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Canada Is Failing Refugee And Immigrant Children

Posted on Tuesday, November 23 at 11:05 by lesouris
The report documents how Canada frequently overlooks the best interests of the child and fails to respect their rights. For example: Children are held in detention, even though they have done nothing wrong. Children wait years overseas, sometimes in danger, to be reunited with their parents in Canada. Children are separated from their parents by the deportation of their father or mother. Refugee children are discouraged from applying for permanent residence due to fees that are particularly high for separated children. No protection is provided to child trafficking victims in Canada. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has criticized Canada, in 1995 and again in 2003, for not living up to several of its obligations towards refugee and immigrant children. The full report is available at http://www.web.ca/~ccr/children.pdf

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  1. by Dave Ruston
    Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:28 pm
    Canada is also failing the middle class (what`s left of it) the working poor, and the really poor! All in the name of organized theft, by the wealthy and the corporations, and of course, our own spineless, soulless government!

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    Dave Ruston

  2. by Anonymous
    Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:20 pm
    Parents are failing immigrant and refugee children, their parents.

    Canada has never forcibly separated children from their families, that choice is the parent's.

    Canada could perhaps do more to stop the children of immigrants being indoctrinated into the religious death cults of their parents - such as the Kadhr family - child abuse of that nature is repugnant in a civilized society.

  3. by kwantize
    Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:03 am
    >Canada has never forcibly separated children from their families, that choice is the parent's. <p>Guess you never heard of the Dukabours (sp?) <p>The rest of your "death cult" spue I'll Ignore.

  4. by bmac
    Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:57 pm
    I too will ignore the racist reference to death cults and suggest that there is a valid reason for separated children (whoever made choice to separate) need to be verified as legitimate offfspring. Countries that have have less stringent burdens of proof are complicit in child trafficking. That being said, there is something unconscionable about a process that can take 32 months to complete and require parents and separated child to submit to DNA testing at their expense.



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