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Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) is Canada's largest independent administrative tribunal, responsible for making well-reasoned decisions on immigration and refugee matters efficiently, fairly and in accordance with the law. It consists of three divisions: the Refugee Protection Division; the Immigration Division; and the Immigration Appeal Division. The Refugee Protection Division decides claims for refugee protection made by people already in Canada. Website: www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/
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Decision TA4-10802 & TA4-10803 (Persuasive Decision, In Private)

Date of hearing (in private): 4 February 2005.

"Persuasive Decisions" are decisions that have been identified as being of persuasive value in developing the jurisprudence of the Board. They are decisions that decision-makers are encouraged to rely upon in the interests of consistency and collegiality.

24 February 2005 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity - Social group persecution | Countries: Canada - Mexico

Nigeria: Ijebu-Igbo community, including the names of the Orimolusi (king) for the last ten years, succession practices for the Ifa chief priest within the Ijebu-Igbo community, including the names of the Ifa chief priests for the last ten years (1980-2004)

18 November 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Pakistan: The Urban Democratic Front (UDF) and its treatment by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), religious extremists and the government; whether the UDF participated in the October 2002 elections, including the names of candidates and election results; whether there is state protection and an internal flight alternative for UDF members and activists within the country (1997-April 2004)

20 April 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Tanzania: The availability of an internal flight alternative for unwed Muslim mothers

9 January 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Venezuela: How Venezuelan authorities address Colombian FARC guerrilla activity in Venezuela; role of the Direccion de Investigaciones de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevencion (DISIP) and the Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas y Criminalisticas Policiales (CICP) in addressing FARC activity in Venezuela; state protection and internal flight alternative available to individuals who face harassment from FARC (2001-2003)

20 October 2003 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Pakistan: Treatment of Mohajirs (Urdu-speaking Muslims who fled to Pakistan from India following the 1947 partition of the sub-continent) by the general population, particularly in Lahore and Islamabad; whether there is an internal flight alternative for Mohajirs in Pakistan, aside from Karachi (1998-August 2003)

2 September 2003 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Croatia: Update to HRV32095.E of 21 September 1999 on the current treatment of ethnic Serbs by government authorities and other groups; state protection; internal flight alternatives

25 August 2003 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Mali: Update to MLI41213.F of 18 March 2003 and to MLI40537.F of 30 January 2003 on the situation of children in Mali, particularly the forced labour of children; available state protection; government structures or organizations that help children who are victims of forced labour; internal flight alternative; whether violence toward children is commonplace

14 May 2003 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Turkey: Treatment by Turkish authorities of Kurds who assert their Kurdish identity as opposed to those who define themselves as Turkish only; how the lifting of the state of emergency in southeastern Turkey has impacted on the treatment of Kurds; how the adoption of the August 2002 reform package has impacted on the treatment of Kurds; whether there is an internal flight alternative in western Turkey (particularly in Ankara and Istanbul) for Kurds

8 May 2003 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Decision VA1-02828, VA1-02826, VA1-02827 and VA1-02829

27 February 2003 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Exclusion clauses - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on nationality - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Right to education - Safe third country - State protection | Countries: Canada

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