CCR resources on

Resource

Legislation - submission on

June 17 2024
Submission on Bill C-69 (Budget Implementation Act)

August 16 2022
Alternatives to Detention Program: CCR comments
February 28 2022
Overview of CCR positions on detention
November 07 2019
Immigration detention and children: Rights still ignored, two years later
December 08 2016
Detention of children infographic
December 08 2016
Ending immigration detention of children: Call for legislative amendment
December 05 2016
A child's view of detention in Canada
September 05 2016
Children in detention 2015 by the numbers
September 05 2016
Immigration detainees in 2015 by the numbers
March 31 2016
Immigration detention statistics 2015
March 17 2016
Proposed model for a CBSA Accountability Mechanism

Public statements

October 28 2019
Court to hear why sending refugee claimants back to the U.S. breaks Canadian law
August 26 2019
The CCR calls on Canada to end the immigration detention of children
November 06 2017
The CCR welcomes government directives to reduce detention of children, but more needs to be done
March 17 2016
Model for CBSA accountability mechanism recommended
March 10 2016
Human rights groups react to news of another death in immigration detention

Resources (non-CCR)

UN etc

September 23 2016
Human Rights Committee’s Concluding Observations and recommendations for Canada.
September 23 2016
Human Rights Committee: Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Canada
September 23 2016
Alternatives to to Detention of Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series

Community

September 23 2016
Captured Childhood: Introducing a new model to ensure the rights and liberty of refugee, asylum seeker and irregular migrant children affected by immigration detention
September 23 2016
NGO monitoring of immigtration detention: Tips,examples and positive practices
September 23 2016
There Are Alternatives: A handbook for preventing unnecessary immigration detention (revised edition)
September 23 2016
LGBTI Persons in Immigration Detention, Position Paper

Research

September 23 2016
"We Have No Rights": Arbitrary Imprisonment and Cruel Treatment of Migrants with Mental Health Issues in Canada
September 23 2016
"No Life for a Child":A Roadmap to End Immigration Detention of Children and Family Separation