]

Israel/Gaza: International Investigation Essential (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Burma/India: End Abuses in Chin State (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Israel must allow full access for aid and supplies to rehabilitate Gaza – UN relief chief (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: fighting continues for second day near headquarters of UN mission (UN News) - [text online]

UN refugee agency calls on Kenya to stop forced return of Somali asylum-seekers (UN News) - [text online]

Second group of stranded Sudanese leave Iraq for Romania, reports UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

Ban calls on world to fight Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and bigotry (UN News) - [text online]

Colombia: growing UN concern as more indigenous flee violence (UN News) - [text online]

UN rights chief decries ‘grotesque’ abuses by Ugandan rebels in DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

In Brief: International meeting on Gaza aid to be held in Qatar on 1 February (IRIN News) - [text online]

BURKINA FASO: Cutters turn razors on babies to evade FGM/C law (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Only US dollars can buy education (IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: FGM falsely touted as a panacea for HIV (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN-UGANDA: Civilians flee LRA "revenge" attacks (IRIN News) - [text online]

JORDAN: Government adopts anti-human trafficking law (IRIN News) - [text online]

INDONESIA: Foreign remittances set to fall with global slowdown (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (27/01/2009)

Zimbabwe parties 'agree timeline' (BBC News) - [text online]

DR Congo gorilla numbers growing (BBC News) - [text online]

Obama reaches out to Muslim world (BBC News) - [text online]

Sri Lanka army 'securing coast' (BBC News) - [text online]

Freed Guantánamo prisoners taunt US as closure plan falls apart (The Times) - [text online]

EU divided over taking in detainees when terror camp closes (The Independent) - [text online]

Zimbabwe opposition contests power-sharing claims (The Independent) - [text online]

On trial, the warlord ‘who led an army of child soldiers’ (The Independent) - [text online]

Dominic Lawson: When charities turn political, the BBC is right to tread warily (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Offer the hand of reconciliation (The Independent) - [text online]

Tom Sutcliffe: Will time ease the pain of the Holocaust? (The Independent) - [text online]

Donald Macintyre: An assault on the peace process (The Independent) - [text online]

Katherine Butler: So how do we know the aid stays in the right hands? (The Independent) - [text online]

Boat people: An international call to help thousands stranded around the world (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

China: Thousands displaced by quake in remote western area (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.17 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Field Update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator 24 - 26 Jan 2009 as of 17:00 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Quarterly Regional Humanitarian Funding Update, Oct - Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Burundi Weekly Humanitarian News, 12 - 17 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.16 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudanese refugees evacuated from Iraq arrive in Romania (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR calls on Kenya to stop forcible return of Somali asylum seekers (UNHCR) - [text online]

Congolese refugees fleeing to South Sudan (UNHCR) - [text online]

Colombia: Growing insecurity forcing indigenous flight in north-east (UNHCR) - [text online]

Spanish artists help fight malnutrition among African refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

TV News Footage: emergency aid alone cannot rebuild Gaza (ICRC) - [text online]

Colombia: Brazil ready to support ICRC humanitarian operation (ICRC) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC calls for respect for civilians in North Kivu (ICRC) - [text online]

Mass Migrant Breakout! - Italy (Bristol No Borders) - [text online]

Zimbabweans remind Gordon Brown to act (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Refugee Council response to National Audit Office report on New Asylum Model (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Greece does EU's migration dirty work (The Guardian) - [text online]

The Gurkhas are friends indeed (The Guardian) - [text online]

Football transfers face test penalty (The Guardian) - [text online]

MPs fight to stop deportation of activist (The Guardian) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: UN says thousands of civilians at risk (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Warrap, Lakes states grappling with ethnic clashes (IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Aid workers protest restricted access to Gaza (IRIN News) - [text online]

First-ever trial at International Criminal Court, on use of child soldiers, opens (UN News) - [text online]

UN experts express concern at length of custody for illegal migrants in Malta (UN News) - [text online]

UN supports exploratory home return of Rwandan ex-fighters from DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

UN rushing aid to hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in Sri Lanka fighting (UN News) - [text online]

Thousands of Gazans remain homeless as UN again calls for aid access (UN News) - [text online]

Memory of Holocaust must spur action to combat genocide, stresses UN rights chief (UN News) - [text online]

Holocaust has vital lessons for today, says Ban (UN News) - [text online]

Afghanistan and Pakistan: Raise voices for civilian protection (Refugees International) - [text online]

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A Selection of news Headlines (23/01/2009)

Rwanda arrests Congo rebel leader (BBC News) - [text online]

Obama appoints key hotspot envoys (BBC News) - [text online]

UN awaits Thai reply on migrants (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza smugglers get back to work (BBC News) - [text online]

US envoy warns over Iraq pullout (BBC News) - [text online]

White working class 'losing out' (BBC News) - [text online]

Relighting the beacon: President Obama orders closure of Guantánamo (The Times) - [text online]

BBC scuppers TV fundraising appeal for Gaza victims (The Times) - [text online]

Obama ready to cut Karzai adrift (The Independent) - [text online]

Backlog swamps asylum system (The Independent) - [text online]

Rwanda arrests Congo rebel leader (The Independent) - [text online]

Fatah fears Gaza conflict has put Hamas in the ascendancy (The Independent) - [text online]

Obama orders CIA to stop torturing terror suspects (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Gaza: the way forward? (The Independent) - [text online]

Impact of arbitrary detention under anti-terror laws (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

'Citizens for Sanctuary' (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Situation Report on Cholera in Zimbabwe No. 10, 21 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 16 - 20 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: NGO Micro Grant Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund Bulletin No. 15 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Asylum system not coping with backlog of cases, says watchdog (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned over humanitarian situation in Lampedusa, Italy (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: UNHCR fears military build-up could create massive displacement (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR's concern on conditions for boat people in Lampedusa reception centre (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR helps Iraqi students achieve university dreams (UNHCR) - [text online]

Russia/Georgia: All Parties in August/South Ossetia Conflict Violated Laws of War (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

DRC: ICC’s First Trial Focuses on Child Soldiers (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UN assessing impact of Ugandan rebel violence on Congolese civilians (UN News) - [text online]

Human rights at heart of UN strategy to oppose terrorism, officials stress (UN News) - [text online]

Women essential to success of regional polls in Iraq, insists UN envoy (UN News) - [text online]

MOZAMBIQUE: Government repatriates Zimbabwe sex workers (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Passport fees leave a population going nowhere (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: Returning IDPs lack decent public services - NGOs (IRIN News) -[text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (22/01/2009)

Obama 'set to close Guantanamo' (BBC News) - [text online]

Congo troops bar UN and aid staff (BBC News) - [text online]

Hunger strike for Zimbabwe change (BBC News) - [text online]

Islam film Dutch MP to be charged (BBC News) - [text online]

Hamas leader urges West to talk (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel to probe phosphorus claims (BBC News) - [text online]

Rohingya migrants want to return (BBC News) - [text online]

President Obama's first call 'was to President Abbas' (The Times) - [text online]

Young? British? Muslim? Listen Up! (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Smugglers back at work in tunnels beneath Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Dutch MP to be tried for views on Islam (The Independent) - [text online]

Mandela's wife calls for Mugabe to step down (The Independent) - [text online]

Deborah Orr: Obama is right to tread warily over Guantanamo Bay (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: So far, Obama's missed the point on Gaza... (The Independent) - [text online]

Patrick Cockburn: In Israel, detachment from reality is now the norm (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.15 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: NGOs call for immediate and unhindered access for aid organizations into Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Explainer: Identity cards (The Guardian) - [text online]

The migration front line (The Guardian) - [text online]

Netherlands signs accord to use UNHCR Refworld research tool (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: unexploded munitions a threat to civilians and humanitarian work (ICRC) - [text online]

EUROPE: HELP CLOSE GUANTÁNAMO: Offer Humanitarian Protection to Detainees Who Risk Torture or Persecution at Home (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: African Leaders Should Intervene (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

US: Obama Expected to Order Guantanamo’s Closure (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Gaza Crisis: Regimes React with Routine Repression (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: End Detentions and Aid Restrictions (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: UNAMA raps new report by rights watchdog (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN expert on children welcomes US suspension of trials at Guantánamo (UN News) - [text online]

In wake of Gaza crisis, Ban urges ‘massive’ effort to resolve Arab-Israeli conflict (UN News) - [text online]

UN, African Union to ramp up deployment of peacekeepers in troubled Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

UN to embark on humanitarian assessment in post-conflict Gaza (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (21/01/2009)

Obama plea stops Guantanamo trial (BBC News) - [text online]

UN demands flow of goods to Gaza (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza rebuild 'to cost billions' (BBC News) - [text online]

Rwandan soldiers enter DR Congo (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenyan MPs to consider poll court (BBC News) - [text online]

Obama moves swiftly on Guantanamo (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza: 'I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls' (The Independent) - [text online]

Dialogue with Hamas is only path to peace, urges novelist (The Independent) - [text online]

Guidance on Profiling Internally Displaced Persons (IDMC) - [text online - English version]

UNHCR seeks access to 126 Muslim Rohingya boat people in Thailand (UNHCR) - [text online]

US: Obama Calls for 120-Day Halt to Guantanamo Military Commissions (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

USA: Move to suspend military tribunals a positive first step (Amnesty International) - [text online]

DRC: Governments launching offensives against armed groups must take precautions to avoid civilian casualties (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: massive devastation calls for vast humanitarian effort (ICRC) - [text online]

DRC: Rwandan operation "not welcomed" (IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Displaced Gazans seek shelter from the cold (IRIN News) - [text online]

DRC: Civilians suffer as Uganda takes on LRA (IRIN News) - [text online]

THAILAND: Government, Army to investigate claims of Rohingya abuse (IRIN News) - [text online]

Congolese displaced by Ugandan rebels to receive UN aid (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of news Headlines (20/01/2009).

Gaza rebuild 'to cost billions' (BBC News) - [text online]

Crucial Zimbabwe talks collapse (BBC News) - [text online]

Sharia police block women's rally (BBC News) - [text online]

Wide rifts on show at Arab summit (BBC News) - [text online]

Scale of Gaza destruction emerges (BBC News) - [text online]

Bush shoe man in Swiss asylum bid (BBC News) - [text online]

Thailand to tackle migrant claims (BBC News) - [text online]

British Muslims 'went on reconnaissance' for July 7 attacks (The Times) - [text online]

Gaza was demolished in three weeks. Rebuilding it will take years (The Independent) - [text online]

Black staff sacked by Refugee Council win discrimination case (The Independent) - [text online]

Church may ban BNP members (The Independent) - [text online]

The Big Question: Should the charge of 'institutional racism' in the police no longer apply? (The Independent) - [text online]

Gazans return to mourn their dead and salvage their lives (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: Posturing and laughter as victims rot (The Independent) - [text online]

Rafah, a landscape scarred by Israel's war (The Independent) - [text online]

'My daughters, they killed them': Doctor shows Israelis horror of war (The Independent) - [text online]

Hamas ceasefire brings uneasy peace to Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Capital divided by race is a symbol of Obama's task (The Independent) - [text online]

Untold stories lie buried in the rubble (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe: Talks are last chance for opposition (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Welcome but fragile, this ceasefire must be only a start (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn't it time for a war crimes tribunal? (The Independent) - [text online]

Mary Dejevsky: My walk on the racial front line in DC (The Independent) - [text online]

British Jews attacked for pro-Gaza solidarity (The Independent) - [text online]

Footballers win exemption from English tests (The Independent) - [text online]

'British handcuffs, the handcuffs of freedom'By Jeremy Seabrook (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Missteps on the LRA in Uganda (Enough Project) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 39, 15 Dec2008 - 15 Jan 2009 (text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Field Update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator 17 - 18 Jan 2009 as of 17:00 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.13 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UK Borders Act 2007 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Human Rights Act 1998 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (The Guardian) - [text online]

UK-Irish travellers to face passport checks (The Guardian) - [text online]

Thailand: UNHCR requests access to Rohingya boat people (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: Continuing LRA rampage displaces more Congolese (UNHCR) - [text online]

Greece's infrastructure struggles to cope with mixed migration flow (UNHCR) - [text online]

Fifteen drown in Gulf of Aden amid surge in people smuggling to Yemen (UNHCR) - [text online]

Thailand: Stop systematic torture in southern counter-insurgency (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: Civilians continue to suffer despite hopes for imminent cease-fire (ICRC) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: massive displacement of civilians amid escalating conflict (ICRC) - [text online]

DR Congo: LRA Slaughters 620 in ‘Christmas Massacres’ (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Immigration legal aid lawyer of the year is a children’s immigration specialist (Refugee Council) - [text online]

SUDAN: Western Equatoria struggling with influx of refugees and IDPs (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ-SYRIA: Slow resettlement for Palestinian-Iraqi refugees (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: UN warns of humanitarian catastrophe if Darfur fighting continues (IRIN News) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: Rising concerns over thousands trapped in conflict areas (IRIN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe receives $5 million boost from UNICEF in fight against cholera outbreak (UN News) - [text online]

Envoy hails progress in UN-backed talks to halt violence in eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

With 30,000 civilians at risk, UN urges halt to renewed clashes in South Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (14/01/2009)

UN head set for talks on Gaza (BBC News) - [text online]

Somali joy as Ethiopians withdraw (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza crisis spills onto the web (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza: Israeli troops reveal ruthless tactics against Hamas (The Independent) - [text online]

Campsfield: 'Staff ignored suicide threat' (Oxford Mail) - [text online]

Olmert claims he told Bush to backtrack on UN ceasefire deal (The Independent) - [text online]

UN 'should take over control of Zimbabwe's health system' (The Independent) - [text online]

BNP links to immigration service staff (The Independent) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned about displaced Congolese and continuing LRA attacks (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC president demands greater respect for civilians and humanitarian workers (ICRC) - [text online]

UN Human Rights Council Approves Gaza Inquiry (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UN official urges combatants in DR Congo to release child soldiers (UN News) - [text online]

Food aid convoy, traversing Sahara, will soon reach refugees in Chad – UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

Over 2,000 lives now lost to Zimbabwe’s worst ever cholera outbreak – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Ethiopian troops leave Somalia prompting UN call for calm and timely presidential poll (UN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Growing discontent in Southern Kordofan (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Lingering uncertainties over North-South truce (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Displaced families in dire need (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (13/01/2009)

Ethiopia troops 'leave Mogadishu' (BBC News) - [text online]

Court hears of Bemba 'war crimes' (BBC News) - [text online]

Army pressures Tamil Tiger base (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza: Israel prepares 'iron fist' strike at Hamas (The Times) - [text online]

Long march of the black British soldier (The Independent) - [text online]

Muslim ministers warn of Gaza backlash (The Independent) - [text online]

Israeli cabinet divided over fresh Gaza surge (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza clinics destroyed by raids (The Independent) - [text online]

Fares Akram: I rushed home in the ceasefire. Our baby's due tomorrow (The Independent) - [text online]

Biden visits Iraq amid wave of bomb attacks (The Independent) - [text online]

Warlord told his troops to 'traumatise and terrorise' (The Independent) - [text online]

Obama, Africa and Peace (Enough Project) - [text online]

Primark in storm over conditions at UK supplier (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration minister calls for changes in 'outdated' Geneva convention (The Guardian) - [text online]

A Sense of Belonging (The Guardian) - [text and images online]

From Belsen to Zimbabwe (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigrants: the perfect recession scapegoat (The Guardian) - [text online]

OPT: 910 dead including 292 children, 4,250 injured, over 28,000 staying in 36 UNRWA emergency shelters in Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Balkans: The continuing struggle of Europe's forgotten refugees (ReleifWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: UN humanitarian fund gives USD 5m to help rising number of refugees in Kenya (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.9 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DRC: LRA attacks, killings and abductions on increase; thousands more fleeing (UNHCR) - [text online]

Protracted Refugee Situation: The continuing struggle of Europe's forgotten refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: Licensed to kill? (ODI) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC strives to evacuate and treat the wounded despite limited access (ICRC) - [text online]

Israel: End Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis at Once (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Deprived and Endangered: Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Leading rights groups urge Obama to stop Guantánamo proceedings against child soldiers (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Effect of conflict on Gaza’s children ‘devastating,’ says UN rights monitoring body (UN News) - [text online]

UN fund allocates $5 million to help rising number of Somalis fleeing to Kenya (UN News) - [text online]

Gaza: UN official reports horrific hospital scenes of casualties (UN News) - [text online]

Parties at UN-backed DR Congo peace talks focus on joint cessation of hostilities (UN News) - [text online]

UN human rights body to send fact-finding mission to Gaza (UN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Ashkelon empties, trauma teams struggle (IRIN News) - [text online]

ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA: Ethiopian troops leave parts of Mogadishu (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: New year, same old problems (IRIN News) - [text online]

TOGO: Anti-trafficking law alters routes, not flow (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (12/01/2009).

Israeli raids as reserves move in (BBC News) - [text online]

Islamist rebels clash in Somalia (BBC News) - [text online]

Eritrea group seeks human rights (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel reinforces army before ‘third phase’ of war in Gaza (The Times) - [text online]

Israel takes fighting into Gaza suburbs (The Independent) - [text online]

'Soon we'll have nowhere left to run. Nowhere in Gaza is safe' (The Independent) - [text online]

OPT: Gaza faces large-scale humanitarian crisis as military operation enters 3rd week - OCHA report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Tensions running high on the Egypt-Gaza border (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: WFP launches Operation Lifeline Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Cholera - Additional 300 cases, 12 deaths reported (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Field Update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator 10 - 11 Jan 2009, 17:00 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

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

Would-be citizens face another year's wait (The Guardian) - [text online]

Top wheelchair athlete is facing deportation (The Guardian) - [text online]

Mediterranean Sea arrivals: UNHCR calls for access to protection (UNHCR) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: UNHCR concerned over deteriorating situation in east (UNHCR) - [text online]

More than 50,000 people used smugglers to cross Gulf of Aden last year (UNHCR) - [text online]

More than 50,000 people risked perilous Gulf of Aden crossing last year (UNHCR) - [text online]

Q&A: Builder from Benin volunteers to help UNHCR in Burundi (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: the challenge of reaching civilians in need (ICRC) - [text/audio online]

Failing Europe's Children (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ICC Hearing against Former Vice-President of DR Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Briefing to the UN Security Council on the Situation in Chad and the Central African Republic (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Cambodia: 30 Years After Fall of the Khmer Rouge, Justice Still Elusive (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Gazans have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN agency launches 'Operation Lifeline Gaza' to feed thousands of hungry (UN News) - [text online]

Security Council resolution on Gaza (UN Pulse) - [text online]. The Full Resolution is also available here - [S/RES/1860 (2009)].

Refugee exodus across perilous Gulf of Aden soars by 70 per cent, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (10/01/2009)

Gaza conflict enters third week (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants' (BBC News) - [text online]

Blair warning about Gaza radicals (BBC News) - [text online]

Poles call for anti-hate crime action (The Independent) - [text online]

Egypt: Stop Deporting Eritrean Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

South Africa: End Strain on Asylum System and Protect Zimbabweans (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.7 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Regional Update No. 3 - Cholera Outbreaks in South Africa, 09 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Q&A: Builder from Benin volunteers to help UNHCR in Burundi (UNHCR) - [text online]

More than 50,000 people risked perilous Gulf of Aden crossing last year (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC medics work on (ICRC) - [text online]

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Gaza conflict enters third week (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants' (BBC News) - [text online]

Blair warning about Gaza radicals (BBC News) - [text online]

Poles call for anti-hate crime action (The Independent) - [text online]

Egypt: Stop Deporting Eritrean Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

South Africa: End Strain on Asylum System and Protect Zimbabweans (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.7 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Regional Update No. 3 - Cholera Outbreaks in South Africa, 09 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Q&A: Builder from Benin volunteers to help UNHCR in Burundi (UNHCR) - [text online]

More than 50,000 people risked perilous Gulf of Aden crossing last year (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC medics work on (ICRC) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (09/01/2009)

Red Cross accuses Israel of 'unacceptable' conduct in Gaza (The Times) - [text online]

New immigration code does not fully protect children (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Remote controls against refugees (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

UN demands immediate ceasefire in Gaza Strip (The Independent) - [text online]

Compensation clause in ID card contracts angers Tories (The Independent) - [text online]

Imran defends terror suspects (The Independent) - [text online]

Rocket attacks raise fear of second front for Israel (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza under fire: Children found next to dead mothers (The Independent) - [text online]

Papal response: Vatican compares Gaza to Nazi camp (The Independent) - [text online]

Peru: Reparations begin but IDPs excluded (IDMC) - [Full Overview (html/pdf)]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.6 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 01 - 08 Jan 2009 (ReleifWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Situation Report on Cholera in Zimbabwe No. 09, 06 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

High Commissioner Guterres briefs Security Council on global protection challenges (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR chief Guterres briefs UN Security Council on protection challenges (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: life-saving ambulances must be given unrestricted access to the wounded (UCRC) - [text online]

USA: Amnesty International asks Barack Obama to set date for closing Guantánamo (Amnesty International) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks making progress (UN News) - [text online]

Number of cholera cases in Zimbabwe climbs to nearly 36,000 – UN (UN News) - [text online]

More attention must be paid to underreported conflicts, says top UN refugee official (UN News) - [text online]

Security Council overwhelmingly calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (08/01/2009)

Tories accuse DFID of trying to usurp powers of Foreign Office (The Independent) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks enter substantive phase (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: 'No military solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict', say speakers at UN Security Council (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Central/Eastern Africa: Nearly 11 million IDPs and refugees - OCHA (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nepal: Small glimmer of hope for forgotten generations of Bhutanese refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.5 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 42 - 43, 20 Dec 2008 - 02 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 40 - 41, 06 - 19 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA regional update no. 2 - Cholera outbreaks in Southern Africa, 24 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Lathering up success in South Sudan for just US$1,000 (UNHCR) - [text online]

Uprooted Pakistanis find home in ex-Afghan refugee village (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: Military tactics of both sides endangering civilians, says Amnesty International (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC demands urgent access to wounded as Israeli army fails to assist wounded Palestinians (ICRC) - [text online]

SUDAN: Great expectations as numbers of Southern returnees on the rise (IRIN News) - [text online]

DRC-SUDAN: Fifty feared dead in rebel attack (IRIN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks enter substantive phase (UN News) - [text online]

Israel’s daily 3-hour truces in Gaza good first step, but not nearly enough, UN warns (UN News) - [text online]

Number of Bhutanese refugees resettled from Nepal last year tops 8,000 – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: Ban welcomes US pledge to airlift supplies to UN-African Union force (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (07/01/2009)

Pressure grows for Gaza ceasefire (BBC News) - [text online]

Ethiopia imposes aid agency curbs (BBC News) - [text online]

Cambodians mark end of Khmer rule (BBC News) - [text online]

China's holiday rush begins early (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel agrees to open corridor for relief aid after UN school is hit (The Times) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask (The Independent) - [text online]

Massacre of innocents as UN school is shelled (The Independent) - [text online]

Brown calls for international action over Gaza crisis (The Independent) - [text online]

OPT: Humanitarian situation deteriorates as military operations reach deeper into Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Journalists and humanitarian workers at risk, Amnesty appeals to parties (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: IDPs in urgent need of aid after fresh attacks by LRA in north (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on UN schools in Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Ethiopia imposes heavy restrictions on foreign-funded humanitarian groups (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Violence and lawlessness have driven much of the Somali population into destitution - ICRC boosts aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.4 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: Humanitarian Update No. 3, Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: NGO Micro Grant Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund Bulletin No. 14 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Gaza: "The only conflict in the world in which people are not even allowed to flee" - High Commissioner Guterres (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: UN team reaches towns attacked by Lord's Resistance Army (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR visits Congolese towns attacked by Lord's Resistance Army (UNHCR) - [text online]

Amnesty International calls for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Ethiopia: Government passes repressive new legislation (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: plight of civilians traumatic in 'full-blown humanitarian crisis' (ICRC) - [text online]

Letter from the Editor (Kakuma Free Press) - [text online]

ETHIOPIA: New law on charities passed despite objections (IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Aid workers’ movements in Gaza severely restricted (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: "Too poor to escape the fighting" (IRIN News) - [text online]

WEST AFRICA: But is it really trafficking? (IRIN News) - [text online]

Security Council meets on Gaza fighting, Ban renews ceasefire call (UN News) - [text online]

UN reaches villages in north-eastern DR Congo attacked by Ugandan rebels (UN News) - [text online]

9.1 million people internally displaced in Central, East Africa, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

Ban condemns ‘unacceptable’ Israeli strikes on UN schools in Gaza (UN News) - [text online]

Civilians wishing to flee Gaza must be permitted to do so, stresses UN refugee chief (UN News) - [text online]

Ban denounces ‘appalling atrocities’ by Ugandan rebels in DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (06/01/2009)

Hamas: Israel has legitimised the killing of its children (The Times) - [text online]

Hamas takes fight to the streets of Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Two strikes, and another family lay buried in rubble (The Independent) - [text online]

Tunnels – the secret weapon for Hamas (The Independent) - [text online]

Detainee tries to kill himself (This is Oxford) - [text online]

Refugees find a home on the stage (The Herald) - [text online]

Australia opens off-shore detention centre for migrants (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Australia opens off-shore detention centre (The Times) - [text online]

Australia opens detention centre (BBC News) - [text online]

A random act of Christmas kindness (The Independent) - [text online]

'Lost' foreign children revealed (BBC News) - [text online]

Young refugees go missing from care (Leicester Mercury) - [text online]

Hundreds of immigrants land on Italian island (The Independent) - [text online]

Thousands more migrants reach Italy's shores (The Guardian) - [text online]

UK 'failing' victims of torture (BBC News) - [text online]

Housing conditions may breach human rights (Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture) - [text online]

White working class 'feels ignored on immigration' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

French U-turn as new Calais shelter for UK-bound immigrants opens after temperatures plunge (Daily Mail) - [text online]

Stardom beckons for high-rise grandmothers (The Herald) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.3 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

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

OPT: Humanitarian access increasingly difficult - UNOCHA report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: 'Security Council should live up to Charter responsibilities to end crisis' - Ban Ki-moon (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Angola shuts off border with DR Congo to avoid Ebola (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Fresh fighting displaces 80,000, urgent help needed (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Working-class values (The Guardian) - [text online]

Guterres urges adherence to humanitarian principles in Gaza conflict (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR chief urges adherence to humanitarian principles in Gaza conflict (UNHCR) - [text online]

Somalia: ICRC boosts aid (ICRC) - [text online]

Gaza: wounded people dying while waiting for ambulances (ICRC) - [text online]

UN Security Council must not fail civilians caught in Gaza conflict (Amnesty International) - [text online]

IRAQ: Budget cuts threaten IDP housing projects (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: It takes more than a law to stop the cut (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Urgent help needed for thousands displaced in Galgadud (IRIN News) - [text online]

Ban meets with Arab ministers to secure Israel-Hamas ceasefire, to see Bush tomorrow (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: more rapid-response police join UN-African Union peacekeeping force (UN News) - [text online]

UN continues assisting displaced in volatile eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Fresh fighting uproots another 50,000 Somalis, compounding present crisis – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Top envoy to Sudan still misrepresented in Khartoum media, says UN mission (UN News) - [text online]

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