New Exhibition

Forced Journeys: Artists in Exile in Britain c1933 – 45

The Ben Uri Gallery, 108a Boundary Road, London, NW8 0RH, England 20 January – 19 April

This exhibition will survey more than 80 works by over 20 artists exiled to this country; those included will range from the more established Adler, Meidner, Schwitters and Uhlman to the less known Eisenmayer, Mayer-Marton and Frankfurther. The exhibition is held in conjunction with, and as part of, the Courtauld Institute’s new MA course led by Dr Shulamith Behr and Visiting Professor Sander Gilman of Emory University, Atlanta USA.

http://www.benuri.org.uk/Forthcoming.htm

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART63166.html

Posted in: Conferences & Meetings.

New Online Reports and Research Publications

Please find below a list of updated and new publications on refugee studies and related topics. These have been accumulated from a range of online sources and links to the relevant full-text document are given where appropriate. This list will be made available on a regular basis via our Refugee Studies blog (http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com), as new resources become available.

If you find any other new resources, then do please let us know at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

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Title: "Access To Essential Maternal Health Interventions and Human Rights Violations among Vulnerable Communities in Eastern Burma,"PLoS Medicine, 5(12): e242.

Authors: Luke C. Mullany … [et al.] .
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0050242
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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Title: "Introduction Paper," Third Vijverberg Session on Climate Change and Migration, EC Representation in The Netherlands, Korte Vijverberg 5, The Hague, 20 January 2009.

Authors: n/a.
Publication Date: January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://sid-europe.org/2008/12/16/third-vijverberg-session-climate-change-and-migration/
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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Title: Porous Borders and the Insecurity of Civilians: Cross-border Violence in Darfur and Eastern Chad.

Authors: By Daniel S. Carik for the Ford Institute for Human Security.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address:
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Additional Info: Policy Brief no. 8-04

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Title: Returns to Iraq: Questions and More Questions.

Authors: Paper by Elizabeth Ferris for the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement.
Publication Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/1219_iraq_ferris.aspx?rssid=internal+displacement
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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Title: "Toolbox: The Refugee Imperative in Iraq,".

Authors: n/a.
Publication Date: Jan.-Feb. 2009.
Publication URL Address:
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Additional Info: The American Interest Online, vol. 4, no. 3

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Title: Understanding and Addressing the Phenomenon of Child Soldiers: The Gap between the Global Humanitarian Discourse and the Local Understandings and Experiences of Young People’s Military Recruitment.

Authors: Ah-Jung Lee.
Publication Date: January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/RSCworkingpaper52.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Additional Info: RSC Working Paper, no. 53.

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Title: Thailand: Torture in the southern counter-insurgency.

Authors: Amnesty International.
Publication Date: 13 January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/thai-security-forces-systematically-torture-southern-counter-insurgency-2
Source: Amnesty International - http://www.amnesty.org/ (Web).

Additional Info: ASA 39/001/2009.

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Title: Measuring human rights and democratic governance : experiences and lessons from Metagora..

Authors: Edited by Claire Naval, Sylvie Walter and Raul Suarez de Miguel.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?CID=oecd&LANG=EN&SF1=DI&ST1=5L4D2DT2TRLQ. Direct link to the PDF file http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/4308021E.PDF
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Additional Info: OECD Journal on Development ; vol. 9, no. 2, (2008).

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Title: Background Paper from UNHCR: EU Resettlement (European Commission consultation meeting on the EU resettlement scheme, Brussels, 12 December 2008).

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: 12 December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/496e19392.html
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Additional Info: Via RefWorld.

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Title: "Bhutan's Radicalized Refugees: Part II," World Politics Review (16 Jan. 2009).

Authors: .
Publication Date: January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=3171
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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Title: Concrete steps towards a European Resettlement Programme.

Authors: ECRE.
Publication Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/496e05333.html
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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Title: Controlling Borders while Ensuring Protection, Conference documents from the first expert roundtable on UNHCR's 10-Point Plan of Action, Geneva, 20-21 November 2008 .

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.unhcr.org/protect/495df1a52.html
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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Title: UNHCR SCM: Assuring Effective Supply Chain Management to Support Beneficiaries .

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.unhcr.org/research/RESEARCH/496db70a4.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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Title: "Islam, Human Rights and Displacement," Special Supplement to Forced Migration Review .

Authors: .
Publication Date: January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.fmreview.org/human-rights.htm
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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Title: Minorities, Displacement and Iraq's Future .

Authors: Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement.
Publication Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/1223_minorities_ferris.aspx?emc=lm&m=221364&l=24&v=984482
Source: Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement - http://www.brookings.edu/ (Web).

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Title: The 2007 Humanitarian Accountability Report.

Authors: Humanitarian Accountability Partnership.
Publication Date: July 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7N4JN7?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web).

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Title: 2009 World Report..

Authors: Human Rights Watch.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/wr2009_web.pdf
Source: Human Rights Watch – http://www.hrw.org.uk/ (Web).

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Title: The State of The World's Children 2009: Maternal and Newborn Health.

Authors: UN Children’s Fund.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/JBRN-7NBDCM?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web).

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Title: The Great Lakes Pact and the Rights of Displaced People: A Guide
for Civil Society.

Authors: IDMC.
Publication Date: September 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/JBRN-7NFKLT?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web).

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Title: Future Floods of Refugees: A Comment on Climate Change, Conflict
and Forced Migration.

Authors: Norwegian Refugee Council.
Publication Date: April 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/JBRN-7NHKJ5?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web).

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Title: Report on an announced inspection of HMP Long Lartin - 14-18 July 2008.

Authors: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/hmp-yoi-inspections.html/550993/Long_Lartin_(2008).pdf?view=Binary
Source: Institute of Race Relations – http://www.irr.org.uk/ (Web).

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Title: Monitoring of the UK Border Agency.

Authors: The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmhaff/77/77.pdf
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web).

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Title: Migration, Development and Environment.

Authors: IOM.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/1674?entryId=20403
Source: IOM – http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/lang/en/pid/1 (Web).

Additional Info: MRS No.35.

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Title: Trafficking of men - a trend less considered : The case of Belarus and Ukraine.

Authors: IOM.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address:
Source: IOM – http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/lang/en/pid/1 (Web).

Additional Info: MRS No.36.

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Title: Who Cares About the White Working Class?

Authors: The Runnymede Trust.
Publication Date: January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/publications/pdfs/WhoCaresAboutTheWhiteWorkingClass-2009.pdf
Source: Runnymede Trust – http://www.runnymedetrust.org/ (Web).

Additional Info: Press Release - http://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/PressReleases/PressReleaseWhoCares.pdf

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Title: UNISDR Terminology.

Authors: The UN International Strategy on Disaster Reduction.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/LIB/DHLRefWeblog.nsf/dx/21012009023311PMSLKQXB.htm
Source: UN Pulse – http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf (Web).

Additional Info: The UN International Strategy on Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) has issued a new disaster terminology (full text, pdf, 88 KB). The terminology "aims to promote common understanding and common usage of disaster risk reduction concepts and to assist the disaster risk reduction efforts of authorities, practitioners and the public."

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Title: Guidance on Profiling Internally Displaced Persons.

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Authors: IDMC.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/7620BC6F3CED0587C125739B00383CE0/$file/IDP_Profiling_Guidance_2008.pdf
Source: IDMC – http://www.internaldisplacement.org/ (Web).

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Posted in: Publications.

New Journal and Newsletter Volumes

Please find below a list of new and journal and newsletter releases relating to refugee studies and related topics. These have been accumulated from a range of online sources and links to the relevant full-text document are given where appropriate. Alternatively, a link will be given to the associated Table of Contents, (ToC). This list will be made available on a regular basis via our Refugee Studies blog (http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com), as new resources become available.

If you find any other new resources, then do please let us know at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

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Title: Forced Migration Review.

Volume: Special Issue - Ten Years of the Guiding Principles
Date:
Publication URL Address: http://www.fmreview.org/GuidingPrinciples10.htm
Source: Forced Migration Email List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html (Web).

Additional Info: Full Text. This 40-page special issue of Forced Migration Review (FMR), published by the Refugee Studies Centre of Oxford University, reflects discussions at the international conference on the Ten Years of the Guiding
Principles on Internal Displacement ('GP10') held in Oslo on 16-17
October 2008. Hard copy to made available in the Refugee Council Archive.

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Title: Torture: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture.

Volume: Volume 18 Number 3.
Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.irct.org/Default.aspx?ID=3716
Source: IRCT - http://www.irct.org/ (Web).

Additional Info: Full Text. Hard copy also available in Refugee Council Archive.

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Title: Disasters.

Volume: Four Early Issue Articles.
Date: January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120122352/issue
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/. (Web).

Additional Info: Contents Alert.

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Title: Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volume: Volume 32 Number 2.
Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Econtent=g907480047%7Edb=all
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/. (Web).

Additional Info: Table of Contents.

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Title: Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict.

Volume: Volume 6 Numbers 3&4.
Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.interventionjournal.com/downloads/63bpdf/intro.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/. (Web).

Additional Info: Table of Contents. Special issue on the "IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings."

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Title: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Volume: Volume 35 Number 2.
Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Econtent=g907497655%7Edb=all
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/. (Web).

Additional Info: Table of Contents.

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Title: New Routes.

Volume: Volume 13 Number 4.
Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.life-peace.org/sajt/filer/pdf/New_Routes/nr200804.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/. (Web).

Additional Info: Full Text.

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Title: UK No Borders Network Newsletter.

Volume: January 2009.
Date: January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://bristolnoborders.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/document-1nbnewsfinal22.pdf
Source: Institute of Race Relations – http://www.irr.org.uk/ (Web).

Additional Info: Full Text.

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Title: Conflict Trends.

Volume: Volume 4.
Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.accord.org.za/downloads/ct/ct_2008_4.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/. (Web).

Additional Info: Full Text.

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Title: Development in Practice.

Volume: Volume 19 Number 1.
Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Econtent=g907858755%7Edb=all%7Etab=toc%7Eorder=page
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/. (Web).

Additional Info: Table of Contents.

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Title: Refugee Rights News.

Volume: Volume 4 Number 7.
Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.refugee-rights.org/Publications/RRN/2008/December/December.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/. (Web).

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Title: Asylum News

Volume: Number 72.
Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/asylum/torchlight/newsletter/newslet_72.htm
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/. (Web).

Additional Info: Full Text. A hard copy of this publication is also available in the Refugee Archive.

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Title: Women's Asylum News.

Volume: Volume 79.
Date: December 2008 / January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/497045682.html
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/. (Web).

Additional Info: Full Text. See also Asylum Aid web site for back issues at: http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/publications.php?keyword=&month=&year=2008&category=5&search=Search A hard copy of this publication is also available in the Refugee Archive.

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Title: Migrants' Rights News (Migrants1 Rights Network).

Volume: January 2009.
Date: January 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/enews/2009/january.htm
Source: Institute of Race Relations – http://www.irr.org.uk/ (Web).

Additional Info: Full Text.

Posted in: Periodicals.

A Selection of News Headlines (22/01/2009)

Obama 'set to close Guantanamo' (BBC News) - [text online]

Congo troops bar UN and aid staff (BBC News) - [text online]

Hunger strike for Zimbabwe change (BBC News) - [text online]

Islam film Dutch MP to be charged (BBC News) - [text online]

Hamas leader urges West to talk (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel to probe phosphorus claims (BBC News) - [text online]

Rohingya migrants want to return (BBC News) - [text online]

President Obama's first call 'was to President Abbas' (The Times) - [text online]

Young? British? Muslim? Listen Up! (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Smugglers back at work in tunnels beneath Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Dutch MP to be tried for views on Islam (The Independent) - [text online]

Mandela's wife calls for Mugabe to step down (The Independent) - [text online]

Deborah Orr: Obama is right to tread warily over Guantanamo Bay (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: So far, Obama's missed the point on Gaza... (The Independent) - [text online]

Patrick Cockburn: In Israel, detachment from reality is now the norm (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.15 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: NGOs call for immediate and unhindered access for aid organizations into Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Explainer: Identity cards (The Guardian) - [text online]

The migration front line (The Guardian) - [text online]

Netherlands signs accord to use UNHCR Refworld research tool (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: unexploded munitions a threat to civilians and humanitarian work (ICRC) - [text online]

EUROPE: HELP CLOSE GUANTÁNAMO: Offer Humanitarian Protection to Detainees Who Risk Torture or Persecution at Home (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: African Leaders Should Intervene (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

US: Obama Expected to Order Guantanamo’s Closure (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Gaza Crisis: Regimes React with Routine Repression (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: End Detentions and Aid Restrictions (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: UNAMA raps new report by rights watchdog (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN expert on children welcomes US suspension of trials at Guantánamo (UN News) - [text online]

In wake of Gaza crisis, Ban urges ‘massive’ effort to resolve Arab-Israeli conflict (UN News) - [text online]

UN, African Union to ramp up deployment of peacekeepers in troubled Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

UN to embark on humanitarian assessment in post-conflict Gaza (UN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

A Selection of News Headlines (21/01/2009)

Obama plea stops Guantanamo trial (BBC News) - [text online]

UN demands flow of goods to Gaza (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza rebuild 'to cost billions' (BBC News) - [text online]

Rwandan soldiers enter DR Congo (BBC News) - [text online]

Kenyan MPs to consider poll court (BBC News) - [text online]

Obama moves swiftly on Guantanamo (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza: 'I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls' (The Independent) - [text online]

Dialogue with Hamas is only path to peace, urges novelist (The Independent) - [text online]

Guidance on Profiling Internally Displaced Persons (IDMC) - [text online - English version]

UNHCR seeks access to 126 Muslim Rohingya boat people in Thailand (UNHCR) - [text online]

US: Obama Calls for 120-Day Halt to Guantanamo Military Commissions (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

USA: Move to suspend military tribunals a positive first step (Amnesty International) - [text online]

DRC: Governments launching offensives against armed groups must take precautions to avoid civilian casualties (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: massive devastation calls for vast humanitarian effort (ICRC) - [text online]

DRC: Rwandan operation "not welcomed" (IRIN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Displaced Gazans seek shelter from the cold (IRIN News) - [text online]

DRC: Civilians suffer as Uganda takes on LRA (IRIN News) - [text online]

THAILAND: Government, Army to investigate claims of Rohingya abuse (IRIN News) - [text online]

Congolese displaced by Ugandan rebels to receive UN aid (UN News) - [text online]

Posted in: News.

A Selection of news Headlines (20/01/2009).

Gaza rebuild 'to cost billions' (BBC News) - [text online]

Crucial Zimbabwe talks collapse (BBC News) - [text online]

Sharia police block women's rally (BBC News) - [text online]

Wide rifts on show at Arab summit (BBC News) - [text online]

Scale of Gaza destruction emerges (BBC News) - [text online]

Bush shoe man in Swiss asylum bid (BBC News) - [text online]

Thailand to tackle migrant claims (BBC News) - [text online]

British Muslims 'went on reconnaissance' for July 7 attacks (The Times) - [text online]

Gaza was demolished in three weeks. Rebuilding it will take years (The Independent) - [text online]

Black staff sacked by Refugee Council win discrimination case (The Independent) - [text online]

Church may ban BNP members (The Independent) - [text online]

The Big Question: Should the charge of 'institutional racism' in the police no longer apply? (The Independent) - [text online]

Gazans return to mourn their dead and salvage their lives (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: Posturing and laughter as victims rot (The Independent) - [text online]

Rafah, a landscape scarred by Israel's war (The Independent) - [text online]

'My daughters, they killed them': Doctor shows Israelis horror of war (The Independent) - [text online]

Hamas ceasefire brings uneasy peace to Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Capital divided by race is a symbol of Obama's task (The Independent) - [text online]

Untold stories lie buried in the rubble (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe: Talks are last chance for opposition (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Welcome but fragile, this ceasefire must be only a start (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn't it time for a war crimes tribunal? (The Independent) - [text online]

Mary Dejevsky: My walk on the racial front line in DC (The Independent) - [text online]

British Jews attacked for pro-Gaza solidarity (The Independent) - [text online]

Footballers win exemption from English tests (The Independent) - [text online]

'British handcuffs, the handcuffs of freedom'By Jeremy Seabrook (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Missteps on the LRA in Uganda (Enough Project) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 39, 15 Dec2008 - 15 Jan 2009 (text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Field Update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator 17 - 18 Jan 2009 as of 17:00 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.13 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UK Borders Act 2007 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Human Rights Act 1998 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (The Guardian) - [text online]

UK-Irish travellers to face passport checks (The Guardian) - [text online]

Thailand: UNHCR requests access to Rohingya boat people (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: Continuing LRA rampage displaces more Congolese (UNHCR) - [text online]

Greece's infrastructure struggles to cope with mixed migration flow (UNHCR) - [text online]

Fifteen drown in Gulf of Aden amid surge in people smuggling to Yemen (UNHCR) - [text online]

Thailand: Stop systematic torture in southern counter-insurgency (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: Civilians continue to suffer despite hopes for imminent cease-fire (ICRC) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: massive displacement of civilians amid escalating conflict (ICRC) - [text online]

DR Congo: LRA Slaughters 620 in ‘Christmas Massacres’ (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Immigration legal aid lawyer of the year is a children’s immigration specialist (Refugee Council) - [text online]

SUDAN: Western Equatoria struggling with influx of refugees and IDPs (IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ-SYRIA: Slow resettlement for Palestinian-Iraqi refugees (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: UN warns of humanitarian catastrophe if Darfur fighting continues (IRIN News) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: Rising concerns over thousands trapped in conflict areas (IRIN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe receives $5 million boost from UNICEF in fight against cholera outbreak (UN News) - [text online]

Envoy hails progress in UN-backed talks to halt violence in eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

With 30,000 civilians at risk, UN urges halt to renewed clashes in South Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (14/01/2009)

UN head set for talks on Gaza (BBC News) - [text online]

Somali joy as Ethiopians withdraw (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza crisis spills onto the web (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza: Israeli troops reveal ruthless tactics against Hamas (The Independent) - [text online]

Campsfield: 'Staff ignored suicide threat' (Oxford Mail) - [text online]

Olmert claims he told Bush to backtrack on UN ceasefire deal (The Independent) - [text online]

UN 'should take over control of Zimbabwe's health system' (The Independent) - [text online]

BNP links to immigration service staff (The Independent) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned about displaced Congolese and continuing LRA attacks (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC president demands greater respect for civilians and humanitarian workers (ICRC) - [text online]

UN Human Rights Council Approves Gaza Inquiry (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UN official urges combatants in DR Congo to release child soldiers (UN News) - [text online]

Food aid convoy, traversing Sahara, will soon reach refugees in Chad – UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

Over 2,000 lives now lost to Zimbabwe’s worst ever cholera outbreak – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Ethiopian troops leave Somalia prompting UN call for calm and timely presidential poll (UN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Growing discontent in Southern Kordofan (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Lingering uncertainties over North-South truce (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Displaced families in dire need (IRIN News) - [text online]

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