CRS in the News

(April 10, 2012) Online learning inspires refugees, IRIN Africa: www.irinnews.org/Report/95259/EDUCATION-Online-learning-inspires-refugees

(Mar. 14, 2012) Refugee policies should be based on fact, not fiction, Embassy Magazine: www.embassymag.ca/page/view/refugeepolicy-03-14-2012

(Feb. 22, 2012) CBC Metro Morning Podcast about offering online programs to refugees in camps: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2012/02/22/course-for-refugees/

(Feb. 2, 2012) York project offers higher education to refugees

A project that offers students an opportunity to take a course with Burmese refugees who are half a world away in camps on the Thai-Burma border.

http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2012/02/01/york-project-offers-higher-education-to-refugees/

(August 18, 2010) Professor Kyle Killian, Centre for Refugee Studies: Boat people are rarely welcomed anywhere

(June 25, 2010) Program teaches students how to improve refugee settlement experiences

(May 31, 2010) High-powered workshop and conference examine international refugee law

(May 21, 2010) Centre for Refugee Studies and Plan Canada identify barriers to development in Southern Sudan

(March 1, 2010) Video: Prof’s film explores CNN effect in global aid response to 2004 tsunami

(August 14, 2009) Immigration system hurts more than helps, study finds

Press Releases:

(November 16, 2011) Expert panel calls proposed human smuggling bill draconian and illegal