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Bangladesh: 1. Please provide information on Greece's Bangladeshi community. 2. Please provide detailed information on the structure, organisation and effectiveness of the Greek police and other law enforcement bodies. Please include information on bodies or organisations with responsibility to oversee or hold the police accountable. 3. Please provide information on the judicial system in Greece. 4. Is protection available to a Greek resident of Bangladeshi background?

4 November 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Ghana: 1. Are people of the Akims ethnic group in Ghana likely to speak Twi and/or Hausa? 2. Are these languages likely to have different accents according to where a person originates from or has been living? 3. Do any ethnic groups in South Africa speak Twi and/or Hausa? 4. Are police in Ghana likely to assist a homosexual who has been the subject of an assault? Would they investigate the death of a homosexual who died due to injuries received during an assault?

6 October 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide the latest material update on the situation in Zimbabwe for members of the MDC and their treatment by ZANU PF and the police and military. 2. Is there information on any relevant activities of the MDC in Mashonaland West and in particular the district of Chinhoyi? Are you able to confirm what position J. Karemba holds with the MDC in that office? 3. Please provide some background information on the split that occurred in the MDC in 2005 resulting in the MDC-T and the MDC-M? Please provide information on any significant evolution and the present status of the split.

1 October 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Ghana: 1. Where are Gbawe and Atiko Junction? 2. Deleted. 3. Are there any places for socialising for homosexuals in Accra or the above places? 4. If homosexuality is "outlawed" in Ghana, to what extent is it pursued by the authorities? 5. What organisations represent or are involved with the homosexual community? 6. Is police protection available for people who are assaulted even if they are homosexual?

29 September 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information about "kuripa ngozi" (or virgin pledging) - the customary practice of offering a young girl or grown women as compensatory payment in inter-family disputes as well as in the appeasement of avenging deceased spirits. Is it widespread? 2. Is "kuripa ngozi" referred to in Zimbabwe's Domestic Violence Act? Please provide the relevant clauses or section. 3. Is there information that the police do not uphold the laws relating to domestic violence? 4. At what age is a woman considered an adult in Zimbabwe? 5. At what age can a woman marry in Zimbabwe? 6. Deleted. 7. Deleted

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

Egypt: 1. Please provide information on the Kifaya Movement and the treatment of known supporters of this movement in Egypt.

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

Albania: 1. Please provide current information on the extent to which gay men in Albania are at risk of violence or other forms of serious harm. 2. Please provide current information on whether the police provide protection to gay men, and if not, whether the reason for this failure of State protection is the police attitude towards gay men or alternatively a lack of resources. 3. Please provide current information on whether there are areas in Albania where a gay man could relocate to remove the risk of serious harm and/or obtain police protection.

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

Samoa: 1. Are young single women open to problems/risks in Samoa? What are they? 2. Are there any church groups, such as Seven Day Adventists, who provide a community, protection or accommodation for single women? 3. Would it be difficult for single women to obtain employment in Samoa? 4. Are the Police able and willing to protect single women?

18 August 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

India: 1. Please provide an outline of the political situation in Punjab and whether there has been conflict between Congress and BJP members in August 2009. 2. Please check if there is an MP named Harpartap Singh Ajnala, and whether he is in the State or Federal government. 3. Where is Ajnala located in relation to Amritsar? 4. Are the police inclined to target political activists involved in the conflict (if any) in August 2009, because they are controlled extensively by the BJP?

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

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