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El Salvador: 1. Can you provide current information about the street gangs in El Salvador? 2. What efforts have the police and the government made to protect citizens from these threats and violence? 3. Do the gangs operate throughout El Salvador or are there cities other than San Salvador not affected by gang violence?

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

Pakistan: 1. Please provide information on the general level of crime in Faisalabad. 2. To what extent do authorities provide protection against such criminal activity? 3. Please provide information on the situation for older women living alone in Faisalabad (including in relation to their ability to maintain a household and whether there are any reports of such people being targeted for criminal activity). 4. What support or protection is available to older women living alone, particularly in Faisalabad? 5. To what extent has the Taliban been active in Faisalabad? 6. What steps have the Pakistani authorities taken to address such activity?

23 March 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Iraq: 1. Please provide an update on Country Advice IRQ38510 of April 2011. 2. Please provide country information on the treatment in Iraq of members of the Communist Party.

14 February 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 2. Please provide information relating to guerrilla groups active in Granada, Cundinamarca, both now and over the past 10 years. 3. Please provide information in relation to state protection in Colombia in connection with being targeted by the guerrillas, including any information relating to whether state protection is discriminatorily withheld from certain groups. 4. Please provide information relating to internal relocation in Colombia to avoid being targeted by a particular guerrilla group active in one part of Colombia, particularly with respect to FARC and ELN. 5. Please provide information relating to whether wealthy families / successful business operators (and their families) are targeted for harm and/or extortion.

17 January 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Kenya: 1. Is it usual for women to become members of the Mungiki? 2. Are women given positions of responsibility in the Mungiki? 3. What does the initiation ceremony for female members of the Mungiki involve? 4. Is there any information on the way the Mungiki conduct their meetings? 5. Do the Mungiki force women in their thirties to undergo FGM? 6. Are the Mungiki still engaged in violence in Kenya? If yes, whom do they target? 7. Do the Kenyan authorities provide protection to individuals against harm by the Mungiki?

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

Philippines: 1. What is the CAFGU? 2. Do authorities have financial programs to assist the livelihood and reorientation of former rebels? Do they extend to former rebels who live overseas, such as Australia? How long is the program offered for? 3. Does the government have special protection/security programs to ensure the safety and security of former rebels? 4. Is there reporting that the NPA or the Philippine security forces harass or attack 'rebel returnees'? Particularly, are 'rebel returnees' that have not been politically active for a decade targeted? 5. Is there reporting of NPA or security force attacks on former CPP-NPA members that were in non-combatant roles? 6. Is there any country information indicating that blacklists of NPA/former NPA members exist? 7. Deleted. 8. Can you provide some background on Bayan Muna?

29 September 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Iraq: 1. Is there any information indicating that the Badr Brigade is continuing to commit human rights abuses in Iraq? 2. What is the situation in this regard in Babel? 3. What is the situation in this regard in Kut/Wassit? 4. Were there reports of human rights abuses by the Badr Brigade in Babel in around late 2009? 5. What is the situation for children in Babel and Wassit in particular?

15 August 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Ukraine: 1. Please provide a brief history of the UPA, and the attitude of the current government of Ukraine to those with any association with that organisation. 2. Please provide a brief history of the UNA-UNSO, and the attitude of the current government of Ukraine to those with any association with that organisation. 3. What is known of the "Memorial complex in memory of the victims of the occupational regimes "Prison in Lontskogo" in Lviv and Mr Ruslan Zabily? 4. Is UNA-UNSO known to issue Membership cards. If so, what do they look like? 5. Do you have a description of UNA-UNSO flags, badges or other symbols?

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

Turkey: 1. Please advise whether official records of birth and marriage in Turkey are unreliable. 2. What is the current treatment of Kurdish people in Istanbul? In the rest of Turkey? Do they have state protection? 3. Please provide information (including policies) about the HADEP and the DTP. How are members treated by the Turkish government? 4. Are there reports of assaults/rapes by government officers/police against Kurdish women? 5. Information about relocation? Is a Kurdish accent recognisable throughout Turkey?

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

Colombia: 1. Please provide information regarding the human rights/security situation in Colombia generally, particularly in reference to extortion, violence and other threats of harm perpetrated by FARC. 2. Please provide information on groups targeted by FARC for harm/extortion/kidnapping etc. 3. Please provide information on the availability of state protection in Colombia against attacks from FARC. Is there a reasonable level of state protection in Colombia against FARC attacks and would protection be denied to people for a Convention reason? 4. Please provide information relevant to internal relocation to avoid the risk from FARC, including information on which parts of Colombia FARC is most/least active. Please also discuss the relative power/influence/presence of FARC in and around Bogota

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

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