The Carework Network is organizing a 3-day conference to bring together carework researchers from across disciplines and across the globe. The conference will be exploring important topics such as migrant care work and gig work.

The conference will take place from June 9-11, 2019 at Hart House, University of Toronto. Registration is currently open.

An exhibition on the LGBTQI refugee experience is now on display at the Daniels Spectrum in downtown Toronto. The 'AM I WRONG TO LOVE?' exhibition is on until July 31st. 

The portrait series explores the stories of 20 refugees from 10 different countries who have all fled their home countries because of their gender expression, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

On Thursday May 16, the 5th Annual Toronto Newcomer Day will be taking place at Nathan Phillips Square from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Toronto Newcomer Day is an annual event held in May that welcomes newcomers to Toronto, helps them understand and access a range of services, and celebrates their contributions to the city. The event features a number of activities such as a formal stage program, a citizenship ceremony for new Canadians, tours of City Hall, a newcomer marketplace, and an information fair.

"In 1969 and 2009, respectively 50 and 10 years ago, the African Union (and its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity) adopted two instruments on forced migration in Africa: The OAU Convention on the Specific Problems of Refugees in Africa (African Refugee Convention) and the AU Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (IDP or ‘Kampala’ Convention). While the aim of the African Refugee Convention is to provide guidance to states on the protection of persons who have been displaced from other states, the Kampala Convention provides guidance on the protection of persons displaced within the borders of a particular state. Although both instruments have been recognized as ground-breaking African frameworks, the issue of forced displacement remains a daunting challenge on the continent."

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, will be hosting a two-day Conference, on 6 and 7 September 2019 on the theme: “Beyond 50 and 10, beyond the rhetoric: The protection of forced migrants in Africa”.

 Abstracts are due by 30 April 2019.

The Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) is hosting a webinar on the mental health of refugees and im/migrants, specifically the impact of separation on families and children by  Cécile Rousseau and Suzan J. Song. 
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Registration for this webinar is free for students, trainees, and residents, as well as SSPC members. The webinar is free for registrations in low- and middle income countries. It is $5 for non-SSPC members. Early-bird regisration ends March 15.

Webinar Details:
Fri Mar 29 2019, 1:00-2:30pm PDT

The Toronto Latin American Film Festival (LATAFF), Sony Center Canada and the Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples present: Trans Latina Ontario (TLO) Digital Stories.

A Q & A will also take place following the 8 short films:

"Unbroken" by Celeste Bilbao-Joseph (Argentina) 
"He Found Himself Within Her" by Adalyn Díaz (Mexico)
"It's Been a Long, Long Way" by Alex Freeland (Argentina)
"Arrival of Miss Latismiere" by Gigi Latismiere (Mexico)
"Thank You Canada" by Maria Clara De Sena (Brazil)
"Why I'm Here" by Paulina (Mexico)
"Confident Woman" by Tanya (Ecuador)
"Ubuntu, I Am Because We Are" by Xica DaDiva (Honduras)
 
The event is free and will take place on Friday, October 19, 2018 from 7:00-10:00 PM at the George Ignatieff Theatre in Toronto. 

University of Toronto's Hart House and The Centre for Community Partnerships are hosting a screening of the documentary Migrant Dreams, which highlights the exploitation of migrant workers in Canada who arrived through the Government of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. A discussion will take place after the screening with Dr. Rupaleem Bhuyan, Associate professor and Lead Investigator of The Migrant Mothers Project, and Sara Asalya, Palestinian immigrant and one of RBC’s top 25 immigrants of Canada.

The event is free and will take place on Oct. 10, 2018, 6-8:30 pm in the East Common Room of Hart House.

The film ‘I Am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts’ will be playing at the University of Toronto on October 9th, 2018 at 6:30PM.

The film documents the "journey of fourteen refugee youth who take to the stage to re-enact their families’ experiences in Burman and beyond; before, during, and immediately after the escalation of military violence in their native homeland, Rakhine state; their unforgiving escape by foot and by boat to makeshift camps in Bangladesh; and their eventual resettlement in the strikingly un-familiar Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario." A Q&A period with the director and the cast will take place following the screening.

At a time when the number of migrants and displaced persons around the world is dramatically rising and the debate in Canada is becoming increasingly ideological and polarized, the Global Migration and Health Initiative organizes a conversation on refugees today - their identity, reality, and the challenges they face, health and health-related but not only - as seen by three presenters who contribute quite different if complementary perspectives. The three presenters will be:

1. Jean-Nicolas Beuze
UNHCR Representative in Canada

2. Cynthia Guignard
Former Volunteer, EuroRelief,
Moria Refugee Camp, Lesvos, Greece

3. Andrea A. Cortinois
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Co-Director, Global Migration and Health Initiative

The event will take place on October 4, 2018 from 5-7 pm at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in Toronto.  Registration is now open. The event is co-sponsored by the Juxtaposition Global Health Magazine, Health Studies Students' Union (HSSU), and the ​Office of Global Public Health Education & Training at DLSPH.

The #donttakethekids movement has requested that children’s toys be piled in front of the US Consulate in Toronto on June 8, 2018 at 2 pm.

"The US administration has found a powerful new way to stop people from crossing its borders: taking away their children. In recent months, over 700 little kids – including more than 100 babies and toddlers – have been taken from their detained parents and sent to facilities across the country."

The toys will represent a donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is fighting the new policy in court. The event details can be found here.