News Stories (31/01/08)

Kenya overshadows African summit (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenya violence prompts US to review its aid (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights(The Independent) - [text online]

Family who fled torture in Kenya to be deported (The Independent) - [text online]

New police powers 'victimise minorities' (The Independent) - [text online]

Lebanon: The Winograd Report in full (The Independent) - [text online]

Suu Kyi critical of Burma junta talks (The Independent) - [text online]

UNHCR hands over camp infrastructure to Guinea government (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Voluntarily repatriation of Congolese hits 50,000 mark (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR welcomes draft Irish asylum bill (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Colombia: IDP Response Requires Greater Local Action and Accountability (Refugees International) - [text online]

Kenya: Camps overflow as post-election violence worsens (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Children increasingly suffering from the consequences of armed conflict - SRSG report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Security Council discusses latest violence engulfing Kenya (UN News) - [text online]

Secretary-General, Sudan agree to speed up deployment of peacekeeping force (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/

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News Stories (30/01/08)

UK paying for 'migrant baby boom' (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenya parties to begin mediation (BBC News) - [text online]

Australia apology to Aborigines (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma 'acting on child soldiers' (BBC News) - [text online]

Turkish MPs plan headscarf reform (BBC News) - [text online]

Egyptians host Gaza rivals talks (BBC News) - [text online]

UN fails to agree Gaza statement (BBC News) - [text online]

Afghan women stage rare protest (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenya stares into the abyss as post-election violence spirals out of control (The Times) - [text online]

Helicopters strafe Kenya's mobs as talks begin (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Nigerian family loses claim for review of asylum case (The Independent) - [text online]

Bradman keeps his place in Australian citizenship test (The Independent) - [text online]

Myanmar junta charges leading protesters (The Independent) - [text online]

Erdogan moves to ease ban on wearing of Muslim scarf (The Independent) - [text online]

UNHCR appeals for US$90 million to help internally displaced people (UNHCR News) - [text online]

First Mauritanian refugees return home after 20-year exile (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned about latest violence in Kenya’s Rift Valley (UNHCR News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Gaza Closure Situation Report, 29 Jan 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update nol 2, 21 - 28 Jan 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: UN reports sharp deterioration in security, humanitarian situation (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Mauritania-Senegal: First refugees returning from Senegal get mixed welcome (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Child trafficking: UN SG report highlights risks to children in IDP and refugee camps, impact of armed conflict (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Rwanda: World must protect civilians from genocide, says Ban Ki-moon at genocide memorial (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Burma's government tightens its grip on international aid agencies (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraqi footballer refused work permit (Daily Express) - [text online]

NHS paying for migrant baby boom (Daily Express) - [text online]

DRC: Cautious welcome for Kivu peace deal (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

Child recruitment continues in over one dozen countries, reports Ban Ki-moon (UN News) - [text online]

Kenya: UN reports sharp deterioration in security, humanitarian situation (UN News) - [text online]

In Rwanda, Ban Ki-moon says world must protect civilians from genocide (UN News) - [text online]

New UN exhibit pays tribute to those who rescued Jews during Holocaust (UN News) - [text online]

Independent Asylum Commission begins large scale citizens consultation (Refugee Council) - [text online]

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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/

News Stories (29/01/08)

MP's killing sparks Kenyan unrest (BBC News) - [text online]

EU launches Chad protection force (BBC News) - [text online]

New wave of violence spreads across Kenya (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenya: 'They killed our people, so now we will do likewise. We are just revenging' (The Independent) - [text online]

Kenyan opposition MP shot dead (The Independent) - [text online]

French charity workers jailed and repatriated (The Independent) - [text online]

Congo clashes break ceasefire peace deal (The Independent) - [text online]

Darfur: Time to Uphold the Arms Embargo (Refugees International) - [text online]

Myanmar: Karen refugees a long way from home (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Violence paralyses western towns as political crisis deepens (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Ceasefire broken, rebels and militia clash (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Gazan exodus to Egypt slows (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste Natural Disasters OCHA Situation Report No. 1 - 25 Jan 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 09 - 15 Jan 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

It's a long way from Myanmar for Karen refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Hundreds flee armed raids in Central African Republic (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Soft Touch Britain (Daily Express) - [text online]

Parents of 'Fagin's children' in UK (Daily Express) - [text online]

Polish migrants living in Britain claiming £21m in child benefits for children left behind (Daily Mail) - [text online]

KENYA: IDP children falling through protection cracks (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN officials hold talks with Sudan on deployment of Darfur peacekeepers (UN News) - [text online]

UN genocide adviser urges end to violence in Kenya, sends staffer there (UN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Camps offer little refuge from rapes (UN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (28/01/08)

Police face riots in west Kenya (BBC News) - [text online]

Egypt watches Gaza traffic go on (BBC News) - [text online]

Dozens die as broadcasts stoke Kenya tension (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Children for sale: UK's new slave trade (The Sunday Telegraph) - [text online]

Return to Fallujah (The Independent) - [text online]

Asylum-seekers awaiting EU court ruling on detention (The Independent) - [text online]

Rift Valley clashes claim 19 lives as Annan makes moves to end crisis (The Independent) - [text online]

Thousands face 'forced evacuation' in Mozambique (The Independent) - [text online]

Turkey divided over headscarf ban decision (The Independent) - [text online]

Student protest halts family's deportation (The Guardian) - [text online]

Forced from the UK, dying in pain - still she thanks Britain's people (The Guardian) - [text online]

Judge attacks home secretary over unlawful detention (The Guardian) - [text online]

Q&A: UNHCR archivists manage more than 50 years of records (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR resumes repatriation of Congolese in Republic of Congo (UNHCR News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UNHCR cautiously welcomes North Kivu peace deal (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN refugee agency resumes cross-river repatriation from ROC (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Senegal: Lack of basics blocks return of war-weary displaced (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

CAR: First IDP site opens in Kabo as number of displaced continues to grow (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Britain's top black police officer: 'We are struggling to cope with immigrant crime wave' (Daily Mail) - [text online]

Migrants send our crime rate soaring (Daily Express) - [text online]

Immigration `stretches police cash' (Daily Express) - [text online]

Iraqi Refugees: Reasons to Hope (Refugees International World:bridge Blog) - [text online]

Holocaust Remembrance Day is a time to teach tolerance - Ban Ki-moon (UN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: Defence ministry asks IDPs to evacuate former military base (IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Nakuru residents join displaced camp in their own town as violence erupts (IRIN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (25/01/08)

Army detainee training 'flawed' (BBC News) - [text online]

Egypt moves to seal Gaza border (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenyan rivals meet face-to-face (BBC News) - [text online]

Western powers make Burma appeal (BBC News) - [text online]

Kosovo's independence 'in days' (BBC News) - [text online]

Terror detention plans unveiled (BBC News) - [text online]

The British have made matters worse, says Afghan President (The Times) - [text online]

Open border is Israel's chance to lose responsibility for Gaza, says minister (The Independent) - [text online]

Clash of cultures: the screaming minarets of Oxford (The Independent) - [text online]

Home Office warns Smith on detention (The Independent) - [text online]

Netherlands braced for Muslim anger as politician releases 'anti-Islam' film (The Independent) - [text online]

Western demand drains Philippines of 85 per cent of its trained nurses (The Independent) - [text online]

Rivals in talks to end crisis in Kenya (The Independent) - [text online]

Farewell, Udach' Kuqax*a'a'ch, the last native speaker of Eyak (The Independent) - [text online]

UNHCR cautiously welcomes North Kivu peace deal (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR reaches the neediest in Kenyan countryside (UNHCR News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Kenyan refugees in Uganda OCHA Situation Report No. 5 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Gaza Closure Situation Report, 18-24 Jan 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Revealed: How Romanian pickpocket gangs are building palaces back home on the back of child slaves (Daily Mail) - [text online]

Scandal of Britain's Romanian Gangsters (Daily Express) - [text online]

Human Rights Council calls for end to Israeli restrictions on Gaza Strip (UN News) - [text online]

NIGERIA: Poverty and poor education behind child trafficking - govt (IRIN News) - [text online]

SENEGAL: Lack of basics blocks return of war-weary displaced (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN agency relocates Kenyan refugees in Uganda (UN News) - [text online]

Resources for Health-related Research (Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog) - [text online]

UK: New Counterterrorism Bill Endangers Basic Rights (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Rollercoaster ride on ESOL provision (Refugee Council PoliBlog) - [text online]

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News Stories (24/01/08)

Kenyan crisis talks gather pace (BBC News) - [text online]

Eastern Congo peace deal signed (BBC News) - [text online]

UNDP 'exploited by North Korea' (BBC News) - [text online]

Pressure on Gaza's border mounts (BBC News) - [text online]

Terror law plans to be unveiled (BBC News) - [text online]

Freedom for Gaza (but for one day only) (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: A lesson in how to create Iraqi orphans. And then how to make life worse for them (The Independent) - [text online]

We won't force them back, say Egyptians (The Independent) - [text online]

Tsvangirai vows to keep up pressure on Mugabe regime (The Independent) - [text online]

Nepal: Security Council decides to extend UN mission for 6 months (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Palestinians blow up border wall, flood into Egypt (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Militias reach "historic" peace deal (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nansen Award winner opens new hospital in Burundi (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR helps Nicaragua interview 49 asylum seekers (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR relocates Kenyan refugees in Uganda (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Humanitarian situation in Gaza still difficult, says UN relief agency (UN News) - [text online]

Conditions worsen in Kenya with more than 1 dozen killed in past day – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Surge of bandit attacks jeopardizes food rations to Darfur – UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

1.3m Poles arrived in Britain last year (Daily Express) - [text online]

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News Stories (23/01/08)

Britons' ID cards 'to be delayed' (BBC News) - [text online]

Gazans flood through Egypt border (BBBC News) - [text online]

Kenya sued over police 'crimes' (BBC News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Afghanistan: Severe winter conditions in western regions (Herat, Farah, Badghis, Ghor) OCHA Situation Report No. 2 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Situation report: Kenya post electoral violence ? covering 14 - 20 Jan 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : The Humanitarian Monitor Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 20, Jan 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Central African Republic: First IDP camp opens as number of displaced grows (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Electoral violence - Over 2,000 IDPs in medical camps (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: The displaced just want peace (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Displaced in Darfur - a generation of anger - Amnesty report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report: 1 - 31 Dec 2007UNHCR prepares to evacuate 300 urban refugees from Nairobi (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Trauma survey in Syria highlights suffering of Iraqi refugee (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR launches partnership with Spanish sports giant, FC Barcelona (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Threats force 2,000 Colombians to flee from countryside (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UN voices concern as first camp opens for displaced Central Africans (UN News) - [text online]

Top UN official spotlights spike in sexual violence during Kenyan crisis (UN News) - [text online]

1 in 5 Iraqi refugees in Syria suffered torture or violence back home – UN report (UN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (22/01/08)

East DR Congo peace deal 'agreed' (BBC News) - [text online]

Amnesty presses for Darfur action (BBC News) - [text online]

Refugee link to wildlife decline (BBC News) - [text online]

Extremists turn attention to Muslim women (The Telegraph) - [text online]

International aid workers are increasingly at risk (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: UN refugee agency delivers 100 tonnes of aid supplies (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Judge frees three Algerians from detention limbo (The Guardian) - [text online]

KENYA: Spreading the word of hate (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN peacekeeping chief, Sudanese officials set for talks on Darfur force (IRIN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (22/01/08)

East DR Congo peace deal 'agreed' (BBC News) - [text online]

Amnesty presses for Darfur action (BBC News) - [text online]

Refugee link to wildlife decline (BBC News) - [text online]

Extremists turn attention to Muslim women (The Telegraph) - [text online]

International aid workers are increasingly at risk (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: UN refugee agency delivers 100 tonnes of aid supplies (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Judge frees three Algerians from detention limbo (The Guardian) - [text online]

KENYA: Spreading the word of hate (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN peacekeeping chief, Sudanese officials set for talks on Darfur force (IRIN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (21/01/08)

Many dead in fresh Kenya unrest (BBC News) - [text online]

'Janjaweed leader' is Sudan aide (BBC News) - [text online]

Vigil as family face deportation (BBC News) - [text online]

UN transformation proposed to create 'new world order' (The Independent) - [text online]

Police halt Mia Farrow's genocide protest (The Independent) - [text online]

What happened to ... Comfort Adefowoju (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigrant jailed for funding £4m property empire with benefits (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR to start repatriating Mauritanians from late January (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Chartered jumbo jet flies UNHCR aid to Kenya (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Q&A: Speaking from experience (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Central African Republic: 300,000 now displaced by conflict, insecurity Source : UN News Service (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Colombia: Concern growing over thousands of displaced people (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: With growing acknowledgement of humanitarian crisis, access becomes key issue (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 02 - 08 Jan 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Demonstrations in Nairobi disrupt aid operations (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Yemen: Calls for humanitarian aid as hundreds are displaced by renewed clashes (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

PAKISTAN: Trafficking of children on the rise (IRIN News) - [text online]

UAE: Meetings Should Address Migrant Workers’ Rights (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

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News Stories (18/01/08)

Kenya braced for further protests (BBC News) - [text online]

UN raps Burma's 'slow progress' (BBC News) - [text online]

Rwanda 'still teaching genocide' (BBC News) - [text online]

Tabo Mbeki flies in as Zimbabwe peacemaker (The Times) - [text online]

Tackling 'terror Svengalis' on web a priority (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Brown accused of ignoring human rights on visit to China (The Independent) - [text online]

Kenyan opposition leader threatens to call general strike (The Independent) - [text online]

World Bank under pressure to withdraw aid until resolution found (The Independent) - [text online]

Government stands by its 42-day limit for locking up terror suspects (The Independent) - [text online]

Elderly refugees struggle to integrate in Slovenia (UNHCR News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Burundi Weekly Humanitarian News 07 - 13 Jan 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Conflict in Central African Republic uproots 300,000, UN reports (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UN envoy’s return to Myanmar could spur further progress, says Security Council (UN News) - [text online]

Sudan releases eight Darfur rebels into UN custody (UN News) - [text online]

Colombian refugees in Ecuador receive small business aid from UN (UN News) - [text online]

Kenyan post-election violence displaces over 100,000 children – UNICEF (UN News) -[text online]

Libya: Summary Deportations Would Endanger Migrants and Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Refugee Law Reader - The fourth edition of the Refugee Law Reader is now available (Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog) - [text online]

Posted In: News.

News Stories (17/01/08)

Smith targets internet extremism (BBC News) - [text online]

Clashes as Kenya marches continue (BBC News) - [text online]

Agencies see good year for Iraq (BBC News) - [text online]

Visa row patient starts dialysis (BBC News) - [text online]

Russia warns Kosovo faces limbo (BBC News) - [text online]

Two killed as riot police open fire on anti-Kibaki protesters (The Telegraph) - [text online]

East Europe migrants take 1% of social housing, says report (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR rewards the entrepreneurial flair of refugees in Ecuador (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Colombia: Rebel combat said to displace 2,000 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: UN, AU envoys meet with key Darfur rebel alliance (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UN requests $42 million to assist in violence-torn Kenya (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Disaster preparedness in East Africa and the Great Lakes - Analysis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

No agreement reached on Kosovo’s future status in Security Council (UN News) - [text online]

Gender issues in UN peacekeeping focus of New York gathering (UN News) - [text online]

Putting protection first (Refugee Council PoliBlog) - [text online]

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News Stories (16/01/08)

US fears Europe-based terrorism (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenyan police fire warning shots (BBC News) - [text online]

'No U-turn' in cancer woman row (BBC News) - [text online]

Democrats set aside race dispute (BBC News) - [text online]

MP defends removing cancer woman (BBC News) - [text online]

Is it any wonder people are fleeing London? (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Footballer Al Bangura saved from deportation in extra time (The Times) - [text online]

Speaker's election victory boosts Kenyan opposition (The Independent) - [text online]

Doctors rebel over plan to prevent treatment for failed asylum-seekers (The Independent) - [text online]

Hundreds of seriously ill people deported every year (The Independent) - [text online]

Anger in Austria after politician brands Mohamed a 'child abuser' (The Independent) - [text online]

Immigration chief defends deportation of cancer patient (The Guardian) - [text online]

Hain incompetence requires only an apology, says Brown (includes news on immigration) (The Guardian) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq humanitarian update - Issue no. 1, Dec 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Budget cuts at Thai-Burmese border (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: Ceasefire ending, UN human rights chief urges respect for law (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Mozambique floods displace 57,000 people (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Colombia: US$20 million to combat conscription of minors into illegal armed groups - IOM (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Roma refugees see music as their route to self-reliance (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR launches second aid distribution in Kenya (UNHCR News) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: Winter aggravates IDP hardships (IRIN News) - [test online]

ZIMBABWE/UK: No welcome mat for asylum seekers (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN dispatches more aid as Kenya crisis continues (UN News) - [text online]

Military leaders of Sudan and UN-AU Darfur force discuss deployment (UN News) - [text online]

Over 500,000 people displaced in DR Congo last year, says UN (UN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence (IRIN News) - [text online]

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News Stories (15/01/08)

Kenyan MPs poised for stand-off (BBC News) - [text online]

Mugabe faces rival inside party (BBC News) - [text online]

African flood 'catastrophe' fear (BBC News) - [text online]

End death by stoning, Iran urged (BBC News) - [text online]

Footballer Al Bangura saved from deportation in extra time (The Times) - [text online]

'White flight' increasing, race chief says (The Telegraph) - [text online]

John Simpson: The abject poverty in a country where everyone is a millionaire (The Independent) - [text online]

Democrat contest tainted by allegations of racial politicking (The Independent) - [text online]

Kenyan minister rejects UN offer (The Independent) - [text online]

Serbians prepare plan for Kosovo (The Independent) - [text online]

ID cards for foreigners within three years (The Guardian) - [text online]

Footballer is saved from threat of deportation (The Guardian) - [text online]

Students benefit from UNHCR internship in Cyprus (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UN refugee agency calls for Thailand to release Lao Hmong refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Somalia: UN rushes aid as security situation deteriorates (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: As death toll rises, Ban Ki-moon calls for urgent solution to crisis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Chad: Dual peacekeeping mission seeks to dispell confusion (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nepal: Over US$104m in assistance needed in 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]
ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: NGO Micro Grant Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund Bulletin No. 4 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Population movements in Eastern DR Congo, Sept - Dec 2007 - Issue No. 3 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA-oPt protection of civilians summary data tables: Reports to the end of Dec 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Southern Africa: IFRC warns of potential disastrous flood crisis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan "bombs" Darfur rebels as violence hampers aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Violence subsides but families remain displaced (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Burundi: Thousands of displaced need assistance (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Response to Government's plan to ratify convention against trafficking (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Response to Home Office 10 point reform plan announced today (Refugee Council) - [text online]

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News Stories (14/01/08)

Crackdown on immigration unveiled (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenya police used 'lethal force' (BBC News) - [text online]

Aid reaches flood-hit Mozambique (BBC News) - [text online]

Water-boarding 'would be torture' (BBC News) - [text online]

Hope returning to Iraq, says Bush (BBC News) - [text online]

Military approves EU Chad mission (BBC News) - [text online]

Human Rights Act 'being abused' (BBC News) - [text online]

Bishop right to tackle no-go area in our minds (The Sunday Telegraph) - [text online]

'Kafkaesque' plight of Algerians who want to be deported (The Guardian) - [text online]

Q&A: Better to be safe than sorry (UNHCR News) - [text oneline]

Arab League launches fund-raising campaign for Iraqi refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Nepal: Over US$104m in need for urgent humanitarian aid, recovery from conflict and disasters (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Red Cross assists refugees at Ugandan border (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq displacement 2007 year in review - IOM (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Clashes near IDP camps "causing more displacement" (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: UN continues providing assistance to victims of post-election violence (UN News) - [text online]

RWANDA: Living side by side – genocide victims and perpetrators reconcile the past (IRIN News) - [text online]

Darfur: UN, African Union envoys in Sudan to reinvigorate peace process (IRIN News) - [text online]

EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money (IRIN News) - [text online]

Kenya: End Police Use of Excessive Force (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

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Museums & Refugees: Keeping Cultures Conference.

Conference Announcement for the Museum of London in Docklands.

Museums & Refugees: Keeping Cultures Conference
13 & 14 March 2008
Museum in Docklands, London
2 day full rate: £85 per person

This international conference will explore the changing shape of community cultures and how museums and heritage sector agencies respond to complex historical, ethical, legal, social and political issues. It also marks the end of the four year London Museums Hub funded Refugee Heritage Programme.

For information and booking visit www.museumoflondon.org.uk/refugees

Speakers include:
Welcome by Professor Jack Lohman, Director of the Museum of London
Keynote speeches by Bemma Donkoh, UNHCR Representative to the UK and
Clara Arokiasamy, Chair of the London Mayor‘s Heritage and Diversity Taskforce, GLA

Details of how to make a booking for the conference can be found by following the links below:

Booking form (Word 108kb)

Conference delegate Invite (PDF 1mb)

Refugees conference brochure (PDF 1.5mb)

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New Reports and Publications

The Ministry of Justice has published a report on the: 'Human Rights Insight Project'.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/human-rights-insight-full.pdf (pdf file, 968kb)
(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/)

The Scottish Government has published a new report by Pam Orchard, Andrzej Szymanski and Nad'a Vlahova on: 'A Community Profile of EU8 Migrants in Edinburgh and An Evaluation of their Access to Key Services'.
Download the report at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/207638/0055078.pdf (pdf file, 552kb)
(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/)

"Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication," Stanford Law Review, vol. 60, no. 2 (2007) [text] - See also the related web site.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UNHCR's Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Afghan Asylum-Seekers (Dec. 2007) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Welfare, refugees and rescue: Denmark and the 'Jewish Question' from 1933 to 1945, DIIS Working Paper no. 2007/31 (DIIS, Dec. 2007) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Like any other child? Children and families in the asylum process. A report by Barnado’s and located in full text on their website at: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/asylum
Like any other child? is a report about one of the UK’s most marginalised groups - asylum seeking and refugee children and families. Since 2002, we estimate that there have been more than 40,000 children arriving in the UK in asylum seeking families, but there could be over 100,000 in total caught up in a backlogged asylum system. We welcome the government’s New Asylum Model which should now deal with asylum cases quickly and fairly.
(Source: Refugee Council News - http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/press/2008/January/20080107_b.htm)

Report on an announced race relations audit of the Border and Immigration Agency detention estate

The audit was commissioned following an inquiry by Stephen Shaw, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, into the 2005 BBC programme 'Detention Undercover' that made allegations of racism by staff towards detainees at Oakington immigration reception centre and on escort.Visits to the immigration removals centres were conducted by Focus Consultancy between 30 January 2007 and 9 March 2007.
(Source: Border & Immigration Agency (UK Home Office) Press Release - http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/racerelationsaudit)

Violence-Related Mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006. A new article/report written by the Iraq Family History Survey Study Group and published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the 9 January 2008.
From the abstract, “Background Estimates of the death toll in Iraq from the time of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 until June 2006 have ranged from 47,668 (from the Iraq Body Count) to 601,027 (from a national survey). Results from the Iraq Family Health Survey (IFHS), which was conducted in 2006 and 2007, provide new evidence on mortality in Iraq.”
(Source: ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LRON-7APCUQ?OpenDocument)

“You Can Detain Anyone for Anything” : Iran’s Broadening Clampdown on Independent Activism. A new report by Human Rights Watch which can be viewed online by following this link [report online]
“The Iranian government is relying on its broadly worded “security laws” to suppress virtually any public expression of dissent, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. It uses these laws to subject those arrested to prolonged incommunicado detention without charge, solitary confinement, and denial of access to counsel.”
(Source: Human Rights Watch - http://hrw.org/)

Title - Making Sense of Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and
Displacement: A Work in Progress
Source - Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7AHDLV?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Protective Action: Incorporating Civilian Protection into
Humanitarian Response
Source - ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7AHEC3?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - UNHCR Global Appeal 2008-2009
Source - UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Date - Nov 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7AJE6H?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - International Protection for Trafficked Persons and Those Who Fear
Being Trafficked
Source - UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7AJH9E?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - UNHCR's Role in Support of an Enhanced Humanitarian Response to
Situations of Internal Displacement. Policy Framework and Implementation
Strategy
Source - UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Date - Jun 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7AJJBV?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - United Nations Consolidated Report 2006
Source - United Nations
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EMAE-7AJSUQ?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Resilience in Humanitarian Aid Workers: Understanding Processes of
Development
Source - London South Bank University
Date - Jan 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7ANJ77?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Monitoring and Evaluation of Department of Defense Humanitarian
Assistance Programs
Source - Government of the United States of America
Date - Jan 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7APJWL?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - The State of Food and Agriculture 2007
Source - Food and Agriculture Organization
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EMAE-7APS59?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Side by Side or Together? Working for Security, Development and
Peace in Liberia and Afghanistan. Workshop Report, October 2007
Source - Peacebuilding Development and Security Program, University of
Calgary
Date - Oct 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-78JKYR?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Civil-Military Cooperation in Multinational and Interagency
Operations: Discussion Paper on Operational Terminologies and Assessment
for Multinational Experiment 5 [MNE5]
Source - Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Date - May 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-79SJ2P?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Posted in: Publications.

Newsletters. Journals and Table of Contents (ToC).

African Affairs Volume 107 Number 426, (January 2008). The Table of Contents for this journal are now available on the Oxford Journals web site here – [Table of Contents] - http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol107/issue426/index.dtl - UEL has an online subscription to this journal so UEL students will have access to the articles.
(Source: Oxford Journals E-Alert - http://www.oxfordjournals.org/)

The Refugee Women's Resource Project (RWRP) at Asylum Aid has published the latest issue of Women's Asylum News.
Download at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/WAN_No. 71.pdf (pdf file, 953kb)
(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/)

The Irish Traveller Movement in Britain has published its Newsletter - Edition 3.
Download the newsletter at:
http://www.irishtraveller.org.uk/policy/newsletter
(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/)

IOM Global Eye on Trafficking Newsletter, no. 1 (Dec. 2007) [full text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

PeaceWatch, vol. 13, no. 4 (Dec. 2007) [full text]. Produced by the U.S. Institute of Peace.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The Researcher, no. 8 (Dec. 2007) [text]. Published by the Refugee Documentation Centre, Ireland.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

VOICE Out Loud, no. 6 (Dec. 2007) [text] - Focus is on "Advocacy in the humanitarian field."
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Posted in: Periodicals.

News Stories (11/01/08)

Kofi Annan to mediate in Kenyan election dispute (The Independent) - [text online]

Le Pen's HQ up for sale as party declines (The Independnet) - [text online]

Kenya election protests to resume (BBC News) - [text online]

Thousands flee Zambezi flooding (BBC News) - [text online]

Removed patient in care struggle (BBC News) - [text online]

EU Chad mission set for go-ahead (BBC News) - [text online]

Karadzic family passports seized (BBC News) - [text online]

Arab League to launch fund-raising campaign for Iraqi refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Arab League to launch massive campaign for Iraqi refugees with UN help (UN News) - [text online]

Kenya civil unrest (Society for International Development) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 25 Dec 2007 - 01 Jan 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

More funds needed for UN to feed displaced Azerbaijanis (UN News) - [text online]

UN food aid reaches Nairobi slums hit hardest by post-election violence (UN News) - [text online]

LIBERIA: Mixed feelings about truth commission’s purpose (IRIN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

News Stories (10/01/08)

Kufuor extends mission to Kenya (BBC News) - [text online]

Taylor aide alleges rebel links (BBC News) - [text online]

Kosovo gets pro-independence PM (BBC News) - [text online]

African Union chief pushes for solution to Kenya crisis (The Independent) - [text online]

Bodyguard testifies against Taylor at war crimes trial (The Independent) - [text online]

Brown gives himself 'wriggle room' on ID cards scheme (The Independent) - [text online]

UNHCR launches aid distribution to displaced Kenyans (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Sudan: Sweden and Norway cancel plans to send troops to Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Protection is priority as relief efforts continue (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Food stockpiling as people fear the 'Kenya syndrome' (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Aid tops agenda as Kivus conference gets under way (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

South Sudan: An Anniversary for Peace (Refugees International WorldBridge Blog) - [text online]

South Sudanese hold out for independence (Reuters Africa) - [text online]

Darfur peacekeeping force faces greatest risks since the 1990s – top UN official (UN News) - [text online]

UN grants $7 million to assist Kenyan victims of post-electoral violence (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Still no home, four years after Operation Murambatsvina (IRIN News) - [text online]

Philippines violence displaced nearly 157,000 in 2007 (Asia-Pacific Daily Report) - [text online]

Philippines: IDPs concentrated in Mindanao Island as clashes continue (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

News Stories (09/01/08)

Kenya leader names new ministers (BBC News) - [text online]

UN protests after Darfur attack (BBC News) - [text online]

Slum TV presents the other half of the Kenyan story (The Independent) - [text online]

Fewer Britons in work due to ageing population and emigration rather than migrants, says report (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR seeks US$261 million for Iraqi refugee programmes in 2008 (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Somalia: Calls for help for IDPs in Middle Shabelle (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: UNAMID convoy ambushed in West Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: Humanitarian response accelerates as efforts to resolve crisis intensify (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Still no home, four years after Operation Murambatsvina (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

News Stories (08/01/08)

Chad 'launches Darfur air raids' (BBC News) - [text online]

Tribal killings shatter hopes for ceasefire (The Times) - [text online]

Deported to the Philippines: man whose crime was breaching Asbo (The Independent) - [text online]

Kenyan president invites rival to face-to-face talks on disputed poll (The Independent) - [text online]

Taylor trial hears of mutilation (The Independent) - [text online]

Bagram detention centre now twice the size of Guantanamo (The Independent) - [text online]

Slovenia hopes for Kosovo solution by end of presidency (EU Observer) - [text online]

UN refugee agency offers aid for up to 100,000 displaced Kenyans (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned about provisions in Slovenia's new asylum law (UNHCR News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Kenyan refugees in Uganda OCHA Situation Report No. 2 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: IDP and refugee concerns continue, coordination to be strengthened - OCHA (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: IDPs face eviction from camp (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

What will the New Year bring? (Refugee Council Poliblog) - [text online]

Myanmar cracks down on ethnic minorities (Yahoo News / Associated Press) - [text news]

UN warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in post-election Kenya (UN News) - [text online]

New UN Darfur force must reach full deployment as soon as possible, says Ban (UN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

News Stories (07/01/08)

Overstaying students 'can remain' (BBC News) - [text online]

Taylor war crimes trial resumes (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenya food effort gets under way (BBC News) - [text online]

Deportation for island 'Asbo' man (BBC News) - [text online]

Brothers lose latest asylum bid (BBC Mews) - [text online]

British imams ‘failing young Muslims’ (The Times) - [text online]

Kenyan families flee or stay and risk death (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Muslim anger at bishop's 'ghettoes' attack (The Independent) - [text online]

Scale of Kenya's refugee crisis begins to emerge (The Independent) - [text online]

Blood-diamond expert testifies at Taylor's war crimes trial (The Independent) - [text online]

Serbia 'needs to embrace the EU' (The Independent) - [text online]

'Miracle baby' pastor fights to stay in UK (The Guardian) - [text online]

Chilly Iceland gives a warm welcome to South American refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Sudan: UN SG urges greater support for new Darfur mission (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: WFP to help feed one million displaced (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Kenya: DFID announces £1m for humanitarian relief effort (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DRC: Govt launches disarmament campaign in the Kivus (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Consultation on ESOL announced (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Response to Barnardo's report on the welfare of asylum seeking children (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Stranded UN food shipments begin to make their way to displaced Kenyans (UN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

News Stories (04/01/08)

Without English 'you're excluded' (BBC News) - [text online]

China ships food aid to Zimbabwe (BBC News) - [text online]

Teachers could get power to stop forced marriages (The Times) - [text online]

Kenya mobs set fire to churches despite unity plea (The Times) - [text online]

Kenyan police halt rally as 100,000 flee killing (The Telegraph) - [text online]

Kenya rivals edge their way towards talks after poll violence (The Independent) - [text online]

Brown preparing to ban Zimbabwe cricket team from touring England (The Independent) - [text online]

Racism at immigration centres revealed in report (The Guardian) - [text online]

Tories attack government for lack of action on trafficking (The Guardian) - [text online]

Baghdad Palestinians hope for passage through India (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.