Refugee women at risk

That the CCR:

1. Urge the Government of Canada to assign more officers to African visa posts, particularly Accra, Abidjan and Nairobi, with a mandate to process women at risk refugee files, and to ensure expedited processing by waiving interviews where UNHCR records are clear and complete to allow for in-Canada security and medicals where the woman and her dependant children's well-being is in doubt;
2. Urge UNHCR to send additional resettlement officers to Africa for the identification and selection of women at risk;
3. Urge CIDA to increase funding for the identification and protection of refugee women at risk and their children;
4. Urge the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to direct visa officers to comply with their own overseas protection guidelines in processing vulnerable and at risk refugee cases (3 to 6 months).