Afghanistan

• Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) 11
• Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) 1
• Amnesty International 30
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 66
• European Union: European Asylum Support Office (EASO) 1
• Freedom House 37
• Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack 2
• Human Rights Watch 25
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 12
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) 2
• Minority Rights Group International 10
• Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 11
• Reporters Without Borders 9
• Save the Children 1
• Switzerland: State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) 1
• UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 7
• UN Development Programme (UNDP) 1
• UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) 1
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 9
• UN Human Rights Council 2
• UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1
• UN Secretary-General (UNSG) 1
• UN World Food Programme (WFP) 1
• United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 14
• United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 16
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 18
• United States Department of Labor 16
• United States Department of State 125

• Abduction 25
• Access to procedures 5
• Access to water 4
• Airports 3
• Anti-terrorism law 2
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 33
• Armed forces / Military 26
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 94
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 15
• Baha'i 14
• Border controls 1
• Buddhist 9
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Carrier sanctions 2
• Child labour 28
• Child prostitution 12
• Child soldiers 26
• Children's rights 55
• Children-at-risk 31
• Chin 1
• Christian 15
• Civil and political rights 1
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Community development 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 12
• Copts 1
• Corruption 21
• Crime prevention 1
• Criminal justice 8
• Dalit 1
• Death penalty 26
• Demobilization / Disarmament 7
• Democracy 6
• Deportation / Forcible return 9
• Disappeared persons 16
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 25
• Domestic violence 6
• Drug trafficking 7
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 25
• Emigrants 1
• Equality before the law 1
• Expedited procedures 1
• Expulsion 2
• Extradition 2
• Extrajudicial executions 37
• Falun Gong 1
• Family reunification 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 3
• Forced labour 38
• Forced marriage 16
• Forced relocation 1
• Foreign occupation 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 35
• Freedom of assembly and association 37
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 153
• Freedom of information 42
• Freedom of movement 33
• Freedom of religion 74
• Freedom of speech 22
• Gender discrimination 29
• Gender-based persecution 4
• Generalized violence 4
• Good governance 7
• Group / Prima facie determination 3
• HIV and AIDS 5
• Harmful traditional practices 3
• Hazara 11
• Hindu 14
• Honour killings 3
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 8
• Human Rights Council 2
• Human rights activists 18
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 47
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights monitors 12
• Humanitarian assistance 5
• Illegal entry 4
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigration Detention 9
• Immunity 1
• Impunity 21
• Independence of judiciary 9
• Indigenous persons 4
• Integration 1
• Internal armed conflict 28
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 37
• International armed conflict 1
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 9
• International protection 2
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Ismaili 9
• Jew 11
• Kuchi 4
• Kurd 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 12
• Legal representation / Legal aid 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 11
• Lhotshampas 1
• Livelihoods 1
• Location of camps 1
• Mandate status 1
• Maternal and child health care 3
• Migrants 4
• Military operations 9
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 22
• Minority rights 6
• Muslim 21
• National security / Public order 1
• Nomads 2
• Non-state agents of persecution 2
• Older persons 1
• Opposition 1
• Pashtun 4
• Passports 1
• Peace process 1
• Peacekeeping 4
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on nationality 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 4
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 7
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
• Persons with disabilities 19
• Police 14
• Political parties 4
• Political situation 10
• Pre-trial detention 11
• Prison or detention conditions 26
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 34
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
• 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 32
• Registration 4
• Reintegration 3
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 37
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 19
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 4
• Returnees 5
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 24
• Right to employment 6
• Right to food 5
• Right to health 7
• Right to justice 2
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to self-determination 2
• Roma 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 23
• Safe third country 2
• Sale of children 3
• Sanctions 2
• Security forces 25
• Security situation 37
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 50
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Sharia law 1
• Shia 27
• Sikh 15
• Smuggling of persons 2
• Social group discrimination 13
• State protection 1
• Statelessness 2
• Sufi 5
• Sunni 14
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Tajik 4
• Tamil 2
• Temporary protection 3
• Terrorism 87
• Threats / Intimidation 8
• Tibetan 2
• Torture 26
• Trafficking in persons 48
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 9
• Turkmen 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
• Urban refugees 4
• Uzbek 4
• Visas 2
• Voluntary repatriation 5
• War crimes 5
• Women's rights 63
• Women-at-risk 23
• 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