Afghanistan

• Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) 9
• Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) 1
• Amnesty International 26
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 54
• European Union: European Asylum Support Office (EASO) 1
• Freedom House 32
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• Human Rights Watch 22
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 10
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• Minority Rights Group International 9
• Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 8
• Reporters Without Borders 8
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• UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 5
• UN Development Programme (UNDP) 1
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• UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1
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• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 18
• United States Department of Labor 12
• United States Department of State 81

• Abduction 24
• Access to procedures 5
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• Airports 3
• Anti-terrorism law 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 29
• Armed forces / Military 23
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 52
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 15
• Baha'i 11
• Border controls 1
• Buddhist 8
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Carrier sanctions 2
• Child labour 21
• Child prostitution 10
• Child soldiers 21
• Children's rights 45
• Children-at-risk 26
• Chin 1
• Christian 12
• Civil and political rights 1
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 9
• Copts 1
• Corruption 18
• Crime prevention 1
• Criminal justice 8
• Dalit 1
• Death penalty 22
• Demobilization / Disarmament 7
• Democracy 3
• Deportation / Forcible return 9
• Disappeared persons 16
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 23
• Domestic violence 3
• Drug trafficking 6
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 21
• Equality before the law 1
• Expedited procedures 1
• Expulsion 2
• Extradition 2
• Extrajudicial executions 34
• Falun Gong 1
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
• Forced labour 33
• Forced marriage 13
• Forced relocation 1
• Foreign occupation 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 34
• Freedom of assembly and association 31
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 127
• Freedom of information 32
• Freedom of movement 30
• Freedom of religion 64
• Freedom of speech 19
• Gender discrimination 26
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Generalized violence 3
• Good governance 7
• Group / Prima facie determination 3
• HIV and AIDS 3
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Hazara 8
• Hindu 11
• Honour killings 2
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 8
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• Human rights activists 15
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 45
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights monitors 11
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• Illegal entry 4
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigration Detention 9
• Immunity 1
• Impunity 17
• Independence of judiciary 6
• Indigenous persons 3
• Integration 1
• Internal armed conflict 19
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 25
• International armed conflict 1
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 8
• International protection 2
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Ismaili 6
• Jew 8
• Kuchi 3
• Kurd 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 8
• Legal representation / Legal aid 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 9
• Lhotshampas 1
• Livelihoods 1
• Location of camps 1
• Mandate status 1
• Maternal and child health care 3
• Migrants 2
• Military operations 9
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 20
• Minority rights 6
• Muslim 17
• Nomads 2
• Non-state agents of persecution 2
• Older persons 1
• Opposition 1
• Pashtun 4
• Passports 1
• Peace process 1
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• Pentecostal 1
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• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
• Persons with disabilities 15
• Police 13
• Political parties 2
• Political situation 10
• Pre-trial detention 9
• Prison or detention conditions 21
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 7
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 27
• Public health 8
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
• Reception 1
• Reconciliation 2
• Refoulement 3
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 6
• Refugee identity documents 5
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 4
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 5
• Refugees 26
• Registration 4
• Reintegration 3
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 31
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 17
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 4
• Returnees 3
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 21
• Right to employment 6
• Right to food 5
• Right to health 7
• Right to justice 2
• Right to self-determination 2
• Roma 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 18
• SGBV 42
• Safe third country 2
• Sale of children 3
• Sanctions 2
• Security forces 19
• Security situation 33
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Sharia law 1
• Shia 21
• Sikh 11
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• Statelessness 2
• Sufi 5
• Sunni 11
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
• Tajik 3
• Tamil 2
• Temporary protection 3
• Terrorism 46
• Threats / Intimidation 4
• Tibetan 2
• Torture 17
• Trafficking in persons 43
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 8
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Urban refugees 4
• Uzbek 3
• Visas 2
• Voluntary repatriation 4
• War crimes 4
• Women's rights 51
• Women-at-risk 18
• Work permits 7
• Zomi (Chin) 1

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• Afghan Civil Society Forum (ACSF)
• Afghan Islamic Press News Agency
• Afghan NGOs Coordination Bureau
• Afghan Online Press
• Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA)
• Afghanistan Justice Project
• Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)
• Afghanistan Online
• Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
• Agency Coordinating Body For Afghan Relief
• Amnesty International - Afghanistan
• BBC Pashto
• BBC Persian - Afghanistan
• Bakhtar News Agency
• British and Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group (BAAG)
• EurasiaNet - Afghanistan
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Afghanistan
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Afghanistan
• Institute for Afghan Studies
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Afghanistan
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Afghanistan
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Afghanistan
• International Council on Security and Development (ICOS)
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Afghanistan
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Afghanistan
• KabulPress.org
• Ministry of Justice, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
• Ministry of Women's Affairs, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
• NATO in Afghanistan
• New York Times - Afghanistan News
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Afghanistan
• Pajhwok Afghan News
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - Afghanistan
• ReliefWeb - Afghanistan
• The Century Foundation - Afghanistan and Its Region
• UNHCR - Afghanistan
• United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Afghanistan
• United Nations News Centre - News Focus: Afghanistan
• United States Department of State - Afghanistan
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Afghanistan
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Afghanistan