UNHCR Online Game and Other News Items

1) Refugee game offers fear, flight and safety – one click at a time. The UNHCR has just launched an English language version of their Against All Odds online game. The game is designed to be of educational value and is primarily aimed at schoolchildren. Further background information can be found in this UNHCR News Story released today and the game itself is available online at: http://www.playagainstallodds.com/

2) The UNHCR has also recently launched two online publications via the UNHCR website (www.unhcr.org) which may be of relevance to researchers and students. The first is entitled "Asylum in the European Union. A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive (November 2007) and this is available to download from: [by clicking here]; the second publication is entitled "UNHCR Position on the Situation of Asylum in Ukraine in the Context of Return of Asylum-Seekers October 2007" and again, this is available to download: [by clicking here].

3) Australia. Austcare (The Australian Humanitarian Aid NGO) has recently launched its latest annual report for the year 2006-07. This can be viewed on the Austcare website at: http://www.austcare.org.au/aboutus/annual-reports.aspx along with a brief online video highlighting the range of Austcare's programs over the last year.

4) Refugees International have just released a number of policy recommendations and fact sheets relating to the exodus of refugees from Zimbabwe. Download a .pdf of these policy recommendations and fact sheets.

News Stories (08/11/07)

'Hundreds held' in Bhutto raids (BBC News) - [text online]

Emergency in Georgia after unrest (BBC News) - [text online]

UN official expelled from Darfur (BBC News) - [text online]

Chadians charged over kidnapping (BBC News) - [text online]

Gambari 'to meet Burma's Suu Kyi' (BBC News) - [text online]

MPs savage plan to double terror detention time limit (The Independent) - [text online]

Local Tories campaign for MP who backed Powell (The Independent) - [text online]

Heroine of the struggle against apartheid celebrates 90th birthday (The Independent) - [text online]

Trial opens of Serb 'who gave ethnic cleansing to world' (The Independent) - [text online]

UN refugee agency releases computer game in English (UN News) - [text online]

UN expert warns that racism is increasingly manifest as violence (UN News) - [text online]

Italy and Romania urge EU help with migrants (EU Observer) - [text online]

£28m cost of asylum centre that never was (The Guardian) - [text online]

Refugee game offers fear, flight and safety – one click at a time (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Refugees in South African city tell UNHCR they need help (UNHCR News) - [text online]

News Stories (07/11/07)

Police may get post-charge powers (BBC News) - [text online]

Serbia war crimes tribunal opens (BBC News) - [text online]

African migrants die in Atlantic (BBC News) - [text online]

Rwanda victim inspires Telegraph readers (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Rwanda: Legacy of genocide (Telegraph Magazine) - [text online]

When will Tories admit that Enoch was right? (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Government proposes citizenship and immigration bill (The Guardian) - [text online]

Refugee religious leaders review HIV-AIDS approach (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Bhutan's refugees to be resettled from Nepal within months (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR study finds inconsistency in EU on asylum (UNHCR News) - [text online]
(Link to the UNHCR Report - Asylum in the European Union: A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive)

News Stories (06/11/07)

‘Bribe’ is doubled for foreign prisoners who agree to leave Britain (The Times) - [text online]

Pressure mounts on Prodi over Italian 'outcast' law (The Independent) - [text online]

'Thousands' pose UK terror threat (BBC News) - [text online]

Tamil paramilitary held over immigration offences (The Guardian) - [text online]

Jordan's Ruweished camp empty as last family leaves (UNHCR News) - [text online]

News Stories (05/11/07)

Seven freed Europeans leave Chad (BBC News) - [text online]

Campaign bid to stamp out racism (BBC News) - [text online]

‘Rivers of blood’ candidate forced to resign (The Times) - [text online]

Prospective Tory MP quits after backing Powell on 'rivers of blood' (The Independent) - [text online]

Sudanese officials 'were allowed to interview Darfuri refugees in UK' (The Independent) - [text online]

ID cards plan behind schedule and soaring in cost, say critics (The Independent) - [text online]

'Labour's plans for 90-day detention echo the power of apartheid police' (The Independent) - [text online]

Chad frees seven Europeans caught up in adoption row (The Independent) - [text online]

UN envoy seeks talks between Burma military and opposition (The Independent) - [text online]

US white supremacist speaks at Russian march (The Independent) - [text online]

Sudanese sides 'recommit to deal' (BBC News) - [text online]

Tory candidate quits after race row (The Guardian) - [text online]

Cameron in race row as Tory claims that Enoch was right (The Guardian) - [text online]

Labour 'ignored' migrant warning (The Guardian) - [text online]

How many people live in Britain? We haven't the foggiest idea (The Guardian) - [text online]

Why 'Ryanair migrants' make the UK uneasy (The Guardian) - [text online]

Q&A: Born on the high seas, footballer finds fame in Europe (UBHCR News) - [text online]

Over 350,000 Afghans repatriate from Pakistan before winter (UNHCR News) - [text online]

News Stories (02/11/07)

Anger at EU immigrants explodes after woman's brutal death (The Times) - [text online]

Tories renew call for migrant limit as diligent Poles impress Britons (The Independent) - [text online]

Brown 'did not discuss rights' (The Independent) - [text online]

Inquiry to address racial tensions over housing (The Independent) - [text online]

Fresh violence and 'climate of fear' pushes Somalia towards breaking point (The Independent) - [text online]

Child drawings of Darfur atrocities 'can be evidence' (The Independent) - [text online]

Ethnic divisions threaten Bosnia again as Prime Minister quits over 'interference' (The Independent) - [text online]

'Dual epidemic' threatens Africa (BBC News) - [text online]

Chad may release some Europeans (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma frees democracy activists (BBC News) - [text online]

Italy crackdown on foreign crime (BBC News) - [text online]

Probe into housing 'unfairness' (BBC News) - [text online]

Inquiry to ask if whites are cheated out of social housing (The Guardian) - [text online]

Time for a few home truths on migration (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR, ICRC and UNICEF help 103 abducted children (UNHCR News) - [text online]

News Stories (01/11/07)

Councils seek more migrant funds (BBC News) - [text online]

S Leone rape victims 'not helped' (BBC News) - [text online]

Protest over Chad child scandal (BBC News) - [text online]

Ministers lose fight to deport Lawrence killer (The Independent) - [text online]

Burmese monks take to streets again (The Independent) - [text online]

Local authorities ask for £250m to cope with increase in migrants (The Guardian) - [text online]

What's wrong with Bulgarians and Romanians? (The Guardian) - [text online]

Latest figures show 90,000 flee fighting in Mogadishu (UNHCR News) - [text online]

LGA Calls for Migration Contingency Fund (Local Government Authority) - [text online]. Full text of the LGA report: Estimating the scale and impacts of migration at the local level is also available online - [full text online]