Thursday 19 June 2008

News Stories (19/06/08)

Illegals firms named and shamed (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe TV drops opposition ads (BBC News) - [text online]

S Africa Chinese 'become black' (BBC News) - [text online]

Amnesty seeks 'missing' Tibetans (BBC News) - [text online]

Chad town 'under attack by Sudan' (BBC News) - [text online]

President Mugabe's mobs target opposition families (The Times) - [text online]

The Big Question: Why are Dutch soldiers being sued for the massacre at Srebrenica? (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: Snapshots of life in Baghdad (The Independent) - [text online]

Myanmar: Survivors forced back (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Refugee doctors and nurses can help Welsh NHS (Western Mail) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Situation report: Drought/Food Crisis in Ethiopia - 06 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

World Refugee Day: Guterres highlights plight of Somali refugees in World Refugee Day mission (UNHCR News) - [text online]

World Refugee Day: Iraqi musician raises USD 24,000 for UNHCR programmes (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR prepares transition ahead while camps are closing (UNHCR News) - [text online]

World Refugee Day: UNHCR brings the Darfur experience to London's Trafalgar Square (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Annual UNHCR figures show continuing climb in number of uprooted (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Let them give something back (The Guardian) - [text online]

Costa del Sol loses its shine as jobs for immigrants dry up in economic crisis (The Guardian) - [text online]

South Africa: Grant Temporary Status to All Zimbabweans (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

World Refugee Day: Confronting the Iraq Refugee Crisis (Refugees International) - [text online]

AU Convention on Internal Displacement (Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog) - [text online]

All sides in DR Congo continue to violate human rights, UN report finds (UN News) - [text online]

Myanmar: UN Human Rights Council condemns ‘ongoing systematic violations (UN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwean violence threatens credibility of next week’s polls – Ban (UN News) - [text online]

Top UN official hails adoption of ‘missing piece’ in human rights protection (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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