Bahrain: National Union of Bahrain Students or the National Students of Bahrain
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 March 1999 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | BHR31412.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Bahrain: National Union of Bahrain Students or the National Students of Bahrain, 1 March 1999, BHR31412.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6acdd40.html [accessed 19 May 2023] |
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No mention of any activity of the National Union of Bahrain Students (NUBS), or the National Students of Bahrain, could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate, including the Website of the University of Bahrain.
However, according to the 1990 edition of Youth Movements of the World, the National Union of Bahrain Students (NUBS) was a member at that time of the International Union of Students (IUS) and the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), with an address at that time of Posta 34, Box 10, 130 00 Prague 3, Czechoslovakia Federal Republic (1990, 70). Both the 1989 Yearbook on International Communist Affairs and the 1990 edition of Communist and Marxist Parties of the World identify the IUS and the WFDY as "international communist front organizations" (441-448; 471-473). However, neither source identifies the NUBS in any way and the Research Directorate was unable to determine the level of activity of the NUBS, if any, in these organizations.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
References
Communist and Marxist Parties of the World. 1990. 2nd ed. Charles Hobday and Roger East. Chicago: St. James Press.
Yearbook on International Communist Affairs 1989. 1989. Richard F. Starr. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press.
Youth Movements of the World. 1990. William D. Angel. London: Longman Group UK.
Additional Sources Consulted
Keesing's Record of World Events [Cambridge]. 1997.
Middle East International [London]. 1997.
Middle East Report [Washington, DC]. 1997.
The Middle East and North Africa 1998. 1997.
Resource Centre. Bahrain country file. July 1996 - February 1999.
_____. Bahrain: Amnesty International country file. October 1996 - February 1999.
University of Bahrain. [Internet]
Electronic sources: IRB Databases, LEXIS/NEXIS, Internet, REFWORLD, World News Connection (WNC).
