VAST is a community of concern to encourage and promote the well being of people who have survived torture and political violence and support their families. MacQueen was one of a group of people active with Amnesty International in the mid-1980's, who saw the pressing need for an organization to provide direct counseling and services to the victims of torture. |
 Frances Macqueen is one of those people who tries to heal survivors of trauma--people who escape to Canada from far away conflicts |
Frances McQueen help so many people include my self and my husband, she is mama for who ever need mama she is sister she is counselor she adviser she is friend and on the top of all that the is hope for so many refugees they was struggle with system she always fight so hard till she win any case buss other to make those refugees have better life ...
The words blew approves that …..
{Michael's, he said, was "the one place that accepted me -- one and a half hour's time before I was supposed to be in the airport."Smith's concerns regarding the federal immigration authorities' handling of Kazemian's case have been fueled by the claims of the Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture (VAST), an organization which has aided Kazemian for the past several years."According to a recent Human Rights Watch report," read a recent VAST statement, "the Iranian government has intensified its campaign of torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions against political critics}.
"Kazemian, said VAST, "arrived in Canada in 1998, and was refused refugee status. His mother, however, who arrived in Canada later, was accepted as a refugee -- having brought with her more evidence of the family's persecution.
" Unfortunately, "under Canada's new immigration law, appeals of negative refugee decisions based on the merits of the case are not permitted.""His mother has met the requirements for refugee status on identical grounds -- so clearly, Mr. Kazemian should be allowed to remain in Canada as well," said VAST coordinator Frances MacQueen. "I know that if he is forcibly returned, no one will be able to protect him from the Iranian government.
"She added: "Our Canadian refugee system, which is designed to protect such people, has failed him . . . We have seen first-hand the devastating effects of torture on the lives of our program participants. Consequently, we are tremendously disturbed by the failure of the Liberal government and the refugee system to protect Mr. Kazemian from the human rights abuses that await him at the hands of the Iranian authorities.
"MacQueen said that VAST was still waiting to hear from Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, who is also the federal minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. A representative of the minister, she said, "promised to get back to us with an answer before the deportation deadline. We have still not heard a word from McLellan's office." VAST, she said, is hoping that McLellan will order a stay of deportation. "We are also asking the authorities to respect the historical inviolability of church sanctuary."
(http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=f9283eed-2d70-4e09-1a7-8fecf6bb1fe&k=75448).
Picture of Frances Mac Queen, while she was a coordinator of the Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture (VAST); co-director of Bledi, This is Our Home, Malcolm Guy; Mohamed Chelali, President of the Algerian Canadian Association of BC; Lesley Stalker, Chairperson of the Refugees Lawyers Group in Vancouver; and a member of the Algerian Canadian Association ofBC.(2001)
henever i go i can see you in Vancouver ....i do not know what i can do now with out you dear my life is empty!!!!
I feel am lonely ,am like little baby lost mama ......Who will give me advice , who will tell me what to do when i need elderly to take with ,who will tell i love purely this time ...who will hold me when i need mama hug ...
In my arms I held you tight
Through the hardest part of life
In my heart the memories clear
Of the greatest mum I love so dear
I held you so close to my heart
Praying that we'll never ..........
“She Fight until last minutes of her life for people to have better life ....not just in Canada (Salvador) working on project... the main goal of it is to build housing for people there .... she working hard although she is had cancer never give up of life she die strong as "Brave Sergent in army duties" on Friday Nov 25/2011 ....am glad she die for things she like which is helping other ”.
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