Saturday 7 June 2008

News Stories (07/06/08)

Brown terror plea to Labour MPs (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe halts opposition rallies (BBC News) - [text online]

Ugandan rebels 'prepare for war' (BBC News) - [text online]

Yellow fever hits Congo deportees (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma hits out at cyclone reports (BBC News) - [text online]

Turkey headscarf ruling attacked (BBC News) - [text online]

France deports genocide suspect (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe accused of using food as 'political weapon' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Bangladesh: End Mass Arrests, Release Detainees (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

South Africa: Protect Victims of Xenophobic Violence (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Hope Vetoed (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Discrimination in the name of integration (IRR) - [text online]

Amdani Juma - deportation delayed (IRR) - [text online]

Past Due: Remove the FDLR from Eastern Congo (ENOUGH Project) - [text online]. [Report and Activist Brief]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 10 - 30 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 27 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Southern Sudan: Abyei displacement - OCHA Situation Report No. 15 - 05 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Focus on Ethiopia - May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 21, 25 - 31 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Somalia Humanitarian Overview Vol. 1 Issue 5 - May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin no. 18, 05 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Note on Emergencies: Latin America & The Caribbean - Year 2, Issue 57 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 28 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Govt suspends field operations by all NGOs, detains diplomats (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: UNHCR condemns rebels' deadly attack on IDP camp, aid workers also injured (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Activists urge Security Council on ICC indictments (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: With monsoon season, increased disease risk in cyclone-stricken delta (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Briton sues over deportation as failed asylum seeker (The Guardian) - [text online]

In praise of ... Jhumpa Lahiri (The Guardian) - [text online]

Adrift in the UK (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR condemns attack on displaced people in eastern D.R. Congo (UNHCR Press Release) - [text online]

UNHCR declares cessation of refugee status for Sierra Leoneans (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

When a plastic sheet means more than shelter (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Q&A: Countess works in a noble cause (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Refugee status for Sierra Leoneans to end (UNHCR News) - [text online]

International recognition for clean, safe ethanol stove used by refugee (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Nicaraguan parliamentarians pass key refugee legislation (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR condemns deadly attack on camp for displaced Congolese (UNHCR News) - [text online]

World Environment Day: Roma scrap collectors get by in Montenegro camp (UNHCR News) - [text online]

IDP Voices (Researching Refugees Blog) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: top UN official urges lifting of restrictions on aid groups (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur's child refugees being sold to militias (The Guardian) - [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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