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Release: Groups launch legal challenge of Safe Third Country Agreement, 29 December 2005
Report: Closing the Front Door on Refugees: Report on the First Year of the Safe Third Country Agreement, 29 December 2005
Suggested questions for election campaign, 13 December 2005
Letter regarding non-implementation of the Refugee Appeal Division (joint CCR, AI, KAIROS letter to all Members of Parliament), November 2005
Resolutions adopted November 2005
Resolutions Book, summary of resolutions 1992 to June 2005, and follow up, November 2005 (74 pages)
Release: CCR elects new president and releases annual status report
, 22 November 2005
Annual Status Report 2005 (an overview of how the Canadian federal government addressed refugee and immigration issues over the past year)
Campaign for protection for trafficking persons: Postcard template (for more information about trafficking)
CCR Refugee Leadership Development Program. Consult this document for information about and an application form for a new program to promote strong representation of people with a refugee experience in positions of volunteer leadership within the CCR. Deadline for applications: 8 December 2005
Amina Malko Refugee Participation Fund. Use this document to apply to a fund to support refugees who wish to participate in CCR meetings in 2006. Deadline for applications: 8 December 2005
Release: CCR denounces unfair security inadmissibility provisions, 8 November 2005
Invitation to action: Lives on hold. Please print and gather signatures on this petition in favour of permanent residence for moratorium country nationals living in limbo:
Petition Pamphlet to accompany the petition.
Release: Rights groups remind government
of broken promises on refugee appeal, 14 October 2005
Launch of family reunification campaign page!
Refugees and non-citizens in Canada: Key concerns regarding Canada’s compliance with the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR), Submission to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, 16 September 2005
Media profiling by immigration status - call for action
Anti-Terrorism Act Review, Brief to the House of Commons Subcommittee on Public Safety and National Security of the Standing Committee on Justice, Human Rights,
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, 8 September 2005
Canada not meeting its obligation toward refugees, op-ed by Janet Dench and Rick Goldman, Montreal Gazette, 10 August 2005
Release: Closing the Door on Refugees: First Six Months of Safe Third Country Agreement, 4 August 2005
Release:CCR calls for permanent status for nationals of moratoria countries, 20 July 2005
Report: Lives on Hold: Nationals of Moratoria Countries Living in Limbo, July 2005 (see also the petition and pamphlet on this issue)
Joint Statement on Refugee Appeal Division, 20 June 2005
Release: World Refugee Day this year is bittersweet, 20 June 2005
Resolutions adopted June 2005
Submission on the occasion of the visit to Canada of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, 8 June 2005
Comments on Canada's compliance with Convention Against Torture, article 3, 28 April 2005
Open letter regarding settlement services in BC, 27 April 2005
Serious flaws in reporting on the refugee system: Comment on Globe and Mail article, Canada’s welcome mat frayed and unraveling”, 16 April 2005
Families never to be united: Excluded Family Members, April 2005 (two-pager explaining the impact of the excluded family member rule) Same document in PDF
Report on Refugee Rights Day 2005 activities
Brief of International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) to the House of Commons'
committee reviewing the Anti-Terrorism Act (C-36) , April 2005 (the CCR is a member of ICLMG)
Release: CCR calls on government to honour the Singh anniversary by implementing the Refugee Appeal Division, 31 March 2005
The Refugee Appeal: Is no one listening?, 31 March 2005
Media release: UN Committee Against Torture Decision Highlights Inadequacies, 14 March 2005
Booklet on Refugee Rights Day
Confronting myths about refugees(Pamphlet version in PDF )
Public education page
Media advisory: Upcoming 20th anniversary of Singh decision - Refugee Rights Day, 17 February 2005
Report on CCR Fall 2004 consultation
Media Release: CCR decries shortfall in privately sponsored refugees admitted, 3 February 2005
Safe third country: Frequently Asked Questions, January 2005