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Eight refugees held for years in Australian detention have arrived in Canada under community sponsorship scheme

The applications have been made possible by Canada’s program in which private citizens can sponsor a refugee’s resettlement, as long as they commit to providing “emotional and financial support to the refugee for the full sponsorship period” and raise the equivalent of one year of social security. Spindari said the organisation felt the need to intervene in the plight of refugees in indefinite detention. “There is no end in sight for the refugees who have been in detention for up to s...

This extraordinary new chapter in offshore processing indicates that, based on the criteria on which others are intervening, these people are now judged to be among the most vulnerable refugees in the world. The UNHCR’s involvement has not been publicly revealed before now and the agency declined to comment on the reason for its involvement. Canada Nearly 100 people have now reached the final stages of acceptance by Canada, under a unique private sponsorship program for refugees. Barring ...