THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10, 7-9PM
VIVO (2625 Kaslo Street, Vancouver)
FREE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1140801832641709/
Art has long been a powerful vehicle of expression used to challenge and resist negative stereotypes.
Join us for an evening of exploring how different ethnic and class communities - Romani, Indigenous, Black -- have utilized multiple art forms to resist systemic discrimination and oppression.
Romani Women in Canada: Spectrum of the Blue Water is grounded upon Romani women’s lived experience as writers, essayists, visual artists, and activists. Reflecting the panoply of women’s voices, the book links everyday experience and a social critique of the factors that enable and constrain women’s lives [...]
Refugee rights advocates call on Federal government to take measures for former refugee claimants who did not receive adequate legal counsel
Toronto, Ontario, September 20, 2016
The Law Society of Upper Canada has found lawyer Joseph Farkas guilty of professional misconduct.
In the long-awaited decision, which was released late last week, a Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) panel made findings of professional misconduct as alleged in the Notice of Application [...]
The Devouring: Can there be a stronger word in the English language to depict sheer horror and utter helplessness? This is the translation of the Roma word, Porajmos. The Romani people, more conventionally known as Gypsies, use this word to describe the genocide they endured during the Second World War; a genocide yet to be recognized officially by either Canada or the United Nations [...]
Roma asylum-seekers who were deported back to Hungary deserve to finally get a fair hearing in Canada, says Jennifer Danch, a Toronto law student and Roma refugee advocate. Danch made a five-month trip to Hungary to see what has become of the asylum-seekers, and she says they now face double discrimination [...]
On February 17, 2012, in Ottawa, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was discussing the arrival of one group of refugee claimants, most of whom are Hungarian. He was not pleased. “Our government is very disturbed by the recent rise in requests from democratic countries that respect human rights,” he remarked. “The rising number of bogus requests from democratic states of the European Union just makes this problem worse.” Kenney first used the term “bogus” in 2009 to describe Roma claimants and has favoured it ever since. He inspired the Toronto Sun to run this headline on October 27, 2011: “Feds vow crackdown as Pearson flooded with bogus Hungarian Roma claims [...]
