News Stories (23/09/09)

Sudan lobbies against Bashir case (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma 'to free 9,000 prisoners' (BBC News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 36, 07 - 13 Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 31 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sierra Leonean refugees relocate to new houses in Liberia (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR calls for Darfur action at Britain's Labour Party Conference (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR says conditions right for Congolese to go home from Zambia (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Central, Eastern Europe aim to improve refugee status decisions (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR distributes first aid in Georgia-South Ossetia "buffer zone" (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR and UAE Red Crescent launch fund-raising campaign for refugee women and children (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UK to lift reservation on United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Refugee Council) - [text online]

TUC Congress 2008 - our report (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Labour Party Conference Update (Refugee Council PoliBlog) - [text online]

No change for Zimbabweans on work (Refugee Council PoliBlog) - [text online]

African Union: Don’t Trade Away Justice in Darfur (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

President's Corner: UN Must Proceed with ICC Case Against Sudan’s Leader (Refugees International) - [text online]

President’s Corner: U.S. Needs to Ratchet Up Response to Iraqi Refugees (Refugees International) - [text online]

SUDAN: Mounting criticism against govt for crackdown after rebel attack (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN warns it may halt food aid to Palestinians displaced from Lebanese camp (UN News) - [text online]

Bangladesh: migrant worker rights (Global Voices) - [text online]

Iraq: Look at the world - where is the peace? (Global Voices) - [text online]

Senior UN, African Union officials outline worsening situation in Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Hunger begins to take its toll (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

TIMOR-LESTE: IDP returns slowed by squatters occupying homes (IRIN News) - [text online]

At least six Somali civilians die in attack on peacekeepers (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Asylum update - 17 September 2008 (ICAR Blog) - [text online]

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