Refugees

Published on December 10th, 2021 at 09:00am EST Updated on December 15th, 2021 at 09:13am EST Canada has named the 12 members of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, who will monitor federal policy related to immigration and multiculturalism. The Standing Committee, also called CIMM for short, oversees matters…

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — The living room at Zoheir and Nadia Darrouba's home is a hive of activity in the late afternoon – their older children, just back from school, are taking turns carrying around their baby brother as their parents look on. PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — The living room at Zoheir…

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — The welcome team drove a U-Haul truck more than 100 miles to pick up donated tables, chairs, mattresses, bed frames and bookcases. Team members paid the first and last month’s rent plus the security deposit on a rental home. Then they stocked the house with pots…

As a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which is a major contributor to international peace and security, Canada is taking a lead role in ensuring that NATO is able to resettle all its Afghan staff who were evacuated. As part of the commitment to welcome Afghan…

OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Sean Fraser predicts that it could take two years to fulfil the government's promise to bring 40,000 Afghan refugees to Canada. OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Sean Fraser predicts that it could take two years to fulfil the government's promise to bring 40,000 Afghan refugees to Canada.…

With the year nearly over, only about a tenth of the 40,000 Afghan refugees Canada promised to bring into the country have made it here so far — and Ottawa now says it could take up to two years to resettle everyone. Defence lawyer Nelofar Akbari is pictured speaking about women's rights in…

Rohingya refugees filed a $150 billion lawsuit against Facebook over its failure to curb misinformation and hate speech on its platform, which “amounted to a substantial cause, and eventual perpetuation of, the Rohingya genocide” in Burma, also known as Myanmar. Lawyers in the United Kingdom and the United States launched…

The United Nations again call for aid for war-torn Afghanistan. File photoUNITED NATIONS: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi warned of a surge of Afghan refugees amid mounting fears of economic collapse in the war-ravaged country and called for urgent economic aid. "We risk having an implosion that will…

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are suing Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, for $150 billion over allegations that the social media company did not take action against anti-Rohingya hate speech that contributed to violence. U.N. human rights investigators said Facebook had played a key role in spreading hate speech…

MAE SOT, Thailand—Refugees, militants, and peace activists who braved the Myanmar military’s brutal crackdown have greeted a two-year prison sentence for their embattled leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, with defiance, resolve, and even chuckles. They insisted in interviews along a border zone divided by barbed wire, rice fields, and muddy…