Wednesday 7 January 2009

A Selection of News Headlines (07/01/2009)

Pressure grows for Gaza ceasefire (BBC News) - [text online]

Ethiopia imposes aid agency curbs (BBC News) - [text online]

Cambodians mark end of Khmer rule (BBC News) - [text online]

China's holiday rush begins early (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel agrees to open corridor for relief aid after UN school is hit (The Times) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask (The Independent) - [text online]

Massacre of innocents as UN school is shelled (The Independent) - [text online]

Brown calls for international action over Gaza crisis (The Independent) - [text online]

OPT: Humanitarian situation deteriorates as military operations reach deeper into Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Journalists and humanitarian workers at risk, Amnesty appeals to parties (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: IDPs in urgent need of aid after fresh attacks by LRA in north (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on UN schools in Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Ethiopia imposes heavy restrictions on foreign-funded humanitarian groups (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Violence and lawlessness have driven much of the Somali population into destitution - ICRC boosts aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.4
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: Humanitarian Update No. 3, Nov 2008
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: NGO Micro Grant Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund Bulletin No. 14
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Gaza: "The only conflict in the world in which people are not even allowed to flee" - High Commissioner Guterres (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: UN team reaches towns attacked by Lord's Resistance Army (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR visits Congolese towns attacked by Lord's Resistance Army (UNHCR) - [text online]

Amnesty International calls for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Ethiopia: Government passes repressive new legislation (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: plight of civilians traumatic in 'full-blown humanitarian crisis' (ICRC) - [text online]

Letter from the Editor (Kakuma Free Press) - [text online]

ETHIOPIA: New law on charities passed despite objections
(IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Aid workers’ movements in Gaza severely restricted
(IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: "Too poor to escape the fighting"
(IRIN News) - [text online]

WEST AFRICA: But is it really trafficking?
(IRIN News) - [text online]

Security Council meets on Gaza fighting, Ban renews ceasefire call (UN News) - [text online]

UN reaches villages in north-eastern DR Congo attacked by Ugandan rebels (UN News) - [text online]

9.1 million people internally displaced in Central, East Africa, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

Ban condemns ‘unacceptable’ Israeli strikes on UN schools in Gaza (UN News) - [text online]

Civilians wishing to flee Gaza must be permitted to do so, stresses UN refugee chief (UN News) - [text online]

Ban denounces ‘appalling atrocities’ by Ugandan rebels in DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

No comments: