Nato urged to end Afghan transfer (BBC News) - [text online]
Zimbabwean dies queuing for visa (BBC News) - [text online]
UN calls for Burma reconciliation (BBC News) - [text online]
Egypt 'denies minority beliefs' (BBC News) - [text online]
Dromey: politicians are 'demonising' migrants (The Independent) - [text online]
Starved to death: migrant's tragic story highlights plight of Zimbabwean refugees (The Independent) - [text online]
Khmer Rouge minister and his wife to face genocide charges (The Independent) - [text online]
Holocaust train sets off to tell the story of Auschwitz (The Independent) - [text online]
Smith to brief MPs over illegal workers row (The Guardian) - [text online]
UNHCR rushes supplies to fire-gutted camp in Nepal (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UNHCR and partners battle cholera in North Kivu camps (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Zimbabwe: EU to scale up aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Somalia: UN, NGOs to share views on addressing current situation (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Iraq: Refugees forced home as funds dry up (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Too many states not on course to meet clearance deadlines - Landmine
Monitor 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
News Stories (13/11/07)
Monday, 12 November 2007
Conferences, Publications and Other News
Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog: List of new online publications available at: http://fm-pubs.blogspot.com/
Publications listed include:
Asylum Rights Watch: Summary of responses June – September 2007 (Asylum Aid, Oct. 2007) [text]
Researching the Legal Aspects of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom (GlobaLex, Nov. 2007) [text]
Other Publications of Note:
Refugee Heritage Project - Report on the London Museums Hub Project to record refugee heritage 2004-2006: available online via the MLA web site at: http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/renaissance/index.cfm?NavigationID=364
Conference News:
Details of the following conferences have been found on the Welcome To Your Library Email list:
http://www.lga.gov.uk/Event.asp?lsection=46&id=SXB7C6-A7846A72
Older Refugees: from isolation to integration
Wed 09 Jan 2008, City Hall, London
This conference will focus on the issues, challenges and service needs of older refugees and asylum-seekers, concluding the Older Refugees Programme - a 2-year initiative, funded by Lloyds TSB, between Age Concern England, the Refugee Council, Age Concern London and the Greater London Association of Older Women (AGLOW). To register your interest in attending this conference, please email refugees@ace.org.uk or call 020 8765 7523.
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Events/RefugeeMuseums.htm
These issues significantly affect museums’ policy and approaches: participation, curatorial decisions, collecting strategies, partnerships, approaches to programming, as well as shared decision making in collaborative exhibitions and public events. See weblink above for the questions that the conference will seek to address and further details.
Other News
Migration Bibliography: Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Consortium have created a new section on their website providing links to reports and research relating to new migrants in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Further details can be found on the web site at: http://www.refugeeaccess.info/default.asp?step=2&id=54
Asylum Aid: have recently launched their new and updated web site and this can be found at: http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/index.php
News Stories (12/11/07)
5,000 illegal workers in security (BBC News) - [text online]
Talks fail to end Sudan stand-off (BBC News) - [text online]
Somalis flee Mogadishu fighting (BBC News) - [text online]
Terror detention 'longest' in UK (BBC News) - [text online]
UN rights envoy enters Burma (The Independent) - [text online]
Imagine: a shortage of Polish plumbers (The Guardian) - [text online]
Thousands of illegal migrants in security jobs (The Guardian) - [text online]
Facing deportation - over 87p an hour (The Guardian) - [text online]
Last family leaves camp for displaced in Kosovo (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Conditions deteriorate for 2,000 Palestinians stuck at Iraq-Syria border - [text online]
Iraq: Landmine Impact Survey 2004 - 2006 (Reliefweb) - [text online]
United States humanitarian assistance for displaced Iraqis (Reliefweb) - [text online]
Situation remains unstable for Palestinian refugees at the Iraq-Syria
border (Reliefweb) - [text online]
DRC: UNHCR has stepped up its efforts to combat cholera in North Kivu camps (Reliefweb) - [text online]
UN TRIES TO RESETTLE PALESTINIANS TRAPPED IN REFUGEE CAMPS ON IRAQI-SYRIAN BORDER (UN News) - [text online]
Friday, 9 November 2007
News Stories (09/11/07)
Sudan defends expulsion of UN man (BBC News) - [text online]
Massage adverts to be withdrawn - sex trafficking (BBC News) - [text online]
Refugee child rights action urged (BBC News) - [text online]
Sri Lanka in false UK visa report (BBC News ) - [text online]
Slave's son who inspired the Chartists gets credit at last (The Independent) - [text online]
Cost of biometric passport 'over £100' (The Independent) - [text online]
ReliefWeb/
ReliefWeb/
Poland's growth will draw migrants home, says bank (The Guardian) - [text online]
Last family leaves camp for displaced in Kosovo (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UNHCR fits Malawi's refugees into one camp (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UNHCR picks up Freedom Award for its global work (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Top UNHCR official in Sudan to review operations (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Thursday, 8 November 2007
UNHCR Online Game and Other News Items
1) Refugee game offers fear, flight and safety – one click at a time. The UNHCR has just launched an English language version of their Against All Odds online game. The game is designed to be of educational value and is primarily aimed at schoolchildren. Further background information can be found in this UNHCR News Story released today and the game itself is available online at: http://www.playagainstallodds.com/
2) The UNHCR has also recently launched two online publications via the UNHCR website (www.unhcr.org) which may be of relevance to researchers and students. The first is entitled "Asylum in the European Union. A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive (November 2007) and this is available to download from: [by clicking here]; the second publication is entitled "UNHCR Position on the Situation of Asylum in Ukraine in the Context of Return of Asylum-Seekers October 2007" and again, this is available to download: [by clicking here].
3) Australia. Austcare (The Australian Humanitarian Aid NGO) has recently launched its latest annual report for the year 2006-07. This can be viewed on the Austcare website at: http://www.austcare.org.au/aboutus/annual-reports.aspx along with a brief online video highlighting the range of Austcare's programs over the last year.
4) Refugees International have just released a number of policy recommendations and fact sheets relating to the exodus of refugees from Zimbabwe. Download a .pdf of these policy recommendations and fact sheets.
News Stories (08/11/07)
'Hundreds held' in Bhutto raids (BBC News) - [text online]
Emergency in Georgia after unrest (BBC News) - [text online]
UN official expelled from Darfur (BBC News) - [text online]
Chadians charged over kidnapping (BBC News) - [text online]
Gambari 'to meet Burma's Suu Kyi' (BBC News) - [text online]
MPs savage plan to double terror detention time limit (The Independent) - [text online]
Local Tories campaign for MP who backed Powell (The Independent) - [text online]
Heroine of the struggle against apartheid celebrates 90th birthday (The Independent) - [text online]
Trial opens of Serb 'who gave ethnic cleansing to world' (The Independent) - [text online]
UN refugee agency releases computer game in English (UN News) - [text online]
UN expert warns that racism is increasingly manifest as violence (UN News) - [text online]
Italy and Romania urge EU help with migrants (EU Observer) - [text online]
£28m cost of asylum centre that never was (The Guardian) - [text online]
Refugee game offers fear, flight and safety – one click at a time (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Refugees in South African city tell UNHCR they need help (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
News Stories (07/11/07)
Police may get post-charge powers (BBC News) - [text online]
Serbia war crimes tribunal opens (BBC News) - [text online]
African migrants die in Atlantic (BBC News) - [text online]
Rwanda victim inspires Telegraph readers (The Telegraph) - [text online]
Rwanda: Legacy of genocide (Telegraph Magazine) - [text online]
When will Tories admit that Enoch was right? (The Telegraph) - [text online]
Government proposes citizenship and immigration bill (The Guardian) - [text online]
Refugee religious leaders review HIV-AIDS approach (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Bhutan's refugees to be resettled from Nepal within months (UNHCR News) - [text online]
UNHCR study finds inconsistency in EU on asylum (UNHCR News) - [text online]
(Link to the UNHCR Report - Asylum in the European Union: A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive)
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