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China: 1. What is the status of Han Chinese living in Urumqi? Is there information in relation to whether a Han Chinese family would receive protection from the authorities if harassed by Uighurs? 2. Is it possible for a Han Chinese person with a Hukou registered in XUAR to return there at the present time? 3. Is there information regarding discrimination against Han Chinese from XUAR in other parts of China? 4. If a husband's Hukou is registered in Fujian province, are his Han Chinese wife from XUAR and her baby (born in Australia) entitled to live there? 5. Would a couple now be considered to be legally married in China, if their overseas marriage occurred when they were both 20 (below the marriageable age in China) and their child was born when they were 21? What ramifications might this have on the wife's ability to register a Hukou in the husband's province (Fujian)?

21 April 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Sri Lanka: Situation in northern Sri Lanka, including information on internally displaced persons (IDPs), emergency regulations, mobility rights, security checks and treatment of women (December 2009 - January 2011)

22 February 2011 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Kenya: Information on the legal status of lesbians in Kenya. Information on the current situation and treatment of lesbians in Kenya? What is the government's and society's attitude in relation to this issue? Are lesbians being discriminated against due to their sexual orientation? What NGOs are available to support lesbians in Kenya? Is there free movement within Kenya; would a lesbian experience any legal or practical problems moving within the country? Would police provide protection / services to a woman experiencing problems due to her being a lesbian?

19 January 2011 | Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information on a large MDC rally in Chitungwiza in January or June 2008, in which 50 ZANU-PF men came and reportedly forced people into a truck. 2. Please comment on the ease with which a person with an MDC profile and who had been charged with an offence for MDC involvement would be able to obtain visas to travel freely between Zimbabwe and South Africa. 3. Please comment on whether a person who was the subject of a warrant would experience problems departing Zimbabwe. 4. Please comment on any information relating to MDC sponsorship of students to study abroad, including payment of their tuition fees. 5. Please provide information in relation to the 2008 elections, including the timing and outcomes. Please also provide information on the 2008 MDC candidates in the areas near Westgate, Harare, and Borrowdale, Harare.

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

India: 1. What is the MIM and what is its relationship to the Muslim Youth Association and the Muslim Youth League. 2. Can it be confirmed that at any time in the 1990s, the President of either MIM or the Muslim League Association was Mr Akbaruddin Owas or that the treasurer was Mohammed Osman. Is it possible to confirm that Mohammed Osman was shot dead by police in 1997? 3. Are there any reports of violent clashes in July 2001 between the MiM and Hindu nationalist groups? 4. What is the current position in relation to conflict between Muslims and Hindus in Hyderabad? 5. Is there effective state protection for Muslims in Hyderabad? 6. Is there effective state protection for Muslims elsewhere in India? 7. Are there any laws or other known factors which would prevent a Muslim person from Hyderabad relocating to another part of India to seek state protection? 8. Deleted. 9. Please provide information on the background of the BJP and discuss the likelihood of the organisation targeting or harming political or religious opponents in Hyderabad or other parts of India?

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

China: Information on the treatment of the Uighur people in China. Reports relating to discrimination against this ethnic group. Reports relating to the treatment of people who actively campaign for the rights of the Uighur people

7 October 2010 | Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre | Document type: Query Responses

Myanmar: 1. Please comment on the treatment of ethnic Indians. Are ethnic Indians or Anglo-Indians targeted in Burma? 2. Are ethnic Indians or Anglo-Indians denied full citizenship rights in Burma? Do they face restrictions on their travel within Burma and on their career opportunities? 3. Are Anglo-Burmese targeted? 4. Are Anglo-Burmese denied full citizenship rights in Burma? Do they face restrictions to travel within Burma or career opportunities? 5. Are Christians, including Catholics, targeted in Burma? 6. Please provide information on the kidnapping of people by the army who then force them into slave labour, especially those who are Christian, or of Indian and Anglo-Burmese descent. 7. Is Thanpyuzat located in an 'insurgent area' in Burma? 8. Are those who return to Burma from Western countries targeted?

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

Bangladesh: Documentation required and procedures to be followed by a parent wishing to travel abroad with a minor child in the absence, or without the consent, of the second parent

26 August 2010 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Democratic People's Republic of Korea: 1. Some purported North Koreans state that they have never held a travel document in their hands, and does not know the identity recorded in their passport. If true, this implies that such passengers and their escorts are confident that Immigration officials accept documents that are handled exclusively by their escorts, and that the officials do not engage directly with the passenger. Can the Department indicate whether or not this is usual practice? (The incoming passengers may well be part of tour groups from China.) 2. What do North Korean ID cards look like and in what circumstances must a person carry one? 3. (a) Is there any information on DPRK (truck) driver licences? (b) Is there any information on the age or other requirements to undertake such work? 4. Do young men undertake military training or camps whilst at school? Were there any periods where famine required them in practice to work instead on farms? 5. What foreign languages are taught in DPRK schools? (Chinese?) 6. (a) Where is Sunghu-Dong? (b) Please. provide, if available, a map and details of landmarks, etc. for Hyesan City. (c) Is there cross-border traffic between Hyesan and the neighbouring PRC localities? 7. Is there any information on DPRK medical exemptions to military service? 8. Do reports indicate or suggest the extent to which North Koreans in China adopt false names or take other measures to avoid PRC authorities?

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

Kyrgyzstan: Information on ethnic violence in Osh in June 2010 including: what sparked the violence; treatment of Uzbeks by state and non-state agents; whether police protection is available; whether freedom of movement is available for Uzbeks; information on NGOs who work with the Uzbeks; information on Uzbek traditions, culture, society and history

25 June 2010 | Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre | Document type: Query Responses

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