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Mixed Marriage in India

June 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Country Profiles

Pakistan: 1. Please provide information on the general level of crime in Faisalabad. 2. To what extent do authorities provide protection against such criminal activity? 3. Please provide information on the situation for older women living alone in Faisalabad (including in relation to their ability to maintain a household and whether there are any reports of such people being targeted for criminal activity). 4. What support or protection is available to older women living alone, particularly in Faisalabad? 5. To what extent has the Taliban been active in Faisalabad? 6. What steps have the Pakistani authorities taken to address such activity?

23 March 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Iraq: 1. Please provide country information on the Shia/Sunni make up of Al Adel city (or district) in Baghdad. 2. Please provide country information on the extent of sectarian violence in Al Adel and surrounding cities. Please also include violence from Al Qaida (if known) in that area. 3. Please provide country information (including latest UNHCR advices) of whether professionals such as engineers are being targeted in Iraq and more particularly in Al Adel city. 4. Please provide country information of the adequacy of state protection through its police and security forces against sectarian violence and attacks on professionals, in Iraq and in Al Adel.

2 March 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Papua New Guinea: 1. Is there evidence that some violence in the western highlands of PNG is religiously motivated? Specifically, is there evidence that individuals and villages are targeted due to their membership of the Assemblies of God? 2. Is there evidence that AOG members are harmed in Port Moresby, Lae, and Wewak? 3. Is there evidence of a dispute between members of the Kinbim Remi and the Kumbu Maip tribes anywhere in PNG? 4. Is there evidence of clans or tribes known as the 'Kundka' or 'Akelka' in the Western Highlands?

3 February 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please provide background information on Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim singh or any movement linked to him/it. 2. Please provide any information about a 2007 riot in Punjab related to this movement with particular focus on the Moga area. 3. From 2008 to the present, are there any reports of conflicts involving followers of Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh? 4. Is there any information on how followers of Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh are treated by police?

11 July 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Indonesia: 1. Is there any demographic information about the numbers of Catholics or Christians in Maumere and Flores? 2. Please identify the name of the Catholic Church in Maumere, and its location, and the identity of the priest there in 2009-2010. 3. Is there any information about religious violence in Maumere, Flores between Catholics and Muslims? 4. Is there any information to suggest that authorities on Flores would not act on allegations of religious violence in the area or would not act against Muslims perpetrating such violence?

29 June 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Ghana: 1. Deleted. 2. Please comment on the availability of state protection in Bawku in relation to tribal violence between the Mamprusis and Kusasis. Please also comment on the availability of state protection in other parts of Ghana in relation to such violence, such as in Accra, Kumasi or other major cities 3. Please comment on the availability of internal relocation to escape the violence between Mamprusis and Kusasis. To what extent does the risk of violence extend to other parts of the country, especially Accra, Kumasi or other major cities? 4. Please comment on the risk of harm in Ghana due to being Christian (including Seventh Day Adventists or Pentecostals). Please also comment on the above issues of state protection and internal relocation in the context of harm arising from being Christian

16 June 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Are there reports that those who, since 2006, called for investigations into the violence against Sikhs - which occurred in the period from the early 1980s to 1993 - have been targeted by Indian authorities? 2. Are supporters of the Akali Dal party targeted by Indian authorities? 3. Please provide an update (preferably within the last six months) on the treatment of Sikhs by authorities in India and in Punjab in particular

13 April 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Nigeria: 1. Please provide information relating to: (i) Whether a Christian person affiliated with the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and who intends to work in the oil industry would be at risk of harm from MEND (a) in the Niger Delta, and (b) elsewhere in Nigeria; a) Whether such a person would be at risk of harm from MEND in the Niger Delta. b) Whether such a person would be at risk of harm from MEND elsewhere in Nigeria. (ii) whether a person who had studied petroleum engineering, but worked in Nigeria in a different field, would be at risk of harm from MEND; (iii) whether such a person is at risk from MEND because he is a member of a well-educated, moderately well-off family and has a father who was a member of the ruling party PDP; (iv) whether the police in Edo State, and in Nigeria generally, would be willing and able to protect such people from the risk of harm from MEND

4 March 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Iraq: 1. Please provide country information of how persons in inter-religious marriages (that is, Sunni and Shiite (Shi'a)) are accepted or not in Iraqi society, particularly in Baghdad. 2. Please provide country information on the profile and public recognition of the Sunni tribal name of "Al Jabweri" and the Shiite tribal name of "Al Shalabi". 3. Please provide country information of violence between Sunni tribal families and Shiite tribal families. 4. Please provide country information of whether government ministries have a higher proportion of Shiite workers compared to Sunni workers and whether Shiites hold more favourable positions than Sunnis in the government ministries. 5. Please provide country information of the extent (if any) of discrimination of Sunni workers in government ministries either by Shiite colleagues or by Shiite bosses, managers or directors. 6. Are there functioning legal mechanisms set up by government which an aggrieved person can call upon as a legal remedy, if she is experiencing discrimination by way of religion? 7. What is the extent of influence and participation of Muqtada Al Sadr and his followers within the current government and what is the extent of their influence in the security and police force in Baghdad? 8. Please provide current country information on the government's ability (or lack thereof) to protect Sunni's against physical attacks in Baghdad

21 February 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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