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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Immigration Europe</title>
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		<title>Yarlswood refuses xmas for imprisoned children</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/yarlswood_refuses_xmas_for_imprisoned_children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/yarlswood_refuses_xmas_for_imprisoned_children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
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I heard on Sunday morning of an asylum seeker who was picked up yesterday and sent to Yarlswood women and children&#8217;s detention center.   I have visited and met some of the women in Yarlswood and personally know two women, a young Nigerian lesbian and  a young Ugandan woman both deported last year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harare North: the story tellers task</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/harare_north_a_piece_of_grit_in_the_state_machinery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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 George Orwell and Graham Green both saw the role of the writer as one who questions and critiques the establishment, the State etc &#8211; something which Robert McCrum [writing in the Guardian] fears has been lost to mediocrity and market leaving Britain in a state of &#8220;creative bankruptcy. 
The storyteller&#8217;s task, Greene declared, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minaret questions</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/12/minaret_questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
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&#8220;The peoples of Europe are welcoming and tolerant: it&#8217;s in their nature and in their culture. But they don&#8217;t want their way of life, their mode of thinking and their social relations distorted.&#8221;

French President NICOLAS SARKOZY, defending Switzerland&#8217;s ban on building minarets
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That&#8217;s what president Nicolas Sarkozy said. I say: But the European will distort the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti immigration in UK grows &#8211; throw them to the sharks</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/07/anti_immigration_in_uk_grows_-_throw_them_to_the_sharks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/07/anti_immigration_in_uk_grows_-_throw_them_to_the_sharks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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Yesterday the BNP leader, Nick Griffin,  suggested boats carrying illegal immigrants between North Africa and Europe should be sunk. 
Pressed on what should happen to those on board, he said: &#8220;Throw them a life raft and they can go back to Libya&#8221;. 
Today the Labour government moves ever closer to the BNP agenda with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving our children behind &#8211; we didnt know how things would work out</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/04/leaving_our_children_behind_-_we_didnt_know_how_things_would_work_out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/04/leaving_our_children_behind_-_we_didnt_know_how_things_would_work_out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<title>Urgent action to stop deportation of rape survivor</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/01/urgent_action_to_stop_deportation_of_rape_survivor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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Flavia Nambi is a Rape survivor detained in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre and facing removal today Tuesday 20 January, at 7pm.  
Please phone or write to:
1.    Phil Woolas MP, Immigration Minister, Home Office Minister of State for borders and immigration, UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk
2.    Jacqui Smith MP, Secretary of State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Walls [update]</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/01/world_walls_update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/01/world_walls_update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=2271</guid>
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The other day I was reminded of this post on &#8220;Walls around the world&#8221; I wrote 18 months ago by a friend and I promised to post it again. Now there are even more walls. The whole of Gaza has always been a walled enclave in the midst of stolen lands. Now it is surrounded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Aids Day: Zimbabwe</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/world_aids_day_zimbabwe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/world_aids_day_zimbabwe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kester Mtambanengwe</dc:creator>
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As the international community commemorate the twentieth anniversary of  World AIDS Day, there is a country which today is left dwindling behind watching every day as it comes and only hoping against every hope that food and possibly a cure will be found. What is more traumatising is the fact that even if this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ugandan lesbian receives asylum in UK</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/10/ugandan_lesbian_receives_asylum_in_uk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/10/ugandan_lesbian_receives_asylum_in_uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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Congratulations to Ugandan lesbian Prossy Kakooza who has won her asylum case after 15 months.   According to the report, the judge was influenced by the medical evidence and the expert&#8217;s report which highlighted the extreme difficulties of being  LGBTI in Uganda.  

The judge was heavily influenced by three factors: the Country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are Nigerians applying for asylum?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/10/why_are_nigerians_applying_for_asylum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/10/why_are_nigerians_applying_for_asylum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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UNHCR reports that 4,816 Nigerians applied for asylum in the first 6 months of 2008 making the country the 9th highest after countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, China to name a few.   I know of two Nigerians who have sought asylum on the basis of their sexuality, one gay man and one lesbian. [...]]]></description>
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