Traduction de «Host Program for Refugee Settlement » (Anglais → Français) :

Geographically, the actions will prioritise the following geographical areas: in Ethiopia, the Shire region (host to a large number of Eritrean refugees), Afar and Somali (host to a large number of Somali refugees); in Sudan, the states of Kassala and Khartoum (host to a large number of Eritrean refugees); in Kenya, a new integrated settlement in Kalobe ...[+++]yei, in the Turkana region (host to a large number of Somali and South Sudanese refugees).

When we look at the estimates that we're looking at today, the dollars have been increased in every category in the immigration program the host program, the immigrant settlement and adaptation program, and the resettlement assistance program.

36. Calls for the strengthening of international environmental governance through the upgrading of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) into a United Nations specialised agency for the environment, equipped with sufficient financial, material and human resources, with universal membership, entitled to ensure compliance with legally binding multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) by governments, international economic institutions and transnational corporations, and serving as a reference body for scientific, technical and legal expertise on the environment; calls for cohesive new action to ensure environmental sustainabili ...[+++]ty, including addressing climate change as well as the issues of desertification, biodiversity and environmental refugees; calls for clarification of the jurisdictional relationship, including the dispute settlement mechanisms, between the WTO and MEAs within the UN system;

I believe that the Canadian government should continue to implement its host program for refugees and immigrants from the former Yugoslavia.

I would recommend the following changes: the restoration of health services coverage for refugees; the elimination of all exclusions imposed on asylum seekers; the elimination of section 72 of Bill C-31 and its related subsections; the elimination of section 13(3) of Bill C-31; a review of the allocation of funds and the components of the host program and the settlement program in order to better adapt them to francophone realities; a review of some of the implementation criteria for thos ...[+++]e programs in terms of service delivery specifically for women, taking into account the notion of " by and for" francophone women, as well as funding for more direct services from front-line agencies; and the development and implementation, within agencies, of awareness programs based on the concept of " cultural competency" .

Hon. Elinor Caplan (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Lib.): With regard to each of the groups consulted by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration during the period from February 27, 1998 through to March 11, 1998, the following received contribution funds (Citizenship and Immigration Canada, CIC, does not provide grants or subsidies to organizations) in fiscal year 1997-98* under one or more of CIC's settlement programs or services: Immigrant settlement and Adaptation Prog ...[+++]ram, ISAP, which provides a variety of settlement services to immigrants, such as orientation, community information, interpretation/translation, para-professional counseling, employment-related services; Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada, LINC, which provides training in one of Canada's official languages to adult immigrants; the Host Program which matches immigrants to Canadians who help them with various aspects of life in Canada; and Reception House, RH, which provides temporary accomodation to government assisted refugees.