Forum: Refugee Rights in 2016
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Forum on Refugee Rights in 2016 in Toronto Monday April 4, 2016, 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm hosted by OCASI with Toronto Refugee Rights Month 2016 Planning Committee.
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Refugee Rights Month 2016 - Toronto
Refugee Rights Month is commemorated on April 4 every year in Canada to bring attention to the advances made in the protection of refugee rights in Canada as a result of the Supreme Court Singh decision in 1985. Join us this year to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the 'Singh Decision'.
OCASI Statement - Death in Immigration Custody: End Immigration Detention
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OCASI calls on the government of Canada to take immediate action to ensure that no one else dies while in the custody of CBSA.
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights slams Canada's position on growing racial inequality
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The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) released its Concluding Observations for Canada's 10 year review at the 57th Session of the CESCR, which took place on February 24th and 25th, 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.
OCASI Welcomes Proposed Reform of Temporary Foreign Worker Program
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Toronto, March 1, 2016 – OCASI – Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants welcomes the statement to media by Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, that the government plans to reform the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) following a review by the House of Commons Standing Committee.
Executive Director’s Message January 2016
On the day that I am writing this blog, the 10,000th Syrian refugee landed at Toronto Pearson airport. This fact made a small splash in the media as the conversation about whether the federal government will meet its various deadlines and arrival numbers of Government assisted and privately sponsored or the ‘best of both worlds' (as a colleague recently said) the blended version (BVOR – Blended Visa Office Referral) continued.