Title	UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan
Publisher	UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Publication Date	19 April 2016
Country	Afghanistan
Topics	Blood feuds | Child labour | Child prostitution | Children-at-risk | Exclusion clauses | Gender-based persecution | Harmful traditional practices | Hazara | Hindu | Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) | Internally displaced persons (IDPs) | Kuchi | Non-state agents of persecution | Persecution based on political opinion | Persecution of family members | Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity | Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Return conditions | Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) | Sharia law | Shia | Sikh | Social group persecution | Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking | Voluntary repatriation | Women-at-risk
Citation / Document Symbol	HCR/EG/AFG/16/02
Other Languages / Attachments	Azerbaijani | French | German | Russian | Turkish
Cite as	UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan, 19 April 2016, HCR/EG/AFG/16/02, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/570f96564.html [accessed 18 May 2023]
Comments	The Guidelines supersede and replace the August 2013 Afghanistan Eligibility Guidelines.