by Shan Qiao in Toronto Queer activist Arsham Parsi took a risk when he left Iran and began to help other Iranians escape persecution…
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Escaping Conscription: One Syrian Man’s Story
{gallery}One Syrian Story Paul Rebar{/gallery} by Paul Rebar in Hamburg, Germany Kareem doesn’t fit the image of a Syrian refugee often seen in the media.…
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by Ranjit Bhaskar in Toronto, Ontario “No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land,” goes a verse penned…
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by Dr. Gerry Van Kessel in Ottawa As many as 1,200 boat people drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea headed for Europe during a…
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Refugee Numbers Increasing Dramatically
by Zoran Vidić in Subotica on the Serbia – Hungary border They come from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Palestine, Somalia, Eritrea, Libya and even West Africa.…
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by Susan McClelland Jihoon Lee has come a long way since moving to Toronto two and a half years ago. Born in ideologically repressive North Korea, the…
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