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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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Ethiopia: Treatment of sex workers by society and authorities, including arrest, prosecution and conviction; treatment of women with children born out of wedlock by society and authorities (2014-June 2016)

10 July 2016 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Éthiopie : information sur le traitement réservé aux travailleuses du sexe par la société et les autorités, y compris les arrestations, les poursuites et les déclarations de culpabilité; le traitement réservé par la société et les autorités aux femmes ayant des enfants nés hors mariage (2014-juin 2016)

10 July 2016 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Côte d'Ivoire : information sur le traitement réservé aux minorités sexuelles par la société et les autorités, y compris la loi; protection offerte par l'État et services de soutien (2006-février 2014)

27 February 2014 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Malawi: Information on sexual exploitation/prostitution of women and children

16 May 2012 | Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre | Document type: Query Responses

Venezuela : Information sur l'application et l'efficacité de la loi organique de 2007 sur le droit des femmes à une vie sans violence (Ley Orgánica sobre el Derecho de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia - LODMVLV) (2008-février 2012)

13 April 2012 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Cambodia: 2. Whether poor women in Cambodia without education and skills may be forced to work as a sex worker to survive; and whether they have other employment options. 3. Employment for hairdressers in Cambodia. Are there many jobs for hairdressers? What would a women who works as a full-time apprentice hairdresser, or a junior hairdresser, earn in Cambodia? Is this enough money on which to survive without also working in another job? 4. Whether a woman who worked in a nightclub in Cambodia would be at risk of violence and rape and other forms of harm (from the nightclub owners or patrons). 5. Whether the Cambodian authorities provide protection to (i) women and (ii) women who work in nightclubs, who experience violence from men.

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

Thailand: 1. Please provide information about the following: (i) whether a baby in the care of their mother would be at risk of being attacked or trafficked because they are half-white, and an Australian citizen, if they were living (a) in Prasat district or Surin district in the north-east border region of Thailand; or (b) elsewhere in Thailand. 2. Please provide information about whether the mother of a half-white Australian baby would be at risk of being seriously harmed because of the need to protect her baby from violence or trafficking. 3. If there is a risk of harm of the type mentioned in Questions 1 or 2, who are the persons or groups who may cause this harm? 4. Would the Thai police or other authorities be willing and able to protect the mother and her baby, who is half-white, and an Australian citizen, from harm of the type mentioned in Questions 1 and 2? If not, why not? 5. If there is no risk of harm to such a mother and her baby in other parts of Thailand, would the mother, who has previously worked as a production worker, be able to live safely and support herself there without the presence and support of family members?

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

Thailand: 1. Please provide the most recent country information on the prevalence of sexual exploitation of women and children in Thailand. 2. Please provide the most recent country information about the level of state protection available to people facing such sexual exploitation in Thailand. 3. Is there any reported information indicating that people who are or who have been sex workers in Thailand face discrimination or mistreatment from authorities or others in Thailand? 4. Please provide the most recent country information relating to rehabilitation programmes for victims of sexual exploitation in Thailand

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

India: 1. Please provide an update on how the community in Rajasthan views intermarriage (Sikh and Christian) where the parties' parents agree. 2. Please provide information on state protection or redress for Christians who may be harmed by Sikhs in that area. Are there other areas that may provide better state protection, such as Delhi, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir? 3. Deleted. 4. How long would it take to travel from Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, to Delhi (mode of transport unknown)? 5. Is there any information about brothels in Sri Ganganagar or women being forced and detained in them?

9 December 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Ukraine: Information on the prevalence of organised crime in Ukraine

30 November 2010 | Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre | Document type: Query Responses

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