Updates

Rainbow Railroad condemns a series of recent directives from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that further threaten asylum and refugee protections across the United States. Last week, a leaked memo from USCIS outlined plans to review...

Around the globe, queer and trans individuals are facing escalating persecution, criminalization, and forced displacement. These overlapping crises make Rainbow Railroad’s work more necessary, and more challenging, than ever. Stronger...

When Angela first heard about Rainbow Railroad, it was through a friend. “A friend of mine who works at Rainbow Railroad, Devon, first introduced me to your work,” she recalls. “They told me about the type of work they were doing — searching for resettlement...

The global landscape for LGBTQI+ rights is shifting sharply as authoritarian ideologies gain power, transnational anti-rights coalitions deepen, and governments increasingly weaponize gender as a site of political control. This year alone, the transgender...

For Shimmi, volunteering with Rainbow Railroad is about more than legal support; it’s about standing beside LGBTQI+ people in crisis and helping them feel seen, heard, and supported on their journey to safety. Finding a Meaningful Volunteer Path A...

The Board of Directors of Rainbow Railroad is pleased to announce the appointment of Ilana Landsberg-Lewis as the organization’s next Chief Executive Officer, effective January 5, 2026. Ilana joins Rainbow Railroad with more than three decades of leadership...

The introduction of Bill C-12 has sparked widespread outcry from civil society across Canada. While presented as a security measure, this Bill revives and expands the most restrictive elements of Bill C-2, including a one-year bar on asylum claims, broad...

“We dream of a world where care is collective, borders are abolished, and our people are safe, housed, and celebrated.” That vision guides Migrant Support Collective (MSC), a recipient of Rainbow Railroad’s new Community Access Fund, which...

Rainbow Railroad is pleased to see the special initiative of Budget 2025 to streamline the transition of approximately 115,000 Protected Persons to permanent residency. This practical step recognizes the fact that the vast majority of these individuals...

Rainbow Railroad is launching our annual 60in60 campaign. For the last 60 days of the year, we’re focusing on the critical impact that 60 seconds can have in our work.  We receive an average of 60 requests for help every day, from LGBTQI+ people...

Dennis, now a Program Officer for Resettlement at Rainbow Railroad, has lived both sides of the organization’s mission. “I am a refugee from Uganda who arrived in Canada in 2019 with the assistance of Rainbow Railroad,” he says. His path here was marked...

For Sarah, the journey to supporting Rainbow Railroad and LGBTQI+ refugees began with a personal awakening. Coming out in 2009 and joining a support group at Toronto’s 519 Community Centre, they encountered refugees whose stories of persecution shocked...