Title	UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan
Publisher	UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Publication Date	July 2009
Country	Afghanistan
Topics	Asylum policy | Asylum-seekers | Child labour | Children's rights | Complementary forms of protection | Domestic violence | Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment | Gender-based persecution | Human rights and fundamental freedoms | International protection | Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) | Non-refoulement | Persecution based on political opinion | Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity | Refugees | Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Returnees | Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) | Sexual and reproductive rights | Social group persecution | Transgression of social / cultural norms | Women's rights | Women-at-risk
Citation / Document Symbol	Rev.
Other Languages / Attachments	Greek | Russian | Spanish
Cite as	UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan, July 2009, Rev., available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4a6477ef2.html [accessed 17 May 2023]
Comments	Superseded and replaced by the UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan (17 December 2010). The Guidelines originally superseded and replaced the UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Afghan Asylum-Seekers (31 December 2007) and the Afghanistan Security Update Relating to Complementary Forms of Protection (6 October 2008).