Document #1314161
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For information on the treatment of people
who are dark-skinned or labelled "blacks," please consult Responses
to Information Requests RUS20220.E of 31 March 1995 and RUS19743.E
of 16 February 1995, and the following attachments: Human Rights
Watch/Helsinki of September 1995 and Yezhednevnaya Gazeta of 2-8
November 1995. Please consult page 53 of the latter attachment for
information on the situation of "black" children. For information
on mixed marriages and on the situation of African-Russian
children, please consult the October 1994 New African
attachment.
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.
Attachments
Human Rights Watch/Helsinki. September
1995. Vol. 17, No. 12. Russia: Crime or Simply Punishment? Racist
Attacks by Moscow Law Enforcement. New York: Human Rights Watch,
pp. 1-8, 12-30.
New African [London]. October 1994.
Charles Quist Adade. "Plight of Africa's Russian Children," pp. 5,
18-19.
Yezhednevnaya Gazeta [Moscow, in
Russian]. 2-8 November 1995. Zoya Yeroshok. "Police Abuses of
Ethnic Minorities Viewed." (FBIS-SOV-95-235-S 7 Dec. 1995, pp.
49-54)