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The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) is Canada's largest independent administrative tribunal, responsible for making well-reasoned decisions on immigration and refugee matters efficiently, fairly and in accordance with the law. It consists of three divisions: the Refugee Protection Division; the Immigration Division; and the Immigration Appeal Division. The Refugee Protection Division decides claims for refugee protection made by people already in Canada. Website: www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/
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India: The harassment, attacks against and disappearances of members by police of the All India Sikh Student Federation (AISSF), especially of the Mehta Chawla faction, and on the harassment of AISSF family members (1997-1998)

1 September 1998 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Update to Information Request RDC28433.E of 21 January 1998 on Le Grognon, including a list of its journalists for the period 1996 - March 1997, the names of any who may have been arrested in 1997 particularly in March, any reports of arrests or disappearances of journalists for Le Grognon since May 1997, and reports of a fire which is alleged to have destroyed the publishing house

1 April 1998 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Chile: Information on the type of documentation the Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos (AFDD) forwarded to the Spanish court when attempting to indict General Pinochet and other régime figures for murders and disappearances of Spanish and Chileans in the past, and whether any workers involved in this exercise faced anonymous threats or other problems, 1996 to present

1 January 1998 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

India: Information on disappeared human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, general secretary of the human rights wing of the Akali Dal, including the date and place of birth, place of residence, educational background, occupation, and the names of his wife and father

1 January 1998 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Pakistan: Confirmation from the MQM Secretariat in Middlesex, UK, that their 1997 publication entitled Dead or Alive: A Catalogue of "Disappearance" of 15 Mohajirs Aged Between 18 and 50 Years, from the State Custody in Pakistan is an exhaustive list

1 December 1997 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

India: Information on the present situation of any and all judicial proceedings relating to the Jaswant Singh Khalra September 1995 disappearance, including whether any proceedings are outstanding, the situation of eye-witnesses to the abduction or witnesses who testified or were to testify, whether these witnesses are at risk from the police and state protection available to them

1 November 1997 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Mexico: Information on street vendors at the Texcoco market in eastern Mexico City, whether they have an association, whether the PRI party controls it, and whether a merchant called Carlos Morales was "disappeared" at the hands of the Judicial Police (1996)

1 October 1997 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Mexico: Information on the disappearance of Manuel Cabrera on 23 May 1996 and Estevan Borja on 25 June 1996 in the state of Queretaro

1 October 1997 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Mexico: Information on whether the National Human Rights Commission produces lists of names of persons who are presumed disappeared, on when it began producing such lists, and whether the information in them is corrected or amended once a person is found

1 September 1997 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Chile: Information on the Association of Relatives of the Disappeared and Detained (AFDD), including whether Sola Sierra was its president in late 1992, whether it has district offices in the Villa Francia or Villa Canada areas, whether it has copies of all the letters and petitions written to the government and whether one of its investigators, Marcelo Lara, was murdered on 6 March 1994

1 September 1997 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

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