that the CCR call for the following principles to be respected in the development of complementary pathways:

1. Complementary pathways must offer a durable solution to refugees.  
2. Complementary pathways must aim to keep families together and respect the fundamental right to family reunification.
3. The development of complementary pathways must not lead to a decrease in commitment to traditional resettlement.
4. The development of complementary pathways must include meaningful refugee participation and leadership.
5. Effort should be made to ensure complementary pathways are broadly available to diverse refugee populations.
6. Complementary pathways should offer the same level of integration support as traditional refugee pathways offer.

that the CCR:

1. Express to Citizenship and Immigration Canada its deep disappointment at the lack of attention to reform of the Women at Risk programme.
2. Call on the Department to:

            a) Distinguish in its Women at Risk statistics between Stream A and Stream B cases;

            b) Continue to process expeditiously women with urgent protection needs through CR1 channels, but categorize them as Women at Risk Stream A for the purpose of statistics, where they meet the Women at Risk definition;

            c) Continue to process Women at Risk Stream B cases as a subset of the Joint Assistance Initiative, categorized for statistical purposes as Women at Risk Stream B;

1. Reaffirm its former Women at Risk resolutions, with a particular emphasis on the call to negotiate the use of Reception Centres for the initial reception and (for CR5) matching of Women at Risk.

That the CCR take action with the Canadian government and relevant international organizations to:

1. Call for an international legal instrument for the protection of refugee children as a supplement to the Geneva Convention and Protocols;
2. Call for an increase in relief aid and educational resources to refugee children, especially those in camp situations;
3. Increase the numbers of unaccompanied minors resettled in western countries, after suitable efforts at family reunification have been exhausted;
4. Demand an end to the detention of refugee children and call for the use of other more humane mechanisms to accommodate these children;
5. Call for measures to eradicate prostitution, rape, female genital mutilation and other abuses in refugee camps, and for resources to be made available to assist in the healing of children victimized by these abuses;
6. Call for humane measures concerning international adoptions of refugee children.

That:

1. The CCR join a growing number of organizations including Handicap International, Human Rights Watch, Medico International, Mines Advisory Group, Physicians for Human Rights and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation in a joint call for:
   1. An international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer or export of antipersonnel mines;
   2. The establishment of an international fund, administered by the United Nations, to promote and finance landmine awareness, clearance and eradication programs worldwide;
   3. Countries responsible for the production and dissemination of anti-personnel mines to contribute to the international fund;
2. The CCR call on the government of Canada to support and promote an international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer or export of antipersonnel mines;
3. The CCR urge the government of Canada to support and promote the establishment of an international fund, administered by the United Nations, to promote and finance landmine awareness, clearance and eradication programs worldwide;
4. The CCR call on the government of Canada to urge countries responsible for the production and dissemination of anti-personnel mines to contribute to the international fund.

That the CCR encourage:

1. The adoption of these Guidelines in visa posts for use in overseas refugee selection;
2. The department of Citizenship and Immigration to monitor the implementation of the Guidelines for overseas selection;
3. The inclusion of the Guidelines in the training of visa officers to facilitate greater understanding of gender persecution.

That the CCR strongly urge the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to honour the promise implicit in these notices, and facilitate the entry to Canada of parents and their dependent children through the government sponsorship process, where the family in Canada is not yet sufficiently settled to place an undertaking of assistance.

That the CCR contact the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration exhorting Canada to let all of these already accepted refugees depart for Canada immediately.

That the CCR request the Department of External Affairs to urge the United Nations to ensure that adequate economic aid is given to the people of Iraqi Kurdistan to ensure that basic needs are met, thereby promoting greater overall stability in the region.

That the CCR:

1. Request the Canadian government to make representations to the UNHCR, the CPA steering committee and the CPA fellow signatories to:
   1. establish a mechanism to identify, review and correct cases which have been egregiously denied refugee status, with the use of the UNHCR's mandate authority;
   2. respect the safety and dignity of asylum seekers, by immediately recanting the policy of deprivation measures which has led to reductions in food rations and cuts in educational and medical services;
   3. abstain from the use of force and violence in the repatriation programme;
   4. quickly resettle recognized refugees, many of whom have languished for years in transit camps.
2. Make direct representations to the UNHCR to this effect.

That the CCR:

1. Petition the Government of Canada to request the Government of Thailand:
   1. to honour their responsibilities to provide safe asylum to Burmese nationals; and
   2. to issue exit visas to Burmese nationals upon completion of Canadian immigration processing;
2. Petition the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to increase the number of government sponsorships to at least double the current seventy-five positions and in addition appropriate one-third of the contingency allocation in recognition of the urgency of the situation;
3. Urge the Government of Canada to use all means at its disposal to pressure the Burmese (Myanmar) SLORC to restore human rights and to honour its own democratic process and the outcome of the election of 1989;
4. Request the Government of Canada to provide human resource development opportunities to Burmese refugees in neighbouring countries as they await restoration of human rights and the democratic process in Burma.

That the CCR:

1. Call on the government of Canada to:
   1. In addition to the Ismaili joint resettlement agreement, open the doors for all Afghan refugees, especially women and children who comprise the majority;
   2. Conduct a review of all rejected Afghan refugee sponsorship cases;
   3. Support the UN initiative to end the Afghan conflict through a negotiated settlement;
   4. Discourage neighbouring countries from arming the warring factions;
   5. Call on the UNHCR to provide more accurate information on the situation in Afghanistan;
2. Write a letter to the government of Canada expressing the following concerns about the new joint resettlement agreement between the government of Canada and the Ismaili Council of Canada and Focus Humanitarian Assistance Canada:
   
   1. We are concerned that the 500 places per year for Ismailis in Pakistan are part of the current quota for government-assisted refugees for the Middle East, not in addition to that quota. Because of this, there will be fewer places available for Iranians, Iraqis, and other Afghans;
   2. This agreement seems to set a dangerous precedent for off-loading the government's obligation for resettling refugees onto ethnic groups or other private sponsors;
   3. While resettlement of Afghan refugees is welcome, we are concerned about the predetermined selection of refugees based on religious affiliation in a region where many refugees of varying religious affiliations are in need of resettlement;
   4. We urge the government either to treat these 500 refugees as privately sponsored refugees or to expand the regional quota in order to respond to the needs of refugees of all religious affiliations.

That the CCR communicate to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration strongly urging:

1. The revision of eligibility criteria for refugee resettlement programmes with special changes to the Women at Risk Programme criteria, enabling it to be a programme responsive to the urgent protection needs of refugee women;
2. The elimination of the successful establishment component of the admissibility criteria for refugees in urgent need of protection, especially refugee women.

That the CCR request the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to direct visa officers to accept and process expeditiously the referrals of Women at Risk cases from the UNHCR and NGOs without an interview for the details of the persecution experience.

That the CCR:

1. Continue to organize sessions on international refugee and development issues;
2. Investigate initiating dialogue with CIDA, Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Finance to discuss the overlapping responsibilities/ funding criteria relating to refugee relief and development assistance.

That the CCR call on the Government of Canada to endorse and promote these conclusions:

1. The international community should endorse the recommendation of the Secretary General to deploy a U.N. peacekeeping force in the Kivu region of Zaire for the purpose of providing security to the relief effort for Rwandan refugees in Zaire.
2. In the delivery of aid, local aid delivery agencies should be involved as much as possible, and local resources used as much as possible.
3. The United Human Rights Commission must have the capacity to investigate on its own initiative the human rights situation in any country in the world and to report its findings to the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Security Council and the public.
4. The UN Human Rights Centre should deploy human rights monitors throughout Rwanda to report on human rights violations if they occur, and as a means of establishing confidence for repatriation, where they do not occur.
5. The international community should promote democracy and respect for human rights throughout the world, without distinctions based on culture or region.
6. The United Nations needs a permanent deployment headquarters which can function immediately to bring together and service a peacekeeping force whenever the United Nations Security Council decides to create one.
7. The United Nations should ask member states to allocate peacekeeping forces to the U.N. on a contingency basis. The contingently allocated forces should be in a state of readiness to be called on immediately whenever the Security Council decides to create a new peacekeeping force.
8. United Nations peacekeeping forces on the ground should be mandated and instructed, as a humanitarian duty, to intervene and use force if necessary to protect innocent civilians under attack in the areas where the forces are operating.
9. The international community should contribute to the establishment within Rwanda of a functioning social service system, civil administration, police network, and judiciary. It is urgent that a system of justice be established in Rwanda so that all perpetrators of past atrocities can be brought to justice.
10. The international tribunal on crimes in Rwanda should be made functional on an urgent basis.
11. Canada and other members of the international community must contribute to the bringing to justice of Rwandan criminals against humanity, wherever they may be found, by prosecuting them where they are found, extraditing them for trial in Rwanda or extraditing them for trial by the international tribunal on Rwanda.