A Selection of News Headlines (20/02/2009).

Burma rights still 'challenging' (BBC News) - [text online]

Argentina expels Holocaust bishop (BBC News) - [text online]

Sweden accepts ex-Guantanamo man (BBC News) - [text online]

Peace on the Rocks: Susan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (Enough Project) - [text online]

Revealed: the full extent of Labour's curbs on civil liberties (The Independent) - [text online]

Deporting gay asylum-seeker 'was unlawful' (The Independent) - [text online]

Qatada wins £2,500 for illegal detention (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: The price of our civil liberties (The Independent) - [text online]

Qatada can be deported despite torture fears, law lords rule (The Independent) - [text online]

Europe opens covert talks with ‘blacklisted’ Hamas (The Independent) - [text online]

Afghanistan: Slipping out of control (The Independent) - [text online]

Radical preacher Abu Qatada will 'stay in country' despite deportation order (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Uganda: OCHA Situation Report No. 3 - Focus on Karamoja, Oct 2008 to Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 11 - 17 Feb 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : occupied Palestinian territory: Gaza Situation Report No. 22 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin No. 07, 19 Feb 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Monthly Update - Jan/Feb 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Foreign workers are the wrong target (The Guardian) - [Audio Online]

Civil rights groups defend Qatada payout (The Guardian) - [text online]

Here for now - but Jordan awaits (The Guardian) - [text online]

Home secretary signs Abu Qatada deportation order after law lords overturn torture ruling (The Guardian) - [text online]

The clash of fundamentals (The Guardian) - [text online]

Abu Qatada takes deportation fight to European court after law lords ruling (The Guardian) - [text online]

'Laughter erupted. I longed to join in' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Borders, citizenship and immigration bill (The Guardian) - [text online]

Passport anti-fraud measure comes to UK (HOme Office Press Release) - [text online]

International community fails to protect Darfur (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: AU and UN should immediately send human rights monitors (Amnesty International) - [Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UK: Law Lords Judgment Undermines Torture Ban (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (28/01/2009)

Israeli jets target Gaza tunnels (BBC News) - [text online]

Sharia imposed at Somali MPs base (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma's 'abused Chin need help' (BBC News) - [text online]

Iraq minutes 'must be released' (BBC News) - [text online]

President Obama leads US drive to topple Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe (The Times) - [text online]

Hamas roadside bomb shakes fragile ceasefire with Israel (The Times) - [text online]

Minutes of the cabinet meeting that took us to war must be released (The Independent) - [text online]

Massacre in the Sri Lanka 'safe zone' (The Independent) - [text online]

Israel jets strike Gaza tunnels (The Independent) - [text online]

Israeli strikes leave Blair project with £140m repairs (The Independent) - [text online]

Obama reaches out to Iran with message to Muslims (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza ceasefire strained as Mitchell flies in (The Independent) - [text online]

OPT: Israeli aircraft strike Gaza tunnels - residents said (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Great Lakes: Lord's Resistance Army number two plans to turn himself in (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR fears for safety of indigenous people in north-east Colombia (UNHCR) - [text online]

Congolese refugees flee to Sudan to escape Lord's Resistance Army (UNHCR) - [text online]

Universities and colleges warned - sign up now to new points system (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: Major humanitarian crisis unfolding (ICRC) - [text online]

Israel/Gaza: International Investigation Essential (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Burma/India: End Abuses in Chin State (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Israel must allow full access for aid and supplies to rehabilitate Gaza – UN relief chief (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: fighting continues for second day near headquarters of UN mission (UN News) - [text online]

UN refugee agency calls on Kenya to stop forced return of Somali asylum-seekers (UN News) - [text online]

Second group of stranded Sudanese leave Iraq for Romania, reports UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

Ban calls on world to fight Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and bigotry (UN News) - [text online]

Colombia: growing UN concern as more indigenous flee violence (UN News) - [text online]

UN rights chief decries ‘grotesque’ abuses by Ugandan rebels in DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

In Brief: International meeting on Gaza aid to be held in Qatar on 1 February (IRIN News) - [text online]

BURKINA FASO: Cutters turn razors on babies to evade FGM/C law (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Only US dollars can buy education (IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: FGM falsely touted as a panacea for HIV (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN-UGANDA: Civilians flee LRA "revenge" attacks (IRIN News) - [text online]

JORDAN: Government adopts anti-human trafficking law (IRIN News) - [text online]

INDONESIA: Foreign remittances set to fall with global slowdown (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (27/01/2009)

Zimbabwe parties 'agree timeline' (BBC News) - [text online]

DR Congo gorilla numbers growing (BBC News) - [text online]

Obama reaches out to Muslim world (BBC News) - [text online]

Sri Lanka army 'securing coast' (BBC News) - [text online]

Freed Guantánamo prisoners taunt US as closure plan falls apart (The Times) - [text online]

EU divided over taking in detainees when terror camp closes (The Independent) - [text online]

Zimbabwe opposition contests power-sharing claims (The Independent) - [text online]

On trial, the warlord ‘who led an army of child soldiers’ (The Independent) - [text online]

Dominic Lawson: When charities turn political, the BBC is right to tread warily (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Offer the hand of reconciliation (The Independent) - [text online]

Tom Sutcliffe: Will time ease the pain of the Holocaust? (The Independent) - [text online]

Donald Macintyre: An assault on the peace process (The Independent) - [text online]

Katherine Butler: So how do we know the aid stays in the right hands? (The Independent) - [text online]

Boat people: An international call to help thousands stranded around the world (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

China: Thousands displaced by quake in remote western area (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.17 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Field Update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator 24 - 26 Jan 2009 as of 17:00 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Quarterly Regional Humanitarian Funding Update, Oct - Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Burundi Weekly Humanitarian News, 12 - 17 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.16 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudanese refugees evacuated from Iraq arrive in Romania (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR calls on Kenya to stop forcible return of Somali asylum seekers (UNHCR) - [text online]

Congolese refugees fleeing to South Sudan (UNHCR) - [text online]

Colombia: Growing insecurity forcing indigenous flight in north-east (UNHCR) - [text online]

Spanish artists help fight malnutrition among African refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

TV News Footage: emergency aid alone cannot rebuild Gaza (ICRC) - [text online]

Colombia: Brazil ready to support ICRC humanitarian operation (ICRC) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC calls for respect for civilians in North Kivu (ICRC) - [text online]

Mass Migrant Breakout! - Italy (Bristol No Borders) - [text online]

Zimbabweans remind Gordon Brown to act (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Refugee Council response to National Audit Office report on New Asylum Model (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Greece does EU's migration dirty work (The Guardian) - [text online]

The Gurkhas are friends indeed (The Guardian) - [text online]

Football transfers face test penalty (The Guardian) - [text online]

MPs fight to stop deportation of activist (The Guardian) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: UN says thousands of civilians at risk (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Warrap, Lakes states grappling with ethnic clashes (IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Aid workers protest restricted access to Gaza (IRIN News) - [text online]

First-ever trial at International Criminal Court, on use of child soldiers, opens (UN News) - [text online]

UN experts express concern at length of custody for illegal migrants in Malta (UN News) - [text online]

UN supports exploratory home return of Rwandan ex-fighters from DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

UN rushing aid to hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in Sri Lanka fighting (UN News) - [text online]

Thousands of Gazans remain homeless as UN again calls for aid access (UN News) - [text online]

Memory of Holocaust must spur action to combat genocide, stresses UN rights chief (UN News) - [text online]

Holocaust has vital lessons for today, says Ban (UN News) - [text online]

Afghanistan and Pakistan: Raise voices for civilian protection (Refugees International) - [text online]

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A Selection of news Headlines (23/01/2009)

Rwanda arrests Congo rebel leader (BBC News) - [text online]

Obama appoints key hotspot envoys (BBC News) - [text online]

UN awaits Thai reply on migrants (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza smugglers get back to work (BBC News) - [text online]

US envoy warns over Iraq pullout (BBC News) - [text online]

White working class 'losing out' (BBC News) - [text online]

Relighting the beacon: President Obama orders closure of Guantánamo (The Times) - [text online]

BBC scuppers TV fundraising appeal for Gaza victims (The Times) - [text online]

Obama ready to cut Karzai adrift (The Independent) - [text online]

Backlog swamps asylum system (The Independent) - [text online]

Rwanda arrests Congo rebel leader (The Independent) - [text online]

Fatah fears Gaza conflict has put Hamas in the ascendancy (The Independent) - [text online]

Obama orders CIA to stop torturing terror suspects (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Gaza: the way forward? (The Independent) - [text online]

Impact of arbitrary detention under anti-terror laws (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

'Citizens for Sanctuary' (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Situation Report on Cholera in Zimbabwe No. 10, 21 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 16 - 20 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: NGO Micro Grant Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund Bulletin No. 15 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Asylum system not coping with backlog of cases, says watchdog (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned over humanitarian situation in Lampedusa, Italy (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: UNHCR fears military build-up could create massive displacement (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR's concern on conditions for boat people in Lampedusa reception centre (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR helps Iraqi students achieve university dreams (UNHCR) - [text online]

Russia/Georgia: All Parties in August/South Ossetia Conflict Violated Laws of War (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

DRC: ICC’s First Trial Focuses on Child Soldiers (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UN assessing impact of Ugandan rebel violence on Congolese civilians (UN News) - [text online]

Human rights at heart of UN strategy to oppose terrorism, officials stress (UN News) - [text online]

Women essential to success of regional polls in Iraq, insists UN envoy (UN News) - [text online]

MOZAMBIQUE: Government repatriates Zimbabwe sex workers (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Passport fees leave a population going nowhere (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: Returning IDPs lack decent public services - NGOs (IRIN News) -[text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (22/01/2009)

Obama 'set to close Guantanamo' (BBC News) - [text online]

Congo troops bar UN and aid staff (BBC News) - [text online]

Hunger strike for Zimbabwe change (BBC News) - [text online]

Islam film Dutch MP to be charged (BBC News) - [text online]

Hamas leader urges West to talk (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel to probe phosphorus claims (BBC News) - [text online]

Rohingya migrants want to return (BBC News) - [text online]

President Obama's first call 'was to President Abbas' (The Times) - [text online]

Young? British? Muslim? Listen Up! (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Smugglers back at work in tunnels beneath Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Dutch MP to be tried for views on Islam (The Independent) - [text online]

Mandela's wife calls for Mugabe to step down (The Independent) - [text online]

Deborah Orr: Obama is right to tread warily over Guantanamo Bay (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: So far, Obama's missed the point on Gaza... (The Independent) - [text online]

Patrick Cockburn: In Israel, detachment from reality is now the norm (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.15 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: NGOs call for immediate and unhindered access for aid organizations into Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Explainer: Identity cards (The Guardian) - [text online]

The migration front line (The Guardian) - [text online]

Netherlands signs accord to use UNHCR Refworld research tool (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: unexploded munitions a threat to civilians and humanitarian work (ICRC) - [text online]

EUROPE: HELP CLOSE GUANTÁNAMO: Offer Humanitarian Protection to Detainees Who Risk Torture or Persecution at Home (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: African Leaders Should Intervene (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

US: Obama Expected to Order Guantanamo’s Closure (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Gaza Crisis: Regimes React with Routine Repression (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: End Detentions and Aid Restrictions (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: UNAMA raps new report by rights watchdog (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN expert on children welcomes US suspension of trials at Guantánamo (UN News) - [text online]

In wake of Gaza crisis, Ban urges ‘massive’ effort to resolve Arab-Israeli conflict (UN News) - [text online]

UN, African Union to ramp up deployment of peacekeepers in troubled Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

UN to embark on humanitarian assessment in post-conflict Gaza (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (21/01/2009)

Obama plea stops Guantanamo trial (BBC News) - [text online]

UN demands flow of goods to Gaza (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza rebuild 'to cost billions' (BBC News) - [text online]

Rwandan soldiers enter DR Congo (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenyan MPs to consider poll court (BBC News) - [text online]

Obama moves swiftly on Guantanamo (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza: 'I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls' (The Independent) - [text online]

Dialogue with Hamas is only path to peace, urges novelist (The Independent) - [text online]

Guidance on Profiling Internally Displaced Persons (IDMC) - [text online - English version]

UNHCR seeks access to 126 Muslim Rohingya boat people in Thailand (UNHCR) - [text online]

US: Obama Calls for 120-Day Halt to Guantanamo Military Commissions (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

USA: Move to suspend military tribunals a positive first step (Amnesty International) - [text online]

DRC: Governments launching offensives against armed groups must take precautions to avoid civilian casualties (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: massive devastation calls for vast humanitarian effort (ICRC) - [text online]

DRC: Rwandan operation "not welcomed" (IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Displaced Gazans seek shelter from the cold (IRIN News) - [text online]

DRC: Civilians suffer as Uganda takes on LRA (IRIN News) - [text online]

THAILAND: Government, Army to investigate claims of Rohingya abuse (IRIN News) - [text online]

Congolese displaced by Ugandan rebels to receive UN aid (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of news Headlines (20/01/2009).

Gaza rebuild 'to cost billions' (BBC News) - [text online]

Crucial Zimbabwe talks collapse (BBC News) - [text online]

Sharia police block women's rally (BBC News) - [text online]

Wide rifts on show at Arab summit (BBC News) - [text online]

Scale of Gaza destruction emerges (BBC News) - [text online]

Bush shoe man in Swiss asylum bid (BBC News) - [text online]

Thailand to tackle migrant claims (BBC News) - [text online]

British Muslims 'went on reconnaissance' for July 7 attacks (The Times) - [text online]

Gaza was demolished in three weeks. Rebuilding it will take years (The Independent) - [text online]

Black staff sacked by Refugee Council win discrimination case (The Independent) - [text online]

Church may ban BNP members (The Independent) - [text online]

The Big Question: Should the charge of 'institutional racism' in the police no longer apply? (The Independent) - [text online]

Gazans return to mourn their dead and salvage their lives (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: Posturing and laughter as victims rot (The Independent) - [text online]

Rafah, a landscape scarred by Israel's war (The Independent) - [text online]

'My daughters, they killed them': Doctor shows Israelis horror of war (The Independent) - [text online]

Hamas ceasefire brings uneasy peace to Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Capital divided by race is a symbol of Obama's task (The Independent) - [text online]

Untold stories lie buried in the rubble (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe: Talks are last chance for opposition (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Welcome but fragile, this ceasefire must be only a start (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn't it time for a war crimes tribunal? (The Independent) - [text online]

Mary Dejevsky: My walk on the racial front line in DC (The Independent) - [text online]

British Jews attacked for pro-Gaza solidarity (The Independent) - [text online]

Footballers win exemption from English tests (The Independent) - [text online]

'British handcuffs, the handcuffs of freedom'By Jeremy Seabrook (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Missteps on the LRA in Uganda (Enough Project) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 39, 15 Dec2008 - 15 Jan 2009 (text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Field Update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator 17 - 18 Jan 2009 as of 17:00 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.13 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UK Borders Act 2007 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Human Rights Act 1998 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (The Guardian) - [text online]

UK-Irish travellers to face passport checks (The Guardian) - [text online]

Thailand: UNHCR requests access to Rohingya boat people (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: Continuing LRA rampage displaces more Congolese (UNHCR) - [text online]

Greece's infrastructure struggles to cope with mixed migration flow (UNHCR) - [text online]

Fifteen drown in Gulf of Aden amid surge in people smuggling to Yemen (UNHCR) - [text online]

Thailand: Stop systematic torture in southern counter-insurgency (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: Civilians continue to suffer despite hopes for imminent cease-fire (ICRC) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: massive displacement of civilians amid escalating conflict (ICRC) - [text online]

DR Congo: LRA Slaughters 620 in ‘Christmas Massacres’ (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Immigration legal aid lawyer of the year is a children’s immigration specialist (Refugee Council) - [text online]

SUDAN: Western Equatoria struggling with influx of refugees and IDPs (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ-SYRIA: Slow resettlement for Palestinian-Iraqi refugees (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: UN warns of humanitarian catastrophe if Darfur fighting continues (IRIN News) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: Rising concerns over thousands trapped in conflict areas (IRIN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe receives $5 million boost from UNICEF in fight against cholera outbreak (UN News) - [text online]

Envoy hails progress in UN-backed talks to halt violence in eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

With 30,000 civilians at risk, UN urges halt to renewed clashes in South Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

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