Our Team in the Media
Warda Shazadi Meighen – Can a Picture Change the Rhetoric on Refugees?
September 10, 2015 | New America Weekly Aylan Kurdi, age three, had escaped from Syria and was en route to seek refuge in Canada with his family. He drowned off the Turkish coast. Last week, the widely circulated photo of the infant’s body washed ashore ...
Jacqueline Swaisland – Canada’s Federal Court urged to declare refugee health cuts illegal
December 18, 2013 | Toronto Star Ottawa has breached international laws and the Charter of Rights by reducing and eliminating refugees’ access to basic health care, a refugee advocate told the Federal Court on Tuesday...
Jacqueline Swaisland – Alleged Rwandan war criminal Jean Leonard Teganya pleads for mercy, asylum
January 24, 2012 | National Post
Jacqueline Swaisland – Future of young refugee in hands of Ontario appeal court
April 13, 2011 | Toronto Star In a peculiar case that highlights the competing rights of children, parents and refugees, a dozen lawyers argued in a Toronto court this week over whether a deported 13-year-old refugee should be allowed to return to Canada...