Dokument #1025931
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
For information on a demonstration
involving homosexuals in Budapest, please consult the 6 September
1997 Agence France Presse and MTI Hungarian News Agency
attachments. For information on the detention by the police of two
editors of a magazine for homosexuals, please consult the first
paragraph of the second column of the January 1996 ILGA
attachment. For information on the Hungarian parliament passing
legislation that recognizes homosexual relationships, please
consult the 21 May 1996 Associated Press and the 22 May 1996
Reuters attachments.
Additional information on the
above-mentioned topics could not be found among the sources
consulted by the Research Directorate.
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.
Attachments
Agence France Presse (AFP). 6 September
1997. "In First Gay Demo, Hungarian Homosexuals Pay Tribute to
Diana." (NEXIS)
The Associated Press (AP). 21 May 1996.
AM Cycle. "Parliament Recognizes Same-Sex Common-Law
Relationships." (NEXIS)
ILGA Bulletin [Brussels].
January 1996. Issue 1. "Worldwide Persecution of Gay Journalists,"
p. 23.
MTI Hungarian News Agency [Budapest]. 6
September 1997. "Gay Pride Day Celebrated in Budapest." (NEXIS)
Reuters. 22 May 1996. BC Cycle.
"Hungary's Gays Welcome Law on Rights as First Step." (NEXIS)
Additional Sources Consulted
Amnesty International Report.
Yearly.
CSCE Digest [Washington].
Monthly.
Electronic sources: IRB databases,
LEXIS/NEXIS, Internet, REFWORLD (UNHCR database), World News
Connection (WNC).
Human Rights Watch World
Report. Yearly.
News from Helsinki Watch [New
York]. Monthly.
Resource Centre subject file on homosexuals
.
Transition [Prague]. Twice
monthly.
Uncaptive Minds [Washington].
Quarterly.