A Selection of News Headlines (07/01/2009)

Pressure grows for Gaza ceasefire (BBC News) - [text online]

Ethiopia imposes aid agency curbs (BBC News) - [text online]

Cambodians mark end of Khmer rule (BBC News) - [text online]

China's holiday rush begins early (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel agrees to open corridor for relief aid after UN school is hit (The Times) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask (The Independent) - [text online]

Massacre of innocents as UN school is shelled (The Independent) - [text online]

Brown calls for international action over Gaza crisis (The Independent) - [text online]

OPT: Humanitarian situation deteriorates as military operations reach deeper into Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Journalists and humanitarian workers at risk, Amnesty appeals to parties (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: IDPs in urgent need of aid after fresh attacks by LRA in north (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on UN schools in Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Ethiopia imposes heavy restrictions on foreign-funded humanitarian groups (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Violence and lawlessness have driven much of the Somali population into destitution - ICRC boosts aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.4 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: Humanitarian Update No. 3, Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: NGO Micro Grant Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund Bulletin No. 14 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Gaza: "The only conflict in the world in which people are not even allowed to flee" - High Commissioner Guterres (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: UN team reaches towns attacked by Lord's Resistance Army (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR visits Congolese towns attacked by Lord's Resistance Army (UNHCR) - [text online]

Amnesty International calls for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Ethiopia: Government passes repressive new legislation (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: plight of civilians traumatic in 'full-blown humanitarian crisis' (ICRC) - [text online]

Letter from the Editor (Kakuma Free Press) - [text online]

ETHIOPIA: New law on charities passed despite objections (IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Aid workers’ movements in Gaza severely restricted (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: "Too poor to escape the fighting" (IRIN News) - [text online]

WEST AFRICA: But is it really trafficking? (IRIN News) - [text online]

Security Council meets on Gaza fighting, Ban renews ceasefire call (UN News) - [text online]

UN reaches villages in north-eastern DR Congo attacked by Ugandan rebels (UN News) - [text online]

9.1 million people internally displaced in Central, East Africa, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

Ban condemns ‘unacceptable’ Israeli strikes on UN schools in Gaza (UN News) - [text online]

Civilians wishing to flee Gaza must be permitted to do so, stresses UN refugee chief (UN News) - [text online]

Ban denounces ‘appalling atrocities’ by Ugandan rebels in DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (06/01/2009)

Hamas: Israel has legitimised the killing of its children (The Times) - [text online]

Hamas takes fight to the streets of Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Two strikes, and another family lay buried in rubble (The Independent) - [text online]

Tunnels – the secret weapon for Hamas (The Independent) - [text online]

Detainee tries to kill himself (This is Oxford) - [text online]

Refugees find a home on the stage (The Herald) - [text online]

Australia opens off-shore detention centre for migrants (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Australia opens off-shore detention centre (The Times) - [text online]

Australia opens detention centre (BBC News) - [text online]

A random act of Christmas kindness (The Independent) - [text online]

'Lost' foreign children revealed (BBC News) - [text online]

Young refugees go missing from care (Leicester Mercury) - [text online]

Hundreds of immigrants land on Italian island (The Independent) - [text online]

Thousands more migrants reach Italy's shores (The Guardian) - [text online]

UK 'failing' victims of torture (BBC News) - [text online]

Housing conditions may breach human rights (Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture) - [text online]

White working class 'feels ignored on immigration' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

French U-turn as new Calais shelter for UK-bound immigrants opens after temperatures plunge (Daily Mail) - [text online]

Stardom beckons for high-rise grandmothers (The Herald) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.3 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

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

OPT: Humanitarian access increasingly difficult - UNOCHA report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: 'Security Council should live up to Charter responsibilities to end crisis' - Ban Ki-moon (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Angola shuts off border with DR Congo to avoid Ebola (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Fresh fighting displaces 80,000, urgent help needed (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Working-class values (The Guardian) - [text online]

Guterres urges adherence to humanitarian principles in Gaza conflict (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR chief urges adherence to humanitarian principles in Gaza conflict (UNHCR) - [text online]

Somalia: ICRC boosts aid (ICRC) - [text online]

Gaza: wounded people dying while waiting for ambulances (ICRC) - [text online]

UN Security Council must not fail civilians caught in Gaza conflict (Amnesty International) - [text online]

IRAQ: Budget cuts threaten IDP housing projects (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: It takes more than a law to stop the cut (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Urgent help needed for thousands displaced in Galgadud (IRIN News) - [text online]

Ban meets with Arab ministers to secure Israel-Hamas ceasefire, to see Bush tomorrow (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: more rapid-response police join UN-African Union peacekeeping force (UN News) - [text online]

UN continues assisting displaced in volatile eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Fresh fighting uproots another 50,000 Somalis, compounding present crisis – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Top envoy to Sudan still misrepresented in Khartoum media, says UN mission (UN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

A Selection of News Headlines (06/01/2009)

Hamas: Israel has legitimised the killing of its children (The Times) - [text online]

Hamas takes fight to the streets of Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Two strikes, and another family lay buried in rubble (The Independent) - [text online]

Tunnels – the secret weapon for Hamas (The Independent) - [text online]

Detainee tries to kill himself (This is Oxford) - [text online]

Refugees find a home on the stage (The Herald) - [text online]

Australia opens off-shore detention centre for migrants (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Australia opens off-shore detention centre (The Times) - [text online]

Australia opens detention centre (BBC News) - [text online]

A random act of Christmas kindness (The Independent) - [text online]

'Lost' foreign children revealed (BBC News) - [text online]

Young refugees go missing from care (Leicester Mercury) - [text online]

Hundreds of immigrants land on Italian island (The Independent) - [text online]

Thousands more migrants reach Italy's shores (The Guardian) - [text online]

UK 'failing' victims of torture (BBC News) - [text online]

Housing conditions may breach human rights (Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture) - [text online]

White working class 'feels ignored on immigration' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

French U-turn as new Calais shelter for UK-bound immigrants opens after temperatures plunge (Daily Mail) - [text online]

Stardom beckons for high-rise grandmothers (The Herald) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.3 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

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

OPT: Humanitarian access increasingly difficult - UNOCHA report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: 'Security Council should live up to Charter responsibilities to end crisis' - Ban Ki-moon (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Angola shuts off border with DR Congo to avoid Ebola (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Fresh fighting displaces 80,000, urgent help needed (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Working-class values (The Guardian) - [text online]

Guterres urges adherence to humanitarian principles in Gaza conflict (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR chief urges adherence to humanitarian principles in Gaza conflict (UNHCR) - [text online]

Somalia: ICRC boosts aid (ICRC) - [text online]

Gaza: wounded people dying while waiting for ambulances (ICRC) - [text online]

UN Security Council must not fail civilians caught in Gaza conflict (Amnesty International) - [text online]

IRAQ: Budget cuts threaten IDP housing projects (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: It takes more than a law to stop the cut (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Urgent help needed for thousands displaced in Galgadud (IRIN News) - [text online]

Ban meets with Arab ministers to secure Israel-Hamas ceasefire, to see Bush tomorrow (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: more rapid-response police join UN-African Union peacekeeping force (UN News) - [text online]

UN continues assisting displaced in volatile eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Fresh fighting uproots another 50,000 Somalis, compounding present crisis – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Top envoy to Sudan still misrepresented in Khartoum media, says UN mission (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (05/01/2009).

Envoys race to halt Gaza violence (BBC News) - [text online]

Anti-apartheid icon Suzman buried (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells (The Times) - [text online]

Gaza sliced in two by Israel's land assault (The Independent) - [text online]

With the troops: 'This is a war that we have to fight' (The Independent) - [text online]

Rod Liddle: 'I've never had a go at Muslims, only Islam' (The Independent) - [text online]

Bruce Anderson: Israel is in danger of fighting the last war, not the next one (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Gaza will not find peace until Hamas ceases to be a threat (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip 04 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report from the Humanitarian Coordinator 04 Jan 2009 as of 17:00 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Displaced Populations Report Jul - Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Ground incursion compounds humanitarian crisis in Gaza Strip (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Cholera death toll tops 1600, number of cases continues to mount - WHO (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: WFP launches emergency food distributions to families affected by conflict in Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: 95 percent of families want free food programme to continue, finds survey (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN to assess needs of survivors of LRA attack (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: No power vacuum after pull out, Ethiopia pledges (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

1.8m foreigners move to capital as Britons leave (The Guardian) - [text online]

White working class feels ignored over immigration, says Hazel Blears (The Guardian) - [text online]

Weaving themselves back into the Afghan social fabric (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: chaos as conflict intensifies (ICRC) - [text online]

Gaza: as the conflict intensifies, the ICRC urges all parties to respect civilians (ICRC) - [text online]

Early success for new points system (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

First ID cards issued to foreign nationals in Sheffield (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Government ratifies European convention against human trafficking (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Work restrictions will continue for Bulgarians and Romanians (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

A record 5,000 foreign lawbreakers removed from UK (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: Little to eat for IDPs in makeshift Kabul camp (IRIN News) - [text online]

YEMEN: Jews in north increasingly being harassed (IRIN News) - [text online]

Returning refugees to Afghanistan struggle to earn a living wage, say UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN calls on rebels to resume talks with Government (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (17/12/08)

Jewish leaders fear anti-Semitic backlash (The Independent) - [text online]

'Thousands made slaves' in Darfur (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe rivals 'should both go' (BBC News) - [text online]

Aborigines win battle over mine (BBC News) - [text online]

Bangladesh lifts emergency rule (BBC News) - [text online]

Chinese asylum seeker held for two years despite wanting to go home (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Victory at last for Zimbabwean asylum seekers following IAS’ case (immigration Advisory Service) - [text online]

Victory at last for Zimbabwean asylum seekers (The Zimbabwean) - [text online]

Asylum seekers need free English classes, urges campaign (NIACE) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : The Humanitarian Monitor Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 31, Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 08 - 21 Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is now spreading to neighboring countries (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Georgia: Victims of the South Ossetia conflict need better protection (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Next census aims to map migrant populations (The Independent) - [text online]

MigrationWatch is twisting the truth (The Guardian) - [text online]. The MigrationWatch report - [here].

Congo crisis call for help in UNHCR "Gimme Shelter" campaign (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: UNHCR deplores murder of Italian NGO staffer; rebels reportedly pressuring IDPs to return (UNHCR) - [text online]

Sudanese refugees depart Iraq for resettlement (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR recommendations for the incoming Czech EU Presidency (UNHCR) - [text online]

Ben Affleck video unveiled for UNHCR "Gimme Shelter" campaign (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned about violence in North Kivu as aid worker killed (UNHCR) - [text online]

LAOS: Finding alternatives to resettlement (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOUTH AFRICA: Sleeping rough better than repatriation to Zimbabwe (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Botswana dismisses its neighbour’s sabre rattling (IRIN News) - [text online]

Piracy problem inseparable from overall Somali crisis, Ban warns (UN News) - [text online]

Rebels reportedly pressuring displaced Congolese to return home – UN (UN News) - [text online]

New UN report highlights challenges to ensuring food security in Timor-Leste (UN News) - [text online]

Flood-stricken Papua New Guinea receives UN assistance (UN News) - [text online]

Stranded Sudanese refugees leave Iraq for Romania, reports UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (16/12/08)

UN chief deplores Mugabe position (BBC News) - [text online]

Turkish thinkers' Armenia apology (BBC News) - [text online]

Lord's Resistance Army uses truce to rearm and spread fear in Uganda (The Times) - [text online]

Britain faces humiliating Iraq withdrawal (The Times) - [text online]

Extra judges drafted in to hear immigration appeals (The Times) - [text online]

Zimbabwe cholera deaths near 1,000 (The Independent) - [text online]

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

Nigeria: Unresolved conflicts cause ongoing displacement (IDMC) - [Full Overview (html/pdf)]

Beyond Crisis Management in Eastern Congo (Enough Project) - [text online]

Speaking up for young people (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Pioneering a new educational forum (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Queen's Speech brings gloom for migrants (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Boris Johnson aide 'deeply regrets' immigration articles (The Guardian) - [text online]

Iraqi sewed up mouth in failed bid to avoid deportation (The Guardian) - [text online]

'Asylum seekers are part of us' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Unsuccessful asylum applicants 'should be given support' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Scottish fishermen accused of exploiting migrant boat crew (The Observer) - [text online]

Ruling frees asylum seekers to work (The Guardian) - [text online]

'Shambolic' attempt to fly Kurds home (The Guardian) - [text online]

Fear and use of force on rise at migrant centre, inspector says (The Guardian) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: the displaced urgently need assistance (ICRC) - [text online]

Sierra Leone: Seven years after peace agreement, ICRC scales back activities (ICRC) - [text online]

UNHCR steps up support in Burundi as record numbers return (UNHCR) - [text online]

Number of Iraqis recommended by UNHCR for resettlement hits 50,000 (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR resumes refugee returns from Kenya to South Sudan (UNHCR) - [text online]

Colombians light up to show solidarity for displaced people (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: Concerns at Kibati camp as transfers continue (UNHCR) - [text online]

Ecuador: Start of pilot refugee registration scheme (UNHCR) - [text online]

[Comment] Sixty years on, human rights are as incomplete as ever (EU Observer) - [text online]

Brazil: Supreme Court vindicates indigenous land rights (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Damning report on Oakington detention centre (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Refugee Council response to publication of Centre for Social Justice report 'Asylum Matters' (Refugee Council) - [text online]

ASYLUM MATTERS: SCRAP POLICY THAT DRIVES ASYLUM SEEKERS UNDERGROUND AND INTO PROSTITUTION, SAYS NEW REPORT (Centre for Social Justice) - [text online]

Zimbabwe cholera death toll nears 1,000, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

Top UN official pleased that Nepal and Philippines agreed to release child soldiers (UN News) - [text online]

Senior UN officials urge greater protection for Afghan children’s rights (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN deploys nearly all its 17,500 peacekeepers to strife-torn east (UN News) - [text online]

Needs are still great for Myanmar’s cyclone victims, says UN-backed group (UN News) - [text online]

European Union naval escort boosts security for UN food aid en route to Somalia (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-mandated group finds evidence Rwanda, army aiding rival rebels (UN News) - [text online]

DRC-UGANDA: Anti-LRA offensive could backfire - activists (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: IDPs enticed to vacate southern camp (IRIN News) - [text online]

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Refugee Archive: Christmas 2008 Opening Hours

The Refugee Archive at UEL will continue to open at the normal times listed on our web site until Wednesday 17 December, the last day of teaching for the MA in Refugee Studies course this semester.

The Archive will then be Closed for Christmas between Thursday 18 December and Sunday 04 January. The Archive will re-open at 9am on Monday 05 January 2009.

Important dates for your for your diary are therefore:

Wednesday 17 December, 2008: Archive Open, 9am-6pm.

Thursday 18 December, 2008 to Sunday 04 January, 2009: Archive Closed.

Monday 05 January, 2009: Archive re-opens, usual times.

Monday 12 January to Friday 24 January, 2009: Reduced Service available to enable Archive stock-checking to be carried out.

Full details are also available on our website at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/using-rca.htm#Xmas

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