Wednesday 23 April 2008

News Stories (23/04/08)

Zuma in London for Zimbabwe talks (BBC News) - [text online]

Darfur deaths 'could be 300,000' (BBC News) - [text online]

Unity government call in Zimbabwe (BBC News) - [text online]

Khmer Rouge leader seeks release (BBC News) - [text online]

Bosnia war crimes trio convicted (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe's church leaders warn the world: intervene to avert genocide (The Independent) - [text online]

Holding terror suspects for 42 days not needed, says DPP (The Independent) - [text online]

Food crisis needs aid on scale of tsunami to avert famine (The Independent) - [text online]

View from the blogs: 'Tsvangirai will soon be dead in the eyes of Zimbabweans (The Independent - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA-oPt socio-economic fact sheet (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Saved from child traffickers, but not for long (The Guardian) - [text online]

'If you care about your family, give us £12,000' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Boston coping with migrants, says Blears (The Guardian) - [text online]

Poland tries to lure back UK emigrants (The Guardian) - [text online]

Migration 'pinch points' coping well, Blears tells MPs (The Guardian) - [text online]

Eastern Nepal's Goldhap camp starts to rise from the ashes (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR delivers emergency aid to indigenous people in Colombia (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR launches US$3 million appeal to help displaced in Yemen (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Emergency aid delivered to isolated Colombian river villages (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

Nepal/Chad: Refugee camps start to rise from the ashes (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

DR Congo: End the Horrific Suffering in Eastern Congo (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

President’s Corner: Off the Headlines, Death and Displacement Continues in Darfur (Refugees International) - [text online]

Onus on Ethiopia, Eritrea to resolve dispute, says top UN peacekeeping official (UN News) - [text online]

Actress, UN officials urge support for campaign to eliminate violence against women (UN News) - [text online]

Start of Sudanese census welcomed by UN peacekeeping mission (UN News) - [text online]

At five-year mark, Darfur crisis is only worsening – UN aid chief (UN News) - [text online]

UN tribunal partially overturns convictions of two Bosnian Muslim commanders (UN News) - [text online]

Gaza: UN and partners set to meet on critical humanitarian situation (UN News) - [text online]

SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: Ship of shame adrift in controversy (IRIN News) - [text online]

Colombia: UN agencies hand out emergency food to isolated indigenous groups (UN News) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN: Afghan refugee settlements demolished at Jalozai (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN rebuilding refugee camps in Nepal and Chad devastated by fires (UN News) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: IDPs continue to flee fighting in northwest (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Intervention needed to avoid "impending catastrophe" (IRIN News) - [text online]

Global food crisis ‘silent tsunami’ threatening over 100 million people, warns UN (UN News) - [text online]

Race thugs put Pole in hospital after attack (Aberdeen Daily Record) - [text online]. (Source: Institute for Race Relations E-mail Digest - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Migrants flee firebombed house after third racist attack in Belfast (Belfast Telegraph) - [text online]. (Source: Institute for Race Relations E-mail Digest - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Asylum seekers self-harm in detention (The Independent) - [text online]. (Source: Institute for Race Relations E-mail Digest - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

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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