Afghanistan

• Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) 1
• Amnesty International 95
• Article 19 5
• Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 1
• Committee to Protect Journalists 45
• Consonant (formerly Asylum Aid) 37
• EurasiaNet 222
• Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 345
• Human Rights Watch 134
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting 689
• Inter-Parliamentary Union 1
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 18
• International Crisis Group (ICG) 5
• International Federation for Human Rights 42
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 2
• IRIN 318
• Jamestown Foundation 56
• Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 3
• Overseas Development Institute (ODI) 1
• Radio Free Asia 1
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2,433
• Reporters Without Borders 106
• UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 14
• UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) 2
• UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) 1
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 74
• UN News Service 470
• UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 2
• UN Security Council 1
• United States Congressional Research Service 1

• Abduction 180
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Access to procedures 1
• Access to water 4
• Adoption 1
• Africans 3
• Age discrimination 2
• Ahmadis 7
• Airports 6
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 6
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 7
• Anti-terrorism law 19
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 91
• Armed attacks on camps 21
• Armed forces / Military 548
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1,023
• Arrival 2
• Assyrians 2
• Asylum policy 5
• Asylum-migration nexus 10
• Asylum-seekers 94
• Atheist / Agnostic 1
• Bail 1
• Baluchis 1
• Bedoon 2
• Border conflict 95
• Border controls 27
• Border crossers 22
• Buddhist 23
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 6
• Camp management 3
• Catholic 2
• Ceasefire 116
• Chechen 11
• Child labour 18
• Child prostitution 4
• Child soldiers 32
• Children's rights 89
• Children-at-risk 126
• Christian 94
• Civil and political rights 19
• Civil rights legislation 1
• Civil war 49
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 3
• Combatants / Former combatants 40
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 65
• Community development 3
• Complementary forms of protection 1
• Conflict prevention 2
• Conflict resolution 47
• Conflict situation 102
• Contemporary forms of slavery 7
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
• Convention refugee 1
• Copts 9
• Corruption 121
• Country of origin information (COI) 3
• Coup d'état 22
• Credibility assessment 1
• Crimean Tatars 4
• Crimes against humanity 14
• Criminal justice 33
• Customary law 2
• Death in custody 3
• Death penalty 142
• Demobilization / Disarmament 23
• Democracy 18
• Deportation / Forcible return 58
• Disappeared persons 20
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 24
• Domestic violence 55
• Drug trafficking 60
• Druze 4
• Economic, social and cultural rights 18
• Effective remedy 18
• Election law 11
• Elections 576
• Embargo 2
• Entry / Exit 2
• Equal opportunities 1
• Ethiopians 4
• Evacuation 5
• Exiles 8
• Expulsion 8
• Extradition 6
• Extrajudicial executions 78
• Extreme poverty 12
• Falun Gong 2
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 13
• Flight by land, air or sea 8
• Forced labour 5
• Forced marriage 55
• Forced relocation 1
• Foreign occupation 15
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 56
• Freedom of assembly and association 151
• Freedom of conscience 2
• Freedom of expression 418
• Freedom of information 249
• Freedom of movement 9
• Freedom of religion 77
• Freedom of speech 169
• Fulani 8
• Gang related violence 5
• Gender discrimination 54
• Gender mainstreaming 5
• Gender-based persecution 20
• Generalized violence 9
• Genocide 2
• Germans 1
• Global Consultations on international protection 1
• Good governance 128
• Good offices 2
• HIV and AIDS 8
• Han 1
• Harmful traditional practices 28
• Hazara 21
• Hijacking 1
• Hindu 21
• Honour killings 28
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 26
• Human rights activists 85
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 77
• Human rights monitors 20
• Humanitarian assistance 145
• Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 2
• IDP camps 12
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 17
• Immigrants 14
• Immigration Detention 8
• Immigration law 1
• Immunity 10
• Impunity 36
• Income-generating projects 1
• Independence of judiciary 8
• Indigenous persons 5
• Integration 7
• Internal armed conflict 327
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 137
• International armed conflict 45
• International courts and tribunals 20
• International criminal law 3
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 25
• Involuntary repatriation 6
• Jehovah's Witness 4
• Jew 2
• Juvenile justice system 4
• Kachin 6
• Kuchi 4
• Kurd 89
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 57
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 79
• Livelihoods 22
• Maronite 2
• Mass exodus 1
• Maternal and child health care 18
• Mental health 5
• Migrant rights 9
• Migrants 127
• Military courts 10
• Military law 3
• Military operations 367
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 24
• Minorities 8
• Minority rights 2
• Muslim 159
• National security / Public order 18
• Nepalis 1
• Nomads 3
• Non-state agents of persecution 15
• Nuer 2
• Older persons 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 5
• Opposition 120
• Orderly return 4
• Palestinian 61
• Panjshiris 1
• Pashtun 18
• Passports 7
• Peace agreements 99
• Peace process 145
• Peacekeeping 80
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 29
• Persecution based on political opinion 119
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 53
• Persons not in need of international protection 1
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 4
• Persons with disabilities 8
• Physical harm 2
• Police 284
• Political groups 22
• Political parties 118
• Political situation 560
• Polygamy 3
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Pre-trial detention 10
• Prison or detention conditions 54
• Prisoners of war 3
• Property restitution 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 3
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 295
• Protestant 3
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 188
• Public health 46
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 4
• Reception 19
• Reconciliation 37
• Referendum 29
• Refoulement 2
• Refugee / Asylum law 3
• Refugee camps 45
• Refugee identity documents 4
• Refugee seamen 16
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugees 357
• Registration 13
• Reintegration 13
• Rejected asylum-seekers 4
• Rejection at border 7
• Religious discrimination 41
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 67
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 5
• Resettlement 10
• Residence permits / Residency 7
• Return conditions 37
• Returnees 63
• Right to development 2
• Right to education 78
• Right to employment 9
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 23
• Right to health 38
• Right to justice 24
• Right to liberty and security 6
• Right to life 2
• Right to return 1
• Right to seek asylum 4
• Right to self-determination 7
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 21
• Roma 9
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 34
• Safe country of origin 14
• Safe third country 1
• Salafi 12
• Sale of children 7
• Sanctions 12
• Secondary movement 11
• Security forces 231
• Security situation 840
• Serious non-political crime 2
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 104
• Sexual and reproductive rights 7
• Shabak 2
• Shan 2
• Sharia law 10
• Shia 108
• Sikh 12
• Sindhis 1
• Small arms 8
• Smuggling of persons 12
• Social group discrimination 8
• Social group persecution 3
• Somalis 2
• Spontaneous return 2
• Standard of proof 1
• State of emergency 37
• State protection 5
• Statelessness 2
• Sufi 4
• Sunni 41
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
• Tajik 7
• Tamil 11
• Tatars 4
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 889
• Threats / Intimidation 8
• Tibetan 22
• Tiv 2
• Torture 16
• Trafficking in persons 29
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 1
• Transit 6
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 9
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
• Tuareg 7
• Turkmen 9
• Uighur 54
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 21
• Urban refugees 3
• Uzbek 6
• Visas 12
• Voluntary repatriation 32
• War crimes 71
• Witchcraft 4
• Witnesses 1
• Women's rights 322
• Women-at-risk 111
• Yazīdī 12
• Zoroastrian 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