John Humphrey: Ss St Louis

Refugee Convention Dept: This, it appears, is the message the government of Canada would like to send to the world's refugees, according to Montreal Gazette. Unfortunately, in recent years, Canadian governments have backed away from this commitment to offer asylum, using a wide variety of measures to prevent refugee claimants from ever getting here. But no government in the modern era has acted as aggressively as the present one. "We await you with open arms -just don't dare to actually turn up at our door." Canada is a signatory of the Refugee Convention, which commits us to grant asylum to people with a well-founded fear of persecution who seek our protection. We can take pride in the fact that it was a Canadian, the late John Humphrey, who drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which, in 1948, enshrined the right to seek asylum in international law. Canada thus turned a page on shameful incidents such as the turning back of the SS St. Louis in 1939, which saw hundreds of refugees from Nazi Germany returned to face death in concentration camps. As reported in the news.
@t refugee claimants, universal declaration of human rights