Canada’s Supreme Court has upheld an agreement that allows authorities to turn back asylum seekers crossing into the country from the United States.The Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) allows asylum seekers to be turned back on the grounds they should have applied for asylum in the first “safe” country in which they arrived, in this case the US.Refugee advocates had argued in their court challenge that the agreement violates asylum seekers’ rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom – notably their rights to life, liberty and security of the person as well as their right to equal treatment.
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