News Stories (14/08/08)

Russia begins Georgia handover (BBC News) - [text online]

Minorities set to be US majority (BBC News) - [text online]

Sudan 'launches attack in Darfur' (BBC News) - [text online]

Thousands flee homes in S Lanka (BBC News) - [text online]

George Bush squares up to Vladimir Putin over Georgia (The Times) - [text online]

Bush sends message to Russia with aid mission to Georgia (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe must back down, says rival (The Independent) - [text online]

Three female foreign aid workers shot dead in Afghan ambush (The Independent) - [text online]

Destitute and traumatised, the refugees forced to flee South Ossetia (The Independent) - [text online]

Johann Hari: We need to stop being such cowards about Islam (The Independent) - [text online]

Afghanistan: UN humanitarian chief deplores killing of aid workers (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Georgia: Large-scale humanitarian aid still needed - ICRC (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: NGOs urge action on displacement crisis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 31, 31 Jul - 08 Aug 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Situation Report No. 1 on the Situation in Georgia 12 Aug 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR shocked, saddened by deaths of IRC aid workers in Afghanistan (UNHCR) - [text online]

Yemen's coast guards rescue boat people; six still missing (UNHCR) - [text online]

Afghan ceramists sweeten the pot in Balochistan (UNHCR) - [text online]

SADC: Adopt Gender and Development Protocol (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Georgian Villages in South Ossetia Burnt, Looted (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Safe Corridor Urgently Needed for Civilians in Gori District (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Russians pulling out of Gori, says Georgian foreign ministry (The Guardian) - [text online]

Six missing after attempted sea crossing from Somalia to Yemen – UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

INTERVIEW-ICRC seeks safety guarantee to aid in S. Ossetia (Reuters Alertnet) - [text online]

PHILIPPINES: Tens of thousands displaced in fresh fighting (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Dashed hopes all round (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: NGOs urge action on displacement crisis (IRIN News) - [text online]

Rebel groups must unite to reach lasting solution for Darfur – UN military official (UN News) - [text online]

Ban urges parties to implement proposed Georgia peace plan (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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News Stories (12/08/08)

Assaults add pressure on Georgia (BBC News) - [text online]

UN helicopter fired on in Darfur (BBC News) - [text online]

Russian troops take first steps deep into Georgian territory (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Georgian army flees in disarray as Russians advance (The Times) - [text online]

Russia tightens the noose (The Independent) - [text online]

Russian leadership: Putin in his element as successor is left in back seat (The Independent) - [text online]

Beleaguered president: Gambler who risked his country and links with West (The Independent) - [text online]

Mary Dejevsky: Intervention may breed instability (The Independent) - [text online]

London's Jewish radio station closes after Galloway sues (The Independent) - [text online]

Georgia/Russia: Do Not Attack Civilians in South Ossetia (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Guatemala: 12 years after conflict, few solutions for ISPs or other victims (IDMC) - [Full Overview (html/pdf)]

Zimbabwe: Rights group urges SADC to make end to ongoing abuses (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Former "Triangle of Death" becomes source of hope again (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Georgia: ICRC makes USD 7.4m preliminary emergency appeal (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Horn of Africa at tipping point warns ActionAid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Philippines: Nearly 130,000 displaced due to fierce clashes in south (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Former foes not fully withdrawn from Abyei despite plan aimed at defusing tensions (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR airlifting humanitarian aid for displaced from South Ossetia conflict (UNHCR) - [text online]

South Ossetia situation (UNHCR) - [text online]

October concert for late tenor Pavarotti to benefit Afghans (UNHCR) - [text online]

PricewaterhouseCoopers donates $4 million to educate Darfur's refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

For aid agencies, security comes at a price (Refugees Intertnational) - [text online]

BURUNDI: Séraphine Ngendakumana - "I have never been home, I know nobody" (IRIN News) - [text online]

Clashes with Muslim rebels in Philippines displace thousands (Christian Science Monitor) - [text online]

YEMEN: Thousands of IDPs face difficult conditions - ICRC (IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL: Eritrean asylum-seekers told to leave Tel Aviv area (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 (11/08/08)

Mugabe says talks 'inconclusive' (BBC News) - [text online]

Ceasefire bid amid Georgia crisis (BBC News) - [text online]

Italy holds five on terror charge (BBC News) - [text online]

EU-Russia relations in jeopardy as bombs hit Tbilisi (EU Observer) - [text online]

Georgia: Gori evacuated as fears of Russian advance into Georgia grow (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

We helped in Iraq - now help us, beg Georgians (The Times) - [text online]

Hope springs for Zimbabwe regime change as Mugabe and Tsvangirai talk (The Times) - [text online]

Compromise 'close' in Zimbabwe crisis talks (The Independent) - [text online]

Georgia bows to might of Russia (The Independent) - [text online]

Diplomatic Effort: UN urges Russia to halt offensive (The Independent) - [text online]

Some weep, some rage as bombs pulverise capital (The Independent) - [text online]

The Refugees: Civilians pour over border into Russia to escape conflict (The Independent) - [text online]

Georgia: UNHCR seeks humanitarian access, safe passage for civilians in Ossetia conflict (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Philippines: Over 80,000 displaced due to fightings between govt and Muslim rebels (ReliefWeb)- [text online]

Georgian conflict widening beyond S.Ossetia into Abkhazia, UN official warns (ReliefWeb) - [text here]

South Ossetia: Observation of international humantarian law and protection of civilians essential (Amnesty International) - [text online]

North Ossetia: Update on Casualties and Displaced Civilians(Hiuman Rights Watch) - [text online]

Georgia/Russia: Do Not Attack Civilians in South Ossetia (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

A Look at the Darfur Olympics (Refugees International) - [text online]

Wartime generation given more than 500,000 free passports (Home Office) - [text online]

Guterres seeks humanitarian access, safe passage for civilians in Ossetia conflict (UNHCR) - [text online]

Q&A: Shirin Ebadi, documenter of refugee issues in Iran (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR deeply concerned about newly displaced in Sri Lanka's north (UNHCR) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: Concern over civilian displacement in north (UNHCR) - [text online]

Georgia: Thousands reported on the move in South Ossetia (UNHCR) - [text online]

Forced displacement devastating Colombia's indigenous people (UNHCR) - [text online]

German scholarship gives Somali refugee "the best you can get" – education (UNHCR) - [text online]

South Africa cuts nearly 500 km off Zimbabweans' asylum journey (UNHCR) - [text online]

Migiro stresses need to end impunity for war crimes and human rights abuses (UN News) - [text online]

Security Council holds another meeting on crisis in Georgia (UN News) - [text online]

Ban calls for Member States and indigenous peoples to work together (UN News) - [text online]

Top UN official in Sudan welcomes step to ease disputed Abyei area (UN News) - [text online]

News Stories (07/08/08)

Bush chides Beijing over rights (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe parties call for peace (BBC News) - [text online]

France denounces genocide claims (BBC News) - [text online]

Bin Laden ex-driver found guilty (BBC News) - [text online]

Tibet protesters to be deported from China (The Times) - [text online]

Bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan weeps after terror verdict (The Times) - [text online]

Outrage as US military convicts Bin Laden's driver of war crimes (The Independent) - [text online]

France rejects Rwandan genocide accusations (The Independent) - [text online]

MDC and Zanu-PF call for end to violence in Zimbabwe (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 25, 25 Jul ? 01 Aug 2008 - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 12 Jul - 01 Aug 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Georgia: new internal displacement action plan; tensions in South Ossetia (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

Somali refugees win the heart of Spanish Goodwill Ambassador (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Canadians' shoes are on the other foot now – in Rwanda (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Iraqi Refugees: A New Plan (Refugees International) - [text online]

Sudan: End Sham Trials by Anti-Terror Courts (Human RightsWatch) - [text online]

US: Migrant Detainees Suffer From Inadequate Medical Care (Human Rights Watch) -[text online]

Ministers to fight ban on migrant checks (The Guardian) - [text online]

Now that I've finally been admitted to Britain it seems that everyone else suddenly wants to leave (The Guardian) - [text online]

Is the EU dictating immigration law? (The Guardian) - [text online]

Top UN official in DR Congo in push to improve peacekeeper conduct (UN News) - [text online]

Top UN relief official draws lessons from Myanmar cyclone aid effort (UN News) - [text online]

Khartoum to investigate Darfur crimes (UPI) - [text online]

UN Goodwill Ambassador makes return visit to Somali refugees in Kenya (UN News) - [text online]

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Press Curttings (05/08/08)

Terror detention plans 'muddled' (BBC News) - [text online]

Clampdown move on rogue employers (BBC News) - [text online]

Al-Qaeda woman suspect sent to US (BBC News) - [text online]

Land protests continue in Kashmir (BBC News) - [text online]

Silvio Berlusconi puts troops on Italian city streets (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Chinese separatists blamed for police grenade massacre (The Times) - [text online]

Secret deal kept British Army out of battle for Basra (The Times) - [text online]

Peers sound warning over 42-day detention (The Independent) - [text online]

Troops fan out across Italy in bid to fight crime (THe Independent) - [text online]

Separatists blamed after 16 policemen killed in China (The Independent) - [text online]

Northern Uganda: International support for Sudanese refugees still required (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sierra Leone: UN SC asks Secretary-general to establish Peacebuilding Office (ReliefWeb) - [text line]

Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis response enters new phase in relief and early recovery (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: Drive to get doctors to return (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Over 16,000 rights abuse cases recorded (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Population Movements in Eastern DR Congo, Jul 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

GPs demand right to treat refugees (The Observer) - [text online]

It's time for the Mail to get sensitive (The Guardian) - [text online]

Shalom, Giles Coren (The Guardian) - [text online]

Palestinian refugees to Iceland and Sweden (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

Beijing Olympic athletes get the chance to give hope to refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Resettlement to Iceland rescues Palestinians from border camp limbo (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Over 200 Chadian police officers complete UN training in law, human rights (UN News) - [text online]

UN creates new peacebuilding office in Sierra Leone (UN News) - [text online]

UN-African Union officials confer with Sudan on Darfur peace force (UN News) - [text online]

MALI: Efforts to quell illegal migration (IRIN News) - [text online]

MALI: Abdoulaye: “The Algerian police took… all our documents and then beat us. They do that to everyone" (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: MSF seeks assurances before returning to North Darfur (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 (04/08/08)

Rivals resume Zimbabwe deal talks (BBC News) - [text online]

New UN rights envoy visits Burma (BBC News) - [text online]

Bangladesh holds key local polls (BBC News) - [text online]

Serbia hunting final war crime fugitives amid EU bid (EU Observer) - [text online]

'Tell us who the terrorists are if you want the doctor (The Independent) - [text online]

Karadzic 'lived under protectionof CIA agents until he broke deal' (The Independent) - [text online]

How Karadzic stirred global Islamic terror (The Times) - [text online]

Somalia: UN Special Representative concerned over administration issue in Mogadishu (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

British Muslims 'fighting with Taliban in Afghanistan' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 30, 24 - 30 Jul 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

GPs demand right to treat refugees (The Guardian) - [text online]

Nice place you've got here (The Observer) - [text online]

Colombia: Displaced Need Equal Attention (Refugees International) - [text online]

The Rights of Women Seeking Asylum: a Charter (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Iraqi refugees learn the value of laughter at UN-backed workshops (UN News) - [text online]

Secretary-General sounds alarm on fragility of Sudan’s north-south peace accord (UN News) - [text online]

UN extends Darfur peacekeeping mandate in last-minute vote (The Guardian) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: Conflict compromising tsunami reconstruction (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 (01/08/08)

Aid warning over Afghan violence (BBC News) - [text online]

UN extends Darfur peace mission (BBC News) - [text online]

Mugabe rival 'satisfied' at talks (BBC News) - [text online]

Radovan Karadzic stands defiant before Hague war crimes tribunal (The Times) - [text online]

Barack Obama accused of exploiting race issue as insults fly (The Times) - [text online]

John McCain accuses Barack Obama of playing race card (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Radovan Karadzic tells UN court the US tried to assasinate him (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Day of reckoning for Karadzic (The Independent) - [text online]

Karadzic victims: 'Dark memories we hoped to put behind us' (The Independent) - [text online]

Afghanistan spiralling back to days of Taliban, say charities (The Independent) - [text online]

South Africa wakes up to growing white poor (The Independent0 - [text online]

Opinionated Poles (The Guardian) - [text online]

Hundreds of would-be immigrants arrive in Italy despite state of emergency (EU Observer) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Displaced Populations Report Jan - Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Regional Humanitarian Funding Update, Jul 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 43 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UN: Renewed Peacekeeper Mandate for Darfur (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Mandate of UN-African Union mission in Darfur extended by one year (UN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Hope for Abyei's displaced as troops move out (IRIN News) - [text online]

BANGLADESH: “River refugee” numbers continue to swell (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.