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April 2022 / Toronto - The reported atrocities across Ukraine have added to the urgency to respond felt by Ukrainian and other concerned communities here in Canada.
April 2022 / Toronto - The reported atrocities across Ukraine have added to the urgency to respond felt by Ukrainian and other concerned communities here in Canada.
Dear friends,
April 4 is Refugee Rights Day. We use this day as a chance to urge the Government of Canada to respect the rights of refugees.
We will be holding a virtual event on April 4 from 1 PM to 2 PM Eastern Time. As part of the event, we will be featuring the stories of people who have come to Canada as refugees.
Come Celebrate!
Join us at our virtual commemoration of Refugee Rights Day in Toronto brought to you by Toronto Refugee Rights Day Planning Committee.
Featuring:
Emceed by Debbie Douglas – OCASI
American Sign Language interpretation provided.
This is a free event and you can join us from anywhere on the planet.
OCASI welcomes Canada’s unprecedented and positive new special measures for Ukrainian refugees annouced by Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship on March 3, 2022, and calls for them to be made a permanent and consistent response to humanitarian crises in other countries that haven’t received as much attention globally.
March 2022 / Toronto
“When someone shows you who they are believe them”. This quote, often attributed to celebrated and well-loved African-American poet and author, Maya Angelou, appeared time and again on my various social media platforms as primarily Black, Asian and Arab people found themselves gaslighted, contradicted and called out, for raising concerns about the treatment of Black and racialized people, primarily international students attempting to flee the devastating war in Ukraine.
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