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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: 1. What is the situation currently for ELF supporters in Ethiopia? 2. Are Eritreans currently subject to societal or systemic discrimination in Ethiopia? 3. Can you provide any information about Karchele prison?

30 April 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please provide information about the Jatt Sikh and Lubana communities in Punjab, particularly which of the two is the higher and lower caste, and the strength of each caste in Punjab society. 2. Please provide information on inter-caste marriages between Jatt and Lubana Sikhs. 3. Please provide information of whether police and authorities are made up of Jatt Sikhs and, if so, what proportion. 4. Please provide information on whether persons from the Lubana community are protected by police and authorities from attacks. 5. Please locate Nurpur Labana. 6. Please provide general information on the city of Amritsar.

13 April 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

China: 1. What are the requirements on Chinese citizens staying temporarily at addresses other than where their household is registered, to obtain permits or certificates for their temporary stay? 2. Is it known when such regulations came into force? 3. Are there reports of a program of checks being carried out concerning temporary residence permits in Gaoshan Town or in Fujian Province generally in September/October 2008?

21 April 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

Indonesia: 1. Please provide an update to 2004 advice on treatment of people with HIV/AIDS in Indonesia by Indonesian authorities, including health authorities, and the community. 2. Is treatment more accessible for residents of Jakarta? 3. Is stigma likely to be less for people living with HIV/AIDS in Jakarta?

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

Zambia: 1. Please provide background and demographic information on the ethnic composition of Zambia and in particular the Tonga speaking people. Please include where they come from, what is their level of adherence to their traditional beliefs, and what is their relationship and standing within the modern Zambian community. 2. Please provide information on the customs and traditions associated with the death customs of the Tonga speaking people of Zambia. 3. Please advise the status of, the extent of and the legality of polygamy in Zambia. 4. Please provide some background information on Chief Hamusonde's chiefdom in the Monze District of southern Zambia. For example, what is it and how does it relate to other chiefdoms and Zambia generally? 5. Deleted. 6. Deleted. 7. Please provide information on the "cleansing ritual", the "naming ritual" and the "property grabbing" (presumably distribution of deceased estates) in Zambia. 8. Please provide information on local laws regarding "cleansing rituals", including whether the law permits it and whether the law requires condoms be used during such rituals. 9. Please discuss whether there are songs played on radio and television in Zambia regarding "unclean widows" called "Muka-mfwilwa", and how they warn men to stay away from them and how it encourages women to go back to their in-laws and be cleansed. 10. Please provide information on "widowed women in Zambia" as a possible particular social group. 11. Please provide information on the treatment of women and especially widows in the Tonga speaking ethnic group in Zambia. 12. Please provide information on the existence and activities of the women's lobby group in Lusaka. 13. Please provide general information on the effectiveness of police and state protection, and the extent of corruption in Zambia, particularly in respect to the protection of widowed or single women

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

South Africa: 1. Please provide information on the current availability of treatments for HIV positive persons in South Africa. Please comment on the availability of monitoring/blood tests as well as treatments. 2. Please provide information on discrimination against rural black women in access to medical treatment. 3. Please provide information on societal discrimination of HIV positive persons in South Africa. 4. Please also comment on the availability of screening programs for cervical cancer in South Africa

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

Ethiopia: 1. Please provide information on whether the Amhara people are harmed on the basis of their ethnicity.

2 June 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please give me relevant information about Dera Sacha Sauda and practices followed by its adherents. Please also give me any information about its founder. 2. Is there any information about incidents of social unrest involving Dera Sacha Sauda in May 2007, particularly in the town of Jalandhar? 3. Is there information about clashes between Dera Sacha Sauda and the Sikh Youth Federation? 4. Is there information about the authorities in Punjab failing to protect adherents of Dera Sacha Sauda from attacks or about those authorities taking volunteers of the organisation into custody and torturing them?

28 May 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

China: 1. Are there any reports of soldiers jumping out of helicopters or parachuting out of helicopters into Tiananmen Square in the early morning of 4 June 1989? 2. Are there any reports helicopters throwing down ladders and soldiers climbing back into helicopters in the early morning of 4 June 1989?

7 May 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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