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The Media Roundup provides links to recent and archived articles, in both English and French, on immigration and diversity appearing in the national and local news. Some international content is also included. Articles are updated weekly.
A group of Island volunteers is working to reunite the members of a Somali refugee family in P.E.I. and help them heal from the trauma they experienced as a result of the horrors of war. In 2009, the Nuur family witnessed the brutal execution of their father by rebel troops outside the family home in Somalia.
A failed refugee claimant who has spent four-and-a-half years in a maximum security jail because the government has been unable to deport him argued in Ontario Superior Court on Tuesday that his ongoing detention violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ebrahim Toure, who has been locked up at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay since February 2013 despite not facing any criminal charges, is arguing that his detention is indefinite and arbitrary because there is no reasonable prospect he will be deported in the “foreseeable” future.
After welcoming more than 48,000 Syrian refugees into the country over the last two years, Canada is faced with a new challenge known in the refugee sponsorship circles as the “echo effect” — the surge in demand to sponsor the families and relatives of recently resettled refugees, said Janet Dench of the Canadian Council for refugees. In 2017, there are only some 16,000 private sponsorship spots for refugees. Separately, there are 7,500 spots for government-assisted refugees and 1,500 for those referred by visa offices, who are selected by authorities and prioritized for the most vulnerable.
Cellules «crasseuses» et surpeuplées, manque de nourriture et d’eau potable, violences policières: l’organe anti-torture du Conseil de l’Europe a dénoncé mardi les conditions d’accueil «inacceptables» de milliers de migrants placés dans des centres de rétention en Grèce.
Standing on the easternmost riverside city of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in the shadow a Burmese horizon that’s still on fire, Zaid Al-Rawni watched small boats crossing the treacherous waters full of people. “It was chaos, complete chaos,” he said. “When I got there (early last week) the numbers were in the (high) 200,000s. By the time I left, they were talking about 400,000 people who had crossed.”
Pas assez de nourriture, ni assez d’eau, des camps difficiles d’accès et jonchés d’excréments : la situation pour les Rohingyas réfugiés au Bangladesh alarme les Nations unies et les ONG, qui appellent à l’aide pour éviter une catastrophe sanitaire.