Common analysis

This part of the country guidance includes the common analysis. The contents of this part include:

• 1. Recent developments
• 2. Actors of persecution and 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) QD: death penalty or execution
  • 4.2. Article 15(b) QD: torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • 4.3. Article 15(c) QD: 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
    • 4.3.4. Serious and individual threat
    • 4.3.5. Qualification of the harm as ‘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