[noborders-brum] 'commitment, home, scandal, new extremes, death rate' - 1 Apr 07 - 35 items (approx)

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01: UK
02: World
03: COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership
04: BIHR: Human Rights Visions of Equality’, bringing rights to life
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Lead: 'commitment, home, scandal, new extremes, death rate'

UK must not rescind its commitment to refugees
Britain's attempts to return Darfuris who have fled here in desperation
after being victimised in Sudan's growing conflict have been slammed by
the Medical Foundation as hypocritical and unsustainable under
international law. 
http://www.torturecare.org.uk/news/latest_news/943

Teenage victim of asylum scandal faces deportation
The home office seeks to deport Zimbabwean teenager who exposed a
sex-for-asylum scandal in Immigration Service.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/uk_news/story/0,,2047688,00.html

For Blair, it's child's play to make us all criminals
>From identifying potential miscreants in childhood to
fingerprint-activated iPods, Labour's new crime review takes the theft
of our liberty to new extremes.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2047483,00.html

Rise in UK's child mortality rate is linked to inequality
Britain has the second highest child death rate among the 24 richest
countries in the world,
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2411397.ece

City to offer child asylum seekers a new home
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1292755.0.0.php
(no choice dispersal)
See:
Treatment of children
- Care of separated asylum seeking children
- The Government's proposals for improving support to separated children
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200607/jtselect/jtrights/81/8102.htm
-  Conclusions and recommendations 
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200607/jtselect/jtrights/81/8111.htm
+
The needs and experiences of unaccompanied asylum-seekingchildren in
Scotland
http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/pub/UASC_Exec_Summary
 
01: UK

1 April 07

Freedom for British resident after five years in Guantanamo
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2411375.ece

Jamie Oliver Plans Asylum Seekers TV Special
http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=30011

The feuding camps behind Iran crisis
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2047518,00.html

31 Mar 07

Asylum seeker funeral fund reaches target
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=501712007

Refugees Fear Racist Attacks On The Streets
http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=161818&command=displayContent&sourceNode=161644&contentPK=17004027&folderPk=88499&pNodeId=161375

Pupils visit trailer to learn about refugees
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/newsbyedition/teesvalley/display.var.1299990.0.pupils_visit_trailer_to_learn_about_refugees.php

30 Mar 07

Asylum seekers 'face death if sent to Syria'
http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_headline=asylum-seekers--face-death-if-sent-to-syria-&method=full&objectid=18834227&siteid=50060-name_page.html

Report on European convention protecting national minorities 
http://www.cre.gov.uk/Default.aspx.LocID-0hgnew0t4.RefLocID-0hg00900f006.Lang-EN.htm

What do you know about Britain's abolition of slavery? 
http://www.cre.gov.uk/diversity/quiz03/question1.html


02: World

Climate change ‘could create 200m refugees’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1596769.ece

People Fleeing Somalia War Secretly Detained
Kenya, US and Ethiopia Cooperate in Secret Detentions and Renditions 
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/03/30/kenya15624.htm

Haiti's children die in UN crossfire
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/world/story/0,,2047451,00.html

Iraq: Market bombing is deadliest so far
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2411394.ece

Nepal swears Maoists into cabinet 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6515159.stm

Somalis cower as fighting rages 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6515061.stm

Sri Lanka: Human cost of Sri Lanka's jungle battles
200,000 refugees who have fled fighting in Sri Lanka are struggling to
survive on the country's east coast.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/world/story/0,,2047456,00.html

Ukrainian rivals rally in capital 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6512941.stm

Zimbabwe: Mugabe's opponents strive for united front
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2411408.ece


03: COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership

http://www.asylumscotland.org.uk

'Tartanised' Legislation & Policy
Evolution of Asylum Legislation in the UK
http://www.asylumscotland.org.uk/tartanisedlegislationandpolicy.php


04: BIHR: Human Rights Visions of Equality’, bringing rights to life

Spring Lunchtime Lecture
On 17 April The Rt Hon the Baroness Ashton of Upholland will deliver our
spring Lunchtime Lecture, ‘Human Rights: Common Values, Common Sense’.
http://www.bihr.org/events/lunchtime.html

BIHR conference
On 18 June BIHR will hold its first annual conference – ‘Human Rights
Visions of Equality’ – for both the public and voluntary and community
sectors.
http://www.bihr.org/events/conferences.html

Human Rights in Healthcare – A Framework for Local Action
http://www.bihr.org/development/health.html


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