Afghanistan

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• Africans 3
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• Anti-terrorism law 14
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 73
• Armed attacks on camps 19
• Armed forces / Military 159
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• Assyrians 2
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• Border conflict 43
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• Border crossers 6
• Buddhist 22
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• Ceasefire 110
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• Christian 91
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• Communal conflict / Social conflict 48
• Conflict resolution 16
• Conflict situation 23
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• Copts 9
• Corruption 39
• Country of origin information (COI) 4
• Coup d'état 21
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• Criminal justice 2
• Death penalty 93
• Demobilization / Disarmament 8
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• Deportation / Forcible return 19
• Disappeared persons 12
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 20
• Domestic violence 13
• Drug trafficking 7
• Druze 4
• Effective remedy 2
• Election law 2
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• Extrajudicial executions 30
• Extreme poverty 2
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• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 8
• Forced labour 2
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• Forced relocation 1
• Foreign occupation 13
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 25
• Freedom of assembly and association 141
• Freedom of expression 130
• Freedom of information 88
• Freedom of movement 2
• Freedom of religion 46
• Freedom of speech 38
• Fulani 8
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 2
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Generalized violence 4
• Genocide 2
• Good governance 27
• HIV and AIDS 5
• Han 1
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• Hindu 12
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• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 9
• Human rights activists 73
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 20
• Humanitarian assistance 27
• IDP camps 8
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigrants 7
• Immigration law 1
• Immunity 2
• Impunity 4
• Independence of judiciary 4
• Indigenous persons 4
• Internal armed conflict 185
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 44
• International armed conflict 3
• International courts and tribunals 15
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• Jehovah's Witness 4
• Jew 2
• Kachin 6
• Kurd 89
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 10
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 67
• Maronite 2
• Migrant rights 4
• Migrants 37
• Military courts 9
• Military law 2
• Military operations 125
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 13
• Muslim 137
• National security / Public order 6
• Nepalis 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 7
• Nuer 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 4
• Opposition 103
• Palestinian 61
• Passports 5
• Peace agreements 87
• Peace process 26
• Peacekeeping 67
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 8
• Persecution based on political opinion 113
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 51
• Police 93
• Political groups 3
• Political parties 80
• Political situation 275
• Polygamy 3
• Pre-trial detention 6
• Prison or detention conditions 10
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 49
• Protestant 3
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 158
• Public health 14
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 3
• Reconciliation 6
• Referendum 31
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 40
• Refugee seamen 2
• Refugees 119
• Religious discrimination 31
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 56
• Returnees 3
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 10
• Right to justice 2
• Right to self-determination 6
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 20
• Roma 8
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 7
• Safe country of origin 14
• Salafi 10
• Sanctions 9
• Secondary movement 4
• Security forces 123
• Security situation 320
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 18
• Shabak 2
• Shan 2
• Sharia law 3
• Shia 73
• Sindhis 1
• Smuggling of persons 2
• Social group discrimination 4
• Social group persecution 3
• Somalis 2
• State of emergency 37
• State protection 1
• Sufi 4
• Sunni 38
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
• Tajik 2
• Tamil 11
• Tatars 4
• Terrorism 292
• Tibetan 22
• Tiv 2
• Torture 6
• Trafficking in persons 6
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 2
• Tuareg 7
• Turkmen 4
• Uighur 51
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Visas 10
• Voluntary repatriation 8
• War crimes 34
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 20
• Women-at-risk 24
• Yazīdī 12

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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