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Les réfugiés manifestent presque quotidiennement depuis une semaine. Des femmes ont ainsi bloqué pendant cinq heures l’autoroute qui relie Maiduguri, la capitale de l’État de Borno, à la ville de Kano en criant que leurs enfants meurent de faim et qu’elles n’ont aucune eau potable alors que le mercure surpasse 40 degrés Celsius.
Mass deportations and inadequate asylum procedures in Mexico and the US have fueled a humanitarian crisis where desperate Central Americans seeking refuge from rampant violence are routinely preyed upon by criminal gangs and corrupt officials, according to a new report by the International Crisis Group (ICG).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/27/us-mexico-mass-deportations-refugees-central-america
In spite of relentless pressure to help Syrians flee the perils of civil war, Canada’s former Conservative government twice rejected a proposal last year to make it easier for Canadians to sponsor them, newly disclosed documents show. Twice in 2015 — first in March, then again in July as the refugee crisis escalated — federal bureaucrats proposed exempting Syrians and Iraqis from a rule requiring them to have official UN refugee status in order to be sponsored by small groups of people to come to Canada.
Ottawa is offering certain private sponsors of Syrian refugees whose entry to Canada has been delayed to get replacement families. “It’s a difficult choice,” said Don Smith, chair of the refugee working group for the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa. “Sponsorship ends up being a personal commitment between people here and people there. If you know the people, you’re not going to give up on them.” The government has been under increasing pressure to respond to the complaints of private sponsors still waiting for refugees to arrive.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/syrian-refugee-swap-replacement-offer-1.3737874
Many of the immigrant support groups that leapt into overdrive less than a year ago to welcome the first influx of Syrian refugee families say the intensity of that experience has helped lay the groundwork for what is expected to be a far more manageable second wave this fall. Canada is on the cusp of receiving another surge of Syrians in order to meet its ambitious refugee admissions target by the end of 2016, though government officials are mum on the details around timing.
En dépit de pressions croissantes pour aider les réfugiés syriens à fuir la guerre, l’ancien gouvernement conservateur a rejeté à deux reprises une mesure pour faciliter le parrainage privé chez les Canadiens, selon des documents récemment publiés. Des fonctionnaires fédéraux avaient proposé deux fois – en mars et en juillet […].