The Federal Court of Canada has found, for a second time, that the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement is unconstitutional. It violates section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects the right to […]

The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2   13 May 2020 Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Re: Demonstrating Global Leadership on Refugees […]

Amnesty International is disappointed in Canada’s decision to renew a measure banning refugee claimants from crossing into Canada from the US. Some claimants seeking to enter Canada have already been […]

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT REFUGEE PROTECTION IN CANADA? MYTH: Most refugees just want to go live in North America and Europe. FACT: Most refugee claimants seek protection in a […]

Jaya Bordeleau-Cass and André Capretti are the 2019-2020 Public Interest Articling Fellows at Amnesty International Canada. They will be posting updates about the Safe Third Country Agreement hearing throughout the […]

Today marked the first day of a week-long hearing, in which the applicants – Amnesty International, the Canadian Council for Refugees, the Canadian Council of Churches, and individual refugee claimants […]

Amnesty International is proudly supporting a new project, Operation #NotForgotten, which will sponsor up to 200 refugees living on the isolated Nauru and Manus Islands.  The campaign is an initiative […]

Amnesty International joins others here today in welcoming Vanessa Rodel and her daughter to Canada as refugees resettled through private sponsorship.  It is a happy end to a search for […]

TORONTO, March 25, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ – This evening a plane carrying Vanessa Rodel and her 7-year-old daughter Keana will land at Toronto’s Pearson airport. It is the partial culmination of […]

Amnesty International welcomes the initiative of the Canadian government, and non-governmental partners Rainbow Railroad and Russian LGBT Network, which has brought dozens of gay men from the semi-autonomous Russian republic […]

Amnesty International was represented in this case by Lorne Waldman (2006, 2008) and Andrew Brouwer, Heather Neufeld, Leigh Salsberg, Michael Bossin, Erin Simpson, and Kate Webster (2019). WHAT IS THIS CASE […]

In an Open Letter to Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Amnesty International’s Canadian and US Sections, representing close to 2 million people in the two countries, […]