A Selection of Today's Headlines (26/09/08)

Mugabe urges lifting of sanctions (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe power-sharing deal faces disaster (The Times) - [text online]

Purge on Muslim clerics who turn a blind eye to the abuse of women (The Times) - [text online]

Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe accuses Britain of genocide in UN (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Jacqui Smith unveils the UK's new identity card - with no sign of Britain (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

First sight of the ID cards that will soon be compulsory (The Independent) - [text online]

Forced marriages: the trail of misery and fear in Britain (The Independent) - [text online]

Give amnesty to illegal migrants, says senior Conservative (The Independent) - [text online]

Unrepentant Mugabe addresses the UN (The Independent) - [text online]

Beijing issues warning over peace prize choice (The Independent) - [text online]

More destitution in Leeds (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Nepal: Mid and Far Western Floods and Landslides OCHA Situation Report No. 2 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ID card design revealed by home secretary (The Guardian) - [text online]

Government reveals first identity cards (The Guardian) - [text online]

Iraqi refugee's Australian dream finally comes true (UNHCR) - [text online]

Burma: One Year After Violent Crackdown, Repression Continues (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Cambodia: Human rights defenders silenced through the legal system (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Battle against terror is multidimensional, Pakistani leader tells UN (UN News) - [text online]

Religious leaders add their voice to UN drive to end violence against women (UN News) - [text online]

Iraq no longer poses threat to global peace and security, UN gathering hears (UN News) - [text online]

Thousands of Somalis flee capital after fresh fighting this week – UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

Georgian refugees afraid to return (Ruters AlertNet) - [text online]

IDP News Alert, 25 September 2008 (IDMC) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

A Selection of Today's News Headlines (25/09/08)

Foreign national ID card unveiled (BBC News) - [text online]

Thousands flee Somali bombardment (BBC News) - [text online]

Liberian ex-leader's son on trial (BBC News) - [text online]

British Muslim was senior al-Qaeda leader, court told (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Aid groups: Tony Blair faces imminent failure in Middle East (The Times) - [text online]. Further information is available through an article by Save The Children - [Middle East Quartet is failing, warn aid agencies] and a copy of the actual report discussed in this article is also available online - [click here]

Quartet 'creating power vacuum' in Middle East (The Independent) - [text online]

Gates funds UN plan to source food aid locally (The Independent) - [text online]

Burmese democracy activist: 'I don't know how I kept my sanity' (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Situation Report No. 15 on the Situation in Georgia 23 Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Twenty-one refugees missing, feared dead in Sudan river crossing (UNHCR) - [text online]

Young Western Saharan refugees build for the future in Cuba (UNHCR) - [text online]

DR Congo: Humanitarian Crisis Deepens as Peace Process Falters (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Burmese Voices: Preparing for the Future (Refugees International) - [text online]

UN Human Rights Council renews mandate of Sudan investigator (UN News) - [text online]

Guatemala asks UN to form eminent panel to study migration worldwide (UN News) - [text online]

Over 20 refugees feared dead in Sudan river crossing – UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

African leaders at UN call for agricultural investment to replace food aid (UN News) - [text online]

NEPAL: Another 80,000 people displaced in west (IRIN News) - [text online]

Welcoming release of political prisoners, Ban urges further steps by Myanma (UN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (23/09/09)

Sudan lobbies against Bashir case (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma 'to free 9,000 prisoners' (BBC News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 36, 07 - 13 Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 31 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sierra Leonean refugees relocate to new houses in Liberia (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR calls for Darfur action at Britain's Labour Party Conference (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR says conditions right for Congolese to go home from Zambia (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Central, Eastern Europe aim to improve refugee status decisions (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR distributes first aid in Georgia-South Ossetia "buffer zone" (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR and UAE Red Crescent launch fund-raising campaign for refugee women and children (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UK to lift reservation on United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Refugee Council) - [text online]

TUC Congress 2008 - our report (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Labour Party Conference Update (Refugee Council PoliBlog) - [text online]

No change for Zimbabweans on work (Refugee Council PoliBlog) - [text online]

African Union: Don’t Trade Away Justice in Darfur (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

President's Corner: UN Must Proceed with ICC Case Against Sudan’s Leader (Refugees International) - [text online]

President’s Corner: U.S. Needs to Ratchet Up Response to Iraqi Refugees (Refugees International) - [text online]

SUDAN: Mounting criticism against govt for crackdown after rebel attack (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN warns it may halt food aid to Palestinians displaced from Lebanese camp (UN News) - [text online]

Bangladesh: migrant worker rights (Global Voices) - [text online]

Iraq: Look at the world - where is the peace? (Global Voices) - [text online]

Senior UN, African Union officials outline worsening situation in Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Hunger begins to take its toll (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

TIMOR-LESTE: IDP returns slowed by squatters occupying homes (IRIN News) - [text online]

At least six Somali civilians die in attack on peacekeepers (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Asylum update - 17 September 2008 (ICAR Blog) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

News Stories (22/09/08)

Gaza-Egypt border crossing opens (BBC News) - [text online]

Sex with trafficked women to be criminalised (The Independent) - [text online]

Immigrant attacks spark riots in Italy (The Independent) - [text online]

East European workers quit UK to head home (The Observer) - [text online]

Michael Rosen performs I Can't Stand It Anymore (The Guardian) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 36, 07 - 13 Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Employers warned to prepare for tough new immigration controls (Home Office) - [text online]

Turkey scared to admit Armenian genocide, says historian (The Guardian) - [text online]

Zimbabwean accord will be hard to implement but worth the effort – UN envoy (UN News) - [text online]

Human Rights Council takes up racism and defamation of religions (UN News) - [text online]

Conditions right for Congolese to return home from Zambia, says UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

News Stories (20/09/08)

Hunger levels soar in East Africa (BBC News) - [text online]

Riot after Africans shot in Italy (BBC News) - [text online]

Muslim police anger over leaflet (BBC News) - [text online]

Asylum rules 'risk human rights' (BBC News) - [text online]

Terror inquiry proves a nice little earner (The Times) - [text online]

Georgia: UNHCR distributes first aid in South Ossetia "buffer zone" (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Hundreds displaced in "drought" clashes (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Mugabe: Signing coalition deal was humiliating (The independent) - [text online]

Revival of the numbers game? (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

Summer Break

This will be the last post in this Blog for a few weeks as I will be away on annual leave for a short break. On my return I will be updating the range of blogs and online services offered by the Refugee Archives service here at UEL ahead of a re-launch towards the middle of September, to coincide with the start of the new academic term.

Please feel free to add any comments to this post with recommendations for anything you would like to see added to our online resources.

Best Wishes for now and enjoy the summer!

Paul Dudman
Archivist

News Stories (15/08/08)

US accuses Russia of campaign of scorched earth in Georgia (The Times) - [text online]

Whites outnumbered in a generation as immigrants change face of US (The Times) - [text online]

S Africa to close displaced camps (BBC News) - [text online]

Italy angered by 'fascist' label (BBC News) - [text online]

Ambush-hit NGO stops Afghan work (BBC News) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: Al-Qa'ida sends its warriors from Iraq to wage 'jihad' in Lebanon (The Independent) - [text online]

Russia tells West to 'forget' Georgian rule in enclaves (The Independent) - [text online]

Tories' favourite think-tank sued by Muslim group (The Independent) - [text online]

South Africa intervenes after Tsvangirai detained at airport (The Independent) - [text online]

America's whites will become minority by 2042, says census bureau (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Beware a despot bearing gifts of shared power (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 45 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 31, 03 - 09 Aug 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Uganda humanitarian update, 01 - 31 Jul 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: No military solution to the crisis (Refugees International) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: LTTE, government endangering lives of tens of thousands of newly displaced around Wanni (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Zimbabwe must lift aid agency restrictions to avoid humanitarian crisis – Ban (UN News) - [text online]

South Africa: foreigners displaced by xenophobic attacks anxious over future – UN (UN New) - [text online]

Peace process ‘fragile’ in Sudan, cautions UN envoy (UN News) - [text online]

MAURITANIA: More would-be migrants fleeing post coup (IRIN News) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: Aid reaching IDPs in north though supply lines under pressure - UN (IRIN News) - [text online]

JORDAN: Palestinian refugees to benefit from nutrition programme (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: Boost for aid, reconstruction as three-year deal signed with UN (IRIN News) - [text online]

Ban voices deep concern at humanitarian impact of Georgia conflict (UN News) - [text online]

Rebel groups must unite to reach lasting solution for Darfur – UN military official (UN News) - [text online]

Children are main victims of violence in Chad, Ban says in new report (UN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

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