Action on refugee rights
Communities of all sizes are involved in advocating for refugee rights, challenging stereotypes, and supporting refugee claimants who arrive in Canada. At a time when refugees have been unjustly painted as threats to security or as people who are trying to cheat the system, your voice is a key part of the struggle to honour everyone's human right to asylum.
See our resources and links page for education and worship ideas for your community. Check our site for action ideas, including urgent actions on refugees. Get to know people in your own community who are seeking refuge. In our human rights section, including countries of concern, you can learn more about the forces that are pushing people to flee their own countries. In our section on migrants' rights and through our movie Borderless, read more about the realities that push people to migrate across the planet in search of ways to support their families.
All the resources mentioned below can be used freely in your own community for your education and action work. We are happy to offer resources free of charge wherever we can; your donation helps us produce these materials and distribute them for free.
Related news, analysis and reflections
- KAIROS calls on the government to implement the Refugee Appeal Division without delay (Urgent Action) (Apr 16, 2009)
- The situation of Palestinian refugees who have fled Iraq (Mar 23, 2009)
- Submission to the Universal Periodic Review Concerning Canada in February 2009 (Nov 4, 2008)
- Implement the Refugee Appeal Division (Nov 8, 2006)
- Distortion of justice under the security certificate process (Sep 15, 2005)
- The need for a Refugee Appeal Division: A Joint Statement (Jun 25, 2005)
- Government Delays Response on Refugee Appeal Division (Jun 20, 2005)
- Family Reunification submission (Apr 13, 2005)
- The Dilemma of Sanctuary: Something’s broken in Canada's refugee system (Sep 3, 2004)
- Appeal process for refugees needed (archived) (Aug 3, 2004)
- Worship Remembering Uprooted People (May 20, 2001)
