News Stories (19/05/08)

Burma 'guilty of inhuman action' (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe attacks 'out of control' (BBC News) - [text online]

China quake victims flee 'flood' (BBC News) - [text online]

US resumes North Korea food aid (BBC News) - [text online]

France angered by Burmese delays (BBC News) - [text online]

US aid 'failing to reach target' (BBC News) - [text online]

Britain to back air drops to deliver aid to Burmese cyclone victims (The Times) - [text online]

Police face scrutiny over the arrest of radical jihadist who renounced violence (The Times) - [text online]

China's new people's army pours out to help victims of the quake (The Times) - [text online]

I was tortured to confess, Pervez tells appeal court (The Independent) - [text online]

Aid breakthrough in sight for Burmese storm victims (The Independent) - [text online]

Twelve dead in anti-foreigner attacks on Zimbabweans (The Independent) - [text online]

Italian tolerance goes up in smoke as Gypsy camp is burnt to ground (The Independent) - [text online]

Woman 'bought baby to get a council flat' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 26, 28 Apr - 12 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 11 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 15, 6-13 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Gaza Strip inter-agency humanitarian fact sheet, Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 14 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 13 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Australians flee UK in droves as credit woes bite (The Guardian) - [text online]

Boy, three, suffering from sickle cell disease to be deported (The Guardian) - [text online]

Call to offer genetic screening for married cousins (The Guardian) - [text online]

Texans sue Bush administration over Mexico border fence (The Guardian) - [text online]

'The government has to admit that mistakes will be made' (The Guardian) - [audio online]

Myanmar: third plane of UNHCR airlift reaches Yangon (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

Chad: concerns over increasing violence in east (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

Guterres urges more international help for refugees in Yemen (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned about increasing violence in east Chad (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR distributes aid to 40,000 displaced Somalis near Mogadishu (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Q&A: In search of cheaper, safer fuel for refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Darfur: ‘Scorched Earth’ Tactics Warrant UN Sanctions (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Uganda: LRA Regional Atrocities Demand Action (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Large scale expansion of Britain's detention estate (Home Office: UK Border Agency) - [text online]

UN gears up to mount relief effort after thousands of Sudanese flee disputed town (UN News) - [text online]

MYANMAR: UN humanitarian chief arrives in Yangon to boost aid efforts (IRIN News) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: “I sold my daughter to feed the rest of my family” (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/

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News Stories (15/05/08)

Palestinians mark 'catastrophe' (BBC News) - [text online]

New deadline for Zimbabwe's vote (BBC News) - [text online]

Taylor 'ignored rebel protests' (BBC News) - [text online]

Somali surprise at Ethiopia aid (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma 'approves new constitution' (BBC News) - [text online]

Police apologise over mosque show (BBC News) - [text online]

Myanmar cyclone: 130,000 may have died as second storm gathers (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

MoD gives in over calls for public inquiry into Baha Musa's death (The Times) - [text online]

New blow to detention plan (The Independent) - [text online]

Afghanistan: What hope is there for the lost children of the bazaar? (The Independent) - [text online]

Re-Release: Creating a Peace to Keep in Darfur - A Joint Report by the ENOUGH Project and the Save Darfur Coalition (Enough Project) - [text online]

Burma: Donor States Must Monitor Aid (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 10 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DRC: After two key deals, what progress towards peace in North Kivu? (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Darfur conflict threatens to enter new cycle of violence (reliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Six cyclone-affected areas are top priority for relief and assessment (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Rewards for good hospitals, action on failing schools (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR launches overland returns from Zambia to Moba in DRC (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Netherlands: Discrimination in the Name of Integration (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Kenya: Proposed Truth Commission Bill Seriously Flawed (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Burma: What You Can Do To Help (Refugees International) - [text online]

YEMEN: ICRC appeals for more funds as IDP numbers rise (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN refugee agency begins overland return operation from Zambia to DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur conflict threatens to enter new cycle of violence – top UN official (UN News) - [text online]

DRC: After two key deals, what progress towards peace in North Kivu? (IRIN News) - [text online]

UNICEF feeds 44,000 displaced Somali children (UN News) - [text online]

Much bigger aid effort needed for Myanmar – Ban Ki-moon (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/

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Reconstituting a Traumatized Community Workshop

Reconstituting a Traumatized Community

The German-Speaking Refugees of the 1930s and their Legacy to Britain

A Workshop and Public Discussion at the British Academy

10 Carlton House Terrace. London SW 1

on Tuesday 24th June 2008

This event marks the completion of the project to create a database of ‘British Archival Resources Relating to German-Speaking Refugees, 1933-1950’ (BARGE), undertaken by researchers at the University of Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies and funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. The aim of the Workshop is to promote further discussion and research about processes of acculturation and the contribution of the refugees to all aspects of public life. The evening Public Discussion will consider whether the study of past experiences of immigration and integration may shed light on the very topical issues of cultural diversity and social cohesion in multi-ethnic Britain.

Programme: The German-Speaking Refugees of the 1930s and their Legacy

13.30: welcoming tea, coffee and soft drinks

14.00: Introduction: Professor Edward Timms OBE, FBA (University of Sussex, Principal Investigator for the BARGE project)

14.15: Presentations:

‘Refugee Archives: Theory and Practice’, presented by Dr Andrea Hammel (Sussex)

The BARGE database: online presentation by Ms Samira Teuteberg (Sussex)

15.00: ‘Reconstituting a Traumatized Community’: a reassessment of the problems of acculturation by Dr Marion Berghahn, author of the recently republished sudy Continental Britons (followed by a discussion)

16.00: Tea

16.30: ‘The Impact of Refugee Scientists’: a paper by Professor Gustav Born FRS, author of The Born Family in Göttingen and Beyond (followed by a discussion)

17.00: ‘Doctors and Nurses: Contrasting Responses to the Refugee Crisis of the 1930s’: a paper by Prof Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University) followed by a discussion

18.00: Finger buffet for workshop participants

19.00: Immigration, Diversity and Integration: Past Experience and Present Trends Public Discussion, chaired by Professor Christian Wiese (Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies), with a panel of invited speakers, including Prof. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton) and Prof Stephen Castles (University of Oxford), followed by a Drinks Reception

The Workshop and the Discussion are organized by the University of Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies in collaboration with the British Academy.

For further details and to register for the afternoon workshop, please contact the British Academy (http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2008/barge/index.html or 0207 969 5238).

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Reconstituting a Traumatized Community Workshop

Reconstituting a Traumatized Community

The German-Speaking Refugees of the 1930s and their Legacy to Britain

A Workshop and Public Discussion at the British Academy

10 Carlton House Terrace. London SW 1

on Tuesday 24th June 2008

This event marks the completion of the project to create a database of ‘British Archival Resources Relating to German-Speaking Refugees, 1933-1950’ (BARGE), undertaken by researchers at the University of Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies and funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. The aim of the Workshop is to promote further discussion and research about processes of acculturation and the contribution of the refugees to all aspects of public life. The evening Public Discussion will consider whether the study of past experiences of immigration and integration may shed light on the very topical issues of cultural diversity and social cohesion in multi-ethnic Britain.

Programme: The German-Speaking Refugees of the 1930s and their Legacy

13.30: welcoming tea, coffee and soft drinks

14.00: Introduction: Professor Edward Timms OBE, FBA (University of Sussex, Principal Investigator for the BARGE project)

14.15: Presentations:

‘Refugee Archives: Theory and Practice’, presented by Dr Andrea Hammel (Sussex)

The BARGE database: online presentation by Ms Samira Teuteberg (Sussex)

15.00: ‘Reconstituting a Traumatized Community’: a reassessment of the problems of acculturation by Dr Marion Berghahn, author of the recently republished sudy Continental Britons (followed by a discussion)

16.00: Tea

16.30: ‘The Impact of Refugee Scientists’: a paper by Professor Gustav Born FRS, author of The Born Family in Göttingen and Beyond (followed by a discussion)

17.00: ‘Doctors and Nurses: Contrasting Responses to the Refugee Crisis of the 1930s’: a paper by Prof Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University) followed by a discussion

18.00: Finger buffet for workshop participants

19.00: Immigration, Diversity and Integration: Past Experience and Present Trends Public Discussion, chaired by Professor Christian Wiese (Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies), with a panel of invited speakers, including Prof. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton) and Prof Stephen Castles (University of Oxford), followed by a Drinks Reception

The Workshop and the Discussion are organized by the University of Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies in collaboration with the British Academy.

For further details and to register for the afternoon workshop, please contact the British Academy (http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2008/barge/index.html or 0207 969 5238).

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News Stories (14/05/08).

Thai premier in Burma aid talks (BBC News) - [text online]

Longer terror limit 'unnecessary' (BBC News) - [text online]

Sudan want rebels on terror list (BBC News) - [text online]

Somali sides urged to find peace (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel may ease grip in Tony Blair deal revive West Bank (The Times) - [text online]

Europe's most racist fans come to Britain (and there's not a black player in sight) (The Independent) - [text online]

Burmese junta accused of hoarding food aid and handing out rotten rice (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe's Revenge: Halting the Violence in Zimbabwe (Enough Project) - [text online]

Kyrgyzstan: Do Not Return Asylum Seeker to Uzbekistan (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Sudan: Mass Arrests After Rebel Attack Raise Concern (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Roadmap to Autocracy: Burma’s Referendum is a Sham (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 9 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]. For Maps on Cyclone Nargis and Myanmar:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.nsf/doc404?OpenForm&emid=TC-2008-000057-MMR&rc=3

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Tajikistan: Compound crisis OCHA Situation Report No. 8 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: UN SG 'deeply disappointed' at continuing violence in Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Displaced and stranded in need of food, shelter, medicine, water as responders reach more affected by Cyclone Nargis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Violence affects aid work, UN wants government to assess (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: To air drop aid or not? (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

More than 300 Kenyan refugees return home from Uganda (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR shelter supplies reach Yangon by air, road (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Denmark's Crown Princess Mary visits UNHCR headquarters (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Security Council slates weekend attacks by Darfur rebels near Sudanese capital (UN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: UN voices concern over politically-motivated violence (UN News) - [text online]

UN official welcomes new economic measures to help Palestinians (UN News) - [text online]

Ban Ki-moon ‘deeply disappointed’ at continuing violence in Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: UN says violence affecting aid, wants to assess (IRIN News) - [text online]

Bosnian Croat commander jailed by UN tribunal to serve time in Italy (UN News) - [text online]

Myanmar faces second catastrophe without more access for aid – UN (UN News) - [text online]

MYANMAR-THAILAND: Migrants rally to help at home (IRIN News) - [text online]

Refugees can resume returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan – UN (UN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: Government negligent in tackling human displacement - MP (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN refugee chief to head to Yemen (UN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Govt raises funds, resettlement ongoing despite hitches (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/

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Refugee Archives at UEL: Saturday Openings.

Just a quick reminder that the Archive will be open this coming Saturday from 10am-5pm. The current dates in question are listed below:

Saturday 26 April 2008: 10am-5pm

Saturday 10 May 2008: 10am-5pm

Saturday 7 June 2008: 10am-5pm

If you would like this last Saturday to be switched, then do please let me know via e-mail on p.v.dudman@uel.ac.uk or 020 8223 7676 or just pop in and let me know. Any feedback on this matter will also be very much appreciated and will help in the planning for the opening hours over the summer and for next semester.

As a consequence of working these Saturdays, I will be taking some time off in lieu. This will mean that I will be out of the office all day on the Fridays listed below:

Friday 25 April 2008 (all day).

Friday 2 May 2008 (all day).

Friday 9 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 16 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 23 May 2008 (all day)

Friday 20 June 2008 (all day)

Friday 27 June 2008 (all day)

Posted in: News and Archives & Libraries.

News Stories (13/05/08)

Search for China quake survivors (BBC News) - [text online]

UN frustrated at Burma response (BBC News) - [text online]

US court allows apartheid claims (BBC News) - [text online]

Horta wants UN to stay in E Timor (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma: disease fears realised in cyclone aftermath (The Times) - [text online]

First US aid flight arrives in Burma as new storm looms (The Independent) - [text online]

Frantic search for thousands trapped by Chinese quake (The Independent) - [text online]

Al-Sadr ceasefire allows troops to enter Shia slum (The Independent) - [text online]

Opinion divided over air drops (The Independent) - [text online]

Pole who saved 2,500 children from the Nazis dies (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Note on Emergencies: Latin America & The Caribbean - Year 2, Issue 56 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Kenya: OCHA Situation Report No. 1 - Focus on Karamoja, 01 Jan - 30 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Schools can do more to help refugee children integrate - a new report by the Refugee Council (Refugee Council) - [text online]. For a copy of the report go to: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/inclusiveschools

RC highlights independent support for right to work (Refugee Council) - [text online]. You can access the report here - http://www.vulnerableworkers.org.uk/files/CoVE_short_report.pdf

Launch of 'Let them work' (Refugee Council) - [text online]

China: Official at quake epicenter appeals for emergency aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Uganda: Humanitarian community concerned by forced removal of lone children from Kampala streets (reliefWeb) - [text online]

Lebanon: Aid agencies hampered by threat of further violence (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar pipeline opening up - IFRC (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Aid airlifts land, government now opens to UN to distribute relief goods (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Rebel raid stirs possible war with Chad (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR trucks arrive in Yangon with shelter aid for 10,000 people (UNHCR Press Release) - [text online]

Myanmar: UNHCR airlift, trucks reach Yangon with shelter supplies (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

High Commissioner mission to Yemen (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: Call for food aid from conflict-hit Helmand Province (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Watermelons, conflict and climate change (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN Closes Afghan Refugee Centre (Afghanistan Conflict Monitor) - [text online]

UN agency suspends returns of Afghan refugees (UN News) - [text online]

Talks begin between Somali Government and opposition group – UN (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/

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