Refugees

Imagine the view from the western coastline of southern Africa during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) over twenty thousand years ago: in the distance you would see at least fifteen large islands -- the largest 300 square kilometres in area -- swarming with hundreds of millions of marine birds and…

Published on April 14th, 2023 at 08:00am EDT Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has updated its processing instructions to provide guidance about how they assess a principal applicant’s ability to become economically established under the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP). The PNP is main pathway for economic class immigrants in…

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Tak governor Somchai Kitchareanrungroj with local officials during a visit to a Myanmar refugee shelter in Mae Sot district on Sunday. (Photo: Tak Provincial Public Relations Office) TAK: Local authorities have been visiting displaced people sheltering close to the border to follow up on efforts to manage refugees after clashes between…

An organization committed to helping Ukrainian refugees experience a smooth transition into the community opened its doors at a new location on Saturday morning. The Ukrainian Store, formerly located on Bayers Road, was met with numerous donations of household items prior to the reopening at its new storefront on Agricola Street.…

In the hours after CBC News published a story about an immigration officer notorious among applicants as an idle worker who left files largely untouched for years, senior staff at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) rushed to reassign all of the officer's files to other employees and marked them as "urgent," internal…

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A total of 40 women with disabilities and refugees trained in climate smart agribusiness by Social Enterprise Ghana, were on Friday presented with start-up kits to enable them grow their own businesses. The programme under the Social Enterprise Ghana’s “investing in women in Green Venture” Project, is supported by the…

The National Security Council (NSC) is currently studying the possibility of allowing refugees and asylum seekers to temporarily work in the plantation sector to address the issue of worker shortages.  Refugees and asylum seekers are currently legally prohibited from working in all sectors, including plantations.  Senator Datuk Dominic Lau brought…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a terrifying thing, with all kinds of positive and harmful potentials. Recently, fake images of Donald Trump being arrested and Vladimir Putin behind bars have been circulating on social media, and now British politicians have been given the AI treatment too. The images were mocked up…