Query Responses

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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Malaysia: Update to MYS38913.E of May 2002 on societal and governmental attitudes towards mixed marriages and relationships between Muslim women and non-Muslim men; police protection or legal recourse available to a non-Muslim male who is threatened by family members of his Muslim girlfriend; reports of police discrimination based on the religion of the complainant (2002-2004) 24 June 2004 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Albania: Treatment of members of the Gay Albania Society by the general population and by the authorities; number of members by gender; whether the society issues membership cards, and if so, whether the cards are signed by a party official; description of membership cards; whether the society holds meetings and, if so, in which Albanian cities (2003-2004) 27 January 2004 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Japan: Reports of discrimination against non-Japanese women married to Japanese men, and/or against their mixed-heritage children, and redress available 27 January 2003 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Ukraine/Canada: Ukrainian Lesbian and Gay Association (ULGA) of Toronto including its activities, size, gender composition, languages spoken, accessibility for new immigrants and refugees 27 December 2002 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
United States of America: The time limit to file an asylum claim; status of a December 2000 proposed rule for gender-based claims; requirements to file a gender-based claim; number of claims processed to date; earliest gender-based claims 8 November 2002 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
United States: Whether U.S. asylum law recognizes domestic violence and gender-related persecution as being grounds for asylum as defined in the Geneva Convention 7 November 2000 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Iran: Age at which girls/women are required to wear hijab (hejab); whether young girls (ages 6-7) attending gender segregated schools are required to wear hijab at all times including during sports activities and in hot weather (1999 - September 2000) 21 September 2000 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Korea: Amnesty International document entitled "Women's Rights in South Korea: A Summary Prepared for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women" 21 February 2000 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Republic of Korea: The nature of discrimination against divorced women and their children, and whether there is any state or other recourse available to them 27 January 2000 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Japan: Treatment of single mothers and discrimination of women who have children out of wedlock 26 August 1999 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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