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End Immigration Detention / #WelcomeToCanada

Canada2020, ongoingAmnesty International Canada & Human Rights Watch with allies
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Goals

What this campaign seeks

End the use of provincial jails and correctional facilities to hold immigration detainees in Canada, and reform Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) immigration detention more broadly.

Tactics

How it works

Joint human-rights reporting by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, province-by-province lobbying to cancel jail-detention arrangements, and public mobilisation.

Outcome and status

Where it stands

By Sept 2025, all provinces ended use of provincial jails; federal reforms pending

Issue areas

Categories

asylumdetention-conditionsjail-userefugee
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