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Justicia for Migrant Workers
Tweets by j4mwLes voix migrantes / Migrant voices
- May 1, Rally for International Workers’ Day
- Amazon Workers in Quebec Ready to Form Historic Union
- Why our members deserve and need permanent status now
- Harmony of Cultures: A Night of Punjabi Musical Opera and Hindi Monologue
- Voices of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre
- Migrants in need of help
- PRESS RELEASE | Health and Safety: the rights of a majority of employees poorly protected in Quebec
- Montrealers protest decade-long waits for migrant status
- Essential Work, Disposable Workers with Mostafa Henaway
- IWC Annual Report 2022-2023
news on migrants here and there / nouvelles sur les migrants ici et ailleurs
- Revealed: Qatar’s World Cup ‘slaves’
- Europe: Travailleurs saisonniers, la ronde infernale
- Europe: Travailleurs saisonniers, la ronde infernale
- Europe: Travailleurs saisonniers, la ronde infernale
- Free Speech Radio: Migrant workers in Thailand’s seafood industry organize to improve conditions
- USA: Pick your poison: racism ravaging health of indigenous farmworkers
- migrant workers trapped in slave-like conditions in Greece
- investigation on women ag workers in the US: rape in the fields
- Les «fraises ensanglantées» des immigrés esclaves du Péloponnèse
- Grèce: des migrants blessés par balles pour avoir réclamé leur salaire
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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Minister Kenney announces improvements affecting temporary foreign workers, including live-in caregivers
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Uphold the Rights of Tamil Migrants aboard MV Sun Sea
August 11, Vancouver – The immigrant and refugee rights group No One Is
Illegal is demanding that Canadian government officials respect the human
rights of the estimated 200-500 Tamil migrants aboard the MV Sun Sea. The
boat is expected to land by the weekend and the detainees will be
transferred to Fraser Regional Corrections Centre and Alouette
Correctional Centre for Women, who have both prepared for a 3-4 month
incarceration. Based on reports in the media, the group includes up to 100
women and children, and there has been at least one death during the
voyage.
According to Magin Payet Scudalleri, a member of No One Is Illegal,
“Public officials and the media must refrain from stereotyping these
migrants as queue-jumpers or terrorists based on unsubstantiated
speculations. The migrants have survived a long and arduous journey in the
hopes that the Canadian state will fully comply with its international
refugee and human rights law obligations to the right to asylum.”
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has previously
warned that “The association of irregular migration with criminality
promotes the stigmatization of migrants and encourages a climate of
xenophobia and hostility against them.”
Harsha Walia, member of No One Is Illegal, states “We saw a similar
unfounded hysteria last October with the 76 Tamil migrants. All were
eventually released when Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) was forced
to admit they had no evidence of a LTTE connection. In fact, based on a
lack of evidence, CBSA consented to the release of the last group of 25
detained refugees in January 2010.”
“The Canadian government is relying on fear-mongering and racist
stereotypes to justify their new prison budget and the violent
incarceration of asylum seekers, many of whom are women and children. The
Conservative government throws around the catch-all phrase ‘terrorism’ to
create an atmosphere of paranoia and to prevent any public or media
scrutiny of their actions. This is reflected in a growing trend of
anti-refugee policies and sentiments under Minister Jason Kenney,” further
states Walia.
Rohan Gunaratna, the Canadian’s government’s primary source, has already
been discredited by lawyers as well as an Immigration and Refugee Board
adjudicator. They have questioned his sources as well as his credibility
given his ongoing close relationship with the Sri Lankan government.
In a March 2010 meeting with Kenney, United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees Antonio Guterres warned that refugee claimants from countries
with human rights violations including Sri Lanka are faced with a
“shrinking humanitarian space”. This is evident in the Australian
government’s recent repressive decision to no longer accept refugee claims
from Sri Lanka, despite well-documented human rights violations against
Tamils and mass displacement into refugee camps. UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon has appointed a panel to investigate war crimes committed by the
Sri Lankan military against Tamils last year.
Despite this, Kenney met with the Sri Lanka High Commissioner in Ottawa
this month to discuss greater cooperation with the Sri Lankan government.
“It is clear that the Canadian government is more interested in promoting
a relationship with a government known to commit massive human rights
violations, military atrocities against civilians, and indiscriminate
killings; rather than supporting the victims of such a regime,” further
states Scudalleri.
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B.C. immigrant workers found in squalid conditions
B.C. immigrant workers found in squalid conditions
The B.C. government has terminated a contract with a Surrey forestry company after 25 workers — many of them immigrants from Congo — were found living in substandard conditions near Golden in late July.
Forest Ministry communications director Robert Pauliszyn said Monday Khaira Enterprises Ltd. will be banned from bidding on other contracts in the region for a year.
Most of the 25 workers had travelled from Eastern Canada for jobs clearing brush near Golden. They were living in a bush camp and complained of a lack of food and inadequate facilities, a church worker in Golden told The Vancouver Sun.
And the workers told government officials they were not fully paid and on the job seven days a week.
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nouvelle campagne pour mettre fin à la violation des droits des travailleurs migrants du Guatemala
Les TUAC Canada et l’Alliance des travailleurs agricoles (ATA) sont à la tête d’une nouvelle campagne pour dénoncer les abus systématiques dont sont victimes les travailleurs agricoles du Guatemala qui viennent au Canada dans le cadre du Programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires (PTÉT) ainsi que la violation constante de leurs droits.
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