News Stories (14/05/08)

Thai premier in Burma aid talks (BBC News) - [text online]

Longer terror limit 'unnecessary' (BBC News) - [text online]

Sudan want rebels on terror list (BBC News) - [text online]

Somali sides urged to find peace (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel may ease grip in Tony Blair deal revive West Bank (The Times) - [text online]

Europe's most racist fans come to Britain (and there's not a black player in sight) (The Independent) - [text online]

Burmese junta accused of hoarding food aid and handing out rotten rice (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe's Revenge: Halting the Violence in Zimbabwe (Enough Project) - [text online]

Kyrgyzstan: Do Not Return Asylum Seeker to Uzbekistan (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Sudan: Mass Arrests After Rebel Attack Raise Concern (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Roadmap to Autocracy: Burma’s Referendum is a Sham (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 9 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]. For Maps on Cyclone Nargis and Myanmar:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.nsf/doc404?OpenForm&emid=TC-2008-000057-MMR&rc=3

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Tajikistan: Compound crisis OCHA Situation Report No. 8 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: UN SG 'deeply disappointed' at continuing violence in Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Displaced and stranded in need of food, shelter, medicine, water as responders reach more affected by Cyclone Nargis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Violence affects aid work, UN wants government to assess (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: To air drop aid or not? (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

More than 300 Kenyan refugees return home from Uganda (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR shelter supplies reach Yangon by air, road (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Denmark's Crown Princess Mary visits UNHCR headquarters (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Security Council slates weekend attacks by Darfur rebels near Sudanese capital (UN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: UN voices concern over politically-motivated violence (UN News) - [text online]

UN official welcomes new economic measures to help Palestinians (UN News) - [text online]

Ban Ki-moon ‘deeply disappointed’ at continuing violence in Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: UN says violence affecting aid, wants to assess (IRIN News) - [text online]

Bosnian Croat commander jailed by UN tribunal to serve time in Italy (UN News) - [text online]

Myanmar faces second catastrophe without more access for aid – UN (UN News) - [text online]

MYANMAR-THAILAND: Migrants rally to help at home (IRIN News) - [text online]

Refugees can resume returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan – UN (UN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: Government negligent in tackling human displacement - MP (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN refugee chief to head to Yemen (UN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Govt raises funds, resettlement ongoing despite hitches (IRIN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

Posted in: News.

Refugee Archives at UEL: Saturday Openings.

Just a quick reminder that the Archive will be open this coming Saturday from 10am-5pm. The current dates in question are listed below:

Saturday 26 April 2008: 10am-5pm

Saturday 10 May 2008: 10am-5pm

Saturday 7 June 2008: 10am-5pm

If you would like this last Saturday to be switched, then do please let me know via e-mail on p.v.dudman@uel.ac.uk or 020 8223 7676 or just pop in and let me know. Any feedback on this matter will also be very much appreciated and will help in the planning for the opening hours over the summer and for next semester.

As a consequence of working these Saturdays, I will be taking some time off in lieu. This will mean that I will be out of the office all day on the Fridays listed below:

Friday 25 April 2008 (all day).

Friday 2 May 2008 (all day).

Friday 9 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 16 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 23 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 20 June 2008 (all day)

Friday 27 June 2008 (all day)

Posted in: News and Archives & Libraries.

News Stories (13/05/08)

Search for China quake survivors (BBC News) - [text online]

UN frustrated at Burma response (BBC News) - [text online]

US court allows apartheid claims (BBC News) - [text online]

Horta wants UN to stay in E Timor (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma: disease fears realised in cyclone aftermath (The Times) - [text online]

First US aid flight arrives in Burma as new storm looms (The Independent) - [text online]

Frantic search for thousands trapped by Chinese quake (The Independent) - [text online]

Al-Sadr ceasefire allows troops to enter Shia slum (The Independent) - [text online]

Opinion divided over air drops (The Independent) - [text online]

Pole who saved 2,500 children from the Nazis dies (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Note on Emergencies: Latin America & The Caribbean - Year 2, Issue 56 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Kenya: OCHA Situation Report No. 1 - Focus on Karamoja, 01 Jan - 30 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Schools can do more to help refugee children integrate - a new report by the Refugee Council (Refugee Council) - [text online]. For a copy of the report go to: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/inclusiveschools

RC highlights independent support for right to work (Refugee Council) - [text online]. You can access the report here - http://www.vulnerableworkers.org.uk/files/CoVE_short_report.pdf

Launch of 'Let them work' (Refugee Council) - [text online]

China: Official at quake epicenter appeals for emergency aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Uganda: Humanitarian community concerned by forced removal of lone children from Kampala streets (reliefWeb) - [text online]

Lebanon: Aid agencies hampered by threat of further violence (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar pipeline opening up - IFRC (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Aid airlifts land, government now opens to UN to distribute relief goods (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Rebel raid stirs possible war with Chad (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR trucks arrive in Yangon with shelter aid for 10,000 people (UNHCR Press Release) - [text online]

Myanmar: UNHCR airlift, trucks reach Yangon with shelter supplies (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

High Commissioner mission to Yemen (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: Call for food aid from conflict-hit Helmand Province (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Watermelons, conflict and climate change (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN Closes Afghan Refugee Centre (Afghanistan Conflict Monitor) - [text online]

UN agency suspends returns of Afghan refugees (UN News) - [text online]

Talks begin between Somali Government and opposition group – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

Posted in: News

News Stories (12/05/08)

Serbian reformers claim victory (BBC News) - [text online]

Tough talks loom after Serb polls (BBC News) - [text online]

US aid flight takes off for Burma (BBC News) - [text online]

Islamist arrested for Sudan raid (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe police arrest activists (BBC News) - [text online]

UN allowed to deliver Burma cyclone aid (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Sudan cuts ties with Chad after Darfur rebels reach Khartoum (The Times) - [text online]

Tightening of immigration laws means farmers face losing 50,000 tonnes of fruit (The Independent) - [text online]

Burma's towns face refugee crisis alone as aid piles up (The Independent) - [text online]

'Ghost city' Mosul braces for assault on last bastion of al-Qa'ida in Iraq (The Independent) - [text online]

Rebel raid prompts Sudan to break off Chad relations (The Independent) - [text online]

Run-off Zimbabwe vote will be delaye (The Independent) - [text online]

Tadic claims victory for pro-Europeans in Serbian elections (The Independent) - [text online]

Minister calls for immigration curbs (The Independent) - [text online]

Inside Zimbabwe's secret torture camps (The Sunday Telegraph) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : RDC:Population movements in eastern DR Congo-January/March 08 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update, 21 Apr - 09 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 23 - 29 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 18, 1 - 9 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Rebel raid stirs possible war with Chad (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Aid falls far short of urgent needs, say relief groups (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Yemen: 100,000 people affected by rebellion in the north - ICRC (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: What's next after rebel attack on the capital? (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: Emergency aid to be delivered to Sadr City (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Cyclone response and assessments ongoing; critical needs in food,
water, sanitation, shelter, fuel and medicines (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Egypt: Investigate Beating of ‘Facebook’ Activist (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UN food agency steps up aid to cyclone-stricken Myanmar (UN News) - [text online]

MYANMAR: Aid reaching only a fraction of those in need - government names relief "partners" (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: Residents, NGOs welcome Sadr City truce (IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL: Dozens of refugee children outside school system (IRIN News) - [text online]

Ban Ki-moon sounds alarm on violence in outskirts of Sudanese capital (UN News) - [text online]

UN Peacebuilding Commission delegation kicks off visit to Burundi (UN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (10/05/08)

Burma votes amid cyclone aid row (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma shuns foreign aid workers (BBC News) - [text online]

Army seeks Senegal ear-choppers (BBC News) - [text online]

Widower loses fight to stay in UK (BBC News) - [text online]

Get tough with Burma, says Clegg (BBC News) - [text online]

Militias 'to rig Zimbabwe poll' (BBC News) - [text online]

'Fifty killed' in Burundi clashes (BBC News) - [text online]

Afghans meet to restore dialogue (BBC News) - [text online]

Bangladesh aid arrives in Burma (BBC News) - [text online]

Gangmaster defends worker claims (BBC News) - [text online]

UN launches appeal as Burma refuses aid (Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

US threatens military aid drops as Burma leaders stall (The Times) - [text online]

While the people plead for food, the junta is handing out TV sets (The Independent) - [text online]

Radical Muslim cleric with links to Bin Laden is freed on bail (The Independent) - [text online]

A New Peace Strategy for Northern Uganda and the LRA (Enough Project) - [text online]

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

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : DRC Pooled Fund Annual Report 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Burundi: Why peace remains elusive (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan Consortium: Donor countries pledge a total of USD 4.8 billion (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

New report says Islamophobia warps integration efforts (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Tribalism and Powellism infuse TV series (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Nigerians in the UK urge boycott of British Airways (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Filipino loses right to stay after wife dies in NHS blunder (The Guardian) - [text online]

'There has been an intensive effort to deport about 20 terror suspects' (The Guardian) - [audio online]

High court orders release of radical preacher Qatada (The Guardian) - [text online]

Islamist preacher Qatada granted bail (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR sends land aid convoy to Myanmar, airlift from Dubai starts (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR relief supplies on the move to Myanmar (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Romania to set up evacuation transit centre for refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR seeks donor help amid funding shortfall for Iraq operation (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UK: Missed Chance to Charge Sri Lankan Rights Abuser (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Linking Climate Change and Forced Migration (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Southern Chad relatively stable despite influx of refugees, says UN (UN News) - [text online]

BURUNDI: Fighting displaces 20,000 (IRIN News) - [text online]

Romania: evacuation transit centre to be created – UN refugee agency (UN News) - [text online]

Denmark a leader on combating torture, but UN expert has some concerns (UN News) - [text online]

UN appeals for $187 million to aid Myanmar cyclone victims (UN News) - [text online]

Djibouti to work with UN to eliminate female genital mutilation (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: UN, AU envoys alarmed by violence between Government and rebels (UN News) - [text online]

Money running out for Iraqi refugee crisis, warns UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Hunger drives post-election violence, deepens poverty (IRIN News) - [text online]

SENEGAL: Stéphanie Malak, Senegal, "I'd love to return to my village... but I don't dare" (IRIN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

Posted in: News.

Lecture by Lord Charles Guthrie on war and its consequences on 27th May 2008

A lecture by Lord Charles Guthrie on war and its consequences

at Queen Mary, University of London, 6:30 – 7:45pm on 27^th May 2008

Thank you for confirming your attendance at this event. If you requested to bring a guest, they have also been added to the attendee list.

We look forward to seeing you in the Mason lecture theatre at Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. Registration will be at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start. The event will finish around 7:45pm.

For more information about accessibility, please see the attached map and directions, or visit the Queen Mary website: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus/mileend/index.html.

Yours sincerely

Geoff Mulgan Professor Peter Hennessy

Director Director

The Young Foundation Mile End Group

Posted in: News.

Refugee Council: Training & Conferences

OUR CURRENT SCHEDULED TRAINING COURSES ARE:

• Emotional wellbeing of refugee children and young people [8 May]

• Key issues in asylum [23 June]

• An introduction to asylum support [24 June]

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EXTERNAL CONFERENCE NEWS

Why am I waiting? A conference from the British Association for Adoption & Fostering examining care for BME children, 15 May, London
Information and booking from: www.baaf.org.uk, conferences@baaf.org.uk

Posted in: News.