Many dead in fresh Kenya unrest (BBC News) - [text online]
'Janjaweed leader' is Sudan aide (BBC News) - [text online]
Vigil as family face deportation (BBC News) - [text online]
UN transformation proposed to create 'new world order' (The Independent) - [text online]
Police halt Mia Farrow's genocide protest (The Independent) - [text online]
What happened to ... Comfort Adefowoju (The Guardian) - [text online]
Immigrant jailed for funding £4m property empire with benefits (The Guardian) - [text online]
UNHCR to start repatriating Mauritanians from late January (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Chartered jumbo jet flies UNHCR aid to Kenya (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Q&A: Speaking from experience (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Central African Republic: 300,000 now displaced by conflict, insecurity Source : UN News Service (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Colombia: Concern growing over thousands of displaced people (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Iraq: With growing acknowledgement of humanitarian crisis, access becomes key issue (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
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Kenya: Demonstrations in Nairobi disrupt aid operations (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Yemen: Calls for humanitarian aid as hundreds are displaced by renewed clashes (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
PAKISTAN: Trafficking of children on the rise (IRIN News) - [text online]
UAE: Meetings Should Address Migrant Workers’ Rights (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]
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Monday, 21 January 2008
News Stories (21/01/08)
Friday, 18 January 2008
News Stories (18/01/08)
Kenya braced for further protests (BBC News) - [text online]
UN raps Burma's 'slow progress' (BBC News) - [text online]
Rwanda 'still teaching genocide' (BBC News) - [text online]
Tabo Mbeki flies in as Zimbabwe peacemaker (The Times) - [text online]
Tackling 'terror Svengalis' on web a priority (The Telegraph) - [text online]
Brown accused of ignoring human rights on visit to China (The Independent) - [text online]
Kenyan opposition leader threatens to call general strike (The Independent) - [text online]
World Bank under pressure to withdraw aid until resolution found (The Independent) - [text online]
Government stands by its 42-day limit for locking up terror suspects (The Independent) - [text online]
Elderly refugees struggle to integrate in Slovenia (UNHCR News) - [text online]
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Conflict in Central African Republic uproots 300,000, UN reports (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
UN envoy’s return to Myanmar could spur further progress, says Security Council (UN News) - [text online]
Sudan releases eight Darfur rebels into UN custody (UN News) - [text online]
Colombian refugees in Ecuador receive small business aid from UN (UN News) - [text online]
Kenyan post-election violence displaces over 100,000 children – UNICEF (UN News) -[text online]
Libya: Summary Deportations Would Endanger Migrants and Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]
Refugee Law Reader - The fourth edition of the Refugee Law Reader is now available (Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog) - [text online]
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Thursday, 17 January 2008
News Stories (17/01/08)
Smith targets internet extremism (BBC News) - [text online]
Clashes as Kenya marches continue (BBC News) - [text online]
Agencies see good year for Iraq (BBC News) - [text online]
Visa row patient starts dialysis (BBC News) - [text online]
Russia warns Kosovo faces limbo (BBC News) - [text online]
Two killed as riot police open fire on anti-Kibaki protesters (The Telegraph) - [text online]
East Europe migrants take 1% of social housing, says report (The Guardian) - [text online]
UNHCR rewards the entrepreneurial flair of refugees in Ecuador (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Colombia: Rebel combat said to displace 2,000 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Sudan: UN, AU envoys meet with key Darfur rebel alliance (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
UN requests $42 million to assist in violence-torn Kenya (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Disaster preparedness in East Africa and the Great Lakes - Analysis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
No agreement reached on Kosovo’s future status in Security Council (UN News) - [text online]
Gender issues in UN peacekeeping focus of New York gathering (UN News) - [text online]
Putting protection first (Refugee Council PoliBlog) - [text online]
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008
News Stories (16/01/08)
US fears Europe-based terrorism (BBC News) - [text online]
Kenyan police fire warning shots (BBC News) - [text online]
'No U-turn' in cancer woman row (BBC News) - [text online]
Democrats set aside race dispute (BBC News) - [text online]
MP defends removing cancer woman (BBC News) - [text online]
Is it any wonder people are fleeing London? (The Telegraph) - [text online]
Footballer Al Bangura saved from deportation in extra time (The Times) - [text online]
Speaker's election victory boosts Kenyan opposition (The Independent) - [text online]
Doctors rebel over plan to prevent treatment for failed asylum-seekers (The Independent) - [text online]
Hundreds of seriously ill people deported every year (The Independent) - [text online]
Anger in Austria after politician brands Mohamed a 'child abuser' (The Independent) - [text online]
Immigration chief defends deportation of cancer patient (The Guardian) - [text online]
Hain incompetence requires only an apology, says Brown (includes news on immigration) (The Guardian) - [text online]
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Myanmar: Budget cuts at Thai-Burmese border (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Sri Lanka: Ceasefire ending, UN human rights chief urges respect for law (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Mozambique floods displace 57,000 people (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Kenya: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Colombia: US$20 million to combat conscription of minors into illegal armed groups - IOM (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Roma refugees see music as their route to self-reliance (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UNHCR launches second aid distribution in Kenya (UNHCR News) - [text online]
AFGHANISTAN: Winter aggravates IDP hardships (IRIN News) - [test online]
ZIMBABWE/UK: No welcome mat for asylum seekers (IRIN News) - [text online]
UN dispatches more aid as Kenya crisis continues (UN News) - [text online]
Military leaders of Sudan and UN-AU Darfur force discuss deployment (UN News) - [text online]
Over 500,000 people displaced in DR Congo last year, says UN (UN News) - [text online]
KENYA: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence (IRIN News) - [text online]
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008
News Stories (15/01/08)
Kenyan MPs poised for stand-off (BBC News) - [text online]
Mugabe faces rival inside party (BBC News) - [text online]
African flood 'catastrophe' fear (BBC News) - [text online]
End death by stoning, Iran urged (BBC News) - [text online]
Footballer Al Bangura saved from deportation in extra time (The Times) - [text online]
'White flight' increasing, race chief says (The Telegraph) - [text online]
John Simpson: The abject poverty in a country where everyone is a millionaire (The Independent) - [text online]
Democrat contest tainted by allegations of racial politicking (The Independent) - [text online]
Kenyan minister rejects UN offer (The Independent) - [text online]
Serbians prepare plan for Kosovo (The Independent) - [text online]
ID cards for foreigners within three years (The Guardian) - [text online]
Footballer is saved from threat of deportation (The Guardian) - [text online]
Students benefit from UNHCR internship in Cyprus (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UN refugee agency calls for Thailand to release Lao Hmong refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Somalia: UN rushes aid as security situation deteriorates (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Kenya: As death toll rises, Ban Ki-moon calls for urgent solution to crisis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Chad: Dual peacekeeping mission seeks to dispell confusion (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Nepal: Over US$104m in assistance needed in 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
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Southern Africa: IFRC warns of potential disastrous flood crisis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Sudan "bombs" Darfur rebels as violence hampers aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Kenya: Violence subsides but families remain displaced (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Burundi: Thousands of displaced need assistance (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Response to Government's plan to ratify convention against trafficking (Refugee Council) - [text online]
Response to Home Office 10 point reform plan announced today (Refugee Council) - [text online]
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Monday, 14 January 2008
News Stories (14/01/08)
Crackdown on immigration unveiled (BBC News) - [text online]
Kenya police used 'lethal force' (BBC News) - [text online]
Aid reaches flood-hit Mozambique (BBC News) - [text online]
Water-boarding 'would be torture' (BBC News) - [text online]
Hope returning to Iraq, says Bush (BBC News) - [text online]
Military approves EU Chad mission (BBC News) - [text online]
Human Rights Act 'being abused' (BBC News) - [text online]
Bishop right to tackle no-go area in our minds (The Sunday Telegraph) - [text online]
'Kafkaesque' plight of Algerians who want to be deported (The Guardian) - [text online]
Q&A: Better to be safe than sorry (UNHCR News) - [text oneline]
Arab League launches fund-raising campaign for Iraqi refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Nepal: Over US$104m in need for urgent humanitarian aid, recovery from conflict and disasters (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Kenya: Red Cross assists refugees at Ugandan border (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Iraq displacement 2007 year in review - IOM (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Somalia: Clashes near IDP camps "causing more displacement" (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Kenya: UN continues providing assistance to victims of post-election violence (UN News) - [text online]
RWANDA: Living side by side – genocide victims and perpetrators reconcile the past (IRIN News) - [text online]
Darfur: UN, African Union envoys in Sudan to reinvigorate peace process (IRIN News) - [text online]
EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money (IRIN News) - [text online]
Kenya: End Police Use of Excessive Force (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]
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Friday, 11 January 2008
Museums & Refugees: Keeping Cultures Conference.
Conference Announcement for the
Museums & Refugees: Keeping Cultures Conference
13 & 14 March 2008
Museum in Docklands, London
2 day full rate: £85 per person
This international conference will explore the changing shape of community cultures and how museums and heritage sector agencies respond to complex historical, ethical, legal, social and political issues. It also marks the end of the four year London Museums Hub funded Refugee Heritage Programme.
For information and booking visit www.museumoflondon.org.uk
Welcome by Professor Jack Lohman, Director of the Museum of London
Keynote speeches by Bemma Donkoh, UNHCR Representative to the UK and
Clara Arokiasamy, Chair of the London Mayor‘s Heritage and Diversity Taskforce, GLA
Details of how to make a booking for the conference can be found by following the links below:
Booking form (Word 108kb)
Conference delegate Invite (PDF 1mb)
Refugees conference brochure (PDF 1.5mb)
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