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Jesse McLaren

Stop cuts to refugee health

| May 11, 2012
Migrant Matters

Roma civil rights activist Aladàr Horvàth's call to Canada: Have empathy for the Roma

December 20, 2011
| Aladàr Horvàth, chair of the Roma Civil Rights Foundation in Hungary, provides an overview of the socio-political landscape in Hungary that has brought so many Roma to Canada seeking refugee status.

18:35 minutes (17.02 MB)
Street Cred

Meet Jose. He's not a terrorist.

April 20, 2011
| 'We are Jose' is an awareness-raising tour being led by Jose Figueroa, an El Savadoran man living in Langley, B.C. with a deportation order against him by the Canadian government.

27:47 minutes (12.72 MB)
Migrant Matters

Jose Figueroa and the human cost of Canada's refugee laws

April 13, 2011
| Why has the Canadian government recently chosen to change their mind and label the FMLN as a terrorist group? What does Jose's deportation order mean for the Figueroa family? For Canadians?

56:08 minutes (51.39 MB)
Migrant Matters

Spotlight on life in a Kenyan refugee camp

November 1, 2010
| Former refugees tell their story of people living in a refugee camp in Kenya.

33:51 minutes (30.99 MB)
Redeye

Mohamed Harkat faces new deportation order

February 3, 2011
| Harkat has spent the last nine years held on a security certificate. Redeye speaks with Sophie Harkat about the most recent ruling against her husband by the Federal Court.

15:20 minutes (14.04 MB)
Redeye

The citizens Canada disowns

December 8, 2009
| Abousifian Abdelrazik in the Sudan, Suaad Hagi Mohamud in Kenya: these are just two of the Canadian citizens who found that their government didn't back them up when they were in trouble.

11:46 minutes (10.78 MB)

Volunteer in a Refugee Camp

Feb 18 2009 - 3:45pm
Feb 27 2009 - 3:45pm

The Canadian-Palestinian  Educational Exchange (CEPAL) is  seeking highly motivated individuals  to volunteer for its 2009 summer program in Lebanon. CEPAL offers  a unique opportunity to learn about life in a Palestinian refugee camp, while working with children to
improve their English skills through the arts.

Over 3 million Palestinians are without nationality and the right to citizenship in any country. They are, as they have been for over half a century, the largest refugee population in the world.

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