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NCADC Newszine August 2004

Anti-Deportation Campaigns - July 2004

Afshin Azizian Must Stay in the UK
Mr Ahmed Must Stay Campaign
Minn Family Belong in the Shetland's

Ireland: Campaigners protest over asylum seekers' deportation Ireland Online.ie 30/08/04
Scotland: Jail protest over asylum seekers BBC News 29/08/04


Announced Inspection of Haslar & Dover Immigration Removal Centres By HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

Dungavel Sunday 1st August 2004 - Protest Against Deadly Detention


Continuing Conflicts which produce refugees

Nepal: Alarming rise in "disappearances" fuelling human rights crisis AI 30/08/04
Wife-burning survives Taleban terror
The Times 28/08/04
Sudan rebels refuse to disarm as attacks on civilians go on The Independent 27/08/04
RAF bombers to support Nato in Afghanistan The Times 26/08/04
Sudan: Intimidation and denial - attacks on freedom of expression in Darfur Amnesty International 25/08/04
Tactics of fear choke Nepalese capital The Times 21/08/04
Bombs explode in Nepal capital as rebel siege bites 20/08/04
Rebels blockade Kathmandu in Maoist drive to oust monarchy The Guardian 18/08/04
Refugees live and die without shelter in the land where aid agencies fear to tread The Independent 19/08/04
Nepal closes for business as Maoist blockades cut off capital The Independent 19/08/04
Massacre puts Congo under invasion threat The Times 18/08/04
Bullets and revenge as Afghans prepare for ballot The Times 18/08/04
Burundi massacre highlights ‘cycle of impunity’ Alert Net 17/08/04
Just a stone's throw from the food markets, babies die of malnutrition The Independent 15/08/04
Terrified and hiding in the forest, the lost boys who saw the Janjaweed The Independent 11/08/04
UNHCR concerned about pressure on Darfur's IDPs to return UNHCR 11/08/04


Other Views

aaaUSA: It Happens Here
aaaPrisoner abuse is not limited to Iraq. The author of American Gulag investigates U.S. immigration prisons and finds widespread mistreatment of detainees, abetted and concealed by an official code of silence. motherjones.com 10/08/04

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The human cost of immigration detention

aaaConcern is mounting that the issues behind the recent disturbance at Harmondsworth detention centre - the apparent failure of the private firms which run detention centres to provide full care to detainees and the emerging evidence of assaults by officers - will be ignored as prosecutions of at least seventeen detainees proceed. Harmit Athwal IRR 05/08/04


Amnesty International

Nepal: Alarming rise in "disappearances" fuelling human rights crisis AI 30/08/04


Human Rights Watch

Africa
Crisis Profile: What’s going on in Congo? By Katherine Arie Alert Net London 12th August 2004
- A year after the end of a half-decade war that killed a jaw-dropping 3.5 million Congolese, mostly through starvation and disease, fierce fighting continues in the remote, eastern part of the country.
With the situation showing no sign of improving, AlertNet takes a detailed look at the dynamics behind a crisis described by the United Nations as one of the world's biggest humanitarian disasters.

Europe

Home Office Press Releases

UNHCR: Press releases August 2004
UNHCR: Country of Origin and Legal information

Media items - immigration/migration/legislation August 2004

Illegal immigrants will not be barred from future entry to Britain The Times 31/08/04
More immigrant children being locked up Independent on Sunday 28/08/04
Memo leak exposes asylum meltdown in middle England Sunday Times 28/08/04
Shires buckle under migrant tension Sunday Times 28/08/04
Sudan Agrees to Process Eritrean Asylum Seekers ABC News 28/08/04
Eritrean asylum seekers take over plane Reuters UK 28/08/04
Asylum seekers on hunger strike BBC News 26/08/04
Home Office ignored judge over deportation The Times 27/06/04
Gloves off in publicity fight over asylum policy The Herald 25/08/04
Afghan warlord closes in on prize city The Times 25/08/04
Asylum seeker's 'vital' op battleBBC News23/08/04
Spain promises amnesty to immigrants The Guardian 23/08/04
Dungavel liars branded me violent to get me thrown into prison
Sunday Herald 22/08/04
EU plan to house migrants in Africa
Sunday Times 22/08/04
Big fall in numbers seeking asylum The Observer 22/08/04
'Suicidal' man switched to jail BBCScotland 20/08/04
Fortress Europe is not solution to EU asylum issue - McDonald Polotics.ie 20/08/04
Asylum seeker cried in jail
20/08/04
Algerian refugees claim to be unfairly placed on al Qaeda list
The Herald 18/08/04
Howard accused of misleading voters with boat people claims The Independent 17/08/04
Blunkett's asylum pledge betrayed Observer 15/08/04
Jailing asylum seekers 'must end'
BBC News 14/08/04
Women and children first
The Guardian 14/08/04
Refugees 'detained during legal process' The Guardian 14/08/04
UNHCR petitioned to aid Kurd asylum-seekers Japan Times 14/08/04
Delay in Dungavel children’s welfare checks Community Care 12/08/04
Concern over teen asylum detainee BBC News 12/08/04
Asylum seekers attacked for sport BBC News 10/08/04
Fury at ban on HIV help for refugees The Ovserver 08/08/04
5000 asylum seekers need new homes after surprise NASS move Community Care 06/08/04
Home Office encourages asylum seeker to 'bribe his way out of trouble'
Coventry Observer 05/08/04
Asylum seekers held in prison BBC News05/08/04

 
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