Saturday, 10 January 2009

Gaza conflict enters third week (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants' (BBC News) - [text online]

Blair warning about Gaza radicals (BBC News) - [text online]

Poles call for anti-hate crime action (The Independent) - [text online]

Egypt: Stop Deporting Eritrean Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

South Africa: End Strain on Asylum System and Protect Zimbabweans (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.7
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Regional Update No. 3 - Cholera Outbreaks in South Africa, 09 Jan 2009
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Q&A: Builder from Benin volunteers to help UNHCR in Burundi (UNHCR) - [text online]

More than 50,000 people risked perilous Gulf of Aden crossing last year (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC medics work on (ICRC) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

Friday, 9 January 2009

A Selection of News Stories (09/01/2009)

Red Cross accuses Israel of 'unacceptable' conduct in Gaza (The Times) - [text online]

New immigration code does not fully protect children (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Remote controls against refugees (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

UN demands immediate ceasefire in Gaza Strip (The Independent) - [text online]

Compensation clause in ID card contracts angers Tories (The Independent) - [text online]

Imran defends terror suspects (The Independent) - [text online]

Rocket attacks raise fear of second front for Israel (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza under fire: Children found next to dead mothers (The Independent) - [text online]

Papal response: Vatican compares Gaza to Nazi camp (The Independent) - [text online]

Peru: Reparations begin but IDPs excluded (IDMC) - [Full Overview (html/pdf)]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.6
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 01 - 08 Jan 2009
(ReleifWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Situation Report on Cholera in Zimbabwe No. 09, 06 Jan 2009
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

High Commissioner Guterres briefs Security Council on global protection challenges (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR chief Guterres briefs UN Security Council on protection challenges (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: life-saving ambulances must be given unrestricted access to the wounded (UCRC) - [text online]

USA: Amnesty International asks Barack Obama to set date for closing Guantánamo (Amnesty International) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks making progress (UN News) - [text online]

Number of cholera cases in Zimbabwe climbs to nearly 36,000 – UN (UN News) - [text online]

More attention must be paid to underreported conflicts, says top UN refugee official (UN News) - [text online]

Security Council overwhelmingly calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire (UN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

Thursday, 8 January 2009

A Selection of News Stories (08/01/2009)

Tories accuse DFID of trying to usurp powers of Foreign Office (The Independent) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks enter substantive phase (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: 'No military solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict', say speakers at UN Security Council (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Central/Eastern Africa: Nearly 11 million IDPs and refugees - OCHA (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nepal: Small glimmer of hope for forgotten generations of Bhutanese refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.5
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 42 - 43, 20 Dec 2008 - 02 Jan 2009
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 40 - 41, 06 - 19 Dec 2008
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA regional update no. 2 - Cholera outbreaks in Southern Africa, 24 Dec 2008
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Lathering up success in South Sudan for just US$1,000 (UNHCR) - [text online]

Uprooted Pakistanis find home in ex-Afghan refugee village (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: Military tactics of both sides endangering civilians, says Amnesty International (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC demands urgent access to wounded as Israeli army fails to assist wounded Palestinians (ICRC) - [text online]

SUDAN: Great expectations as numbers of Southern returnees on the rise
(IRIN News) - [text online]

DRC-SUDAN: Fifty feared dead in rebel attack
(IRIN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks enter substantive phase (UN News) - [text online]

Israel’s daily 3-hour truces in Gaza good first step, but not nearly enough, UN warns (UN News) - [text online]

Number of Bhutanese refugees resettled from Nepal last year tops 8,000 – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: Ban welcomes US pledge to airlift supplies to UN-African Union force (UN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

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]

Posted in: News.

Tuesday, 6 January 2009

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]

Posted in: News.

Monday, 5 January 2009

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]

Posted in: News.