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Une soixantaine de réfugiés syriens et irakiens ont participé à une excursion qui leur a permis de découvrir un nouveau coin de l’Outaouais. La joie se lisait sur le visage des petits et des plus grands pendant leur visite de cinq fermes du Pontiac. Il s’agissait pour certains d’une première visite sur une ferme, alors que le passage en campagne rappelait à d’autres leur pays natal.
Quelque 91% des enfants de la planète ont accès à l’école primaire (1). Mais lorsque l’on se concentre sur les enfants réfugiés, ce taux tombe à 61%, déplore, dans un rapport publié fin août, le Haut-commissariat aux réfugiés de l’ONU, qui s’alarme en outre que ce chiffre ait augmenté d’un demi-million en un an.
Une soixantaine de réfugiés syriens et irakiens ont participé à une excursion qui leur a permis de découvrir un nouveau coin de l’Outaouais. La joie se lisait sur le visage des petits et des plus grands pendant leur visite de cinq fermes du Pontiac.
Many tears were shed when Ibrahim Darwish last saw his parents and brother in February 2016 as they left a far-flung refugee town in Turkey for Istanbul airport, heading for a new life in Canada. Last week, years after fleeing the civil war in Syria, the 40-year-old shed more tears when he arrived at Pearson airport to join his family, but this time, they were tears of joy.
Canada should change the way it treats child refugees and their families. That’s the conclusion of a former UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, who says Canada’s policy blocking child refugees from reuniting with their parents is both “inhumane and degrading.” Because Immigration Canada doesn’t consider the parents and siblings of children as “family members,” child refugees who come to Canada alone and whose claims are accepted are prohibited from adding parents and siblings to their permanent residency applications once.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4421908/former-un-human-rights-expert-criticizes-canada/
At a time when Canada’s refugee and immigration policy is being hotly debated, the small community of Morden has seen its population nearly double in the last decade. Much of that can be attributed to foreign workers recruited to Manitoba under the provincial nominee program. In 2015, Morden had a population of 8,668, an increase of 11 per cent from the 2011 census. The most recent estimates put the population of the city southwest of Winnipeg at about 9,000 people.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-provincial-nominee-program-immigration-1.4802186