As a journalist in Turkey, Seckin Ergun has covered many stories of courage, but none as personal as this one. He turns his focus on his wife, the woman who risked her life so he and their sons could seek refuge in Canada.
View More Unsung Hero: A Woman’s Sacrifice to Bring her Family to Canada
Queer activist Arsham Parsi took a risk when he left Iran and began to help other Iranians escape persecution for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or…
View More Queer Author Helps Other LGBT Iranians Seek AsylumKareem doesn’t fit the image of a Syrian refugee often seen in the media. Clean cut, dressed in well-fitting business casual with a young professional’s…
View More Escaping Conscription: One Syrian Man’s Story“No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land,” goes a verse penned by Somali poet Warsan Shire.…
View More When the Tamil Boat People Came AshoreAs many as 1,200 boat people drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea headed for Europe during a 10-day period last April. The drownings drew…
View More No Easy Options for Europe’s Refugee Crisis
They come from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Palestine, Somalia, Eritrea, Libya and even West Africa. They walk many thousands of miles, traversing every imaginable landscape, using…
View More Refugee Numbers Increasing DramaticallyJihoon Lee has come a long way since moving to Toronto two and a half years ago. Born in ideologically repressive North Korea, the teenager has…
View More No Place to Go: Closing the Door on North Korean Refugees