Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

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Costa Rica: Update to CRI38683.E of 7 June 2002 and CRI38684.E of 7 June 2002 on gay culture and the treatment of sexual minorities in Costa Rica (June 2002 to October 2004) 18 October 2004 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Costa Rica: The possibility of a university scholarship being refused to a young woman merely because she is a lesbian; recourses available to this young woman (1998-2003) 14 August 2003 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Costa Rica : possibilité qu'une bourse d'études universitaires soit refusée à une jeune femme pour la simple raison qu'elle est lesbienne; recours à la disposition de cette jeune femme (1998-2003) 14 August 2003 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Costa Rica: Information on "she-males" (transvestites or transgendered persons) in San José, including the size of the community, their meeting places, types of activities they engage in and protection available to them in cases where they are abused by the police (2001 to May 2003) 15 May 2003 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Costa Rica: Whether there is a law against a lesbian couple living together with one of the partner's children and if so, the penalties; whether the National Children Foundation could take away the child if the couple continued to live together (2000 to May 2003) 8 May 2003 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Decision TA0-15870 (Revoked Jurisprudential Guide (2011), In Private) Dates of hearing (in private): 12 November 2002 and 27 March 2003. "Jurisprudential Guides" are decisions which articulate policy through the application of the law set out in a decision of the Board to the specific facts of another individual case before a decision-maker. The application of a Jurisprudential Guide is not mandatory. However, decision-makers are expected to apply Jurisprudential Guides in cases with similar facts or provide reasoned justifications for not doing so. 31 March 2003 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Effective protection - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity - Social group persecution - State protection \| Countries: Canada - Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Follow-up to CRI40017.E of 10 September 2002 on the recourse or procedures available to lesbians who have been victims of sexual harassment or misconduct by police officers 11 October 2002 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Costa Rica : suivi de CRI40017.EF du 10 septembre 2002 sur les recours ou procédures dont disposent les lesbiennes victimes de harcèlement sexuel ou de mauvaise conduite de la part d'agents de police 11 October 2002 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Costa Rica: Recourse or procedures available to lesbians who have been the victims of sexual harassment or misconduct from police officers (2001-2002) 10 September 2002 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Costa Rica : recours ou procédures dont disposent les lesbiennes victimes de harcèlement sexuel ou de mauvaise conduite de la part d'agents de police (2001-2002) 10 September 2002 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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