A Selection of News Stories (17/10/08)

US considering Iraq security deal (BBC News) - [text online]

Bashir war crimes charges delayed (BBC News) - [text online]

First woman to lead Muslim prayers angers traditionalists (The Independent) - [text online]

Power-sharing deal at impasse in Zimbabwe (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : The Humanitarian Monitor Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 29, Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Southern Sudan: Abyei displacement - OCHA Situation Report No.29; 16 Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 13 Sep - 26 Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 30 Aug - 12 Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: President launches Darfur peace initiative, rebels boycott (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: Clashes turn back UN food convoy for refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: More than 26,000 displaced without adequate assistance in Somaliland (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Burundi: Urban refugees struggle to cope with cost of living (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Urban refugees struggle to cope with cost of living in Burundi (UNHCR) - [text online]

Spain: Give Migrant Children Legal Aid (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Iran: Announcement of end of child executions a welcome step (Amnesty International) - [text online]

International Criminal Court seeks more material on Darfur arrest warrant (UN News) - [text online]

Next round of talks to cement UN-backed Somali peace deal announced (UN News) - [text online]

UNICEF urges action to tackle Zimbabwe’s education ‘crisis’ (UN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Displaced and neglected in Somaliland (IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Floods displace thousands in northeast (IRIN News) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: Tens of thousands of IDPs hit by monsoon rains (IRIN News) - [text online]

PAKISTAN: IDPs in the spotlight (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (16/10/08)

Zimbabwe foes 'near cabinet deal' (BBC News) - [text online]

Afghan aid blunders 'waste millions' (The Independent) - [text online]

World Focus: Russian delegation arrives late for testy talks with Georgia (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : The Humanitarian Monitor Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 29, Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 27 Sep - 10 Oct 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Ethiopia: UN and Govt revise financial requirements for humanitarian aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Philippines: Full-scale humanitarian crisis feared in troubled Mindanao (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report: 01 - 30 Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Engaging with the 'other' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Congolese refugees in Zambia keen to hear about conditions back home (UNHCR) - [text online]

Kenya: Promptly Establish Special Tribunal (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Progress made by Pinochet arrest ten years ago is under threat (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Unauthorized Immigration Declining, But Experts Disagree on Why (Migration Information Source) - [text online]

Asylum Update - 15 October 2008 (ICAR) - [text online]

Darfur: UN police conduct night patrols at displaced persons’ camp (UN News) - [text online]

UN chief in Sudan spotlights achievements and UN role since end of civil war (UN News) - [text online]

Conflict in eastern DR Congo will not be resolved by force alone – UN envoy (UN News) - [text online]

Haiti in desperate need of investment and contributions, warns top UN official (UN News) - [text online]

Ethiopia: UN appeals for aid as number of drought victims keeps growing (UN News) - [text online]

UN mission monitoring Ethiopia-Eritrea border nearing close (UN News) - [text online]

Africa’s partners must not renege on development support – Assembly chief (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: A day in the life of hyperinflation (IRIN News) - [text online]

GUINEA-BISSAU-SENEGAL: Child trafficking on the decline say local authorities (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA-SOUTH AFRICA: Mahad Omar Abdi: "I cannot go back to Somalia" (IRIN News) - [text online]

EGYPT: Long road to resettlement for disabled Iraqi refugees (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (15/10/08)

Zimbabwe crisis talks to continue (BBC News) - [text online]

Turkey apology over prison death (BBC News) - [text online]

Afghan violence 'worst in years' (BBC News) - [text online]

The Arab driver, Yom Kippur and how a city was inflamed (The Independent) - [text online]

Judge: 'You're a criminal, you'll be safe in Somalia' (The Independent) - [text online]

Teenage killer admits cutting up woman and dumping her in sea (The Independent) - [text online]

World Focus: A simple admission in the battle against Aids offers hope to millions (The Independent) - [text online]

Pakistan border attacks create 190,000 refugees (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 27 Sep - 10 Oct 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Algeria: Red Crescent makes urgent aid appeal for Saharan refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

West Africa: Niger, Sierra Leone and Liberia among the world's hungriest (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Ethiopia: Emergency beneficiaries increase to 6.4 million (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Humanitarian fund gives over USD 1bn to help most vulnerable people worldwide (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Worsening humanitarian situation in the East - UNHCR (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

England, my England (The Guardian) - [text online]

A chink in the Great Wall of Capital (The Guardian) - [text online]

Nearly 190,000 people displaced by fighting in Pakistan's Bajaur area (UNHCR) - [text online]

Urgent appeal for resettlement of ex-Iraq Palestinians (UNHCR) - [text online]

Worsening humanitarian situation in the eastern DRC (UNHCR) - [text online]

Brazilian solidarity with displaced Bolivians in Amazonia (UNHCR) - [text online]

Nearly 190,000 displaced by fighting on Pakistan’s border region of Bajaur (UNHCR) - [text online]

UN Secretary-General visits UNHCR headquarters, pays tribute to staff (UNHCR) - [text online]

UK: Terror Bill Still Puts Rights at Risk (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

EU: Focus on Civilian Protection at Georgia-Russia Talks (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Saudi Arabia executions disproportionately target foreign nationals (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Turkey/Iran: Act now to protect refugees (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Exhibition: Morocco on Golbourne Road (Community Archives and Identities) - [text online]

Ban urges patience, stressing that dealing with Georgia situation will take time (UN News) - [text online]

Fighting on two fronts in eastern DR Congo uproots over 150,000 – UN (UN News) - [text online]

UN appeals for resettlement of Palestinians stranded on Iraq-Syria border (UN News) - [text online]

LEBANON: Migrant workers’ children face marginalisation, racism (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (14/10/08)

Davis 'vindicated' over 42 days (BBC News) - [text online]

Amnesty condemns Saudi executions (BBC News) - [text online]

Clashes in Montenegro over Kosovo (BBC News) - [text online]

'New pathway' for African exodus (BBC News) - [text online]

House of Lords deals fatal blow to 42-day terror detention plans (The Times) - [text online]

Home Secretary forced into 'humiliating retreat' over detention plans (The Independent) - [text online]

The burning issue of Hindu funeral pyres (The Independent) - [text online]

Ethiopia/Eritrea: Mandate fulfilled - Final report to Security Council (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Cyclone survivors fear food aid is set to end soon (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Uganda: IDPs most affected by hepatitis E spread (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Insurgents attack African Union troops in Mogadishu (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: More food aid needed for displaced Christians (ReleifWeb) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: ICRC continues to assist Vanni displaced as conflict approaches Kilinochchi (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Friends pay musical tribute to Pavarotti in ancient city of Petra (UNHCR) - [text online]

Saudi Arabia: Death by discrimination (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Armed groups and government forces continue to abuse women and children in North Kivu (Amnesty International) - [text online]. Full report - [HTML or PDF]

Asylum Update - 9 october 2008 (ICAR) - [text online]

Final border report on Ethiopia-Eritrea dispute sent to Security Council (UN News) - [text online]

In DR Congo’s troubled east, blue helmets escort relief workers (UN News) - [text online]

Iraq: UN envoy strongly condemns killings of civilians and violence in Mosul (UN News) - [text online]

Indonesian police unit arrives to boost efforts of UN-African Union Darfur force (UN News) - [text online]

WEST AFRICA: Voices from exile (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Power-sharing deal collapsing (IRIN News) - [text online]

UGANDA: Hepatitis E spreads, IDPs most vulnerable (IRIN News) - [text online]

YEMEN: Influx of migrants strains resources - official (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: More food aid needed for displaced Christians – official (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (13/10/08)

Mugabe 'gives Zanu-PF key posts' (BBC News) - [text online]

Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC threatens to abandon Zimbabwe power deal (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

War photography: why we don't want to see it (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Lords set to inflict crushing defeat on 42-day detention (The Independent) - [text online]

Police pour into Mosul to protect Christians from sectarian killings (The Independent) - [text online]

Fisk 'shocked' by US failure to debate conflict in Israel (The Independent0 - [text online]

Zimbabwe deal on the verge of collapse (The Independent) - [text online]

Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider killed in car crash (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Zero tolerance targets racism (This is Kent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : West Africa: Humanitarian situation report 09 Oct 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 50 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

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

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 50 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR urges donors not to cut aid as recession looms (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Concern about rising numbers of people displaced by LRA (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UN emergency relief fund largely successful, Secretary-General reports (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sierra Leone: Government tightens control of NGOs (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

GPs win care fight for asylum seekers (The Observer) - [text online]

'It is down your street and in your lane' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Another tragedy in Gulf of Aden (UNHCR) - [text online]

Q&A: UNHCR in pursuit of durable solutions for refugees in Tanzania (UNHCR) - [text online]

Annual UNHCR meet ends with call to help world's most vulnerable people (UNHCR) - [text online]. 59th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme - [web site and documentation]

UK Border Agency celebrates six months of success (Home Office Press Releases) - [text online]

Ethiopia: Draft Law Threatens Civil Society (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Pakistan: Still ignoring the stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: Plights of the displaced people (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

MEDIAWATCH: Political deadlock prolongs Zimbabwe misery (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

IRAQ: Attacks drive thousands of Christians out of Mosul (IRIN News) - [text online]

Central African Republic: UN reports mounting human rights abuses (UN News) - [text online]

Ban concerned over Zimbabwe ‘impasse,’ urges parties to reach deal soon (UN News) - [text online]

UN working to ensure security for Darfur’s displaced, says peacekeeping chief (UN News) - [text online]

Ugandan rebels committing grave rights abuses in DR Congo, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

Over 6 million Ethiopians in need of emergency food aid, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

Ban calls on rebels, army to immediately cease fire in eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of Headlines (10/10/08)

Migrant vessel sinks off Morocco (BBC News) - [text online]

DR Congo rebels capture army base (BBC News) - [text online]

Staff 'fears' over Muslim inmates (BBC News) - [text online]

Iraqi who risked all for Britain is left to his fate in Basra (The Times) - [text online]

Russian troops pull out from Georgia as the rebel militias dig in to defy peace plan (The Times) - [text online]

Doctors 'planned bombing campaign to punish Britain' (The Independent) - [text online]

Jews protect Palestinians in harvest of hate (The Independent) - [text online]

Romanian actress battles racism in Italy (The Independent) - [text online]

The mantra of our time: 'British values' good, 'multiculturalism' bad (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : West Africa: Humanitarian situation report 09 Oct 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

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

Georgia: Villages in South Ossetia "torched", satellite study shows (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: WFP starts massive relief operation, but needs extra resources (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

General Assembly President calls for boosting UN's peacebuilding capacity (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: UN peacekeeping chief makes first visit to war-torn Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Floods add to IDP misery in Lower Shabelle (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR'S Global Needs Assessment pilot shows substantial gaps (UNHCR) - [text online]

Armenia: Diasporan War Veteran Faces Deportation (Global Voices) - [text online]

WEST AFRICA: Migrants risk all to cross desert (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN unable to confirm reports of Rwandan incursions into eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Security Council renews UN observer mission in Georgia for four months (UN News) - [text online]

UN Yearbook goes online, bringing the Organization’s work closer to the public (UN News) - [text online]

UN agency appeals for $140 million to feed Zimbabweans in crisis (UN News) - [text online]

Too many refugees denied their rights, despite recent gains – UN official (UN News) - [text online]. See also, the related UNHCR report - [report].

KENYA: Rising demand for male circumcision (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (09/10/08)

Rwandan troops 'invade DR Congo' (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe inflation hits new high (BBC News) - [text online]

UN seeks World Court Kosovo view (BBC News) - [text online]

'Too many refugees face intolerance and denial of rights' - UNHCR (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Agencies unable to reach thousands displaced in North Kivu (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: UNRWA calls on Arab donors to help 30.000 Nahr el Bared refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Afghanistan: Aid agencies call on Taliban to back new humanitarian agenda (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Chad: Aid groups suspend work due to insecurity, effect on IDPs feared (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR'S Global Needs Assessment pilot shows gaps (UNHCR) - [text online]

Assistant High Commissioner reports mixed year for refugee protection (UNHCR) - [text online]

Excom: Despite gains in 2008, UNHCR says too many refugees face intolerance and denial of their rights (UNHCR) - [text online]

Faster border controls at Heathrow Airport (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Burma: On the Road to Mandalay (Refugees International) - [text online]

UK: Rights for Terror Suspects (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UN agency calls on Arabs to help Palestinian brethren uprooted in Lebanese camp (UN News) - [text online]

Government troops will respect ceasefire in eastern DR Congo, UN told (UN News) - [text online]

Myanmar: UN expert outlines steps for improving human rights (UN News) - [text online]

Former top Rwandan minister transferred to UN war crimes tribunal (UN News) - [text online]

UN tribunal upholds 35-year jail term for leader of breakaway Croatian Serb state (UN News) - [text online]

New UN peacekeeping chief holds talks in South Sudan (UN News) - [text online]

DRC: Agencies unable to reach thousands displaced in North Kivu (IRIN News) - [text online]

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