A Selection of News Headlines (10/12/08)

Zimbabwe search on for activist (BBC News) - [text online]

New French life for ex-Farc rebel (BBC News) - [text online]

Chinese police detain protesters (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel briefly opens Gaza borders (BBC News) - [text online]

'Asylum bid' by football homeless (BBC News) - [text online]

Cholera ravages population weak with hunger in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe (The Independent) - [text online]

How Burma's opposition lost its fear (The Independent) - [text online]

We'll fight invasion, Zimbabwe warns (The Independent) - [text online]

EU begins Kosovo mission (The Independent) - [text online]

oPt: Israel opens Gaza borders to humanitarian aid shipment (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Top UNHCR official warns about displacement from climate change (UNHCR) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of the Congo: despite letup in fighting, many needs remain (ICRC) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: International Organizations Call for End to Abductions of Activists (Amnesty International) - [text online]

The Human Rights Act: a ‘Villain’s Charter’? (The Refugee Council) - [text online]

NEPAL: Towards ending impunity for human rights violations (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: "Why I am staying in London this Christmas" (IRIN News) - [text online]

MAURITANIA: Child marriage tradition turns into trafficking (IRIN News) - [text online]

Human rights still not a reality for all, top UN official says (UN News) - [text online]

UN health agency visits Zimbabwe to help contain growing cholera outbreak (UN News) - [text online]

Appalling acts still persist 60 years on from pledge to prevent genocide, Ban warns (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: Government, rebels enter into UN-backed talks to end fighting (UN News) - [text online]

Kosovo: European police phase in as UN phases out (UN News) - [text online]

Ban voices serious concern over stalemate in recovering missing Kuwaitis from Iraq (UN News) - [text online]

Slavery, though legally abolished, remains widespread in current forms, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

‘Collective resistance’ best strategy to fight terrorism, says Ban (UN News) - [text online]

UN, regional advocates call on Governments to protect human rights defenders (UN News) - [text online]

Corruption impedes development and human rights, Ban says on International Day (UN News) - [text online]

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