A Selection of News Headlines (11/12/08)

Cholera is 'S African disaster' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN official slams Israel 'crimes' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN 'accuses Rwanda and DR Congo' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN claims Rwanda is abetting Congo rebels (The Independent) - [text online]

UK runs 'Guantanamo camps', says detainees (The Independent) - [text online]

Ministers under pressure to hold inquiry on Iraq war within a year (The Independent) - [text online]

Independent Appeal: Volunteers go to work in a ravaged country (The Independent) - [text online]

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

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Zimbabwe: OCHA Daily Cholera Update, 09 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Immigrant labours lost (The Guardian) - [text online]

Lecturers are not border police (The Guardian) - [text online]

Appeal for refugee funds elicits promising response from donors (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR meeting seeks solutions to end long-term exile of millions of refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Donors pledge more than US$450 towards UNHCR programmes in 2009 (UNHCR) - [text online]

Protracted Refugee Situations: UNHCR meeting seeks solutions to end long-term exile of millions of refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Protracted Refugee Situations: Bangladesh camp life improves, but home is best (UNHCR) - [text online]

France distances itself from Kouchner human rights remarks (EU Observer) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of Congo: Every Delay Costs Lives (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Government steps up the fight against extremism (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

MYANMAR: Anyo, "I don't know whether I will live or die” (IRIN News) - [text online]

Seven human rights fighters receive top UN awards (UN News) - [text online]

UN appeals for funds to meet health needs in cyclone-battered Myanmar (UN News) - [text online]

On Human Rights Day, UN rights chief reminisces, as victim and enforcer (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: talks between government, rebels making headway, says UN envoy (UN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: UN calls for $6 million to fight deadly cholera epidemic (UN News) - [text online]

UN transports another food shipment to displaced people in war-torn northern Sri Lanka (UN News) - [text online]

Ban leads chorus of UN voices calling for action to protect human rights of vulnerable (UN News) - [text online]

Cambodia, UN agree on need to strengthen court trying Khmer Rouge leaders (UN News) - [text online]

UN refugee chief urges help for 6 million long-term displaced (UN News) - [text online]

International Court seeks more information on arrest warrants for Darfur rebels (UN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Human Rights Day is “just another day of suffering” (IRIN News) - [text online]

INDONESIA: Raising awareness of migrant abuse (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (10/12/08)

Zimbabwe search on for activist (BBC News) - [text online]

New French life for ex-Farc rebel (BBC News) - [text online]

Chinese police detain protesters (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel briefly opens Gaza borders (BBC News) - [text online]

'Asylum bid' by football homeless (BBC News) - [text online]

Cholera ravages population weak with hunger in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe (The Independent) - [text online]

How Burma's opposition lost its fear (The Independent) - [text online]

We'll fight invasion, Zimbabwe warns (The Independent) - [text online]

EU begins Kosovo mission (The Independent) - [text online]

oPt: Israel opens Gaza borders to humanitarian aid shipment (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Top UNHCR official warns about displacement from climate change (UNHCR) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: despite letup in fighting, many needs remain (ICRC) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: International Organizations Call for End to Abductions of Activists (Amnesty International) - [text online]

The Human Rights Act: a ‘Villain’s Charter’? (The Refugee Council) - [text online]

NEPAL: Towards ending impunity for human rights violations (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: "Why I am staying in London this Christmas" (IRIN News) - [text online]

MAURITANIA: Child marriage tradition turns into trafficking (IRIN News) - [text online]

Human rights still not a reality for all, top UN official says (UN News) - [text online]

UN health agency visits Zimbabwe to help contain growing cholera outbreak (UN News) - [text online]

Appalling acts still persist 60 years on from pledge to prevent genocide, Ban warns (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: Government, rebels enter into UN-backed talks to end fighting (UN News) - [text online]

Kosovo: European police phase in as UN phases out (UN News) - [text online]

Ban voices serious concern over stalemate in recovering missing Kuwaitis from Iraq (UN News) - [text online]

Slavery, though legally abolished, remains widespread in current forms, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

‘Collective resistance’ best strategy to fight terrorism, says Ban (UN News) - [text online]

UN, regional advocates call on Governments to protect human rights defenders (UN News) - [text online]

Corruption impedes development and human rights, Ban says on International Day (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (09/12/08)

EU split on Congo troop mission (BBC News) - [text online]

New EU travel bans for Zimbabwe (BBC News) - [text online]

Prosecutor dispute at Khmer trial (BBC News) - [text online]

EU launches Kosovo police mission (BBC News) - [text online]

Filipino fishermen in abuse claim (BBC News) - [text online]

Virtual world for Muslims debuts (BBC News) - [text online]

Jacob Zuma thwarts efforts to force Robert Mugabe out (The Times) - [text online]

Muslim war veteran graves hit by vandals (The Independent) - [text online]

Fears for British doctor held captive by relatives (The Independent) - [text online]

DPR Congo: WFP launches air operation to reach thousands of stranded in the northeast (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Zimbabwe: OCHA Monthly Situation Report, Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 37, 15 - 30 Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Situation Report on Cholera in Zimbabwe No. 04, 03 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : oPt: Protection of civilians weekly report 26 Nov - 02 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Teens extend hand of friendship to refugees (Sheffield Telegraph) - [text online]

A place called home (The Guardian) - [text online]

Reminder: High Commissioner's Dialogue on protracted refugee situations (UNHCR) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Red Cross launches campaign to reunite conflict-dispersed families (ICRC) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: ICRC health specialists arrive in Harare (ICRC) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Charlotte’s smile (ICRC) - [text online]

60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Time to Deliver (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Kosovo (Serbia): New EU mission must bring justice (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Belgium stays closed to Bulgaria, Romania workers (EU Observer) - [text online]

Minister unveils new detention facility (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

UN starts airlifting aid to tens of thousands stranded in north-eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Afghan remittances from Iran total $500 million annually, says UN report (UN News) - [text online]

Time to act in DR Congo is now, says UN peacekeeping chief (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (04/12/08)

Zimbabwe 'asks for cholera help' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN urged to support Sudan arrest (BBC News) - [text online]

Dalai Lama urges EU to stand firm (BBC News) - [text online]

Australia stops 'asylum vessel' (BBC News) - [text online]

Tribal leaders to sabotage West's assault on Taliban (The Independent) - [text online]

Zimbabwe's cholera victims find salvation in South Africa (The Independent) - [text online]

Kenya tribunal to punish organisers of poll violence (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 47, 23 - 30 Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Situation Report on Cholera in Zimbabwe 26 Nov (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 36 - 37, 08 - 21 Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Red Cross increases support for cholera victims (ICRC) - [text online]

IRAQ: Low oil prices could affect government aid to IDPs (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: "A hungry and angry soldier can be very dangerous" (IRIN News) - [text online]

Huge challenges remain in Darfur and Chad, UN aid chief tells Security Council (UN News) - [text online]

Next year is ‘make or break’ for Somalia, UN relief official warns (UN News) - [text online]

Further steps needed to enhance human rights in Liberia, UN report says (UN News) - [text online]

UN food agency extends relief efforts in DR Congo amid spreading violence (UN News) - [text online]

UNICEF steps up assistance efforts to Zimbabweans amid humanitarian crisis (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (03/12/08)

Zimbabwe cholera deaths near 500 (BBC News) - [text online]

Singer urged Rwandans to genocide (BBC News) - [text online]

Migrant workers 'left homeless' (BBC News) - [text online]

Baghdad's forgotten migrants who pay for jobs end up lost in hangar ‘hotel’ (The Times) - [text online]

Mugabe seeks revenge on soldiers that rebelled (The Independent) - [text online]

Rwandan pop star jailed for inciting genocide (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : DR Congo: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Update No. 17 - North Kivu, 26 Nov - 01 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Zimbabwe: OCHA Daily Cholera Update, 02 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Humanitarian crisis worsens amid looting and political instability (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

IRR refutes BNP's claims on racist murders (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Mauritania: Government guilty of routine torture (Amnesty International) - [text online]; Mauritania's security forces guilty of routine torture (Amnesty International) - [text online]

16 Days of Activism: Play seeks to broach taboo of domestic violence (UNHCR) - [text online]

EU Kosovo mission delayed amid protests (EU Observer) - [text online]

SUDAN: Civilian disarmament remains elusive as government rethinks process (IRIN News) - [text online]

MYANMAR-THAILAND: Cyclone migrants face challenges (IRIN News) - [text online]

Rwandan singer sentenced to prison by UN tribunal for inciting genocide (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Conjuring up a state of emergency (IRIN News) - [text online]

Gaza crossings from Israel remain closed, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

More children drafted by armed groups in eastern DR Congo, UNICEF finds (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: UN mission dispatches team after clashes between displaced and militiamen (UN News) - [text online]

Human rights abuses continue in Iraq, despite security improvement - UN (UN News) - [text online]

UN expert urges Nepal to act on commitments to indigenous rights (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (02/12/08)

Mob runs riot as Zimbabwe runs out of water (The Times) - [text online]

Unpaid Zimbabwe soldiers fight police (The Independent) - [text online]

DR Congo: Rebels quit border town, urge govt to talk (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Cholera crisis mounts as Harare water system shut down (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

CAR: European Commission allocates EUR 6m in humanitarian aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Timor-Leste: IDPs face difficult journey home (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Humanitarian partners launch USD 919m appeal for 3.2 million people (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

'It's the best video game ever. I love this job' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Johnson policy chief asked to 'clarify' views on immigration (The Guardian) - [text online]

DRC: Camp transfer continues despite precarious security situation (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gulf of Aden: 20 die as smugglers force migrants overboard (UNHCR) - [text online]

16 Days of Activism: South African border shelter helps young Zimbabwean women (UNHCR) - [text online]

World AIDS Day: Challenges ahead for UNHCR in battling HIV and AIDS (UNHCR) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: fresh outbreak of fighting in the east displaces more civilians (ICRC) - [text online]

Fair rules for strong communities (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Human Rights Council: Words are not enough – Civilians in eastern DRC need more than half measures (Amnesty International) - [text online]

PHILIPPINES: New conviction boosts fight against human trafficking (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Police and soldiers clash (IRIN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: UN agency calls for $2 million to fight cholera epidemic (UN News) - [text online]

UN envoy to war-torn eastern DR Congo wraps up latest round of talks (UN News) - [text online]

Ban deeply saddened by deadly inter-communal clashes in Nigerian city (UN News) - [text online]

Senior UN official visits Nepal to probe release of former child soldiers (UN News) - [text online]

Nearly half of all Somalis in need of humanitarian aid, warns UN relief official (UN News) - [text online]

Protection of civilians remains key issue in Sudan, stresses UN humanitarian chief (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (01/12/08)

Congo rebel chief threatens 'war' (BBC News) - [text online]

Phil Woolas: You Ask The Questions (The Independent) - [text online]

Noon calls for ban on immigration (The Independent) - [text online]

Afghanistan: Female UNHCR worker shot dead in eastern province (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Darfur aid groups face harassment - UN officials (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Croydon asylum seeker wins court review based on his genitals (Croydon Guardian) - [text online]

DRC: Kibati transfers begin; thousands crossing to Uganda (UNHCR) - [text online]

16 Days of Activism: South African border shelter helps young Zimbabwean women (UNHCR) - [text online]

World AIDS Day: Challenges ahead for UNHCR in battling HIV and AIDS (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR supports school, sanitation projects in Kyrgyz host communities (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR starts moving vulnerable displaced Congolese to safer area (UNHCR) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC supplies drinking water for 90,000 people in Saké and Kitshanga (ICRC) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: the fates of separated families intertwine (ICRC) - [text online]

MEPs can shore up human rights at the UN (EU Observer) - [text online]

EU countries pledge to host 10,000 Iraqi refugees (EU Observer) - [text online]

The BNP won't divide or rule (The Guardian) - [text online]

Bosnia & Herzegovina: “Refugees United” (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Civil society support is key to success of $919 m relief plan (IRIN News) - [text online]

TIMOR-LESTE: IDPs face difficult journey home (IRIN News) - [text online]

Southern Sudan needs more help to rebuild education, roads, health care – UN aid chief (UN News) - [text online]

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