[noborders-brum] 'Modern Day, violence, vulnerable groups' - 3 May 07 - 100 items (approx)

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[01] Lead items
[02] UK
[03] Jobs
[04] World
[05] Europe
[06] Events
[07] World Press Freedom Day
[08] World Refugee Day: June 20
[09] CrisisWatch: Latest update
[10] Migrant News 99 - May 2007 
[11] Training on Asylum Support Options
[12] Immigration removal Centres responses to HIV
[13] Undocumented Children: Let Them Grow Up Here!
[14] Latest Medical Justice briefing: Policy Changes &
     Agreements for Immigration Detainees
[15] g8, flight & migration: For a big action on the occasion
     of the mobilisation against the G-8
[16] Tear gas, Rubber bullets: NISN Statement on LAPD Attacks 
     May Day Immigrant Marchers
[17] How to cancel or change your subscription to Frank's List


[01] Lead items: 'Modern Day, violence, vulnerable groups'
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Citizens' asylum enquiry to hear experience of vulnerable groups in
Cardiff
http://www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk/pages/media.html

Modern Day Slavery of African Children in the UK: Address the Demand and
Supply Nexus
An event to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the law abolishing the
trans-Atlantic slave trade.
London, 25 - 26 July 2007
http://www.afruca.org

Training Events 7 June
Africans Unite Against Child Abuse
For practitioners in Liverpool
(PDF)
http://www.afruca.org/archive/Training%20Brochure%2007.pdf

UNICEF launches handbook to help lawmakers combat violence against
children
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22423&Cr=child&Cr1=

[02] UK
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3 May 07

Hope of last-minute reprieve for Rene on deportation day
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=684692007

Jailed for attack on asylum seeker
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburn/headlines/display.var.1373588.0.jailed_for_attack_on_asylum_seeker.php

Shock at immigrant ‘health tourism’ leaflet (but they do have to pay)
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/newspolitics/tm_headline=shock-at-immigrant-%2D%2D8216%2Dhealth-tourism%2D%2D8217%2D-leaflet-%2Dbut-they-do-have-to-pay%2D%26method=full%26objectid=19035743%26siteid=50082-name_page.html

MEPs back rapid response teams to tackle illegal immigration
MEPs last week gave their backing to new Rapid Border Intervention Teams
(RABIT)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/031-6196-113-04-17-903-20070502STO06195-2007-23-04-2007/default_en.htm

PC ‘was ordered to change notes over honour killing’
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article1739082.ece

Tresor Nlabu Masampu
What you can do to help
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine82/tresor.html

US entry visa plan for British Pakistanis denied
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2070889,00.html

UVF renounces violence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2071425,00.html

2 May 07

Comic backs Rene's bid to beat the boot
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=677442007

Chineye Ndibe and her children released from Yarls Wood 
http://www.asylum-seekers-defence.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Chineye_Ndibe_and_her_children_released_from_Yarls_Wood

Ministers told to rethink dangerous legal aid reforms
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2502061.ece

Protest Against ESOL Cuts in Birmingham 
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369479.html

Lecturers welcome London ESOL effort - but urge government to act
http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2528&from=2522

Equality and diversity
The Border and Immigration Agency believes “Diversity means business”.
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/workingforind/Equalityanddiversity

Write to your MP and urge them to sign the Strangers into Citizens Early
Day Motion 
http://voiceyourviews.net/eactivist/vyv.v?v=2121:261:12983:

Iran: UK Abandons Negotiations on Asylum Seekers
http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=6659

How European migration is starting to recede
Cheerleaders and detractors of Europe’s newfound mobility are getting
worked up by a temporary phenomenon
http://www.ippr.org.uk/articles/?id=2676

Registrars report three sham marriages a month
http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1371650.0.registrars_report_three_sham_marriages_a_month.php

Appeal For Darfur
http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/world/?content_id=6174

Housing association opens new centre for Birmingham's refugees
http://www.24dash.com/news/1/20078/index.htm

The wrong confession
If Iraq was the biggest mistake of Mr Blair's premiership, it is also an
enduring one.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,2070071,00.html

The measles of the human race is moving centre stage
Having reshaped the political map of Britain, nationalism offers hope to
those who have lost faith in tiered democracy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2070078,00.html

1 May 07

Fury as executive deported from UK
http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3808403

Roast dinner is refugees' recipe for success
http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_headline=roast-dinner-is-refugees%2D-recipe-for-success%26method=full%26objectid=19026796%26siteid=50003-name_page.html

UK Refuses Entry to Lancet Iraq Death Toll Study Author 
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369192.html


[03] Jobs
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The London Development Agency is looking for individuals to join a new
London Refugee Economic Action (LORECA) Advisory Panel.
http://www.loreca.org.uk/news/news.asp

Women's Group Co-ordinator (Refugee Services)
Northern, Lancashire, Refugee & International Tracing Services, UK
Service Development, Ref:45570 - N3
http://gs11.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_redcross01.asp?newms=se

ECRE has currently two vacancies: Director of Finance and Fundraising
Manager
http://www.ecre.org/get_involved/job_vacancies

Communications Manager (Brussels)
http://www.ecre.org/resources/848

[04] World
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The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants 
latest newsletter
http://www.picum.org

May Day Shutdown 
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=19&ItemID=12720

Real May Day 
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=19&ItemID=12721

Terrorism Up Worldwide, Call it the Iraq Effect 
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/index.html#4328

Egypt plays host as great Satan eyes up axis of evil
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2071328,00.html

Australia: Aboriginal health 'a hundred years behind whites'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article2502075.ece

Australian Health Minister Abbott Approves Plan To Genetically Track HIV
Cases
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=69510

Indonesia: Jemaah Islamiyah’s Current Status
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4792&l=1

Iran deports thousands of Afghans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6615585.stm

Iraq 101: Everything You Want to Know About the War But Were Afraid to
Ask 
http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2007/03/iraq_101.html

Iraq: 'Honour Killing' of teenage girl condemned as abhorrent 
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17351

Kenya: Thousands of Somali refugees and asylum-seekers denied refuge
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR320042007

Somalia asked us to save them from this brutal sub-clan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2070944,00.html

Sudan: UN official condemns attack on aid personnel in West Darfur
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22419&Cr=sudan&Cr1=

Sudan 'will defy Darfur warrants' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6618527.stm

Sudan: War Crimes suspects must be brought before International Criminal
Court
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17352

Turkey: The democratic solution
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,2070932,00.html

Turkish court blocks Islamist's bid for presidency
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2502096.ece

US: Families Central to Immigration Talks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6603984,00.html

US:  Thousands of immigration marchers rally across U.S.
- Los Angeles police fire rubber bullets to disperse crowd
- Crowd estimated at 150,000 in Chicago
- Homeland security chief says parents choose to break law
- Focus of protests is deportations that split families
(Includes analysis and videos)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/immigration.protests/

US:  Immigration compromise continues to elude lawmakers
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/01/immigration.bill/index.html

US: Latinos on the move
Protests have halted the momentum towards draconian immigration law in
the US, but have not not reversed its direction.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/gary_younge/2007/05/latinos_on_the_move.html

US: Four years after declaring victory, Bush vetos Iraq withdrawal plan
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2502074.ece

US: Tape 'reveals order' to shoot Vietnam protesters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2070139,00.html
Audio file of tape:
http://karenkilroy.com/audio/may_4_1970_fire.wma

Uzbekistan: Journalist Sentenced
(PDF)
http://www.article19.org/pdfs/press/uzbekistan-journalist-imprisoned-pr.pdf

Venezuela takes over refineries 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6610333.stm

Venezuela: Chavez pulls out of IMF and World Bank
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2502081.ece


[05] Europe
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MEPs back rapid response teams to tackle illegal immigration
MEPs last week gave their backing to new Rapid Border Intervention Teams
(RABIT)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/031-6196-113-04-17-903-20070502STO06195-2007-23-04-2007/default_en.htm

How European migration is starting to recede
Cheerleaders and detractors of Europe’s newfound mobility are getting
worked up by a temporary phenomenon
http://www.ippr.org.uk/articles/?id=2676

The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants 
latest newsletter
http://www.picum.org


[06] Events
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Multiculturalism: A recipe for intolerance?
ippr is delighted to welcome Professor Joseph Raz for Friday Exchange on
May 4
http://www.ippr.org.uk/events/exchange/

Hackney Stop the War Committee meeting
Tuesday 8 May 7:30pm
The Anatolian People's Cultural Centre 
89-91 Stoke Newington Rd, N16
+
Hackney Stop the War Public Meeting 
Wednesday 16 May, 7.30pm
'Foreign Policy after Blair - Troops out of Iraq, Don't Attack Iran'
Round Chapel, Powerscroft Road, Lower Clapton, 
http://www.geocities.com/hackneystopthewar/

Thursday May 10 - 6.30 pm
Next Open Meetings
UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group
Asylum Support
http://www.uklgig.org.uk/

Friday 11th May at 2 p.m. until 4.30
The second meeting of the Refugee Youth Arts Network
at Arts Council London office
2 Pear Tree Ct, London, EC1R 0DS
Please let my colleague Anil know if you are coming:
Anil.Iltas at ovalhouse.com
Source: http://www.refed.org.uk

Free Training*
Introduction to Support Options For
Failed Asylum Seekers 30th May 07
(*open to ASAP members only)
*Membership is free to
Refugee Community
Organisations. To become a
member contact us on 020
8684 5874.
htp://www.frankslist.info/asapmay.pdf
See:
Becoming a member
http://www.asaproject.org.uk/about_ASAP/becoming_a_member.htm

Volunteering and asylum conference
Cardiff, 7 June 2007
10.30am - 3.30pm 
http://www.tandem-uk.com/news.htm#cardiff

Training Events 7 June
Africans Unite Against Child Abuse
For practitioners in Liverpool
(PDF)
http://www.afruca.org/archive/Training%20Brochure%2007.pdf

18 June
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

17/06/2007 - 18:30
The London Churches Refugee Fund has been set up to provide help to
destitute asylum seekers has its official launch on Sunday 17th June at
6.30 pm. at Westminster Abbey
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5206

US: July 27-29, 2007 NISN National Grassroots Immigrant 
Strategy Conference 
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. 
http://www.2007conference.net/

ECSR Conference 2007
University of Sheffield
8-9th September 2007
Theme: Integrating refugees into society and church
http://www.ecsr.org.uk/cm/general/122


[07] World Press Freedom Day
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World Press Freedom Day
http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/press/

Missing for 52 days
It's World Press Freedom Day so spare a thought for Alan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/05/media_freedom.html

Here, journalists and artists from the UK speak out in defence of free
speech while MF clients recount how they were treated for voicing their
opinions.
http://www.torturecare.org.uk/news/features/979

Iraq: Press Release on World Press Freedom Day
http://www.article19.org/

Murdered journalists
Assassinated journalists
Journalists killed in Russia
Journalists killed in action
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murdered_journalists


[08] World Refugee Day: June 20

Marked each year on June 20. Find out all about World Refugee Day 2007
here, including listings of special events to mark the day worldwide.
http://www.unhcr.org/events/3e7f46e04.html


[09] CrisisWatch: Latest update
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CrisisWatch No: 45, 1 May 2007

Summary:
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4804&l=1

Full report

PDF
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/getfile.cfm?id=2891&tid=4804&type=pdf&l=1

Word doc
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/getfile.cfm?id=2891&type=word&tid=4804&l=1

To subscribe to CrisisWatch 
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?action=subscribe&l=1

Search current and all past editions of CrisisWatch by using the
CrisisWatch database
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=2937&l=1#C1


[10] Migrant News 99 - May 2007 

With an update on the April 2007 session of the UN Committee on Migrant
Workers.
(word doc0
http://www.december18.net/web/docpapers/doc5202.doc


[11] Training on Asylum Support Options
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Free Training*

Introduction to Support Options For
Failed Asylum Seekers 30th May 07
(*open to ASAP members only)

*Membership is free to Refugee Community  Organisations. To become a
member contact us on 020 8684 5874.
htp://www.frankslist.info/asapmay.pdf

Becoming a member
http://www.asaproject.org.uk/about_ASAP/becoming_a_member.htm


Do you advise asylum seekers?
Do you need advice about NASS support or NASS appeals?
Call our ASAP Advice Line: 0845 603 3884 or 020 8684 5972
http://www.asaproject.org.uk/


[12] Immigration removal Centres responses to HIV
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16 page PDF
http://www.nat.org.uk/document/257

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Negotiated Agreements and Policy changes on medical issues ref.
immigration detainees
http://www.medicaljustice.org.uk/briefings.htm

New prevention technologies annual update 2007
(PDF)
http://www.nat.org.uk/document/259


[13] Undocumented Children: Let Them Grow Up Here!
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Website translation tools:
http://www.google.co.uk/language_tools?hl=en

The study Jeunes prostitué-es et réponses sociales has been published
about the prostitution of minors in Belgium
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/nieuws/belgie/357864

The Belgian Movement for Undocumented Children
http://www.kinderenzonderpapieren.be

Let Them Grow Up Here! (Laissez-les grandir ici!) is a film about
children of undocumented migrants, who voice their need for support and
mobilisation and who want their families to be regularized. The French
Education Without Borders Network (RESF - Réseau éducation sans
frontières)
http://www.educationsansfrontieres.org/spip.php?article4631

They Are Children Too
http://www.irr.org.uk/2007/march/ak000019.html

The French National Academy of Medicine (Académie nationale de médecine)
issued a report on 2 February 2007 on the relatively restricted
reliability of medical examinations used to determine the age of young
migrants.
.
http://www.france-terre-asile.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=307&Itemid=9

The EU must seek to promote greater awareness of the issue of
unaccompanied minors (below the age of eighteen), according to a report
by the Committee of the Regions (CoR)
(PDF)
http://www.cor.europa.eu/cms/pages/documents/const/en/Avis/CdR%20136-2006.pdf

Les mineurs étrangers isolés en Europe (Foreign Unaccompanied Minors in
Europe),
http://www.ssae.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=14

Report: Locking Up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant Families
(PDF)
http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/famdeten.pdf

Source: 

PICUM Newsletter
http://www.picum.org

UNICEF launches handbook to help lawmakers combat violence against
children
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22423&Cr=child&Cr1=


[14] Latest Medical Justice briefing: Policy Changes &
     Agreements for Immigration Detainees
------------

Negotiated Agreements and Policy changes on medical issues ref.
immigration detainees
http://www.medicaljustice.org.uk/briefings.htm

+

Immigration removal Centres responses to HIV
16 page PDF
http://www.nat.org.uk/document/257


[15] g8, flight & migration: For a big action on the occasion
     of the mobilisation against the G-8
----------

"We are here, because you destroy our countries." With this central
slogan of the Caravan-for the rights of refugees and migrants, the
relationship between capitalist destruction and flight and migration is
clearly pointed out.
http://nolager.de/blog/taxonomy/term/92


[00] Tear gas, Rubber bullets: NISN Statement on LAPD Attacks 
     May Day Immigrant Marchers
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“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” Martin
Luther King, Jr.

National Immigrant Solidarity Network, ActionLA Coalition
Statement on LAPD Brutally Attacks May Day Immigrant Marchers at
McArthur Park
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/cgi-bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=Issues&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0885

Authorities Probe Police Response
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6604978,00.html

July 27-29, 2007 NISN National Grassroots Immigrant 
Strategy Conference 
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. 
http://www.2007conference.net/

Minutemen Watch 
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Campaigns/Minutemen.htm

Ain’t I a woman? Campaign
http://www.aintiawoman.org/about.html

Monthly digest of the Immigrant Solidarity Network
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/isn-digest

Daily email Immigrant Solidarity Network
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/list.htm

US: Tape 'reveals order' to shoot Vietnam protesters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2070139,00.html
Audio file of tape:
http://karenkilroy.com/audio/may_4_1970_fire.wma

Thousands of immigration marchers rally across U.S.
- Los Angeles police fire rubber bullets to disperse crowd
- Crowd estimated at 150,000 in Chicago
- Homeland security chief says parents choose to break law
- Focus of protests is deportations that split families
(Includes analysis and videos)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/immigration.protests/

US:  Immigration compromise continues to elude lawmakers
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/01/immigration.bill/index.html

US: Latinos on the move
Protests have halted the momentum towards draconian immigration law in
the US, but


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