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.
August 2021 / Toronto
OCASI made a written submission to the Standing Committee on Finance for pre-budget consultations on the 2022 Federal Budget.
OCASI made the following recommendations:
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