Document #1085539
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Although information specific to persons
who defect from merchant ships while abroad could not be found
among the sources currently available to the DIRB, the two attached
Responses add to the information provided in the above-mentioned
Responses and might be of interest. These Responses deal with
illegal exit and related issues, and possible reprisals for
dissident or counterrevolutionary activity while abroad.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB 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.
Documentation, Information and
Research Branch, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa. 10 May
1994. Response to Information Request CUB17171.E.
. 3 May 1994. Respone to Information
Request CUB17241.E.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices. Yearly. U.S. Department of State. Washington: U.S.
Government Printing Office.
Critique: Review of the Department of
State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Yearly. New
York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
Human Rights Watch. Yearly. Human
Rights Watch World Report. New York: Human Rights Watch.
Amnesty International. Yearly.
Amnesty International Report. New York: Amnesty
International.
Immigration and Nationality: Law and
Practice [London]. Quarterly. Tolley Publishing Company.
Index on Censorship [London].
Monthly. Writers and Scholars International Ltd.
News from Americas Watch [New
York]. Monthly.
Latin America Press [Lima].
Weekly.
Latin American Weekly Report
[London]. Weekly.
Latin American Regional Reports:
Central America & the Caribbean [London]. Monthly.
NACLA Report on the Americas.
Monthly.
Problèmes d'Amérique
latine. Quarterly.
Material from the Indexed Media
Review (IMR) or country files containing articles and reports
from diverse sources (primarily dailies and periodicals) from the
Weekly Media Review.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) reports. Daily.
Newspapers and periodicals pertaining to
the appropriate region.
On-line searches of news articles.
Radio Martí, Research Section.
Washington, DC.
Human Rights Watch/Americas. Washington,
DC.
Cuban Committee for Human Rights. Miami,
Fla.
Note on contacting foreign diplomatic representatives in
Canada:
Embassies and high commissions are not usually called for
security-related questions such as location of military bases or
the functioning of secret services. Ability to obtain information
from diplomatic representatives depends on availability of
information and cooperation from individual countries.
Note on oral sources:
Oral sources are usually contacted when documentary sources have
been exhausted. However, oral sources must agree to be quoted in a
publicly available Response to Information Request. If they
refuse, the Response will read "no information currently
available." Contacting oral sources is also subject to time
constraints; for example, there are periods of the year when
academics are unavailable.
Note:
This list is not exhaustive. Country-specific books available in the Resource Centre are not included.