Thursday 11 December 2008

A Selection of News Headlines (11/12/08)

Cholera is 'S African disaster' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN official slams Israel 'crimes' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN 'accuses Rwanda and DR Congo' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN claims Rwanda is abetting Congo rebels (The Independent) - [text online]

UK runs 'Guantanamo camps', says detainees (The Independent) - [text online]

Ministers under pressure to hold inquiry on Iraq war within a year (The Independent) - [text online]

Independent Appeal: Volunteers go to work in a ravaged country (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian Update: Regional Office for the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Nov 2008
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Zimbabwe: OCHA Daily Cholera Update, 09 Dec 2008
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Immigrant labours lost (The Guardian) - [text online]

Lecturers are not border police (The Guardian) - [text online]

Appeal for refugee funds elicits promising response from donors (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR meeting seeks solutions to end long-term exile of millions of refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Donors pledge more than US$450 towards UNHCR programmes in 2009 (UNHCR) - [text online]

Protracted Refugee Situations: UNHCR meeting seeks solutions to end long-term exile of millions of refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Protracted Refugee Situations: Bangladesh camp life improves, but home is best (UNHCR) - [text online]

France distances itself from Kouchner human rights remarks (EU Observer) - [text online]

Democratic Republic of Congo: Every Delay Costs Lives (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Government steps up the fight against extremism (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

MYANMAR: Anyo, "I don't know whether I will live or die”
(IRIN News) - [text online]

Seven human rights fighters receive top UN awards (UN News) - [text online]

UN appeals for funds to meet health needs in cyclone-battered Myanmar (UN News) - [text online]

On Human Rights Day, UN rights chief reminisces, as victim and enforcer (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: talks between government, rebels making headway, says UN envoy (UN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: UN calls for $6 million to fight deadly cholera epidemic (UN News) - [text online]

UN transports another food shipment to displaced people in war-torn northern Sri Lanka (UN News) - [text online]

Ban leads chorus of UN voices calling for action to protect human rights of vulnerable (UN News) - [text online]

Cambodia, UN agree on need to strengthen court trying Khmer Rouge leaders (UN News) - [text online]

UN refugee chief urges help for 6 million long-term displaced (UN News) - [text online]

International Court seeks more information on arrest warrants for Darfur rebels (UN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Human Rights Day is “just another day of suffering”
(IRIN News) - [text online]

INDONESIA: Raising awareness of migrant abuse
(IRIN News) - [text online]

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