Refugee Archive Newsletter

Refugee Archive Newsletter - Tuesday, 3 November 2009.

This newsletter is produced on a regular basis to help disseminate news and further information in relation to refugee and forced migration issues. The newsletter is produced by the Refugee Archives service at the University of East London.

News and Media Stories

Refugee and Asylum Seeker News Stories

The Times (03/11/09): Minister admits: we got it wrong on immigration

The Independent (03/11/09): We got it wrong on immigration, says Johnson

The Guardian (02/11/09): Alan Johnson: Labour has made mistakes on immigration

The Observer (01/11/09): Jim Goldberg: Open See

The Guardian (30/10/09): English tests for migrants will fail

The Guardian (30/11/09): Misery follows the 'jungle camp' raid

The Guardian (29/11/09): Protests greet plan to resume forced returns to Zimbabwe

The Guardian (29/10/09): Home Office offers failed asylum seekers cash to return to Zimbabwe

The New Statesman: Home is where the heartbreak is

Institute for Race Relations News (29/10/09): The new McCarthyism

The Daily Telegraph (29/10/09): BNP could be invited on Question Time yearly

The Daily Telegraph (29/10/09): Schools report 40,000 cases of racism a year

The Independent (29/10/09): Joan Smith: Make no mistake: sex trafficking is real

The Guardian (29/10/09): Asylum woes at the Home Office

Your Ashford News (28/10/09): Staff suspended at Millbank immigration centre

The Independent (28/10/09): Alaa Al-Aswany: When women are sinners in the eyes of extremists

The Guardian (26/10/09): Former Labour adviser denies immigration plot to undermine right

Child Trafficking

The Independent (03/11/09): Revealed: hidden misery of children trafficked to Britain

The Children’s Society (02/11/09): Professionals ‘missing opportunities’ to help hidden children exploited for sex and forced labour - See also the Hidden Children report detailed below.

BBC News: (02/11/09): UK detained 1,300 child migrants

Children and Young People Daily Bulletin (30/10/09): Child trafficking victims ignored by frontline workers

Radovan Karadzic

The Daily Telegraph (03/11/09): Radovan Karadzic regretted that not all Bosniam Muslims died at Srebrenica

The Times (28/10/09): Court hears Radovan Karadzic’s threats of Muslim slaughter

The Daily Telegraph (28/10/09): Radovan Karadzic wanted Bosnian Muslims wiped from the 'face of the earth'

The Independent (28/10/09): Caught by wiretap, Karadzic boasting about genocide plans

New Reports and Publications

Hidden Children – separated children at risk. A new report produced by The Children’s Society. Available online in PDF format on The Children’s Society website at:
http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/resources/documents/media/18843_full.pdf

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