Refugees

Ottawa is pinning its hopes on the Kabul airport soon reopening as thousands of people with links to Canada found themselves stranded in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan on Tuesday following the overnight withdrawal of all American soldiers from the country.

As a country that asked those people to stand beside us, whether as translators or as soldiers, we owe them an enormous debt that must be repaid, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Canada's military mission in Afghanistan ended Thursday, hours before suicide bombers attacked crowds at Kabul airport, killing several American marines, and leaving an unknown number of Canadians and their families trapped.

All Canadian diplomats have left Afghanistan, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, raising fresh questions and concerns about the government’s promise to help hundreds of former interpreters and their families still stuck in the country.

The number of migrants and refugees who died while attempting to reach Europe on dangerous sea crossings more than doubled so far this year compared to the first six months of 2020, the U.N. migration agency said on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in a new report.

Serisha Iyar, 25, launched Leading in Colour in July 2019, an organization aimed at giving racialized youth a voice and, more importantly, the ability and tools needed to mobilize to create real change.

Newly arriving refugees will have the cost of their mandatory hotel quarantines and COVID-19 tests covered by the federal government.

The focus must be on justice for those fleeing the impact of extreme weather events, says a new scientific aide to the Vatican.

Five years after the first of them arrived in Canada, tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have had to adapt to COVID-19 lockdowns that brought back the memories of war horrors and upset the lives they had begun to rebuild.

They include citizen scientists, trauma healed and a rare genetic condition.

Also drug addiction among Indigenous youth and Angela Merkel fretting over the politics of refugees.

Justice Ann Marie McDonald said she had heard compelling evidence that refugee claimants were being thrown in detention simply for having attempted to make a claim.

Refugee 613 says it is like “letting fear drive policy,” as it did when ethnic Japanese were detained during the Second World War. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was comfortable it fits with Canadian values.

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A UN agency has called on Canada to consider the domestic implications of a human rights ruling on climate refugees — the first time a UN body has made this type of determination.