Newsletters. Journals and Table of Contents (ToC).

The table of contents for the latest issue of International Migration Review - Volume 42 Issue 2, (June 2008): Pages 273-520 - is now available online via the Blackwell Synergy website at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/imre/42/2

"Refugee Voices" is a forum provided by Helsinki Citizens' Assembly
(Turkey) Refugee Advocacy and Support Program and dedicated to the views
and voices of refugees living in Turkey.
Please find the English version of the most recent issue (Spring 2008) at:
http://www.hyd.org.tr/?pid=637
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

The table of contents for the latest issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies – Volume 21 Number 2, (June 2008) – is now available via the Oxford Journals website at: http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl

Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, no. 2008-1 [full-text]
- This issue focuses on psychosocial support programs.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

AWR Bulletin, vol. 46, no. 1 (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles on migrants/asylum seekers in Europe.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 22, no. 2 (Winter 2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles including one on the use of teleconferencing in asylum removal hearings.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 90, no. 869 (March 2008) [contents]
- The focus of this issue is Humanitarian Law and Action in Iraq.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Posted in: Periodicals.

News Stories (11/06/08)

Last-ditch push over terror vote (BBC Online) - [text online]

Somalia's factions sign ceasefire (BBC Online) - [text online]

Former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Stevens backs 42-day detention (The Times) - [text online]

Rumour and suspicion that threatens Afghan aid (The Times) - [text online]

Robert Mugabe's thugs turn to burning people alive (The Times) - [text online]

Poll:British public wants 42-day terror detention (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Brown enters the final hours of his battle to win vote on 42 days (The Independent) - [text online]

Unity government talks offer hope to Zimbabwe (The Independent) - [text online]

UN's most expensive mission exposed as farcical shambles (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Chad: Facts and figures snapshot report, 09 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Sri Lanka: Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Ampara districts Situation Report # 129 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 28, 29 May - 10 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: "Alliance" divided over Djibouti peace accord (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: WFP continues to make progress in reaching victims of cyclone (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Burundi: govt and rebels commit to end violence (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: WFP cuts back air service for aid workers because of lack of funding (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: UNHCR against confrontation, for cooperation in South Kivu (ReliefWeb0) - [text online]

Iraq refugees coralled as Home Office asylum net widens (The Guardian) - [text online]

Colombia/Ecuador: disappearances (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

Nobel Peace Prize winner writes book on Iranian refugee law for UNHCR (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Sicilian trawler and UNHCR help in rescue of 27 Somalians (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR chief discusses southern Africa with Lesotho leader (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR works against confrontation and for cooperation in South Kivu (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Not just business as usual for refugees in Pakistan (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Refugee Week reveals the many faces of refugees as it celebrates its tenth anniversary (Refugee Council) - [text online]

10th Refugee Week kicks off with football tournament and family fun day (Refugee Council) - [text online]

UK: Proposed 42-day Pre-Charge Detention Violates Rights (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

New Report Sharply Criticizes Security Council Over Darfur (VOA News) - [text online]

Kenya: Resettlement of IDPs Flops Due to Intense Ethnic Hate (allafrica.com) - [text online]

UN says global food aid deliveries reach lowest level in almost 50 years (UN News) - [text online]

Former Rwandan official pleads not guilty before UN genocide tribunal (UN News) - [text online]

UN refugee agency calls for probe into attacks on Colombian refugees (UN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (09/06/08)

Zimbabwe vote 'not free and fair' (BBC News) - [text online]

Ceremony marks Hindu school work (BBC News) - [text online]

ID cards 'could threaten privacy' (BBC News) - [text online]

'Military coup' in Zimbabwe as Mugabe is forced to cede power to generals (The Times) - [text online]

MI5 has not called for 42 day detention, Jacqui Smith admits (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Victory on 42 days will not halt bid to oust Brown (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe's brutality to force election victory is revealed (The Independent) - [text online]

Thousands of cyclone dead 'may never be identified' (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : West Africa: Humanitarian situation report 08 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Death toll rises to 16 in Mogadishu violence after relatively calm days (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

North, south Sudanese draw up "road map" on Abyei (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Aid cutoff a 'deplorable decision' - UN humanitarian chief (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Cities of Sanctuary across the UK? (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Points-based system: English language tests (Home Office: UK Borders Agency) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Runoff Vote Will Be ‘Dead on Arrival’ (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

MYANMAR: Food assistance “likely” for up to a year (IRINNews) - [text online]

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: The world's first climate change "refugees" (IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Occupation is a "millstone" around Israel's neck, report says (IRIN News) - [text online]

Security Council team and Sudanese President hold talks in Khartoum (UN News) - [text online]

UN advises ending of refugee status for Sierra Leoneans who fled country (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Fear versus democracy (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOUTH AFRICA: Assumani Bora: "These people here don't like foreigners" (IRIN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (07/06/08)

Brown terror plea to Labour MPs (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe halts opposition rallies (BBC News) - [text online]

Ugandan rebels 'prepare for war' (BBC News) - [text online]

Yellow fever hits Congo deportees (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma hits out at cyclone reports (BBC News) - [text online]

Turkey headscarf ruling attacked (BBC News) - [text online]

France deports genocide suspect (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe accused of using food as 'political weapon' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Bangladesh: End Mass Arrests, Release Detainees (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

South Africa: Protect Victims of Xenophobic Violence (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Hope Vetoed (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Discrimination in the name of integration (IRR) - [text online]

Amdani Juma - deportation delayed (IRR) - [text online]

Past Due: Remove the FDLR from Eastern Congo (ENOUGH Project) - [text online]. [Report and Activist Brief]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 10 - 30 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 27 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Southern Sudan: Abyei displacement - OCHA Situation Report No. 15 - 05 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Focus on Ethiopia - May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 21, 25 - 31 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Somalia Humanitarian Overview Vol. 1 Issue 5 - May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin no. 18, 05 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Note on Emergencies: Latin America & The Caribbean - Year 2, Issue 57 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 28 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Govt suspends field operations by all NGOs, detains diplomats (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: UNHCR condemns rebels' deadly attack on IDP camp, aid workers also injured (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Activists urge Security Council on ICC indictments (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: With monsoon season, increased disease risk in cyclone-stricken delta (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Briton sues over deportation as failed asylum seeker (The Guardian) - [text online]

In praise of ... Jhumpa Lahiri (The Guardian) - [text online]

Adrift in the UK (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR condemns attack on displaced people in eastern D.R. Congo (UNHCR Press Release) - [text online]

UNHCR declares cessation of refugee status for Sierra Leoneans (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

When a plastic sheet means more than shelter (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Q&A: Countess works in a noble cause (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Refugee status for Sierra Leoneans to end (UNHCR News) - [text online]

International recognition for clean, safe ethanol stove used by refugee (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Nicaraguan parliamentarians pass key refugee legislation (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR condemns deadly attack on camp for displaced Congolese (UNHCR News) - [text online]

World Environment Day: Roma scrap collectors get by in Montenegro camp (UNHCR News) - [text online]

IDP Voices (Researching Refugees Blog) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: top UN official urges lifting of restrictions on aid groups (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur's child refugees being sold to militias (The Guardian) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (04/06/08)

Armies 'head for central Sudan' (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe blocks 'political' aid (BBC News) - [text online]

UN sets out food crisis measures (BBC News) - [text online]

Detentions over Indonesia clashes (BBC News) - [text online]

Rally to mark Tiananmen victims (BBC News) - [text online]

World Bank in Afghan aid warning (BBC News) - [text online]

UK man charged at Guantanamo Bay (BBC News) - [text online]

Robert Mugabe accuses West of trying to starve him out (The Times) - [text online]

Zimbabwe crisis: White farming couple beaten and kicked off land (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]


Britishness Day is not the British way (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Zimbabwe's land reforms are an example to all, claims Mugabe (The Independent) - [text online]

Only a 'grave threat' would trigger 42-day detention, say ministers (The Independent) - [text online]

All agree there is a food crisis. But the argument is how to deal with it (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 27 13 - 28 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : South Africa: Violence against foreigners Situation Report No. 3 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

China: Additional United Nations aid delivered to earthquake victims (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: number of people in temporary shelters decreasing-WHO (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Afghanistan: Export restrictions and insecurity delay food aid delivery (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: Government incentives for IDPs, refugees to return (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: AU and UN to name joint chief mediator to bring peace to Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

US: Challenge Israel’s Restrictions on Gaza Students (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

US: Protect Health of Immigrants in Detention (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UN Security Council: Insist on Justice for Darfur (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Italy: Halt Expulsion of Tunisian at Risk of Torture (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

A city built on sanctuary (The Guardian) - [text online]

Ukraine: UNHCR condemns murder of Nigerian (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

UNHCR condemns murder of Nigerian in Ukraine (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Determination and hard work help 1972 Burundian returnees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

£12.5 Million to Tackle Radicalistation and Help Prevent Extremism in Communities (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Eastern European migration falls Quarterly Asylum, Accession Monitoring and Bulgarian and Romanian statistics published today (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

First batch of Chadian police and gendarmerie graduate from UN training course (UN News) - [text online]

Words must be put into action to fight human trafficking – Assembly President (UN News) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: Communal violence disrupts relief efforts in the east (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN continues efforts to promote peace in Darfur and southern Sudan (UN News) - [text online]

More than 1 million Myanmar cyclone victims have received aid, says UN (UN News) - [text online]

UGANDA: Unaccompanied children of war (IRIN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (03/06/08)

UN sets out food crisis measures (BBC News) - [text online]

New appeal for N Korea food aid (BBC News) - [text online]

'Obscene': Mugabe's arrival at food summit provokes outrage (The Independent) - [text online]

Revolt against 42 days crumbles (BBC News) - [text online]

Danish embassy bombed in protest at cartoons (BBC News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 26 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UN General Assembly to focus on fight against human trafficking on June 3 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sri Lanka flash floods kill 9, displace thousands (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

South Africa: Relocation process exacerbates trauma of displaced people - MSF (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Humanitarian air bridge up and running (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

August bank holiday could be celebration of Britishness (The Guardian) - [text online]

Iraqi family board a flight to Australia and the end of their journey (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Turkey update no.5 - a nice little earner... (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Despite promises, Myanmar limits access for aid agencies (Herald Tribune) - [text online]

Chad, Central African Republic: UN envoy welcomes release of child soldiers (UN News) - [text online]

SOUTH AFRICA: Hospitality - too little, too late (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN mission calls on Darfurians to seek peace (UN News) - [text online]

Visiting Security Council team meets Somali leaders during stop in Djibouti (UN News) - [text online]

Secretary-General deplores deadly embassy bombing in Pakistani capital (UN News) - [text online]

MYANMAR: Humanitarian air bridge up and running (IRIN News) - [text online]

PAKISTAN: Concerns about humanitarian access, safety of aid workers (IRIN News) - [text online]

Ban welcomes ‘positive’ humanitarian steps by Israel and Hizbollah (UN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

Posted in: News.

News Stories (02/06/08)

Brown urges terror plan support (BBC News) - [text online]

UN mission to study African wars (BBC News) - [text online]

Mugabe food talks trip 'obscene' (BBC News) - [text online]

Gordon Brown warns 42-day terror detention rebels that he won't back down (The Times) - [text online]

Zimbabwean migrants who sought new life limp back into Robert Mugabe's arms (The Times) - [text online]

Lord Goldsmith warns Gordon Brown over 42-day terror detention (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]


We shouldn't hold terror suspects for 42 days (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Swiss defeat citizenship law (The Independent) - [text online]

Hostility to immigrants 'is holding UK back' (The Independent) - [text online]

'I will be dead within days of going back to Baghdad' (The Independent) - [text online]

Murdered by Mugabe's mob (The Independent) - [text online]

Aid appeal for Ethiopian children (BBC News) - [text online]

Apartheid 'not root of SA riots' (BBC News) - [text online]

Abyei Aflame: An Update From the Field (Enough Project) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian needs and response in Chad: Information Bulletin - 30 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 21, 21-27 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Afghanistan: IDPs need urgent aid due to escalating insecurity (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Egypt: Investigate Forcible Return of Refugees to Sudan (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UNHCR welcomes adoption of accord banning cluster bombs (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR releases 2,000 more tents for South Africa xenophobia victims (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Turkey update no.4 - The end of the road (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Turkey Update no.3 - An uncertain future (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Third World migrants behind our 2.3m population boom (Daily Mail) - [text online]

Figures re-open immigration debate (Daily Express) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: Jalozai camp closed, returnees face difficulties at home (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN food chief urges more funding to support aid work after Myanmar cyclone (UN News) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: IDPs in Helmand need urgent aid (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN refugee agency welcomes adoption of pact to ban cluster bombs (UN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

Posted in: News.