Home Country Guidance: Afghanistan 3. Refugee status 3.16. Individuals involved in blood feuds and land disputes Table of contents Table of Contents List of abbreviations and glossary Introduction Guidance note Common analysis 1. Recent developments 2. Actors of persecution or serious harm 2.1. Taliban de facto authorities and affiliated groups 2.2. Resistance groups opposing the Taliban 2.3. Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) 2.4. Other actors 2.5. Regional actors 3. Refugee status 3.1. Members of the security institutions of the former government 3.2. Public officials and servants of the former government and judicial system 3.3. Persons affiliated with foreign forces 3.4. Individuals perceived as members or supporters of resistance groups 3.5. Individuals with (perceived) affiliation to the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) 3.6. Persons fearing forced recruitment 3.7. Critics of the Taliban including protesters, activists, human rights defenders, and human rights lawyers 3.8. Journalists and other media workers 3.9. Humanitarian workers 3.10. Individuals considered to have committed blasphemy and/or apostasy 3.11. Individuals perceived to have transgressed religious, moral and/or societal norms 3.12. Ethnic and religious minorities 3.12.1. Individuals of Hazara ethnicity and other Shias 3.12.2. Hindus and Sikhs 3.12.3. Salafis 3.12.4. Tajiks 3.12.5. Turkmens and Uzbeks 3.13. Women and girls 3.14. Children 3.14.1. Violence against children 3.14.2. Child recruitment 3.15. Persons with diverse SOGIESC 3.16. Individuals involved in blood feuds and land disputes 3.16.1. Blood feuds 3.16.2. Land disputes 3.17. Persons living with mental health issues 3.18. Afghans who were born in Iran or Pakistan and/or who lived there for a long period of time 4. Subsidiary protection 4.1. Article 15(a) QR: death penalty or execution 4.2. Article 15(b) QR: torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 4.3. Article 15(c) QR: indiscriminate violence in situations of armed conflict 4.3.1. Armed conflict (international or internal) 4.3.2. Qualification of a person as a ‘civilian’ 4.3.3. Indiscriminate violence (a) Security situation in Afghanistan: recent events (b) Assessment of indiscriminate violence per province 4.3.4. Serious and individual threat 4.3.5. Qualification of the harm as a ‘threat to (a civilian’s) life or person’ 4.3.6. Nexus/‘by reason of’ 5. Actors of protection 6. Internal protection alternative 7. Exclusion Annex: COI references Print The contents of this section include: 3.16.1. Blood feuds 3.16.2. Land disputes Book traversal links for Country Guidance: Afghanistan Previous Parent Next
