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This is the first time that the UKBA has published an Operational Guidance Note for Gambia. UKBA Country Specific Asylum Policy Operational Guidance Notes (OGNs), use country of origin information (COI) reports and other sources to provide a brief summary for use by UKBA decision-makers. Caseowners must not base decisions on the country of origin information [...]

UKBA Country Specific Asylum Policy Operational guidance notes (OGNs), use country of origin information (COI) reports and other sources to provide a brief summary for use by UKBA decision-makers. Caseowners must not base decisions on the country of origin information in OGN guidance; it is included to provide context only and does not purport to [...]

Human Rights Watch 15 May 2012 Iraq’s government has been carrying out mass arrests and unlawfully detaining people in the notorious Camp Honor prison facility in Baghdad’s Green Zone, based on numerous interviews with victims, witnesses, family members, and government officials. The government had claimed a year ago that it had closed the prison, where [...]

Reuters, 14 May 2012 Reuters reports that intensifying violence as NATO combat troops prepare to leave by end-2014 and a poor economic outlook in the face of shrinking aid could spell a humanitarian disaster for Afghanistan. Even in the capital Kabul, there are 35,000 internal refugees living in 30 makeshift camps. Amnesty International says 400 [...]

Agence France-Presse 14 May 2012 Seven people were killed in attacks in central and northern Iraq on Monday, including five who died in a spate of bombings in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah, officials said. In Fallujah, just west of Baghdad, three bomb attacks in close succession killed five people and wounded 18 others. [...]

Institute for War and Peace, May 11, 2012. There has been some progress in coming to terms with the past. Ordinary people have become bolder and have begun to speak out about those accused of committing human rights violations, particularly those that occurred in the early 1990s after the collapse of the communist regime. Previously, [...]

Agence France-Presse 7 May 2012 Four people were killed and 15 others were wounded, including security forces in five separate attacks across Iraq on Monday, security and medical officials said. A Shiite man and his son were killed and four of their family were wounded when insurgents set off bombs around their house in Baquba, [...]

UNHCR RefWorld, 7 May, 2012. Yemeni security forces have arbitrarily detained dozens of demonstrators and other perceived opponents of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh since anti-government protests began in February 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch documented 37 cases in which security forces have held people for days, weeks, or months without charge, [...]

Human Rights Watch May 5, 2012. Iranian authorities should immediately free dozens of university students currently behind bars solely for peacefully expressing political opinions, and end harassment of student activists on university campuses throughout the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch issued the call as part of a joint campaign initiated by [...]

Institute for War & Peace Reporting 4 May 2012 A bout of violence in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala has prompted fears of a resurgence of the kind of sectarian conflict that once wracked the country. On April 26, a double bombing hit a cafe owned by a Shia man in the village of [...]