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Query responses are replies to focused queries or requests for Information that are submitted in the course of the refugee status determination process.
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Colombia: 1. Please provide information relating to the risk of harm in Colombia, particularly in Cali, for (a) homosexuals generally, (b) gay rights activists, and (c) human rights activists generally. In doing so, please comment on the main groups that target such persons for harm. 2. Please provide information relating to the availability of state protection for each of the following groups. 3. Please provide information relating to the capacity of a person to relocate from Cali to another part of Colombia to avoid persecution of the type discussed in question 1. 4. Please provide information relating to the Liberal Party, particularly in relation to Cali during the period June 2009 - December 2010, including whether it was in power during this period and who its main leaders/figures were. Please also provide information relating to the relevant divisions of the Party relating to human rights and sexual diversity. 5. Please provide information relating to Senator Piedad Cordoba, described as a prominent proponent of gay rights, particularly during the period June 2009 - December 2010. 6. Please provide information relating to each of the followeing individuals/groups: (a) Partido Rosa (Pink Party) which is possibly linked to the Green Party; (b) deleted; (c) Ricardo Montenegro (or perhaps Ricardo Montenegro-Vasquez), described as a prominent gay rights activist who was also the director of Piedad Cordoba and a former candidate himself; (d) Pedro Santamaria, who ran a transsexual rights organisations called Santamaria; and (e) a transsexual rights activist known as 'La Madre' from Jamundi (just outside Cali)

31 January 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1. Please provide information on the Colombian army and, in particular, any reports on officers in the Colombian army being pressured by colleagues and superiors to violate human rights? Please also provide any reports on officers claiming they were dismissed for refusing to obey orders to violate human rights? 2. Please provide any information on "criminal irregularities" that the army claims was the reason officers were evaluated as being ‘deficient'. 3. Is there any other information of relevance.

23 January 2008 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: Whether members of the Naval Infantry Jungle Battalion have engaged in human rights abuses, particularly in Putumayo (1980 - June 2003)

23 June 2003 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: Whether family or friends of human rights activists who have fled the country have been targeted by rebel groups, paramilitaries or the government in order to locate the activists (1999 to September 2002)

3 October 2002 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: Externado University of Colombia (Universidad Externado de Colombia); its activities in the area of human rights; treatment of those involved in such activities (1997 - February 2002)

27 February 2002 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: Information on the Sociedad Civil Mandato Ciudadano Por la Paz; AHINO (a human rights organization); the political group JUCO (Communist Youth of Colombia) and its connection to the PCC (Communist Party of Colombia) and UP (Unión Patriótica) (1998-2002)

29 January 2002 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: Administrative Security Department (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad - DAS), its place in the government apparatus, its mission, its intelligence and immigration services and whether it has been accused of violating human rights (1996 to date)

13 May 1999 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: A human rights group called VIDA

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

Colombia: Whether the lesbian group, Black Triangle (Triángulo Negro), or any other lesbian group monitors violence and human rights abuses against lesbians in Colombia, and if so, the way in which the information is recorded and reported

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

Colombia: Information on the activities of the Colombian Air Force (FAC), including its drug trafficking department, and on whether the FAC was involved in human rights abuses, 1980 to 1990

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

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