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Refugee awareness week and refugee rights day

Resolution number
36
Whereas
The education of the Canadian public and promotion of rights and concerns relating to refugees are vitally important matters to those concerned with the plight of refugees;
Therefore be it resolved

That the CCR:

  1. Adopt the week in which April 4 falls each year as Refugee Awareness Week and April 4 as Refugee Rights Day;
  2. Recommend to its members the organization of programmes to promote greater understanding of the plight of refugees at this time each year.
Working Group
Inland Protection