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	Zambia: 1. Please provide background and demographic information on the ethnic composition of Zambia and in particular the Tonga speaking people. Please include where they come from, what is their level of adherence to their traditional beliefs, and what is their relationship and standing within the modern Zambian community. 2. Please provide information on the customs and traditions associated with the death customs of the Tonga speaking people of Zambia. 3. Please advise the status of, the extent of and the legality of polygamy in Zambia. 4. Please provide some background information on Chief Hamusonde's chiefdom in the Monze District of southern Zambia. For example, what is it and how does it relate to other chiefdoms and Zambia generally? 5. Deleted. 6. Deleted. 7. Please provide information on the "cleansing ritual", the "naming ritual" and the "property grabbing" (presumably distribution of deceased estates) in Zambia. 8. Please provide information on local laws regarding "cleansing rituals", including whether the law permits it and whether the law requires condoms be used during such rituals. 9. Please discuss whether there are songs played on radio and television in Zambia regarding "unclean widows" called "Muka-mfwilwa", and how they warn men to stay away from them and how it encourages women to go back to their in-laws and be cleansed. 10. Please provide information on "widowed women in Zambia" as a possible particular social group. 11. Please provide information on the treatment of women and especially widows in the Tonga speaking ethnic group in Zambia. 12. Please provide information on the existence and activities of the women's lobby group in Lusaka. 13. Please provide general information on the effectiveness of police and state protection, and the extent of corruption in Zambia, particularly in respect to the protection of widowed or single women	4 April 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Zambia: Information on treatment of HIV	16 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Query Responses
	Zambie : droits conférés aux titulaires de la carte d'immatriculation des étrangers (Aliens Registration Card); conditions de validité et date d'expiration de la carte	4 March 2008
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
	Zambia: The rights that holders of an Aliens Registration Card have; under what conditions these cards remain valid; date of expiry for the card	4 March 2008
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
	Zambia: Treatment of homosexuals by society and government authorities; (2005 - July 2007)	10 October 2007
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
	Zambie : information sur le traitement réservé aux homosexuels par la société et les autorités gouvernementales (2005-juillet 2007)	10 October 2007
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
	Zambia: Protection, services and legal recourse available to women who are victims of domestic violence (2005-2006)	22 February 2007
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
	Zambie : information sur la protection, les services et les recours à la disposition des femmes victimes de violence conjugale (2005-2006)	22 February 2007
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
	Zambie : information sur les mariages forcés, en particulier au sein du groupe ethnique des Bembas, et sur la protection offerte par l'État; information sur l'existence, chez les Bembas, de pratiques appelées « Ichisungu » et « Ndembo » qui auraient lieu avant un tel mariage, et le cas échéant, la façon dont se déroulent ces pratiques, y compris les personnes qui les dirigent (avril 2005)	13 April 2005
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
	Zambia: Forced marriages, particularly within the Bemba ethnic group, and availability of state protection; existence, among the Bemba people, of the practices called "Ichisungu" and "Ndembo" prior to such a marriage, and if so, information on how those practices are conducted, including the persons who conduct them (April 2005)	13 April 2005
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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