Friday 25 June 2010

Updated News Stories

UK News

The Guardian (25/06/2010): Manningham gets English Heritage guide

The Guardian (25/06/2010): Government reconsidering plans to impose immigration cap

The Guardian (25/06/2010): Our guest the asylum seeker

IRR News (24/06/2010): Child detention review: the challenge for NGOs

IRR News (24/06/20100: Control orders challenged

The Guardian (24/06/2010): UK population nears 62 million

The Daily Telegraph (23/06/2010):: Britain should be tougher on foreign terrorist suspects, watchdog says

Refugee Council (21/06/2010): Refugee Week confirmed it: it's time for destitution and payment cards to end

The Guardian (21/06/2010): Immigration officials are failing victims of domestic violence

The Guardian (21/06/2010): These few who reached our shores for help face bureaucratic oblivion

The Guardian (20/06/2010): Destitution isn't an acceptable outcome of the asylum system

The Guardian (20/06/2010): Mohammad Razai: from child Afghan asylum seeker to Cambridge undergraduate

The Guardian (19/06/2010): Migrant charity must be paid now

The Guardian (18/06/2010): Refugees' perspectives on Britishness

The Guardian (18/06/2010): Iraqi asylum seekers claim they were beaten on flight to Baghdad

The Independent (18/06/2010): Deactivated: spy cameras that targeted Muslims

BBC News (18/06/2010): UK border officials 'beat deported Iraqis'

Refugee Council (17/06/2010): Refugee Council response to the closure of Refugee and Migrant Justice

The Guardian (17/06/2010): It's not just asylum seekers who need to make a case for legal aid

The Guardian (17/06/2010): Collapsed charity 'unable to manage its affairs'

The Guardian (16/06/2010): Denying child asylum seekers a legal lifeline


The Daily Telegraph (16/06/2010): Nobel Laureate Gary Becker says immigrants should pay

The Guardian (16/06/2010): The asylum seekers who survive on £10 a week

UKBA (15/06/2010): Immigration Minister hears views on ending child detention

The Guardian (15/06/2010): We must extend the rights of asylum seekers in the modern world

The Guardian (14/06/2010): Yarl's Wood staff criticised for poor investigation into child sex case

The Guardian (14/06/2010): Suspicion of migrants is deep-rooted – but not fixed


World News

The Independent (24/06/2010): Robert Fisk: Ghosts from the past: Syria's 30 years of fear

Amnesty International (24/06/2010): Uzbekistan must halt forcible return of refugees to Kyrgyzstan

Refugees International (23/06/2010): Iraqi Refugees: "The Unreturned" Documentary

UKBA (23/06/2010): Refugee Migrant Justice and finding a legal representative

Human Rights Watch (22/06/2010): Spain: Migrant Children at Risk

Human Rights Watch (21/06/2010): UN: Rights Council Condemns Violations in Kyrgyzstan

The Independent (18/06/2010): Aung San Suu Kyi's desperate plea to the world

The Independent (18/06/2010): Ultra-Orthodox Jews accused of racism over education demands

Amnesty International (17/06/2010): International investigation needed into Kyrgyzstan violence

Human Rights Watch (17/06/2010): The Plight of Women in Northern Iraq

The Independent (17/06/2010): Uzbek men: 'We need peacekeepers, otherwise there will be a sea of blood'

Human Rights Watch (17/06/2010): Kenya: Police Abuse Somali Refugees 

Human Rights Watch (17/06/2010): How Kenya welcomes refugees

Amnesty International (16/06/2010): Malaysia: Refugees arrested, abused and denied right to work

The Independent (15/06/2010): UN condemns escalating Kyrgyzstan violence

Amnesty International (15/06/2010): Kyrgyzstan neighbours urged to open borders 

Human Rights Watch (14/06/2010): Orphans of war deserve our support

Human Rights Watch (14/06/2010): US: Step Up Pressure on Allies Using Child Soldiers

Human Rights Watch (14/06/2010): Middle East: End 'Sponsored' Gateway to Human Trafficking

Minority Rights Group (14/06/2010): Interview opportunity: Dr Hunain Al-Qaddo, Head of Iraqi Minorities Organization

Monday 14 June 2010

Updated List of News Links

UK News

The Guardian (14 June 2010): Immigration will define Labour's leadership contest

The Guardian (14 June 2010): Being with your foreign spouse is a right, not a privilege

The Guardian (14 June 2010): Refugees: Go home office

The Guardian (14 June 2010): Asylum seekers' survey reveals most find UK 'welcoming'

The Daily Telegraph (13 June 2010): How King's Lynn views its new arrivals

The Daily Telegraph (13 June 2010): The towns in England where Poles are still arriving 

The Guardian (13 June 2010): Actually, Mr Balls, the impact of Poles has been positive

The Guardian (13 June 2010): Immigrants' contribution to entrepreneurialism revealed

IRR News (10 June 2010): Darfuri asylum seeker failed by the system

The Guardian (10 June 2010): Expecting immigrants to speak English is hypocritical

The Guardian (10 June 2010): Provision for Afghan child asylum seekers

The Independent (09 June 2010): Immigrants to face English language test 

The Independent (09 June 2010): Anger as asylum seekers forcibly returned to Iraq

The Daily Telegraph (09 June 2010): The Queen's English 

The Daily Telegraph (09 June 2010): Stowaway survives flight from Austria to London on Sheikh's jet

The Guardian (09 June 2010): David Cameron defends deportation of failed Iraqi asylum seekers

The Guardian (09 June 2010): The V&A through the eyes of refugees

Refugee Council (08 June 2010): Refugee Council response to the planned return of unaccompanied children seeking asylum to Afghanistan

Refugee Council (08 June 2010): Refugee Council response to planned return of Iraqi asylum seekers

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Deporting unaccompanied child migrants is immoral

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Don't delay deportation flight, government warns judges

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Gay asylum seekers need sanctuary, not secrecy

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Where do child asylum seekers to the UK come from?

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Tackling global poverty requires an ethical immigration policy

The Guardian (08 June 2010): Deporting children: where does our duty lie?



The Daily Telegraph (07 June 2010): Immigration: a late conversion 

The Daily Telegraph (07 June 2010): Separate worlds collide in the Kensington sunshine 

The Guardian (07 June 2010): Tabloid treatment of asylum seekers under fire

IRR News (03 June 2010): Threatened closure spells disaster for refugees

The Indepedent (03 June 2010): Darfuri teenager killed himself after being told – wrongly – of deportation

The Guardian (03 June 2010): Failed Iraq asylum seekers screened for forced deportation

The Guardian (03 June 2010): End this 'inhumane and expensive' asylum system

The Daily Telegraph (02 June 2010): Britain is full up - Cameron must act to stem the tide of immigration


World News

The Independent (14 June 2010): Kyrgyz gangs accused of 'genocide' as death toll rises

Human Rights Watch (13 June 2010): Kyrgyzstan: Decisive Action Needed to Rein in Violence

ICRC (13 June 2010): Kyrgyzstan: authorities and emergency services overwhelmed by brutal violence in the south

Amnesty International (12 June 2010): Kyrgyz government must protect its population

Amnesty International (12 June 2010): Colombia: human rights abusers must not be protected from justice

The Independent (11 June 2010): Africa Rising: A big day for football. A giant leap for a continent

The Independent (11 June 2010): Officers guilty of 1995 massacre in Srebrenica

The Independent (10 June 2010): Viktor Ivanov: The real price of Afghanistan

The Independent (10 June 2010): Mexico condemns US for shooting boy over border

Indigenous Portal (10 June 2010): Nepal: NEW AGREEMENT ENABLES UN TO CONTINUE HUMAN RIGHTS WORK

Amnesty International (10 June 2010): Serbia must end forced evictions of Roma 

Amnesty International (10 June 2010): Millions suffer in 'human rights free zone' in Northwest Pakistan

Human Rights Watch (10 June 2010): Burma’s authoritarian upgrade: 1990-2010

ICRC (09 June 2010): ICRC assists record numbers of IDPs in 2009

Amnesty International (09 June 2010): States must not ignore human rights in efforts to end poverty

Amnesty International (08 June 2010): Proposals threaten International Criminal Court’s independence

Amnesty International (08 June 2010): European states must stop the imminent forcible return of Iraqis

Refugees International (08 June 2010): Somali Refugees in Nairobi: Creating Pathways for Dignity and Independence

Human Rights Watch (07 June 2010): Saudi Arabia/Kuwait: Investigate Human Traffickers

Human Rights Watch (04 June 2010): EU: Defer Hasty Returns of Migrant Children

Human Rights Watch (01 June 2010): Pakistan: Massacre of Minority Ahmadis