Archive for tag: Amnesty International

Archive pour tag : Amnesty International

Canada must urgently withdraw from the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) given the dire situation facing refugees in the United States, the Canadian Council for Refugees and Amnesty International Canada said today.

The Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States bars most people crossing into Canada via the United States from seeking refugee protection in Canada. Under the agreement – which is premised on the notion that both countries reliably respect people’s right to seek asylum – people entering Canada via the U.S. to make a refugee claim here are usually turned back at the border.

“President Trump’s extreme anti-immigrant and anti-asylum orders are designed to instill fear and make the U.S dangerously more unsafe for those seeking protection,” said Ketty Nivyabandi, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada’s English-speaking section. “Canada’s assertion that the United States remains a safe country for refugees under the Trump administration is a cruel irony to those fleeing persecution today. It must be urgently rescinded, and tariffs threats must not blur the plight of those at immediate risk.”
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Posted: Feb. 4, 2025 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14505
Categories: News, OpinionIn this article: Amnesty International, Canadian Council of Churches, Canadian Council of Refugees, migration, refugees, safe third-country agreement
Transmis : 4 févr. 2025 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=14505
Catégorie : News, OpinionDans cet article : Amnesty International, Canadian Council of Churches, Canadian Council of Refugees, migration, refugees, safe third-country agreement

The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision today on the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) is a complex result that ultimately fails refugees.  The Supreme Court has allowed the appeal in part, sending the equality rights issue at stake back to the Federal Court,  and holding out for the possibility of the agreement being declared unconstitutional. But the Canadian Council for Refugees, Amnesty International Canada, and the Canadian Council of Churches are disappointed that the Supreme Court of Canada failed to decisively rule that the Safe Third Country Agreement violates refugees’ rights, exposing refugee claimants to further harms while awaiting another legal challenge.
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Posted: June 16, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13722
Categories: NewsIn this article: Amnesty International, Canadian Council for Refugees, Canadian Council of Churches, migration, refugees, safe third-country agreement, Supreme Court
Transmis : 16 juin 2023 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=13722
Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : Amnesty International, Canadian Council for Refugees, Canadian Council of Churches, migration, refugees, safe third-country agreement, Supreme Court

It will likely be months before refugee advocates, including the Canadian Council of Churches, know whether they have prevailed at the Supreme Court. But for now, council general secretary Rev. Peter Noteboom is satisfied that the argument to strike down the Safe Third Country Agreement between the United States and Canada has been heard.
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Posted: Oct. 13, 2022 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=12597
Categories: Catholic RegisterIn this article: Amnesty International, Canada, Canadian Council for Refugees, Canadian Council of Churches, migration, refugees, Supreme Court
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Catégorie : Catholic RegisterDans cet article : Amnesty International, Canada, Canadian Council for Refugees, Canadian Council of Churches, migration, refugees, Supreme Court

As Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States goes back before the Supreme Court of Canada Oct. 6, Ottawa has revealed a surge of 23,358 asylum seekers at irregular border crossings in the first eight months of 2022.

That’s 13-per-cent more than all of 2017, when the flood of refugees at Quebec’s Roxham Road crossing from New York captured headlines.
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Posted: Oct. 9, 2022 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=12622
Categories: Catholic RegisterIn this article: Amnesty International, Canada, Canadian Council for Refugees, Canadian Council of Churches, migration, refugees, safe third-country agreement, Supreme Court
Transmis : 9 oct. 2022 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=12622
Catégorie : Catholic RegisterDans cet article : Amnesty International, Canada, Canadian Council for Refugees, Canadian Council of Churches, migration, refugees, safe third-country agreement, Supreme Court

The Canadian Council of Churches, Amnesty International and the Canadian Council for Refugees are headed to the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of refugee families who want a legal way to apply for asylum at Canada’s land borders. After twice winning in Federal Court only to see those decisions reversed in the Federal Court of Appeal, this is the first time the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments about the constitutional validity of Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) with the United States. Under the agreement, persons seeking refugee status must make their claim in the first country in which they arrive. It has been in place since 2004. A definitive ruling is necessary to clarify a system that forces would-be refugees to cross into Canada illegally at unofficial border crossings like Roxham Road south of Montreal at the Quebec-New York border, said Detroit Mercy University law professor Alex Vernon.

“Most refugees’ first experience of Canada is either to be summarily denied protection and excluded if they go to a (legal) port of entry without an exception to the STCA or to be forced to be ‘law breakers’ and arrested and processed upon entry at Roxham Road,” said Vernon, who runs Detroit Mercy’s immigration law clinic and regularly takes students to Roxham Road for real life experience of practising law on the border. “This is not in keeping with Canada’s international obligations, with constitutional rights of people on Canadian soil, nor with the dignity due to human beings — particularly human beings in distress.” The latest court loss for the refugee advocates at the CCC, AI and CCR came in April. The appeal court’s decision was based “not on substantive grounds, but on the basis of how the arguments were framed,” said a press release from the Canadian Council for Refugees.
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Posted: Dec. 17, 2021 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=10927
Categories: Catholic RegisterIn this article: Amnesty International, Canada, Canadian Council for Refugees, Canadian Council of Churches, migration, refugees
Transmis : 17 déc. 2021 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=10927
Catégorie : Catholic RegisterDans cet article : Amnesty International, Canada, Canadian Council for Refugees, Canadian Council of Churches, migration, refugees