Issues We Support
CCS is happy to support other organisations in their campaigns as they relate to stateless persons in Canada.
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CCS offers letter of support for Councillor Marvin Rotrand's motion to urge Foreign Minister Marc Garneau to renew Canada’s aid for the Rohingya refugees.
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CCS supported a Montreal City Council motion urging for the renewal of Canada’s aid for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The letter was signed by nine Senators, the Quebec Liberal Party, twenty municipal officials from across Canada and fifty civil society members, including academia and human rights organizations. The motion was adopted unanimously on February 23, 2021 by Montreal City Council. Read Councillor Marvin Rotrand’s post and motion here.
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Joint civil society statement on statelessness and covid-19
COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights Need for #HealthCare4All
Joint Civil Society Statement on the Mass Citizenship Deprivation in Assam |
CCS joined 83 civil society actors to urge states, donors and other stakeholders to promote and protect the rights of the stateless in their response to COVID-19. Read the full statement here.
CCS supported an open letter to the federal government, urging all levels of government to come together to ensure access to healthcare for all people living in Canada, regardless of immigration and citizenship status. Over 200 organizations across Canada signed the open letter. Read the full statement here.
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Expert Statement on the Prevention and Eradication of Statelessness in the Americas
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Organised by the Americas Network on Nationality and Statelessness at the 2019 World Conference on Statelessness, CCS signed an Expert Statement to States in the Americas on the right to nationality and statelessness in relation to mixed migratory flows from Venezuela. Read the full statement here.
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Health Care Coverage for
Migrants |
In December 2018 CCS signed the open letter calling on the Canadian government for action relating to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) landmark decision condemning Canada for denying access to essential health care on the basis of immigration status.
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Since its founding in 2014, CCS is proud to have been a member of the Americas Network on Nationality and Statelessness. The Network comprises civil society organizations, academic initiatives, and individual experts committed to address statelessness in the Americas.
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The Campaign mobilises international action to achieve law reform in the 25 countries that prevent mothers from conferring their nationality on their children on an equal basis with fathers; and to achieve law reform in the 50+ countries which deny women equal nationality rights with men, including conferral of nationality to non-national spouses.
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The Canadian Council for Refugees is a national non-profit umbrella organization committed to the rights and protection of refugees and other vulnerable migrants in Canada and around the world and to the settlement of refugees and immigrants in Canada.
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