A Selection of News Stories (08 February 2010).

Iraq Elections

The Independent (08/03/10): New wave of fear sweeps Baghdad as Iraqis vote

The Independent (08/03/10): Robert Fisk: Once again, a nation walks through fire to give the West its 'democracy'

The Times (08/03/10): Millions of Iraqis defy bomb and rocket attacks to vote

The Daily Telegraph (07/03/10): Iraq Election: World leaders praise bravery of Iraqi voters after election 

BBC News (06/03/10): Deadly Iraq car bomb near Shia shrine in Najaf 

The Independent (05/03/10): Leading article: Iraq steps into a fragile and uncertain future

Human Rights Watch (01/03/10): Iraq: Candidates Should Promote Human Rights



United Kingdom


UKBA (11/03/10): Man jailed for trying to sell his own sister

Amnesty International (08/03/10): Cambodia's government must protect victims of sexual violence as reports of rape increase A full PDF file of this report is also available to download - [ASA 23/001/2010 - PDF].

BBC News (08/03/10): Police inquire into identity of Glasgow flat deaths

The Observer (07/03/10): A happy ending for the Gurkhas? Think again

The Observer (07/03/10): Migrant children face ordeal after lone journey to Britain

The Daily Telegraph (07/03/10): Three die after falling from Glasgow block of flats

The Daily Telegraph (06/03/10): The strange case of the vanishing hunger strike

UKBA (05/03/10): Expensive week for Bedfordshire businesses

UKBA (05/03/10): Restaurant staff from Waterlooville arrested for illegal working

The Guardian (05/03/10): Snoop Dogg wins battle with Border Agency to re-enter UK

The Guardian (04/03/10): Unskilled Britain

The Guardian (04/03/10): Asda and Unite to tackle migrant discrimination

The Daily Telegraph (03/03/10): Muslim woman barred from flight after refusing body scan

The Daily Telegraph (02/03/10): Fatwa issued against suicide bombing

The Guardian (02/03/10): The return of the Irish brain drain

UKBA (02/03/10): Officers smash bogus marriage ring in Bolton

Human Rights Watch (02/03/10): Women, Asylum and the UK Border Agency

The Guardian (01/03/10): The real distress at Yarl's Wood

BBC News (01/03/10): Oxford bid for 'Sanctuary City' status

BBC News (01/03/10): Advice pack for migrants and refugees in Wales 

UKBA (01/03/10): Protecting the UK border by boosting overseas cooperation

UKBA (01/03/10): Hartlepool Chinese takeaways face fines of £40,000 over illegal workers


World

The Independent (08/03/10): Film awakens France's shame in the Holocaust

The Independent (08/03/10): Paul Collier: The crisis in Haiti shows we need a new approach to NGOs

Survival International (04/03/10): Guatemala adopts indigenous rights into Constitution

The Daily Telegraph (04/03/10): US labels Turkish killing 'genocide'

Survival International (03/03/10): UN report condemns Botswana’s treatment of Bushmen

UKBA (03/03/10): Illegal workers face being deported

UKBA (03/03/10): Tier 4 changes from 3 March 2010 - information for education providers

The Guardian (02/03/10): We work, we strike

BBC News (02/03/10): Probe into border staff 'racial prejudice' claims

BBC News (02/03/10): Chad gives UN peacekeeping force extra two months

UKBA (02/03/10): Illegal workers jailed for using fake passports

BBC News (01/03/10): Big rise in Afghan child migrants

Conferences and Training Events

Conferences and Training Events

Refugee Council One Day Course: ‘Age assessment awareness and working with age-disputed children.

15^th October 2008.

Full details can be found on the Refugee Council website at: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/eventsandtraining/training/service/fulldetails.htm

Refugee Council Two Day Course: Key issues in asylum & Introduction to asylum support.

10^th & 11^th November 2008.

Full details can be found on the Refugee Council website at: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/eventsandtraining/training/service/fulldetails.html

Managing economic migration and its impacts

19 Nov 2008, London
The Institute for Employment Studies annual public employment policy conference. Full details can be found at the following web link:

http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/policy/event.php?id=191108p

Posted in: Conferences & Events.

Women's Asylum News

We recently received a significant donation of back issues of the journal entitled "Women’s Asylum News." The donation consisted Issues 49 (Feb 2005) through to Issue 74 (April 2008). This donation was very kindly given to us by the Refugee Women’s Resource Project @ Asylum Aid and supplements the back issues of this journal that we already held so we now hold an almost complete run from 2002 (Issue 20) onwards.

Further details about the Refugee Women's resource Project and online copies of the journal can be found via their web site at:

http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/publications.php?category=5&search=Search

Posted in: Periodicals.

Women's Asylum News

The Refugee Women's Resource Project has just published online the latest edition of their Women's Asylum News periodical (September/October 2007). This edition is available full test on their website at:

http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/New%20RWRP/WAN/Issue%20no%2069%20sept%20oct%20final%20pdf.pdf.

New Home Office RDS Publications

The UK Home Office RDS (Research Development Statistics) Department have just published two new statistical reports. These are:

Home Office Statistical Bulletin 14/07 - Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 2006

Asylum Statistics: 2nd Quarter 2007 United Kingdom

They can be downloaded in PDF format from the Home Office RDS website at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html

ECOI.net

ECOI.net is an online resource which provides up-to-date and publicly available country of origin information with a special focus on the needs of asylum lawyers, refugee counsels and persons deciding on claims for asylum and other forms of international protection. Access to information is facilitated by a comprehensive search tool and Topics & Issues files, offering thematically structured information on asylum-relevant topics and issues for a set of focus countries.

Web: http://www.ecoi.net/

Researching Asylum in London (RAL). Major new website

Researching Asylum in London (RAL). Major new website

(note from HC: well worth looking at/being aware of this)
www.researchasylum.org.uk

RAL is an independent database of research on refugee and asylum issues relevant to London. The aim of this project is to make research more accessible to service providers and policy-makers working in the field. The database contains summaries of research and the aims, methodology, key findings, conclusions and recommendations are easily identifiable. You can search by keywords, explore by population or theme or browse by location. The site already includes the final report of the Project Co-ordinator from the pilot phase of Welcome To Your Library. The site is hosted by the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR) and the About Us section of the website provides fuller information on how the site came about, criteria for inclusion and how to suggest items for inclusion.