We are excited to announce the increasing number of orientation sessions in Toronto to help refugee claimants prepare for their hearings. A Ready Tour is a refugee hearing orientation session and has become a key resource for unrepresented claimants. After the legal aids cuts we see an increasing number of participants with no legal representative….
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Thanks to each one of you for joiun us during our street party . One more year we had the opportunity to celebrate not only the neighbourhood’s diversity – but also Toronto’s, as well as Canada’s – welcoming arms Among clients, sister organizations, neighbours, friends and other FCJ community members, we celebrated diversity
“We are very grateful to all our supporters for helping us to keep walking with refugees and other precarious populations during 2018. Thanks to you we were able to provide information for refugee claimants and for people who need support in regards to their immigration status and how they can further their situation in Canada….
Check out our Spring Newsletter: LEARN ABOUT : ¬ Housing Report ¬ Writing Workshops ¬ Actions against legal aid cuts ¬ Foreign workers program changes
Displaced persons and precarious migrants are particularly vulnerable to a range of other human rights violations that can then impact their right to housing. They are particularly vulnerable to discrimination, racism and xenophobia, which can further interfere with their ability to secure sustainable and adequate living conditions. People who have been forcibly displaced will often…
We had an amazing evening. Thank you to all our supporters!! Andromeda DiazCarlos delgadoJohn GrossMao CorreaJack MartinNawaaz MakhaniSandra GonzalesSandra Patricia LoboaYouth in MotionHelenaMariana BolanosPaula PinheiroFCJ Youth NetworkFCJ Women’s Jewellery Group SAVE THE DATE! April 26 We are organizing an evening of visual art, music and stories in celebration of Refugee Rights Month. Through this event…
Thank you to the Ready Tour participants for taking the time to share your experience at the Ready Tour: READY TOUR TESTIMONY Ready Tour was a beautiful and informative experience that I will forever pass down to any refugee coming into Canada. I heard about it for the first time from my Counselor at…
Our Winter Newsletter is here: Learn about the Youth Civic Engagement, art exhibition, volunteer session and Ontario’s Human Trafficking Awareness Day event.
Press Release Ontario’s Human Trafficking Awareness Day – February 22nd 2019 A Human Rights Based Approach to End Human Trafficking – Conversation and Press Conference Organized by the Toronto Counter Human Trafficking Network (TCHTN) 10 AM to 12 PM At The Mary Ward Centre: 70 St. Mary Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1J3 Multiple forms of…
The FCJ Refugee Centre Youth Network would like to invite your Youth Group to collaborate and participate at the CCR Newcomer Youth Civic Engagement Project. The aim of the project is to activate local CCR Youth Network Branches where newcomer youth, (not born in Canada) between 16 and 25 years old, develop their leadership skills and …
The RAD information sessions will provide front line workers and refugee appellants a FREE opportunity to be better prepared for the presentation of their appeal before the RAD. Workers and Rejected refugees will learn the steps to follow and how to document your appeal before the Refugee Appeal Division (RAD). Analysts from Refugee Appeal Division,…
This informative sessions are possible thanks to the support of the Law Foundation
Calendar from January to April 2019 READY TOUR is a free program for refugee claimants waiting for their refugee hearing. Sign UP and visit a refugee hearing room. If you are a refugee claimant, this is a unique opportunity to be better prepared for your hearing, see an actual refugee hearing room. For many refugee claimants the…
Our seasonal newsletter provides exciting updates on: Every act of generosity counts! Fabian’s Story Selling Christmas trees at Ikea North York Art exhibition on January 3rd 2019 A volunteer experience at the FCJ Primary Care Clinic FCJ Refugee Centre is pleased to receive funding from the Catalyst Grant A Ready Tour Story …..
Today, on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) underlines its message that everyone is deserving of basic rights and human dignity, not because of their citizenship or their immigration status, but because they are human beings. For refugees fleeing persecution, Article 14 of the…