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Blunkett Urged to Help Asylum-Seeking Parade Princess
"Misheel Narantsogt was chosen from hundreds of children to be crowned parade princess at the Liverpool Lord Mayor’s Parade on July 10.
16/6
A new exhibition showing how Sheffield gives a home to some of the world's most oppressed minorities has been unveiled in the Winter Garden.
16/6
Refugee doctors could boost NHS staff levels
16/6
NHS fails to use refugee doctors
"The BMA says it has 955 refugee and asylum-seeking doctors on its database - but only 57 said they were actually practising in the UK.
16/6
See: 'Statistics from refugee doctor database, May 2004'
Detainees held in 'filthy' conditions
"Report castigates dilapidated immigration removal centre and criticises practice of using punishment cells at a nearby prison
16/6
Report: Unannounced Inspection Report of Lindholme IRC
16/6
PDF file
http:/www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs3/HMPlindholme.pdf
Lindhome: Immigration centre condemned
16/6
http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=115951&command=displayContent&sourceNode=115950&contentPK=10322407
See: HM Inspectorate of Prisons
and
UK Immigration Detention Capacity at 1st June 2004
"There is capacity for 2,260 persons in the UK Detention Estate, in places listed below.
Government expansion plans already agreed will increase the capacity to 3,136
16/6
Refugee artist paints Balkan wars in crimson
15/6
UK: Concern at government forcing asylum-seekers back to Somali war zone
15/6
Race watchdog warns on ID cards
15/6
Iris scans at UK airports, says Home Office
"The Immigration Service will invite "certain groups of foreign nationals" to join the scheme. To qualify, would-be registrants must have a track record of complying with the UK's immigration laws.
Such people might be non EEA nationals who have indefinite leave to remain in the UK, be regular travellers or hold UK work permits, for example.
15/6
Related Home Office press release
Sagem SA' to carry out this contract
Sagem: Multi-biometric civil identification solutions
"Securing citizen rights ?
http://www.sagem.com/en/produits-en/biometrie-en/multi-biometrie-presentation.htm
Background 'SAGEM to provide smart cards with fingerprint data for applicants seeking asylum in the United Kingdom'
"6 February 2002 -Home Office Minister Lord Rooker announced on 31st of January 2002 the issuing of the first new high-tech biometric cards for asylum applicants in the United Kingdom.
City's 'missing' asylum seekers missing
15/6
Asylum-seeker gang on the run
16/6
Major failings in police schemes designed to improve race equality
14/6
Interim report: A Formal Investigation of the Police Service in England and Wales
"The assessment of functions takes account of relevance to all racial groups including those who are asylum seekers as well as Gypsies and Travellers
PDF file
:: World ::
Russia: We Are Waging a Racial Holy War'
Nigeria: Amputees Seek to Have Taylor Tried for War Crimes
Rwanda denies massing troops on DR Congo border
Uzbekistan: Threats against lawyer's wife and young children
Uzbek Regime "Tries to Silence" Activists
Indonesia: Aceh rebels unmoved by arrests
Indonesia: Forgotten People: The People of Aceh, Indonesia
Sudan: UN pleads for new Darfur funding
Sudan's human misery
Sudan: UN pleads for new Darfur funding
Sudan factsheet: What's going on in Sudan's Darfur
South Korea Improves Human Trafficking Record
Sierra Leone's War Crimes Court Opens
Cambodia will allow UN office to open
Liberia: UN imposes curfew after riot in Liberian town
Australia: Nauru hunger strikers urged to end protest
Hmong refugees may begin arriving in Twin Cities next week
US: Bush Asked to Follow Through For Refugees
Kashmir separatists doubt Indian sincerity on peace
Nauru approves asylum system
Sierra Leone: War crimes court hears tearful testimony
Congolese stream into Burundi
Russia: Do foreign missionaries bear "the hallmarks of espionage" in Khabarovsk region?
Democratic Republic of Congo: Renewed Conflict Information Bulletin No. 01/2004
:: Miscellaneous ::
2004 Trafficking in Persons Report
To mark Day of African Child, UNICEF launches student surveys of absenteeism
Torture: George Orwell... meet Franz Kafka
"Electorate rejects Britain’s fascists - BNP down for the count!"
Increasing Europe's Stake in the Andes
:: Refugee Week ::
14 to 20 June
http://www.refugeeweekinscotland.org.uk
:: World Refugee Day ::
June 20th
World Refugee Day - Nansen Refugee Award to Memorial
World Refugee Day: Ask Angelina Jolie
World Refugee Day, 20 June 2004: 'A Place to Call Home'
World Refugee Day 2004: A Place to Call Home
:: Events ::
Migration & Work Conference - Thursday 1 July 2004, London
The Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI) will be launching
its Newcomers Handbook, Supported by Employability Forum, JCWI, the TUC and ippr
Source:
http://www.jcwi.org.uk
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