Document #1129783
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For information on the Democratic Party of Kenya (DP), including its head and branch offices location, its organization chart, its constituencies and its constitution, please see attachments from the party Web site http://www.dp-kenya.org.
Article 3 of the constitution refers to the party membership.
Information on the treatment of DP's ordinary members by Kenyan authorities 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.
Reference
Democratic Party of Kenya. N.d.
"Democratic Party of Kenya." http://www.dp-kenya.org [Accessed 11
Sept. 2001]
Attachment
Democratic Party of Kenya. N.d.
"Democratic Party of Kenya." http://www.dp-kenya.org [Accessed 11
Sept. 2001], p. 64.
Additional Sources Consulted
No response to a 12 September 2001
letter sent to the Democratic Party of Kenya (DP) e-mail address
has been received yet.
Africa Confidential
2000-2001.
Africa Research Bulletin
2000-2001.
Country Reports. 2001.
IRB Database.
Jeune Afrique/L'Intelligent
2000-2001.
Kessing's Records of World
Events 2000-2001.
LEXIS/NEXIS.
Resource Centre country file. Kenya
2000-2001.
Web sites, including:
Amnesty International.
All Affrica.com.
Human Rights Watch.
Immigration &Nationality Directorate
(IND), UK.
ReliefWeb.
Search Engines, including:
Fast.
Google.
Lycos.