Canada Grants Refugee Status to Saudi Teen

Kim Mackrael James Hookway - The Wall Street Journal
January 15, 2019

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Bessma Momani, a senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario, said there appears to be popular support in Canada for accepting Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun as a refugee, and the decision to do so could reflect well on Prime Minister Trudeau’s Liberal government, which has prided itself on taking a feminist and human-rights approach to foreign policy.

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