Canadian Council for Refugees
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Thrilled to join CCR executive leadership at our Roundtable with IRCC and CBSA to advance refugee and migrant rights this week in Ottawa Canadian Council for Refugees #Refugees Tanja Maleska (she/elle) Action Réfugiés Montréal
Asylum seekers are arriving in Canada in record numbers, sleeping in shelters, churches and sometimes on the street. Reception centres are a more humane approach, writes FCJ Refugee Centre’s Founder, Loly Rico, in Maclean’s Magazine Maclean’s Magazine. 👇
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🧵Budget 2024 makes critical new investments in so many of the right areas to ensure 🇨🇦 builds an asylum system with dignity: longer-term investments in housing, legal aid, refugee claim processing & determination. 👏🏽👏🏽Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ & colleagues. Our 👀 r on the deets! Canadian Council for Refugees
Canada's record at protecting Migrant and Refugee Rights gets a big RED X in Oxfam Canada Feminist Scorecard 2024. Very little progress and much need for improvement! #RefugeeRights #cdnpoli 🌍
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Our friends at Canadian Council for Refugees are asking you to write your MP and call on the government to establish a national support system for refugee claimants.
Writing your letter with their template takes less than 2 minutes.
Click the link below: r613.info/RRD24
Encouraging the federal government to live up to our humanitarian impulses and obligations. A broad and fair regularization program is urgently needed.
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Justin Trudeau Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ Canadian Council for Refugees Migrant Rights Network #StatusForAll
We stand in support of Canadian Council for Refugees's proposal for a national asylum plan, including the establishment of reception centers in major cities to streamline the asylum process and ensure dignity and fairness for refugee claimants thestar.com/news/canada/is…
“Canadians are expecting a plan, not stopgap measures, and it is long past time to put in place a comprehensive, coordinated, cost-effective system that treats refugee claimants with dignity and fairness” CCR’s Gauri Sreenivasan in Toronto Star Nicholas Keung 姜巧樂➡️tinyurl.com/2dm8xus7
Canadian Council for Refugees calls on federal government to create national plan for asylum seekers.
CCR’s Co-Executive Director Gauri Sreenivasan on All in a Day You can listen to the interview here
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It is long past time to put in place a comprehensive, co-ordinated, cost-effective system that treats refugee claimants with dignity and fairness. Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ CCR is ready to work with you. We look forward to a positive response in the federal budget .
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Advocates say there are cost-efficient ways to accommodate #Canada 's surging #AsylumSeekers with a better coordinated national plan to triage and support #refugee claimants than paying private hotels to #house them. Here's their five-point plan: Canadian Council for Refugees
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