The high price of fighting for women’s rights
Ketty Nivyabandi is longing for her country, but she is determined to continue her fight for women in Burundi – a fight that caused her to lose her homeland. By Gisèle Nyembwe in Ottawa, Canada “It has been close to four years now. My most cherished dream is to...
Beyond Roxham Road: a story on irregular border crossing
18 months after having crossed the U.S.-Canada border irregularly, a Haitian refugee is doing what it takes to succeed in Canada By Gisèle Nyembwe in Montreal, Canada Pierre reaches into his backpack and searches calmly through a bunch of documents. He takes out a...
Opinion: We have a common responsibility to fight anti-refugee rhetoric
You have often heard us at UNHCR raising the alarm about populist rhetoric that demonizes refugees, asylum seekers or migrants. In Canada, like in many Western countries these days, terms such as “illegals” or “refugee crisis” are used to describe those arriving at...