Refugee Archive Closure on Tuesday 2 March

Important Notice:

The Refugee Council Archive will be closed all day on Tuesday 2^nd March due to refurbishment work being undertaken in the Archive reading room.  We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Many thanks in advance for your co-operation,

Paul Dudman
Archivist.

Stories in the News

Apologies in advance for the long list, I hope some of the following are useful:

Child Migrants to Australia Apology

BBC News (24/02/10): Gordon Brown apologises to child migrants sent abroad 

The Guardian (20/02/10): Children shipped to Australia to get formal apology


Children and Detention

The Guardian (23/02/10): (Audio): Yarl's Wood: 'They called us black monkey'


The Guardian (23/02/10): Fears for health of Yarl's Wood women in third week of hunger strike

The Guardian (22/02/10): Why I am on hunger strike at Yarl's Wood



The Guardian (23/02/10): Yarl's Wood: a disgrace


The Guardian (18/02/10): Don't deny this detention damage


The Guardian (18/02/10): Letters - Yarl's Wood: there is no need to detain families with children


The Daily Telegraph (17/02/10): Children should not be held in immigration centres, says watchdog


The Guardian (17/02/10): Yarl's Wood children face 'extreme distress', report reveals

BBC News (17/02/10): 'Never nice for children' - life in a detention centre


Bangladesh

The Times of India (25/02/10): Ethnic violence continues in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill tracts


The Indian News (25/02/10): Ethnic violence continues in Chittagong Hill Tracts

More at : Ethnic violence continues in Chittagong Hill Tracts (Lead) http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/ethnic-violence-continues-in-chittagong-hill-tracts-lead_100325884.html#ixzz0gY6rGP4J

Earth Times (24/02/10): Bangladesh imposes fresh curfew after south-east riots - Summary


Voice of America (23/02/10): Bangladesh Deploys Troops to Stop Ethnic Clashes


Chittagong Hill Tracts News Reporter (23/02/10): News Updates (23 February 2010)

 BBC News (18/02/10): Bangladesh accused of 'crackdown' on Rohingya refugees


General Stories

BBC News (25/02/10): In pictures: Fleeing DR Congo


The Daily Telegraph (24/02/10): 'We can't take any more people'

BBC News (24/02/10): Foreign inmates await deportation from Dorchester jail

The Daily Telegraph (24/02/10): Somalian woman with no right to live in the UK must be given a council house, according to EU judges

BBC News (24/02/10): Afghanistan country profile


The Guardian (24/02/10):  Home Office to opt out of asylum claims EU directive


Human Rights Watch (23/02/10): Iraq: Protect Christians from Violence

BBC News (23/02/10): Will peace return to Darfur?


BBC News (23/02/10): Who are Sudan's Darfur rebels? 

Refugees International (23/02/10): South Sudan: Pointing Fingers, Placing Blame

Human Rights Watch (23/02/10): Iran: End Persecution of Baha’is


The Daily Telegraph (23/02/10): MI5 and MI6 not to be investigated over torture claims

Human Rights Watch (23/02/10): Thailand: Migrant Workers Face Killings, Extortion, Labor Rights Abuses

See Also: the Human Rights Watch page report entitled From the Tiger to the Crocodile  - the report is available to download in PDF format - click here to downlaod.

The Daily Telgraph (23/02/10): Opponents of immigration could be racist, warned advisers a decade ago


BBC News (23/02/10): Sudan signs ceasefire deal with Darfur rebel group

IRR News (23/02/10): Germany: freedom to speak on racism under threat

Child and Young People Daily Bulletin (23/02/10): Child asylum seekers granted 72-hour notice of removal

Amnesty International (23/02/10): Indigenous Peoples struggle to survive in Colombia.   Full report available in PDF format by clicking on the following link:  AMR 23/001/2010(PDF)

The Daily Telegraph (22/02/10): Binyam Mohamed and a question of balance 

BBC News (22/02/10): Israel's immigrant children fight deportation




BBC News (21/02/10): Key Darfur rebels sign ceasefire deal


The Daily Telegraph (20/02/10): Thousands of illegal immigrants win right to stay in Britain under 'squatters' rights'


The Daily Telegraph (20/02/10): Torture: inquiry needed into 'security services involvement', says human rights watchdog


The Daily Telegraph (19/02/10): The Blackburn Resistance: three men 'intoxicated by evil of terrorism', court hears

The Guardian (19/02/10): Ethnic Kurd wins high court release ruling after failed deportation


BBC News (19/02/10): Stormont to host immigration debate 

Refugees International (19/02/10): DR Congo: Precarious conditions for refugees returning home





Amnesty International (17/02/10): Democratic Republic of Congo must end persecution of human rights defenders/ The full page report by Amnesty International is also available in PDF format by clicking on the following link:  AFR 62/001/2010(PDF)

Human Rights Watch (17/02/10): UN: Keep Peacekeepers in Chad


Amnesty International (17/02/10): Iran ’shows contempt’ for human rights by rejecting UN recommendations


BBC News (17/02/10): US aid rules in Somalia are impossible, says UN envoy


The Guardian (17/02/10): How to be British


The Daily Telegraph (17/02/10): Councils dismiss claims migrants are returning home



The Guardian (17/02/10): Letters - Migration Watch

Human Rights Watch (16/02/10):  UN: Council Review Highlights Iran's Poor Record

Human Rights Watch (16/02/10): Morocco: Sahrawi Activists' Passports Returned

Human Rights Watch (16/02/10): Egypt: Pledge Serious Human Rights Reform


The Guardian (16/02/10): The enduring legacy of Pauline Hanson


BBC News (16/02/10): 'Asylum has become a dirty word'

 Amnesty International (16/02/10): Myanmar urged to end repression of ethnic minorities before elections. 
 The full 58 page Amnesty International report is also available to download in either HTML or PDF versions. Click on the relevant link as follows: ASA 16/001/2010(HTML) or ASA 16/001/2010(PDF).
Image: Amnesty International - `
Many activists faced repression during 2007's Buddhist monk-led 'Saffron Revolution'

© APGraphicsBank

 The Guardian (15/02/10): Australian anti-migrant campaigner Pauline Hanson to emigrate

The Daily Telegraph (13/02/10): Number who say they are 'white British' in decline

Giving voice to the voiceless - Public Lecture Series 4 March 2010

Portrayal and participation of asylum-seekers & refugees in the UK media

The Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging & the Exiled Journalists' Network introducing Mike Jempson Director, The MediaWise Trust

Date: Thursday 4 March 2010 
Time: 17:00 
Venue: Room TBC, University of East London, Docklands Campus 
Transport: Cyprus DLR

In the mid-1990s, there was an upsurge in hostile and inaccurate coverage of refugee and asylum issues, and of those who supported them. The term asylum-seeker rapidly changed from being a sympathetic description to a form of abuse which combined fear and loathing of immigrants and more than a hint of racism.

Sensational stories and statistics, and xenophobic commentaries, variously represented those seeking asylum as economic migrants or criminals determined to abuse the goodwill of a post-colonial power. Such stories increased tabloid circulation and jolted politicians into knee-jerk negative reactions. By the time of the al Qaeda attack on the USA in 2001, asylum had become a major political issue. Now people identifiable as ‘strangers in our midst’ were regarded as menacing and dangerous, however long they had been in the UK.

Concerned that sensible political dialogue and human rights were being harmed by the way the media were handling issue, in 1999 the journalism ethics charity MediaWise set up the Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Media (RAM) Project. It was a strategic initiative to challenge inaccuracies and prejudice and improve media coverage. It would also give birth to the Exiled Journalists’ Network (EJN).

This presentation will explain the work and achievements of the RAM Project revisit some of the more sensational inaccuracies that have appeared in the UK media, and explain how exiled journalists helped to develop the RAM Project, and took it forward to become the EJN.

MIKE JEMPSON has been Director of The MediaWise Trust since 1996. He co-founded the journalism ethics charity (then known as PressWise) with ‘survivors of media abuse’ in 1993. He is a journalist, author and trainer, with over 35 years experience in print, broadcasting and public relations. Mike co-authored The RAM Report (MediaWise, June 2005, ISBN 0 9547620 4 5)

Mike was appointed Visiting Professor in Media Ethics at Lincoln University in 2006, and is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of the West of England.  He has devised and delivered training for journalists and NGOs in more than 40 countries, working with UN agencies and the International Federation of Journalists.

CMRB Seminars, Book Launch and Associated Events

Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship - Life Stories From Britain and Germany

Umut Erel (The Open University) and Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University) discuss Umut Erel's book

Tuesday 11 May

Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship develops essential insights concerning the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of skilled and educated migrant women from Turkey in Germany and Britain. It interweaves and develops theories of citizenship, identity and culture with the lived experiences of an immigrant group that has so far received insufficient attention. By focussing on the British and German contexts, it introduces a much needed European and comparative perspective, whilst exploring the ways in which diverging concepts and policies of citizenship allow for a differentiated examination of ethnicity, gender, multiculturalism and citizenship in Europe.

 

The Invisible Empire - White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging

Georgie Wemyss (Goldsmiths College) and Vron Ware (The Open University) discuss Georgie Wemyss's book

Tuesday 18 May

How have dominant and white liberal discourses maintained their hegemony in a post-colonial world? Georgie Wemyss offers a significant and original contribution to critical race theory through this anthropological acount of the cultural hegemony of the West. She demonstrates how concepts of tolerance have been substantially reproduced through time in order to accommodate the challenges of history.

 

Book Launch

Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary
European Cinema by Yosefa Loshitzky

28 May, 6-8pm, Senate House, University of London, Room G22/26

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ginette Vincendeau, King’s College

Film director Jasmin Dizdar and Yosefa Loshitzky in conversation

 

Associated events

Launch of the Exiled Journalists' Network

4 March, 5-6.30pm, UEL

Giving Voice to the Voiceless - Portrayal and participation of asylum-seekers & refugees in theUK media                                                                                        

Speaker: Mike Jempson, Director, The MediaWise Trust and Senior Lecturer in Jounalism, University of the West of England

Followed by a reception and launch of the Exiled Journalists' Network

http://www.exiledjournalists.net/

Imaging Migrants: CMRB & Matrix Seminar Series at UEL

Imaging Migrants

a seminar series jointly organised by CMRB and Matrix

All seminars take place on Thursdays at 6-8pm in Room EB 1.37, Matrix, University of East London, Docklands Campus   

On ‘the right to have rights’ over refugees’ and migrants’ images - Eyal Sivan

Thursday 25 February

Refugees, migrants and other survivors – like many other socially displaced persons – are among the favourite classical, as well as contemporary, figures of documentary moving image practice. Thus, despite the ongoing practice involving documenting, filming, producing and distributing refugees’ images, issues of ‘representation rights’ and ‘images appropriation’ are rarely raised among practitioners and media activists. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s classical article ‘We Refugees’ (1943), in which she develops the idea of ‘the right to have rights’, and on Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Arendt’s article, this seminar will reflect on the ethical and methodological questions raised by the ongoing practice involving the filming of migrants and refugees. Articulated around a series of recent documentary experiences, this seminar will address the question of the functionality – within western societies – of refugees’, migrants’ and asylum seekers’ images as a fundamental, contemporary documentary media practice.

State of Play: critique, diaspora and digital archives - Roshini Kempadoo

Thursday 25 March

The seminar will present a selection of my photographs and recent digital artworks including State of Play(2010) within the context of artworks from digital online databases, including those developed by Autograph ABP, Diaspora Artists and Iniva. It becomes a way to explore artists’ work that have been differentiated and defined within the confines of ‘identity’ terminologies and politics. Cultural definitions of artists and their work, ranging from: black Britishness; BAMEs; multiculturalism; transnational blackness; culturally diverse forms; and art of the diaspora, have variously been used – particularly since the ‘critical decade’ of the 1980s (Hall & Bailey, 1992). My interest lies in the practice of self-definition, criticality and positionality that have been instrumental to this process of defining difference and belonging. The presentation will also explore the way in which such artworks are currently being digitally archived by institutions, their curators, and funders. The archive as a ‘force field’ (Stoler, 2009) in this sense is crafted and layered. In re-contextualising and digitising the artworks as the online ‘archive’ (in the way that Derrida describes the archive as the site of ‘house arrest’), how may the criticality of the work be adequately evoked and continue to be perceived as creative intervention, interstitial, or counter-narrative?

Two Theses on the Afghan Woman: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf Filming Agheleh Farahmand - Haim Bresheeth

Thursday 8 April

This talk is based on an article by the same title, that I have completed for Third Text, to be published in March 2010.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have created a huge number of refugees, or as the UN now wishes them to called, internally displaced persons. Those two terrifying upheavals have not yet been attended to by many filmmakers – the Iraqi one is yet to be represented on film, and the Afghani one has indeed been so represented, but not by an Afghani filmmaker.

The appearance, in 2003, of two films made by two sisters of the famous Makhmalbaf cinematic clan, have marked another first for this unusual group. At Five in the Afternoon, a feminist feature film shot in Afghanistan a short time after the Allies invasion, by the elder sister Samira, has been closely followed byJoy of Madness, a feature length documentary by her 13 year old sister, Hanna. That Hanna’s film was a ‘making of’ film of her sister¹s movie production, does not begin to describe it. At the heart of both films stands the figure of the main lead of the feature, who is the central character of both. The struggle between the temperamental director and her intended star, ending in the agreement to participate, is presenting us with a complex picture of power relations and negotiation, between the darling of festival circles, Samira, and her penniless, but astute and independent young teacher from Afghanistan. Joy of Madness carries a genuine and disturbing message of the colonial power relations between the three women, and the acid test of their different feminist agendas.

Journeys of Identity and Place - Jill Daniels

Thursday 22 April

In this seminar I will explore the representation of identity and place in exile and loss, in my documentary filmNext Year in Lerin (2000).I will discuss, as Henk Slager points out in his article Art and Method (2009), how ‘the artist compels us to see the world in a different way… images do not replace reality, but reveal novel visibilities’. The film reflects on social structures, ethnicity and the concept of rootedness. Place is offered as a metaphorical space bounded by the subjects’ voices and the manipulation of sound and image.

The subjects are Macedonians, who as children were taken without their mothers from northern Greece by the Greek Communist Party during the Greek civil war (1943-1948). They are not allowed by the Greek State to return to Greece.I will analyse my access as outsider, addressing my subject position of both observing and participating in documentary making, in gaining an intimate space in order to interact with the subjects (David MacDougall, Transcultural Cinema; 1998).

I will extend the discussion through a comparison of this film with my later film Lost in Gainesville (2005), where subjects from the Mexican diaspora are located in a small town in Georgia in the south of the US.Racist hostility emanates from the original population of the town leading to the geographical division of place.

I reflect on the way film may be used in the debate around minoritarian discourse. Next Year in Lerin has been used by the Macedonian diaspora and Greek nationalists as a tool for their political debates. I give particular attention to my Q&A on YouTube posted by the film festival after a screening of the film in the US in 2009, and the subsequent comments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWw4o9QkAA.

Simone Weil's The Need for Roots and the Soul of Migration - Dr Anat Pick

Thursday 6 May

This seminar draws on Simone Weil's book The Need for Roots (1943), written during the final year of Weil's life, working in London for the Free French. The Need for Roots offered a blueprint for the reconstruction of France after Liberation. It reflects the culmination of Weil's theologico-political thinking. The central themes of rootedness (as a ‘need of the soul’) and uprootedness (as a modern malaise) are especially important for thinking about ideas of national identity, diaspora and exile. They are particularly resonant in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and in light of Weil's ‘anti-Judaism’. The discussion will address Weil's contemporary relevance as a major post-secular thinker with reference to Ori Kleiner’s documentary filmRecognized (2006).

Conference: Migration, the Media and the Message, 29-30 March 2010

Migration, the Media and the Message

Migrants using media to turn around the immigration debate

University of East London, 29-30 March 2010

A European conference jointly organised by the 'Migrants and the Media Project' (MMP) and CMRB for groups involved in media and cultural activities, which promote a positive engagement with the issue of migration.

Contributors to plenary sessions will include: Don Flynn (Migrants' Rights Network), Nazek Ramadan, Aine O'Brien (FOMACS, Ireland) and Mica Nava (UEL).

Workshops include: FOMACS' digital video-making and radio journalism (Ireland), CEPAIM's 'La Ruta Prometida ' exhibition (Spain), Mendek's poster campaign (Hungary), Migrant Resource Centre's 'New Londoners' journalism project (UK), Playback Theatre (UK), CRWI on women and the media (Greece).

For information, please contact: Cristina Andreatta at Migrants' Rights Networkc.andreatta@migrantsrights.org.uk

FMR 34 with Feature on Urban Displacement

The latest English edition of the journal Forced Migration Review, issue number 34, with a major feature on Urban displacement, is now available online at http://www.fmreview.org/urban-displacement/

Full details are available on the Forced Migration Review website and the following description is taken from this site. 
"Globally, urbanisation – the movement of people into cities and towns – continues to increase, and growing numbers of displaced people, whether refugees or IDPs, now reside in urban areas rather than camps. Relatively little is known about their precise numbers, demographics, basic needs or protection problems.

In their introductory articles in this issue of FMR, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and UN-HABITAT Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka emphasise the complexity of the challenges faced by those displaced into urban areas and by those seeking to protect and assist them, and argue for the need for a radical rethinking of approaches by the international community. This issue of Forced Migration Review includes 26 articles by a wide range of authors – practitioners, policymakers and researchers – on the subject of urban displacement, plus 13 articles on other aspects of forced migration, including a ‘spotlight’ on Haiti after the earthquake."

See download options opposite: download the full pdf, or go to ‘contents list’ to view or download individual articles. We encourage you to circulate or reproduce any articles in their entirety but please cite http://www.fmreview.org/urban-displacement/
  

News Story Updates (15 Feb. 2010)

Immigrants and the Art of Queuing

The Daily Telegraph (14/02/10): How to queue correctly
The Daily Telegraph (14/02/10): Queue here, please
The Daily Telegraph (13/02/10): Immigrants to be taught how to queue 

Torture

The Independent (15/02/10): Bruce Anderson: We not only have a right to use torture. We have a duty
The Daily Telegraph (13/02/10): MI5 officers diverted from counter-terrorism to fight 'torture' court cases
The Daily Telegraph (11/02/10): MI5 chief defends agency over torture cover-up claims

Darfur

Amnesty International (11/02/10): Darfuri refugees exposed to increased attacks if UN withdraws from Chad
New York Times (11/02/10): Darfur Refugees Say to Boycott Sudan Election

Somailia

The Press Association (13/02/10):   UN braced for mass Somalia exodus
BBC News (12/02/10): Thousands flee Somalia fighting, says UN refugee agency


BNP

The Independent (15/02/10): BNP votes in favour of non-whites
The Times (15/02/10): The day the BNP said it had changed its ways
BBC News (14/02/10): BNP votes to ditch whites-only membership rule

General Refugee Related News Stories

The Independent (15/02/10): Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The closed minds that deny a civilisation's glories
The Guardian (13/02/10): The beautiful ghost of big government
 BBC News (13/02/10): Burma timeline 
The Daily Telegraph (13/02/10): Immigration: a plan to alter the nation's soul
The Daily Telegraph (12/02/10): Illegal immigrants handed compensation for wrongful detention
The Guardian (12/02/10): Unemployed take on immigrants' jobs for Evan Davis documentary
Amnesty International (12/02/10): Iran’s report to UN paints distorted picture on human rights 
The Guardian (12/02/10): Hunger strikers at immigration centre tell of squalid conditions
Human Rights Watch (12/02/10): Zimbabwe: One Year On, Reform a Failure
Human Rights Watch (11/02/10): Postcard From...Tripoli
BBC News (11/02/10): Timeline: Somalia
Reuters AlertNet (11/02/10): ESCAPING THE HORN: Desperate Somalis defy law, costs to cross into Kenya
Reuters (10/02/10): UN closes Palestinian camp on Syria-Iraq border
Amnesty International (10/02/10): Zimbabwe: Abuse of human rights continues under unity government

Refugee Archives Update

The last week or so has been a busy one in terms of breaking news stories in regard to refugee and asylum issues.  The following news stories, exhibitions and publications are worthy of note:

News Stories

UK Appeal Court Terrorism Ruling

The Daily Telegraph (11/02/10): Binyam Mohamed: choose human rights or Britain's protection?
The Daily Telegraph (11/02/10): Binyam Mohamed: MI5 and Whitehall in torture 'cover-up'
BBC News (11/02/10): US disappointed at UK Appeal Court torture ruling
The Independent (11/02/10): Britain did know CIA tortured suspect
The Daily Telegraph (10/02/10): Binyam Mohamed torture allegations published
BBC News (10/02/10): Binyam Mohamed torture appeal lost by UK governmentThe Daily Telegraph (10/02/10): Binyam Mohamed: the secret torture file
The Daily Telegraph (10/02/10): Binyam Mohamed torture allegations must be disclosed, day judges

Student Visas

The Guardian (11/02/10): Clampdown on overseas student visas sparks funding concerns
The Guardian (07/02/10): Alan Johnson announces crackdown on student visas
The Daily Telegraph (06/02/10): Foreign student visa numbers to be slashed

Government Immigration Policy

The Daily Telegraph (10/02/10): Labour changes its tune over immigration limit as election looms
The Daily Telehraph (09/02/10): Labour's 'secret plan' to lure migrants
The Daily Telegraph (09/02/10): The deceit of Labour's immigration policy

UK Border Agency

The Daily Telegraph (09/02/10): Border Agency cannot perform basic functions, warns watchdog
BBC News (03/02/10): Whistleblower's claims about Cardiff asylum office


Child Asylum Seekers in the West Midlands

BBC News (08/02/10): Starting afresh in a foreign city

BBC News (08/02/10): Child asylum seeker numbers rise in West Midlands

See Also: BBC West Midlands Inside Out  programme on this issue.  Further details availble on

the Inside Out website and the programme is available to watch in the UK with the BBC iPlayer (29 minutes)

General Refugee and Asylum Related News Stories

The Guardian (11/02/10): 'Every Hindu and Sikh should be praising the BNP'

BBC News (11/02/10): Minister 'admits paying millions to detained migrants'
The Independent (11/02/10): Sri Lanka police fire tear gas on opposition in bid to quell protests
The Independent (11/02/10):  Leading article: Nelson Mandela's greatness transcended nation and tribe
The Independent (11/02/10): Joan Smith: Amnesty shouldn't support men like Moazzam Begg
The Independent (11/02/10):  Rankin in Africa: Images of love in a land of conflict.

See Also:  From Congo with Love exhibition details below.

The Daily Telegraph (10/02/10): Immigration officer rounds on Home Secretary

BBC News (10/02/10): Timeline: Democratic Republic of Congo

ICRC (10/02/10): ICRC activities in Iraq in 2009 – Facts and figures

The Daily Telegaph (10/02/10): Sir Andrew Green: the public are too polite on immigration

The Daily Telegraph (10/02/10: Reading: a Babel of dialects

The Daily Telegraph (10/02/10): Immigrants 'exploiting loophole at Stansted Airport to enter the country'

The Daily Telegraph (09/02/10): Mothers go on hunger strike at immigration centre after being separated from children

The Guardian (09/02/10): Police 'ignore' rights of sex trafficking victims

The Guardian (09/02/10): Yarl's Wood women on hunger strike 'locked up and denied treatment'

The Guardian (08/02/10): Spain sees sixfold increase in immigrants over decade

Amnesty International (08/02/10): Afghanistan: No impunity for war criminals

BBC News (08/02/10): Did immigration transform Britain by accident?

BBC News (08/02/10): Q&A: Sudan's Darfur conflict 

BBC News (07/02/10): French police close down illegal migrant shelter

The Daily Telegraph (07/02/10): Free flights for east Europe homeless

The Observer (07/02/10): Jobless migrants living in shanty towns offered free flights home

The Daily Telegraph (06/02/10): Joanna Lumley re-opens Gurkha battle

Human Rights Watch (05/02/10): Thailand: Cease Intimidation of Karen Refugees

Refugees International (05/02/10): UN Security Council: Progress on Sudan, Stagnancy on Somalia

The Guardian (05/02/10): Hideously diverse Britain: Born-again Britons at a citizenship ceremony 

Human Rights Watch (04/02/10): Kenya: Landmark Ruling on Indigenous Land Rights

The Daily Telegraph (04/02/2010): Nigerian prince would rather be sent back to torture than stay in "useless" Britain 

The Guardian (04/02/10): Solidarity is not an offence 

The Daily Telegraph (04/02/10): Failure to deport foreign criminals costs £60m a year

Human Rights Watch (04/02/10): Italy: Speed Investigations of Rosarno Attacks 

Human Rights Watch (03/02/10): EU: Follow Swiss Example of Accepting Guantanamo Detainees

BBC News (03/02/10): Timeline: Sudan 

The Guardian (03/02/10): Target apathy to stop the BNP

Exhibitions

An exhibition by the portrait photographer Rankin entitled From Congo with Love is currently featuring in a large exhibition being held at London's South Bank.  The exhibition has been develope din conjunction with Oxfam and displays "images and stories exploring romantic love, love lost, mother's love and the kindness of strangers, as well as photos taken by Congolese villagers with Rankin's guidance, providing an extraordinary insight into their everyday life."  There is also a book to accompany the exhibtion entitled `We Are Congo' which is available to purchase online. 

Image Copyright: Rankin / Oxfam.

Courses

Cultural aspects of working with refugees and asylum seekers, Leeds, 13 May 2010, organised by The Refugee Council, costs apply.  Further Details.  To Book, contact The Refugee Council: training@refugeecouncil.org.uk (Source: The Network).

Publications

Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (09/02/10): Press Release:  Human Rights Commission’s Annual Report 2008-2009  The full and final report in PDF fomrat is also available to download: Here.

From Congo With Love

Exhibition - From Congo With Love

An exhibition by the portrait photographer Rankin entitled From Congo with Love is currently featuring in a large exhibition being held at London's South Bank.  The exhibition has been develope din conjunction with Oxfam and displays "images and stories exploring romantic love, love lost, mother's love and the kindness of strangers, as well as photos taken by Congolese villagers with Rankin's guidance, providing an extraordinary insight into their everyday life."  There is also a book to accompany the exhibtion entitled `We Are Congo' which is available to purchase online. 

Image Copyright: Rankin / Oxfam.

Revised Archive Opening Hours

From February 2010, the opening hours for the Refugee Archives at UEL have been revised.  The changes are fairly minor in the sense that the only real change is that the Archive will now open at 10am every weekday. 

Full details are as follows:

• Mondays:  10am - 6pm
• Tuesdays:  10am - 7pm
• Wednesdays:  10am - 6pm
• Thursdays:  10am - 5pm
• Fridays:  10am - 1pm
• Saturdays:  Closed
• Sundays:  Closed

If  you have any further enquiries about these changes, please contact us on: library-archives@uel.ac.uk

Posted in: Refugee Archives.