Links to organizations and Refugee News in Canada

Links to organizations:

Settlement Orientation Services (SOS)
Immigrant Settlement Services of B.C. (ISS-BC)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) B.C.
Bridge Clinic
Vancouver Association of Survivors of Torture (VAST)
United Nations High Commission for Refugees Canada (UNHCR)
Canadian Red Cross-First Contact

Links to Refugee News in Canada 2011:

vancouversun.com :

First Tamil migrant from the MV Sun Sea ordered deported Mar. 8 2011

Immigration board deems Tamil migrant not a threat Mar. 6 2011

Masked asylum-seeker admits he lied to border officials Feb. 3 2011


Links to Refugee News in Canada Archives 2010:

bbcnews.com:

Deadly shipwreck puts human face on Australia’s asylum debate December 15 2010

Vancouver Sun:

Legal aid system in B.C. needs resuscitation November 29, 2010

…more and more adjournments, well … Of course, that’s not to mention incidents such as the arrival of nearly 500 Tamil refugees requiring representation that simply blow the budget. Oh, there’s a silver lining: B.C. leads the country in novel…

Refugee laws don’t prevent extradition: court November 26, 2010

Canadian laws protecting refugees do not prevent the federal justice minister from ordering their extradition when they are wanted for alleged crimes in the countries they fled, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday…

Do Canadians want two sets of standards for refugees? November 19, 2010

…dramatic change in Canada’s approach to dealing with refugees. Under the United Nations Convention respecting the Status of Refugees, a state’s basic obligations only require it to provide refugees with a safe haven and not to refoule (return) them…

CBCNews online:

Refugee claimants entering Quebec … November 30, 2010

A legal loophole has would-be refugees in the US coming into Canada
through the Quebec border, CBC News has learned. …

Masked refugee hearing open … November 10, 2010

Reporters will be allowed to cover the refugee hearings of a Chinese man
who snuck into Canada wearing a mask disguising himself as an elderly …

Tories to present refugee bill October 19, 2010

… As a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees, Canada must process
all refugee claimants who reach Canadian soil. …

The Georgia Straight online:

Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi delivers message to Canada

December 3, 2010
… is especially grateful to the Canadian government for taking in Burmese refugees…

Anniversary of Aaron Webster’s death a reminder LGBT rights need support November 9, 2010

… rights language to the Canadian citizenship guide, and enhance immigration laws and regulations to ensure that immigrants and refugees identified as LGBT are not the victims of discriminatory assessment processes…

The film follows some of thousands of political refugees on their first trips back home …