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UNHCR Guidance Note on the International Protection Needs of People Fleeing Afghanistan
February 2022 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country/Situation Specific Position Papers |
A.A. v. Sweden
20 January 2022 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Christian - Deportation / Forcible return - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: Afghanistan - Iran, Islamic Republic of - Sweden |
Z.H. v. Sweden
6 September 2021 | Judicial Body: UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Mental health | Countries: Afghanistan - Sweden |
B.B. v. Sweden (Communication No. 3069/2015)
The Committee considered that the State party failed to adequately assess the author’s real, personal and foreseeable risk of returning to Afghanistan, in particular taking into account his father’s alleged threats of revenge and his trauma as a result of parental abuse. Accordingly, the Committee considers that the State party failed to give due consideration to the consequences of the author’s personal situation in Afghanistan and concludes that his removal to Afghanistan by the State party would constitute a violation of articles 6 and 7 of the Covenant. 30 April 2021 | Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Human rights law | Countries: Afghanistan - Sweden |
A.B.H. v. Denmark
In such circumstances, the Committee considers that the Refugee Appeals Board failed to adequately assess the author’s real, personal and foreseeable risk if he were returned to Afghanistan, which is based not solely on his profile as a former employee of the international forces but also on the risk of future ill-treatment by the Taliban which reasonably follows from his individual circumstances including his past ill-treatment in his country of origin. 18 November 2019 | Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) | Document type: Case Law | Legal Instrument: 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) | Topic(s): Combatants / Former combatants - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment | Countries: Afghanistan - Denmark |
Pakistan grants new extension before forced return of Afghan refugees
30 June 2018 | Publisher: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Document type: Country News |
Europe sends Afghans back to danger
4 January 2018 | Publisher: IRIN | Document type: Country News |
Norway: Family at risk of imminent deportation must not be sent back to danger in Afghanistan
31 October 2017 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News |
Afghans dream of stepping out of the shadows with Pakistan ID scheme
21 July 2017 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News |
Information Centre Asylum and Migration Briefing Notes (24 April 2017)
24 April 2017 | Publisher: Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum | Document type: Country News |