Cuba makes human rights promise (BBC News) - [text online]
UN rights envoy in Burma briefing (BBC News) - [text online]
Serbia blasted over key fugitives (BBC News) - [text online]
Egypt 'fabricated terror group' (BBC News) - [text online]
Independent Appeal: Flight of the young ones (The Independent) - [text online]
Australia scraps 'Pacific Solution' for refugees (The Independent) - [text online]
'Westernised' women being killed in Basra (The Independent) - [text online]
Birth of a nation: But will Kosovo spark another Balkan crisis? (The Independent) - [text online]
Migrants drown near Turkish coast (The Independent) - [text online]
It's time for a museum of British history (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]
Risk of new displacement heightens as deadline for resolving Kosovo’s final status expires, says report (IDMC) - [text online]
Higher figures for foreign workers undermine ministers' claims (The Guardian) - [text online]
Refugees from Bhutan get first ID cards in Nepal's camps (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UN seeks US$3.8 billion for humanitarian aid next year (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Colombia's Pearl of the Pacific loses its lustre (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UN Human Rights Day: UNHCR to help promote Declaration of Human Rights anniversary (UNHCR News) - [text online]
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Nepal: ID campaign starts for Bhutanese refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Humanitarian Appeal 2008: Addressing the needs of 25 million people (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Risk of new displacement heightens as Kosovo deadline expire (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
GLOBAL: Awareness-raising key to tackling gender violence (IRIN News) - [text online]
Refugee to deliver speech at UN with Sir Richard Branson (Refugee Council) - [text online]
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007
News Stories (11/12/07)
Monday, 10 December 2007
News Stories (10/12/07)
CIA photos 'show UK Guantanamo detainee was tortured' (The Independent) - [text online]
Kosovo protesters demand declaration of independence (The Independent) - [text online]
Nato ready as Kosovo tension rises (The Telegraph) - [text online]
French workers in Chad protest (BBC News) - [text online]
Burma toll at least 31, UN says (BBC News) - [text online]
The liberties stripped from the weak today could be lost to us all tomorrow (The Guardian) - [text online]
To believe in a European utopia before Muslims arrived is delusional (The Guardian) - [text online]
UNHCR repatriates 45 Congolese to Kinshasa on maiden flight (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Q&A: Plaudits and prizes for powerful migration movie (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Conflicting reports on Iraqi return figures (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Iraq not safe enough for refugee returns, says UNHCR (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
East Africa: Holmes warns on humanitarian outlook (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Myanmar: Crackdown casualties exceed official count - UN (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Chad: Mounting rebel fronts hamper aid efforts (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Myanmar: Burmese refugees in Thailand face food aid cut (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Timor-Leste: IDPs, widespread poverty counteract progress (Reliefeb) - [text online]
Iraq : Returning home not end of story for IDPs and refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Yemen: More Food needed to feed thousands of displaced (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
DR Congo: Concern over the fate of civilians in North Kivu (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
SUDAN: Water shortage fears in Darfur camps (IRIN News) - [text online]
IRAQ-JORDAN: Few Iraqis returning home (IRIN News) - [text online]
IRAQ: Returning to destroyed, looted or occupied homes (IRIN News) - [text online]
CHAD: Mounting rebel fronts hamper aid efforts (IRIN News) - [text online]
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Friday, 7 December 2007
News Stories (07/12/07)
CIA destroyed interrogation tapes (BBC News) - [text online]
Red Cross visits Iraqi prisoners (BBC News) - [text online]
Councils urged to translate less (BBC News) - [text online]
Serbia warns of a new Balkan war as peace talks over Kosovo fail (The Times) - [text online]
Concerns over Kosovo conflict as talks fail (The Telegraph) - [text online]
Kosovo: A declaration of independence - or war? (The Independent) - [text online]
Smith faces fight to raise detention limit in terror cases (The Independent) - [text online]
From a cleaner to a concert pianist, the Polish immigrant who hit the right note in Britain (The Independent) - [text online]
President leaves behind a people left paralysed by their poverty (The Independent) - [text online]
Serbs: 'We are defending Europe against Muslim aggression' (The Independent) - [text online]
Refugees and displacement (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]
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Teaching Black history: the struggle continues (IRR News) - [text online]
Ministers struggle as plan to increase detention limit to 42 days attracts new round of criticism (The Guardian) - [text online]
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Concluding Observatio
Brazil honours refugee integration initiatives (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Thursday, 6 December 2007
News Stories (06/12/07)
Smith plans 42-day terror limit (BBC News) - [text online]
UN to press Sudan on Darfur force (BBC News) - [text online]
Clarke refused offer of role in repatriating immigrants (The Independent) - [text online]
Legal action by inmates could close Guantanamo (The Independent) - [text online]
Henry's war: One man's fight against rendition (The Independent) - [text online]
Adopt Nazi methods, says Italian councillor (The Independent) - [text online]
Plan to let MPs vote on how long individual terror suspects are held (The Times) - [text online]
Smith seeks to restore trust in immigration system (The Guardian) - [text online]
Smith to ban non-EU unskilled immigrants from working in UK (The Guardian) - [text online]
UNHCR to seek pledges of $1.09 billion for 2008 budget (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Remembering South Africa's revolution (The Telegraph) - [text online]
Anti-Zionist Jews fight anti-Semitism charge (IRR News) - [text online]
Burundi: UN approves regular monitoring mechanism as new tool to promote
peacebuilding (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Chad: Humanitarian aid in jeopardy (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Darfur: UN, African Union envoys meet with regional partners to peace process (UN News) - [text online]
UN appeals for safe, unhindered humanitarian access amid fighting in Chad (UN News) - [text online]
Sudan has failed to cooperate with International Criminal Court, prosecutor says (UN News) - [text online]
JORDAN: Iraqi asylum-seekers fall victim to resettlement scams (IRIN News) - [text online]
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Wednesday, 5 December 2007
News Stories (05/12/07)
One-fifth of Canadians immigrants (BBC News) - [text online]
UN to join attack on Congo rebels (BBC News) - [text online]
Rice at talks on Africa conflicts (BBC News) - [text online]
World court to open Darfur cases (BBC News) - [text online]
Kosovo stalemate set to open rift between Russia and the West (The Independent) - [text online]
UNHCR suspends returns to Sudan's Jonglei state (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Central African Republic parliament approves refugee law (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UN: Atrocities Fuel Worsening Crisis in Horn of Africa. UN Security Council Should Press
UN: ICC Needs Backing to Bring Justice for War Crimes. Secretary-General to Address ICC Meeting at UN Headquarters (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]
Plans to restrict healthcare for asylum seekers and migrants (Observer) - [text online]
Controversial final hearing for Independent Asylum Commission (Refugee Council) - [text online]
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Somalia allows aid operations one day after freeze (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Darfur: UN envoy heads to Sudan for talks with all sides to conflict (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Iraq: Gov't, UN to cooperate in returnee effort (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
DR Congo: More Congolese displaced by fighting in North Kivu (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
UNHCR set to ask donors for over one billion dollars for 2008 budget (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Sudan to dominate Security Council’s intensive December schedule – President (UN News) - [text online]
Donors pledge over $160 million for UN agency aiding Palestinian refugees (UN News) - [text online]
Renewed fighting in eastern Chad sparks alarm from UN refugee agency (UN News) - [text online]
Iraqi Government, UN launch plan to help returning refugees (UN News) - [text online]
BURUNDI-TANZANIA: Thousands of refugees still awaiting repatriation (IRIN News) - [text online]
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
News Stories (04/12/07)
Wave of violence threatens Darfur camps (BBC News) - [text online]
Writers attack Zimbabwe omission (BBC News) - [text online]
Fierce fighting in eastern Chad (BBC News) - [text online]
Third Uzbekistan 'torture death' (BBC News) - [text online]
An appeal for your help this Christmas (The Independent) - [text online]
I won't let this pass: Morrissey defends stance in immigration row with NME (The Guardian) - [text online]
Amis demands Muslims join in 'factory siren' over terror plots (The Guardian) - [text online]
Street theatre helps spread HIV/AIDs awareness in Nepal (UNHCR News) - [text online]
One tragedy helps young Iraqi overcome another one (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Hundreds flee new fighting in North Kivu; UNHCR closes small office (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Djibouti, 1 December 2007 - Secretary-General's message to seminar on the implementation of the African Union Border Programme (UN News) - [text online]
Mozambique: Number of refugees grows (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Israel to aid Palestinian refugees in peace deal: OImert (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Iraq: More aid needed for the displaced in Anbar Province (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Sudan: UN humanitarian chief calls for improved cooperation to expedite
assistance to Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Resisting displacement by combatants and developers: Humanitarian Zones in north-west Colombia (IDMC) - [text online]
UK Government needs joined up thinking on Bangladesh and labour migrants (IAS) - [text online]
Burmese Refugees: End the Exploitation of Burmese in Thailand
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Monday, 3 December 2007
News Stories (03/12/07)
RFC rebels 'in new Chad clash' (BBC News) - [text online]
'Humanitarian crisis' facing Ethiopia, says UN (The Independent) - [text online]
Reality TV to help immigrants find a wife – and a US visa (The Independent) - [text online]
Darfur mission 'behind schedule' (BBC News) - [text online]
Morrissey sues NME over racism claim (The Telegraph) - [text online]
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Worsening humanitarian crisis as internal displacement escalates in the east (IDMC) - [text online]
The cruellest voyage (The Guardian) - [text online]
Brick Lane losing its flavour as corporates squeeze out curry (The Guardian) - [text online]
Failed asylum seekers face healthcare ban (The Guardian) - [text online]
World AIDS Day: Refugee boy in Namibia inspires AIDS Day poster (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Q&A: Refugee worker turns a disability into an advantage (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Daily struggle for displaced families from Mogadishu (UNHCR News) - [text online]
World AIDS Day: UNHCR chief pledges to continue fight against HIV and AIDS (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Two of Sudan's 'Lost Boys' return home from Cuba (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Continuing dialogue with Sudan vital to expediting assistance, says top UN aid official (UN News) - [text online]
On International Day, Ban Ki-moon calls for eradicating modern forms of slavery (UN News) - [text online]
SUDAN: Darfur relief to cost $825 million in 2008 - UN (IRIN News) - [text online]
"Initial decision-making is still shockingly poor" (Refugee Council) - [text online]
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