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:: UK ::

Celebrating Sanctuary: Sun 13 June - 2-7pm

Launch of Refugee Week - Coin Street Festival

Blunkett plans to force refugees to stay in North: under secret Home Office idea

"government to circumvent a High Court ruling earlier this year that refugees should be able to apply for aid anywhere...it could breach people's human rights and lead to the creation of ghettos, 'We welcome refugees but would be concerned about any element of compulsion'

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Current legal position:

Al-Ameri (FC) (Respondent) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Appellants) - Osmani (FC) (Respondent) v London Borough of Harrow (Appellants) (Conjoined Appeals) HL 5 February 2004

Case note: This House of Lords judgement confirms the right to seek accommodation assistance from any housing authority, once asylum seekers have been given leave to stay and subsequently lose their no choice dispersal accommodation provision and re-affirms their right to seek accommodation assistance from any housing authority they so choose thereafter.

Deportation delay victory

"Lynne Calvert, voluntary worker at Wigan Welcome refugee drop-in, said: "The report (Amnesty) states that people are still being picked up, put into prison and tortured over there.

3/6

Debunking the Myths Surrounding Asylum Seekers and Health Care

"a total underinvestment of £237 billion in the National Health Service over the past 25 years Dr Singer comments: "This is a more likely reason for long waiting lists than an Afghani asylum seeker or Somali refugee being on the waiting list"

3/6

Hacker emails NHS staff asking them to vote BNP

"The email said that the overwhelming demand for healthcare "by asylum seekers and illegal immigrants" had turned the NHS "into what many sarcastically refer to as the WHS - the World Health Service".

4/6

Drunks' race hate abuse

"Two drunken St Helens men repeatedly banged on the door of an asylum seeker's home and hurled racist abuse, a court has heard.

3/6

Race row mayor-elect dropped

3/6

The legacy of hatred

"The conflicts, terrorism and asylum seekers are constant topics of conversation at work

3/6

Picking the wrong enemy: Don't fan the flames of the BNP

"Don't believe the hype - the far right in Britain is no threat at all, writes Catherine Fieschi. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for UKIP

3/6

The Resistible Rise of the BNP

Full-text:

The newsletter for the Inter-Agency Partnership June 2004.

This edition features:

s.55 judgment, abolition of SAPs, policy on back-payment, update on EU accession state nationals, NASS support figures, latest asylum stats, report on conditions at Yarl’s Wood, guide to the ASA.

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Income Support for 'on arrival' asylum seekers

New Court of Appeal decision

27/5

Manchester United supporters have been helping Iraqi Kurdish refugees who were wrongly accused of plotting to bomb Old Trafford.

3/6

Lasa and CPAG have been awarded two contracts to run a national specialist support service in welfare benefits from 1 June 2004.

4 June 1940: Dunkirk rescue is over - Churchill defiant

"Some 338,000 stranded troops were rescued from Dunkirk

:: World ::

China: 4 June 1989: Massacre in Tiananmen Square

Referring to:

The Declassified History - Tiananmen Square, 1989

China: Stifling the Memory of Tiananmen

China:Personal testimonies of some of those who witnessed the protests and bloodshed in Beijing in 1989

China works with UNICEF to protect country girls

300,000 Sudanese could be doomed to die

Sudan: Urgent UN plea for Darfur funds

Sudan: Death and devastation continue in Darfur

Sudan: Victims of the war in Darfur speak about their plight

Pakistan: Protestor killed in Gilgit clash

OT/Israael: 'They have no humanity. They didn't even give us two minutes to get out'

China: 15 years after Tiananmen, calls for justice continue and the arrests go on

Sierra Leone: Special court affirms child soldier recruitment is a crime

Sweden: System fails as violence against women increases

Nigeria/Sierra Leone: Special Court ruling - no immunity for former Liberian President Charles Taylor

East Timor: Australia casts a shadow over East Timor's future

"Canberra helped liberate its tiny neighbour but now claims ownership of vast oil riches beneath its sea.

Belgium expels immigrants in private jet

Bolivia: Partners Aid Families Affected by Bolivian Unrest

Koreas agree on easing tensions

Syria clamps down on Kurds

S Leone war crimes trials begin

US: "Whatever we want to do with you" Torture in a Florida Jail

"The US immigration service (formerly the INS, or Immigration & Naturalization Service) holds some 23,000 people in custody.

US: African refugee sues over incident at SFO

US: Film traces how African refugees adjusted here

US marines jailed for Iraq abuse

Iraq: Women and Abuse in Iraq

Jordan: Honour killing in Jordan hospital

Australia: Bakhtiari children to remain in home detention

Afghanistan: MSF suspends work in Afghanistan

OAS: Americas fail to protect human rights effectively

Malaysia: Whipping Demonstrations Againsts The Spirit Of Children's Rights

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Malaysia: Rise in human trafficking

DR Congo: UN troops open fire in Kinshasa

DR Congo's shameful sex secret

"Young refugees sell their bodies to UN peacekeepers - There are about 4,000 peacekeepers are in the Bunia area

:: Miscellaneous ::

Southend: Chinese workers' 'climate of fear'

"Community leaders complained to police after the Malaysian woman - a legal immigrant - was held for several hours on May 2 but were told the practice, although unusual, was perfectly legal.

:: Archive ::

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:: Special: Books for Refugee Week ::

A life removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World

"Making it Home not only humanises the refugee experience but also gives children in the UK an insight in to exactly how hard life can be when you are forced to flee your home.

Publication to coincide with National Refugee Week

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Making It Home: Real-life Stories of Children Forced to Flee

"Proceeds from the sale of this book will go the International Rescue Committee (IRC).

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Some resources on Kinder Transport

"These are mostly resources that I have gathered essentially for my own use: as a mother of children who want to know about their history and as the daughter of a man who arrived aged 10 on a Kindertransport from Czechoslovakia in 1939.

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