The Unwanted: A portrait of the Rohingya refugee crisis
By Fiona Irvine-Goulet Since August 25, 2017, more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar. Most are women and children; many have been beaten, tortured, raped, or have seen their homes and villages burned to the ground. Their loved ones have been...
“Canada’s responsibility to refugees globally must not falter”
Note to readers: This opinion piece was originally published in The Hill Times on 20 Dec 2017. Reprinted with permission. By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR Canada representative Just a little over two years ago, three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s tragic death on a Turkish beach...
100 Days of the Rohingya Crisis
Last Updated: December 1, 2017 Over half a million people have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar in late August. Here are some key events of this unfolding drama. You are viewing: The emergency response Donate Now August 25, 2017 Outbreak of the...
UNHCR chief hails Canada as “champion” of refugees
UNHCR’s chief Filippo Grandi has praised Canada for being a “champion” of refugees with its far-sighted and generous resettlement efforts, but in view of a record number of forcibly displaced people worldwide he urged Canadians and others to do even more....
UNHCR chief urges international leaders to tackle conflicts at the root of today’s global displacement crisis
“Have we become unable to broker peace?” Grandi asks Security Council during key address on record levels of displacement. NEW YORK – Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has urged international leaders to find political solutions to the...
Young newcomers’ tech innovations help refugees in Montreal
The High Commissioner for Refugees witnesses first-hand how refugees’ experiences help them develop tech solutions to their day-to-day problems. By Erla Cabrera in Montreal, Canada This morning, Ahmed Saeed, a 23-year-old asylum seeker from Eritrea, shared with the...
Unifor Social Justice Fund donates $50,000 for Rohingya refugees
TORONTO — Mohamad Alsadi says the images of fire-ravaged homes and villages in Myanmar and Rohingya refugees forced to flee to Bangladesh were too much to bear. “The forced migration that took place in (Myanmar) is absolutely difficult to look at, to...
The world must not turn its back on the Syrian refugee crisis
Conditions are not yet in place for the more than five million Syrians living as refugees in neighboring countries to return home. After more than six years of one of the deadliest, most destructive conflicts in recent history, the Syrian people are understandably...