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Title	Costa Rica: An organization named Juventud Activa Organizada; mistreatment of members of the Partido Pueblo Unido or Partido Independiente, by members of other political parties, particularly the Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (2000-2003)
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Costa Rica
Publication Date	18 September 2003
Citation / Document Symbol	CRI41981.E
Reference	2
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Costa Rica: An organization named Juventud Activa Organizada; mistreatment of members of the Partido Pueblo Unido or Partido Independiente, by members of other political parties, particularly the Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (2000-2003) , 18 September 2003, CRI41981.E , available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/403dd1ee14.html [accessed 28 May 2012]
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Costa Rica: An organization named Juventud Activa Organizada; mistreatment of members of the Partido Pueblo Unido or Partido Independiente, by members of other political parties, particularly the Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (2000-2003)

References to an organization named Juventud Activa Organizada could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate. Information on mistreatment of members of the Partido Pueblo Unido or Partido Independiente by members of other political parties, or information on interparty political violence for the period 2000-2003 beyond that provided in CRI40269.E of 28 October 2002 and earlier Responses, 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 sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Sources Consulted

Central America Report [Guatemala]. 2000-2003

Costa Rica. Defensoría de los Habitantes. Informe Anual 2001-2002

Country Reports 2000-2002. 2001-2003

Dialog

IRB databases

La Nación [San Jose]. Searchable archives, 2000-2003

La Prensa [Tegucigalpa]

LANIC/University of Texas

Latin American Regional Reports: Central America & the Caribbean [London]. 2000-2003

Latinamerica Press [Lima]. 2000-2003

Political Database of the Americas

U.S. Department of State

Topics: Political parties,

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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