Posted by admin on Apr 22nd, 2011
Published On Fri Apr 22 2011, VICTOR CHAVEZ/FOR THE TORONTO STAR
SOMEWHERE IN MEXICO—In the brightly lit and noisy confines of a restaurant in a Sanborns store — a chain of shops-cum-eateries that is all but ubiquitous in Mexico — sits a pretty, animated teen. She is wearing a T-shirt, blue jeans, canvas sneakers and a playful teddy bear hat. It is Josette Rosenzweig Issasi, the 14-year-old at the centre of a bureaucratic and legalistic imbroglio involving allegations of child abuse and a fierce international custody battle. “Here I am,†she says, “keeping myself hidden.†On Monday, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that a lower court erred last September when it ordered Josette be sent back to Mexico and to the custody of her mother.
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Posted by admin on Apr 21st, 2011
Havoq & Pride at Work, Apr. 21 2011
After 2 years
4 Queer Community Conversations
and many drafts
we finally have a working draft of our Queer No Borders Points of Unity:
Undoing Borders!
Click here to download a version to read on screen: Undoing Borders On-Screen Version
Click here to download a version to print as a double-sided zine: Undoing Borders Print Version
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Posted by admin on Apr 21st, 2011
Posted by admin on Apr 18th, 2011
By Peter Showler, Ottawa Citizen April 18, 2011 Comments (7)
The federal government’s rhetoric about the evils of human smuggling has crashed into the twin barriers of unyielding detention policies and common sense. Canada has traditionally maintained a moderate policy on the detention of asylum seekers. The legal justifications for detention are reasonable and functional: lack of identity documents, a danger to Canada or a flight risk. Fewer than 10 per cent of claimants are detained and most only for a short period of time, usually to confirm their identity. Other countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, have sought to deter refugee claimants by detaining them upon arrival. Those punitive policies have not worked. They have proven to be tremendously expensive, injurious to traumatized refugees, and ineffective in reducing the flow of refugee claimants.
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Posted by admin on Apr 17th, 2011
By Douglas Quan, Postmedia News April 16, 2011
Contrary to the government’s repeated assertions, the arrival last summer of 492 Tamils aboard the MV Sun Sea was not part of a humansmuggling operation, a lawyer for one of the migrants said Friday. In a rare appearance before the Immigration and Refugee Board, Rod Holloway, managing lawyer of appeals at the Legal Services Society of B.C., said smuggling is defined, in part, as “clandestine entry” into a country. Holloway agreed that the Sun Sea’s arrival was part of a complex, wellorganized and probably profitable operation, but “the intention appears to have been to bring the ship to Canada and report to a port of entry, not to enter Canada clandestinely.”
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