IHRP co-signs "A Statement Against the Immigration Detention of Children"

The International Human Rights Program (IHRP) is a co-signatory of "A Statement Against the Immigration Detention of Children" (released October 4, 2016). Forty-six of Canada’s leading medical, legal and human rights organizations signed on to the statement urging the Canadian government to urgently stop its harmful practice of detaining children for immigration purposes and separating families.The statement follows the release of the IHRP report  “‘No Life for a Child’: A Roadmap to End Immigration Detention of Children and Family Separation."

• Read the full statement
• IHRP director Samer Muscati is quoted in "Canada violating international law by jailing hundreds of migrant children, advocacy groups say" in the National Post.
• The IHRP report is cited in the commentary "Immigration detention of children and families must end" by Rachel Kronick in the Toronto Star.