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Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information on the risk of harm to active pro-MDC supporters and activists in Zimbabwe. Please also comment on the situation for people who sympathise with or secretly support the MDC but do not openly express those views. 2. Please provide information on the history of the NYSTP (or National Youth Service), including when it was formed, its recruitment practices and its target group for recruitment (such as age range). Please also comment on the relative proportions of people who actually undergo service with the NYSTP, compared with people of the same age who do not. Please also comment on the extent to which young people who do not undergo service with the NYSTP face reprisals or limited work/education opportunities. 3. Please comment on the reasonableness of relocation within Zimbabwe as a means of avoiding persecution for known or suspected pro-MDC views. Are there any parts of Zimbabwe safe for such a person? Please also provide information on whether relocation to another part of Zimbabwe, such as Bulawayo, might reduce the risk of forced recruitment with the NYSTP. Please also comment on any tribal factors that might make relocation to Bulawayo non-viable for a Shona. 4. Please provide information about the MDC party, including its founding, key milestones, key leaders, party structure and details of the main MDC candidates/figures in the Harare district since 2000.

12 August 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1. Was an ELN guerrilla group ‘Frente Efrain Pabon Pabon' active in Santander in 2007/8? Is it active now? If so, in what parts of Colombia and who does it generally target? 2. What protection is likely to be available by the authorities from threats or attacks by this group (or, if information on the group can't be located, by the ELN generally)? 3. Are there any practical barriers to relocating within the country (to, for example, Bogota)?

19 July 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information on whether there is a distinction between the Green Bombers and the Zimbabwe National Youth Service, and if there is, what is the distinction. 2. Is there evidence that young men are being intimidated to join the Green Bombers in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and if so what information is there on the means used to intimidate? In particular, please provide information on whether there have been abductions where young men have been forced to join the Green Bombers militia. 3. Is there information on whether ZANU-PF supporters are giving potential recruits green T-shirts and forcing the recipients to wear them? 4. Is there information regarding whether the ZANU-PF have trucks and how such trucks would be marked or identified as ZANU-PF trucks? 5. Please provide information on whether the Green Bombers terrorise and brutalise people. 6. Is there information about ZANU-PF supporters forcing people to buy ZANU-PF cards? If so, please provide details on how and why this occurs. 7. Is there information available to suggest that young men between the ages of 17-25 are targeted as the prime age for recruitment to the ZANU-PF party? Is there a particular profile of person that is of interest to the ZANU-PF party insofar as potential recruitment is concerned? 8. Is there information that with the elections coming up in 2011 the ZANU-PF are looking to recruit more people? 9. Please provide information regarding whether much has changed despite the power sharing government in Zimbabwe. Please provide information on what has changed. 10. Is there information on whether the police are connected to the ZANU-PF party? 11. Deleted. 12. What information is there on "coloured" persons in Zimbabwe? In particular, what does the reference to "coloured" suggest in this context? 13. What information is there on whether coloured people are being targeted for ill-treatment or for recruitment to the ZANU-PF for reason of their ethnicity? 14. Would it be expected that a coloured Zimbabwean in their twenties would have experienced difficulty obtaining a passport in Zimbabwe in 2002?

19 July 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Lebanon: 1. Please provide brief information about Fatah. 2. Please provide updated information about the activities of Fatah-al-Islam in the Nahr El Bared area and over Lebanon in general. 3. Is there any area in Lebanon where Fatah-al-Islam does not operate? 4. How effective are the authorities in dealing with Fatah-al-Islam?

16 June 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Bangladesh: 1. Please give a brief update on the treatment of Bangladesh National Party (BNP) supporters in Bangladesh. 2. Do reports suggest that political groups target family members (including infants) of opponents, using kidnapping/extortion, etc. as a political tool? 3. Do reports suggest that returnees from abroad are targeted for extortion, kidnapping, etc? If so, do these appear to be opportunistic criminal acts, or based on some criteria such as political background, etc?

28 April 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Pakistan: 1. Have hundreds of Hazaras been killed in Quetta in recent years?

30 March 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1. Please provide recent information in relation to criminal gangs in Colombia and the prevalence or otherwise of extortion and kidnapping. 2. Are there any reports of threats or harm to civilians or business people who refuse to co-operate with criminal gangs in Colombia?

23 March 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Albania: Please advise whether there is a high rate of gun crime in Albania?

16 March 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire): 1. Please provide a detailed map of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 2. Please provide an update on the security and political situation in Congo. 3. Please provide information on the treatment of members of the Bazimba tribe and the Muzimba tribe both in Kinshasa and elsewhere in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 4. Please contact the Botswana Embassy authorities to ask the following: A. Would the holder of such a residence permit be certain to gain entrance into Botswana? B. Would the holder of such a residence permit be allowed to reside in Botswana? C. What is the definition of ‘dependant child' for the purposes of this residence permit? D. What rights would the holder of such a residence permit be entitled to? E. Deleted. F. Does this residence permit give … refugee status? 5. Additional Information

3 March 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Afghanistan: 1. Please provide some information about Maydan Shahr and Markazi Bihsud districts in Wardak province. 2. [Deleted]. 3. Please provide information about whether anyone who is, or is not, affiliated with the Nasr party/Hezb-i Wahdat Khalili would be likely to face ill-treatment or other adverse consequences.

17 February 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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