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Joint Press Release calling for an end to the immigration detention of children in Canada
OTTAWA, Canada, April 12 (UNHCR) – Following the roundtable today on Parliament Hill discussing the immigration detention of children, Senator Mobina Jaffer and Senator Victor Oh joined forces with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to reiterate...
Canadian entrepreneur invests millions in Syrian refugees
Canadian entrepreneur, Jim Estill, explains why he is teaming up with community leaders to help resettle and employ refugees in Guelph, Ontario.
Syrian refugees hit 5 million – Jean-Nicolas Beuze on CBC
UNHCR Representative in Canada Jean-Nicolas Beuze on CBC Power and Politics with Rosemary Barton on 30 March 2017. Canada's UNHCR rep. @jnbeuze on Syrian refugee numbers surpassing the 5 million mark and the kind of help the UN needs #pnpcbc #cdnpoli...
6 Things Canadian Sponsors Love About Meeting Syrian Refugees
Arriving in a new country can be a scary experience, but when Najwa and Reyad Al Hamoud arrived in Canada they were greeted with jumps of joy. Elaine Hofer, one of the Al Hamoud family’s sponsors, had driven two hours from a Hutterite colony near Brandon, Manitoba, to...
South Sudan: 3 Years of Civil War
This past December marked three years since the beginning of South Sudan’s latest civil war. Before December 2013, over 115,000 South Sudanese people were classified as refugees or asylum-seekers. Three years later, that number has reached over 1.6 million. In South...
Government of Uganda, UNHCR on South Sudan refugee situation
Joint statement on behalf of the Government of Uganda and UNHCR The Government of Uganda and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today jointly appealed to the international community for urgent and massive support for the thousands of South Sudan refugees...
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