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The News from International Protection ©
Week: October 24th- October 31st 2008
The weekly listing of important stories in the
fields of peace, human rights, development, and humanitarian affairs.
Dear friend,
You find here fifteen
issues you should know about:
1) Suspected US missile strikes kill 27 in
Pakistan
“Suspected U.S. missiles slammed into two
villages Friday, killing 27 people including foreign fighters in the latest
strikes inside Pakistan, intelligence officials said.”
Source: Associated Press/ Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan;_ylt=AoegyVnCDmxEDvZ3akitvoRvaA8F
2) Weary refugees try to reach home in eastern
Congo
“Thousands of war-weary refugees set out on
foot for their homes in eastern Congo on Friday, taking advantage of a
cease-fire as American and U.N. envoys joined efforts there to find a political
solution to the region's long-running rebellion.”
Source: Associated Press/Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_re_af/af_congo_fighting;_ylt=AuYBKtr1sJu1spE8mc0ba5T9xg8F
3) India suspects Islamists, separatists in Assam attack
“”Indian authorities suspect that Islamist
groups in collusion with separatist militants carried out coordinated bomb
blasts in the Assam state that killed 77 people and wounded more than 320.”
Source: Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE49U20V20081031
4) Zimbabweans
despair as politicians battle it out
“Zimbabweans are losing faith in a
power-sharing deal and fear their once-prosperous country will collapse without
a breakthrough in deadlocked talks..”
Source: Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE49U4LU20081031
5) Somalia’s
Pirates Flourish in a Lawless Nation
“One particular line of work — piracy — seems
to be benefiting quite openly from all this lawlessness and desperation.”
Source: The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/world/africa/31pirates.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
6) Iraqi
Ministry Adopts Political Neutrality
“Iraq’s defense minister announced Thursday
that all employees of the ministry, from the highest officials to the lowliest
soldiers, would be required to remain politically neutral.”
Source: The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/world/middleeast/31iraq.html?ref=world
7) UNHCR
concerned for 50,000 displaced people in Congo after camps reportedly burned
“The UN refugee agency said Friday it has
received disturbing reports that several camps for internally displaced people
near the North Kivu town of Rutshuru, about 90 kilometres north of Goma in
eastern DRC, have been forcibly emptied, looted and burned.”
Source: Alertnet
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/UNHCR/30758cf01ee894b63001766f2c69bd96.html
8) Relief
trickles in to Pakistan quake survivors
“Pakistani soldiers scrambled on Friday to get
aid to tens of thousands of survivors in remote southwestern mountains where
about 215 people were killed in an earthquake this week.”
Source: Alertnet
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL322999.htm
9) MYANMAR:
Cyclone orphans forced to work
“After losing his parents to the cyclone, Aung
Myint Kyaw had no choice but to give up school to help support the cousin who
looks after him.”
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Source: Irin
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=81219
10) KENYA: Isolation wards vital in TB fight
“- Five months after a specialised facility
for multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients was established at
Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, the lack of isolation wards is raising
concerns.”
Source: Irin
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=81214
11) DRC - Uganda: Facilities overwhelmed as
refugees stream to border
“Food, water, health and sanitation facilities
at several villages on the Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border are
overstretched as civilians continue to pour into Uganda, the UN Refugee Agency,
UNHCR, said on 31 October.”
Source:
Reliefweb / IRIN
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MCOT-7KXETM?OpenDocument
12) Colombia: Upping the body count
“Not that hard, when any body will do”
Source: The Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=12522940
13) Rudderless in Kabul
“The sense of strategy for both Iraq and
Afghanistan is in danger of being lost in an ocean of tactical ideas and
initiatives”
Source: The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/31/military-defence
14) Capital
punishment is a crime
“The next (US) president should recall that
every other western democracy deals with crime without the death penalty “
Source: The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/31/election-obama-death-penalty
15) Middle
East: Border Raid
“After a U.S.-military hit on a Syrian village
bordering Iraq, a Syrian official chalks it up to Washington politics.”
Source: Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/id/166635
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