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[A] 'Actors, Day, week, Monologues, Justice, Pre & Post Natal'
     11 Jun 06 - 44 items

[B] 'spider’s web'
     9 Jun 06 - 70 items

[C] 'Ghost Houses, negative and vitriolic, point-scoring pundits'
     6 Jun 06 - 2 items

[D] How to cancel or change your subscription to asylumpolicy.info

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[A] 'Actors, Day, week, Monologues, Justice, Pre & Post Natal'
     11 Jun 06 - 44 items

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Lead: - 'Actors, Day, week, Monologues, Justice, Pre & Post Natal'

World Refugee Day: 20th June  2006
http://www.unhcr.org.uk/wrd/WRD2006.htm

UK Refugee Week: 19 - 25th of June
http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk

Refugee Week Radio:
http://www.refugeeweekradio.net/

Refugee Communities History Project Website
http://www.refugeestories.org/

Celebrating Sanctuary
http://www.celebrating-sanctuary.org.uk/

Launch of Asylum Monologues
Asylum Monologues is an account of the UK’s asylum system, told first
hand by the people who have experienced it.
5pm, Sunday 25th June at Amnesty Inernational’s Human Rights Action
Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA.
Seating is strictly limited. Please RSVP to
actors_for_refugees at yahoo.co.uk or call 0791 351 3567 before June 15 to
secure tickets.
http://www.iceandfire.co.uk/actorsforrefugees/asylum_monologues.html
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Actors for Refugees
http://www.iceandfire.co.uk/actorsforrefugees

Young People and Asylum – Fighting for Justice
Hackney Refugee & Migrant Support Group
Day School
Saturday 15 July 10.00- 4.30
1 page flyer - (Word)
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/fightingforjustice.doc

Merseyside Refugee & Asylum Seekers Pre & Post Natal Support Group
(M.R.A.N.G)
A Conference At Liverpool F C Anfield
Human Rights And Human Wrongs
Addressing The Social, Medical And Legal Needs Of Vulnerable Female
Asylum Seekers And Refugees
On Wednesday 21 June 2006
3 page flyer and program details: (Word)
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/humanwrongs.doc
Booking form: (Word)
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/humanwrongsbooking.doc
Sponsorship form: (Word)
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/humanwrongssponsorship.doc

01: UK

11 Jun 06

Reunion to mark plight of refugees
More than 30 Scots-based refugees reunited with their families after
enforced separations are to be brought together for the first time
during this year’s Refugee Week in Glasgow.
http://www.sundayherald.com/56184

Scene set for refugee world cup
Refugees and asylum seekers from across Manchester will come together on
Sunday in the spirit of football.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5067448.stm

Pop takes over the asylum
A boyband made up of refugees hopes to stir debate - and hit the big
time
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1794550,00.html

Even civil servants say Home Office is failing
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article756015.ece

Passport wrangle boy arrives home
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/5067770.stm

Lib Dems' leader to visit Guantanamo
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1795114,00.html
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Three inmates die in suicide pact at Guantanamo camp
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article756043.ece

Briton challenges Guantanamo court
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2220954,00.html

Sierra Leone fury at switch in Taylor trial
Anger is growing in Sierra Leone over a plan by Britain and the US to
move the war crimes trial of the former Liberian President, Charles
Taylor, from Freetown to The Hague.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1795080,00.html

The militant mothers who are taking on Tony Blair
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article756020.ece

10 Jun 06

This dialogue of the deaf is corroding our human rights
We must defend the Human Rights Act against this pernicious onslaught
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1794513,00.html

Mrs & Mrs
The high court has reserved judgment over a lesbian couple seeking
British recognition of their marriage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1794327,00.html

Brothers arrested in 'terror raid' are freed without charge
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article754489.ece

>From the veld to Iraq: British justice echoed
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2218813,00.html

02: World

Iran team face mass protest
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1794953,00.html

Defeat for net neutrality backers
Calls to pass laws that would ensure net neutrality have been rejected
by US politicians Defeat for net neutrality backers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5063072.stm

The western view of the rise of India and China is a self-affirming
fiction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1794329,00.html

Gay ambassador stirs old hatreds in the east
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2220163,00.html

Three inmates die at Guantanamo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5068228.stm

Australian detains 26 citizens as illegal immigrants
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-06-10T023915Z_01_SYD74052_RTRUKOC_0_UK-AUSTRALIA-DETAINEES.xml

Australia reveals migrant mix-up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5067046.stm

Bosnia suspect sent to The Hague
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5068342.stm

Israel/Occupied Territories: Palestinians killed on Gaza beach by
Israeli gunboats
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article754405.ece

Israel/Occupied Territories: Fears of 'regime change' policy after US
cancels Palestinian pay talks
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article753710.ece

Israel/Occupied Territories: Hamas fury over poll to recognise state of
Israel
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1794920,00.html

Israel/Occupied Territories: Carnage on the beach leaves truce hanging
by a thread
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article756017.ece

Italians intercept migrant boat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5069836.stm

Jordanians hunted down their hated son
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1794904,00.html

Korea North in 'US spy plane' warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5068662.stm

Somalia: Islam's gunmen rout Somali warlords
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2220133,00.html

Sudan accused of 'exporting war'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5068546.stm

US: Wake up: the American Dream is over
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/columnists/story/0,,1792399,00.html

US refuses to rule out attacks
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2219342,00.html

US policy in Somali in ruins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1794391,00.html

03: Europe

Turks fear a loss of momentum on the road to EU entry
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5064730.stm

[B] 'spider’s web'
     9 Jun 06 - 70 items

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Lead: - 'spider’s web'

US has woven clandestine ‘spider’s web’ of detentions and transfers,
with collusion of Council of Europe member states, says Parliamentary
Assembly Committee  
http://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1008311&BackColorInternet=F5CA75&BackColorIntranet=F5CA75&BackColorLogged=A9BACE
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Draft resolution and recommendation
http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/APFeaturesManager/defaultArtSiteView.asp?ArtId=469
Mr Marty's explanatory memorandum (PDF)
http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?Link=/CommitteeDocs/2006/20060606_Ejdoc162006PartII-FINAL.pdf
Mr Marty's explanatory memorandum (HTML)
http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?Link=/CommitteeDocs/2006/20060606_Ejdoc162006PartII-FINAL.htm
Graphic image of global ''spider's web'' (JPEG)
http://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2006/20060606_RenditionsMap_EN.jpg
Information for the press
http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/APFeaturesManager/defaultArtSiteView.asp?ArtId=464
Video of the press conference
mms://coenews.coe.int/vod/070606_w01_w.wmv
Summary of Mr Marty's explanatory memorandum
http://www.coe.int/T/DC/Press/NoteRedac2006/20060607_marty_en.asp
Special file
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/Files/Events/2006-cia/

The Big Question: What is extraordinary rendition, and what is Britain's
role in it?
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article707605.ece

Statewatch Observatory on CIA rendition
http://www.statewatch.org/rendition/rendition.html

Rendition 'massively damaging'
Former Foreign Office minister warns CIA policy harms fight against
terror.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1792271,00.html

UK aided CIA with torture flights, says official report
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1791991,00.html
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CIA knew where Eichmann was two years before he was caught
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article656938.ece

01: UK

9 Jun 06

Soft target
Every Friday morning, at 11 o'clock, Mary fears that she and her
two-year-old daughter Ella will be deported.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,1793726,00.html

It's just like home here, says Russian refugee
http://www.jewishtelegraph.co.uk/glas_1.html

Asylum seeker film impresses
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2006/06/09/newsstory8425752t0.asp

Anti-terror law 'sinister' says judge
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2217745,00.html

Police forced to apologise for Forest Gate terror raid
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article753716.ece

Blair denies seeking UN job and rebukes Straw for resignation call
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article753699.ece

New laws 'have not made the UK safer'
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article753718.ece

8 Jun 06

Support for Sakchai snowballs
http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/pages/news%20stories/06_2006/support_for_sakchai_snowballs.htm

Anne Owers raises concerns about Lindholme immigration centre
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2006/06/08/54339/Anne+Owers+raises+concerns+about+Lindholme+immigration.html

Arts events mark Refugee Week
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5053395.html
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Jolie TV spot airs ahead of World Refugee Day
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyid=2006-06-08T174537Z_01_L08282255_RTRUKOC_0_UK-JOLIE-REFUGEES.xml&src=rss

Friends of Adrian Stan
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine71/adrianstan.html

Town’s warm welcome for immigrants
http://www.boltoneveningnews.co.uk/news/boltonnews/display.var.787519.0.towns_warm_welcome_for_immigrants.php

Refugee tips
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132935&command=displayContent&sourceNode=132702&contentPK=14616440&folderPk=77465

Ace charity worker gets special award
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/walthamforest/walthamforestnews/display.var.787660.0.ace_charity_worker_gets_special_award.php

Home Office thug Reid strikes again! - Support urgently needed!
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/06/342327.html

Israeli PM's visit - Tony Blair should call for halt to wall
construction and land-grab
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=16984

Bush envoy's fury over 'insult' to US by British UN chief
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2216040,00.html

Asylum - issue 31 - May/June 2006 - (957 KB - pdf)
Updates, including: changes to immigration rules
Refugee Week - around the region
My World Your World
Time Together mentoring scheme
Positive Action for Refugee and Asylum Seekers [PAFRAS]
Country profile - Rwanda
(PDF)
http://www.refugeeaccess.info/uploads/news/Asylum31web.pdf

This will lead to violence
The theatrical nature of recent anti-terror raids suggests a show is
being put on to keep us fearful.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1792660,00.html

Semi-compliance in the migrant labour market
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/publications/wp-06-30.shtml

BMA fears foreign student loss
http://www.cipfa.org.uk/publicfinance/newsdigest_details.cfm?News_id=27882

The British army is a killing machine, not a police force
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1792728,00.html

7 Jun 06

Asylum seekers campaign launched
Asylum seekers campaign launched

Migrant chaos 'will take years to sort out'
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article656417.ece

Blair rejects legal bid for public inquiry on Iraq war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/iraq/story/0,,1792435,00.html

Opinion Hunger in the land of plenty
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/viewinfo.cfm?id=1529

6 Jun 06

Asylum for the young
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133464&command=displayContent&sourceNode=133158&contentPK=14597865&folderPk=78031

Councils to counter refugee racism
http://icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk/news/scottish/tm_objectid=17187050%26method=full%26siteid=50141%26headline=councils%2dto%2dcounter%2drefugee%2dracism-name_page.html

Immigrants must learn to speak English, says Brown
http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/63415.html

I will listen to Deborah's plea
http://www.thisishull.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136730&command=displayContent&sourceNode=136541&contentPK=14597855&folderPk=79656

£6m in bounties persuades asylum-seekers to go home
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2212314,00.html

Festivals play their part in fighting racism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1790951,00.html

Stunned shoppers witness immigration raid on car wash
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.783796.0.stunned_shoppers_witness_immigration_raid_on_car_wash.php

Asian families consider quitting Britain over police terror raids
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article625606.ece

If we knew more about Ireland, we might never have invaded Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1790964,00.html

5 Jun 06s

Government acts over immigration loophole
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,,1790938,00.html

Immigrants 'must learn English'
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5053219.htmls

Terror raid shooting accidental, say police
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2211260,00.html

Daily attacks and abuse - the new reality for British troops
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2211182,00.html

A raid that raised more questions than answers
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article625091.ece

New vice squad to tackle airport sex-slave auctions
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article625093.ece

02: World

Africa and Europe seek solutions to illegal immigration as Spanish
traffickers blamed for deaths of Africans found in Caribbean
http://www.blackbritain.co.uk/news/details.aspx?i=2171&c=africa

Google 'compromised principles' over China
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Technology/online/search/story/0,,1792382,00.html

China rejects Spain's 'genocide' claims
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article656410.ece

China: Google hints at China U-turn
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=16982

Colombia/Andes : Uribe’s Re-election: Can the EU Help Colombia Develop a
More Balanced Peace Strategy?
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4166

East Timor dispatch: Anarchy has tarnished the jewel in the UN's
nation-building crown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1791396,00.html

France to allow some illegal immigrants to stay
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-06-06T185929Z_01_L06350964_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FRANCE-IMMIGRATION.xml&src=rss

Iran 'considering' incentives to curb nuclear activity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1791675,00.html

Iraq: For the women of Iraq, the war is just beginning
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article717570.ece

Iraqi Shias murdered in sectarian massacre
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article625113.ece

Iraq promises its own inquiry as fury mounts over civilian killings
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article624654.ece

Iraq: 50 Iraqis abducted by Baghdad gunmen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1791128,00.html

Iraq: Al-Zarqawi killed in US air raid
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article752127.ece

Iraq: Baghdad's mortuary inundated with 6,000 corpses this year
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article656420.ece

Poland: Official Homophobia Threatens Basic Freedoms
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/06/05/poland13512.htm

Russia tells Ukraine to stay out of Nato
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1792665,00.html

Somalia: Warlords flee as Islamic militants seize Mogadishu
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2212206,00.html

Sudan: No Justice for Darfur Victims
Special Courts Failing to Prosecute War Crimes
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/06/08/sudan13516.htm

US: Immigration Debate Stirs Racial Tensions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5866347,00.html

US president backs gay marriage ban and outlaws flag burning.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1791129,00.html

US: Pentagon's interrogation manual dodges Geneva ban
US drafts new rules for interrogators omiting ban on 'humiliating and
degrading treatment'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1791164,00.html

03: Europe

Europe: Renditions - Council of Europe report welcomed
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=16981

04: Events

Thursday 22nd June 2006
Days of Action in Support of Asylum Seekers in Manchester!
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/06/342122.html

24 June 2006
Demonstration at Tinsley House
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/june/ha000012.html

supporting asylum seekers - meeting the challenges of the asylum and
immigration agenda
http://www.lga.gov.uk/content.asp?lSection=0&id=SX12A9-A7839C10
Flyer PDF
http://www.lga.gov.uk/Documents/Event/Supporting%20Asylum%20Seekers%20conf%20flyer%20V4%200700606.pdf

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Aegis report exposes Khartoum danger for Darfur survivors
"...lays bare the dangers for hundreds of African survivors of
genocidal violence in Darfur who, having fled to the UK, are
threatened with removal to Khartoum as failed asylum seekers.
http://www.aegistrust.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=402&Itemid=88
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About report:
‘Safe as Ghost Houses: Prospects for Darfur African Survivors
Removed to Khartoum’
(PDF)
http://www.aegistrust.org/images//khartoum_report_june_2006.pdf

UNHCR attacks point-scoring pundits
http://society.guardian.co.uk/asylumseekers/story/0,,1790320,00.html
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About:
UNHCR: Media, politicians depicting refugees in poor light

Find the complete report at:
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/publ/opendoc.pdf?tbl=PUBL&id=44508b222

(London) - A new report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees warns
that despite the rapid fall in the number of asylum seekers arriving in
industrialised countries, debate about asylum seekers has become more
negative and vitriolic.

The report, in UNHCR's quarterly "Refugees" magazine, examines the
phenomenon of intolerance in many parts of the world and exposes the
myths and misperceptions that give rise to it.

In an introduction to "Refugees: Victims of Intolerance," UN High
Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, says asylum seekers are an
easy target.

"In some countries, deliberate attempts to dehumanise asylum seekers are
continuing, always presenting them as menacing statistics, as criminals
and bringers of disease, or as some other form of generalised abstract
aberration that is easy to hate," writes Guterres.

"In an increasing number of countries, asylum seekers - and the refugees
among them - have become a tool for political demagogues, or have been
turned into faceless bogeymen by an unscrupulous popular press. "

Guterres notes that people seeking asylum are easy prey for politicians
and journalists who wish to pursue a wider anti-foreigner agenda,
sentiments that may feed violence against foreigners.

The new UNHCR report looks in particular at recent coverage of refugees
and asylum seekers in the UK and Australia. It notes that although some
British reporters have themselves complained about their paper's
coverage of asylum seekers, some news outlets continue their hostile
reporting on the issue unabated.

Significant strides have been made in the UK in recent years that have
helped enhance integration and community cohesion of foreign born
populations. Negative coverage has receded to some extent since the 2005
general elections. Regional media outlets tend to report more favourably
on refugee and asylum issues than the national media. The Greater London
Authority's 2005 Local London Press Awards scheme, for example, helped
to highlight positive coverage of refugees and people seeking asylum in
the capital.

Refugees remain more prone to attacks than the average Briton. Police
are currently investigating the stabbing of an Afghan man in east London
on 17 May. According to reports published in The Times, the four
attackers repeatedly knifed their victim, then draped an England flag
draped over his body. The man was rushed to hospital in serious
condition.

Underlying perceptions feeding the anti-asylum sentiment often behind
such violence include notions promoted amongst some UK tabloids and
interest groups that there are too many asylum seekers in Europe, with
more on the way, and that they abuse the hospitality of their hosts,
Guterres writes.

The number of people seeking asylum in the UK has plummeted by some 60
percent in recent years, back to pre 1994 levels. Across Europe, claims
are now back at levels not seen in 25 years. Meanwhile, removals of
unsuccessful asylum claimants have increased considerably in the first
quarter of 2006, going up 43 percent over the same period last year.

UNHCR is calling for British civil society to speak out against
discriminatory rhetoric feeding the anti-foreigner sentiment apparent in
some sections of Britain's press and political life.

"It is important that politicians, the press and the wider public remain
focussed on fighting poverty, discrimination and injustice both here and
abroad, " said Bemma Donkoh, UNHCR's representative to the United
Kingdom.

"Despite the vast amount of sympathy for refugees when they are encamped
in desperate situations abroad, they may also suffer intolerance and
injustice here," Donkoh said.

"As the UK prepares to commemorate World Refugee Day on 20 June, it is
vital that we all remember those people among us who have been
persecuted and suffered human rights abuses or been caught up in wars
and forced to flee their homes amidst horrendous violence," Donkoh
warned. "While the vast majority of the world's refugees are in poor
countries adjacent to their homelands, some do arrive here in the UK and
should not be spurned as so often occurs."
End

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