News Stories (22/05/08)

UN head tours cyclone-hit Burma (BBC News) - [text online]

Dalai Lama sees change in China (BBC News) - [text online]

SA leader orders army to deploy (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma victims lose aid battle as cash flows into China on a flood of sympathy (The Times) - [text online]

South Africa: Cape Town on high alert as Thabo Mbeki deploys troops to quell violence (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Mbeki deploys troops as xenophobic violence spreads to Zulu heartland (The Independent) - [text online]

Israel contemplates giving up Golan Heights to Syria (The Independent) - [text online]

International Efforts Still Failing Child Soldiers (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

US: Respect Rights of Child Detainees in Iraq (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 17 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 30 Apr - 06 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Forcing the media back on message (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Ban Ki-moon will meet leader in effort to boost aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Over 350 tonnes of medical supplies sent, more needed to avert disease outbreak (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Home and away (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR responds to China's urgent need for tents for earthquake victims (UNHCR Press Release) - [text online]

UNHCR provides 11,000 tents for China's quake victims (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR distributes aid to South Africa's xenophobia victims (UNHCR News) - [text online]

DR Congo: Helping Communities Help Themselves (Refugees International) - [text online]

Burma: Immediate Humanitarian Access Remains Priority (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

RIGHTS: For Tens of Thousands, A Short and Brutal Life (IPS) - [text online]

Member States elect 15 countries to serve on UN Human Rights Council (UN News) - [text online]

Former Rwandan official transferred back to UN war crimes tribunal (UN News) - [text online]

ZAMBIA: Ugandan refugees return home (IRIN News) - [text online]

Xenophobic attacks in South Africa deplored by UN agencies (UN News) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: Children of war wait for better lives (UN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Weighed down by displaced neighbours (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN helping to train human rights workers in Sierra Leone (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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