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AFGHANISTAN
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Title:
Afghanistan: Country Kit
Source:
Doctors Without Borders
Date of Document:
12 January 2016
Accessed Date:
20 February 2017
Title:
Présentation de l'Afghanistan
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
28 September 2021
Accessed Date:
26 January 2023
Title:
Ethnic Groups of Afghanistan (detailed)
Source:
Gulf/2000 Project
Accessed Date:
23 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Source:
L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde
Date of Document:
6 January 2024
Accessed Date:
24 January 2024
Title:
Guidance Note on the International Protection Needs of People Fleeing Afghanistan – Update II
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
September 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
“A Disaster for the Foreseeable Future”: Afghanistan's Healthcare Crisis
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
12 February 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Overview of recent developments and key players in Afghanistan
Source:
Austrian Red Cross. Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation.
Date of Document:
July 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan: Socio-Economic Survey 2025
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
24 October 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
21 January 2026
Accessed Date:
23 January 2026
Title:
Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan. Afghanistan.
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Date of Document:
December 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan: Third update on Taliban decrees and directives relevant to the humanitarian response (July - December 2024)
Date of Document:
24 December 2024
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Afghanistan: Healthcare and medical treatment. Version 2.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
October 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan: Taliban's impact on the population
Source:
Denmark. Danish Immigration Service.
Date of Document:
June 2022
Accessed Date:
3 January 2023
Title:
The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security: Report of the Secretary-General
Code:
A/80/366-S/2025/554
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
5 September 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
DFAT Thematic Report on Political and Security Developments in Afghanistan (August 2021 to January 2022)
Source:
Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Date of Document:
14 January 2022
Accessed Date:
27 January 2022
Title:
General Country of Origin Information Report Afghanistan
Source:
Netherlands. Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Date of Document:
June 2023
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
After the Aid Axe: Charting a Path to Self-reliance in Afghanistan
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
2 October 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan: Targeting of Individuals. Country of Origin Information Report.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
August 2022
Accessed Date:
4 January 2023
Title:
EASO Country of Origin Information Report. Afghanistan: Networks.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
January 2018
Accessed Date:
19 February 2018
Title:
Afghanistan: Security Situation. Country of Origin Information Report.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
August 2022
Accessed Date:
5 January 2023
Title:
Two Years Of Repression: Mapping Taliban Violence Targeting Civilians in Afghanistan
Source:
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project; Afghanistan Peace Watch
Date of Document:
11 August 2023
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Afghanistan: Humanitarian situation. Version 3.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
August 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan Education Situation Report 2025
Source:
United Nations Children's Fund
Date of Document:
October 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan. BTI 2024 Country Report.
Date of Document:
March 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan: Continued risk of forced eviction due to complex land rights and tenure (in)security
Date of Document:
27 February 2023
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan Emergency Situation Report. No. 58: November 2025.
Source:
United Nations. World Health Organisation.
Date of Document:
15 December 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
COI Query Response. Afghanistan: Major legislative, security-related, and humanitarian developments.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
2 February 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan Three Years after the Taliban Takeover
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
14 August 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
UNHCR Regional Bureau for Asia and Pacific (RBAP): External Update: Afghanistan Situation #34, as of 1 May 2024
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
29 May 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan : Situation des personnes vivant avec le VIH/SIDA (PVVIH)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
29 November 2022
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Conflict Management or Retribution? How the Taleban deal with land disputes between Kuchis and local communities
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
22 December 2022
Author:
Fabrizio Foschini
Editor:
Martine van Bijlert; Kate Clark
Accessed Date:
27 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : Situation sécuritaire et arbakis dans le district d'Alishang (province de Laghman)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
16 March 2023
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Country of Origin Information Report. Afghanistan: Country focus.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
November 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
The Islamic State in Afghanistan: A Jihadist Threat in Retreat?
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
16 July 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2024.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 August 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan. The State of the World's Human Rights: April 2025.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
April 2025
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan : La société civile depuis la prise de pouvoir des talibans
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
18 January 2022
Accessed Date:
23 January 2023
Title:
National report submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 16/21: Afghanistan
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/46/AFG/1
Date of Document:
22 April 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. World Report 2025: Events of 2024.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2025
Accessed Date:
22 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. Freedom in the World 2024.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Situation of human rights in Afghanistan: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
8 October 2025
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Manoeuvring Through the Cracks: The Afghan human rights movement under the Islamic Emirate
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
June 2025
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Report on the Implementation, Enforcement and Impact of the Law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.
Date of Document:
10 April 2025
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
The Rule of Taliban: A year of violence, impunity and false promises
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
15 August 2022
Accessed Date:
6 January 2023
Title:
Human rights situation in Afghanistan: October - December 2024 Update
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Summary of stakeholders' submissions on Afghanistan
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/46/AFG/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
23 February 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan: Compilation of Information
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/46/AFG/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
4 March 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
“Your sons are in the mountains”: The collective punishment of civilians in Panjshir by the Taliban
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
7 June 2023
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
A Needs Assessment of Afghan Human Rights Defenders
Source:
Freedom House et al.
Date of Document:
January 2023
Author:
Ahmad Yasar Jahani
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
The Emergent Taleban-Defined University: Enforcing a top-down reorientation and unquestioning obedience under ‘a war of thoughts'
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
July 2023
Editor:
Martine van Bijlert
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
New Evidence that Biometric Data Systems Imperil Afghans
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
30 March 2022
Accessed Date:
6 January 2023
Title:
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Afghanistan. 46th Session of the UN Universal Periodic Review.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
11 October 2023
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
The Afghanistan Mid-Year Human Rights Situation Report: January-June 30, 2025
Date of Document:
August 2025
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan: Three years since the Taliban takeover civic space remains ‘closed'
Date of Document:
15 August 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. Freedom in the World 2025.
Accessed Date:
21 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
22 April 2024
Accessed Date:
14 May 2024
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Citizenship, including legislation and whether dual citizenship is permitted (2008-2013)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
5 February 2013
Accessed Date:
28 February 2013
Title:
Passports, including issuance procedures within and outside Afghanistan; types of passports issued (2008-2012)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
1 February 2013
Accessed Date:
28 February 2013
Title:
Afghanistan. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
23 January 2026
Title:
Passport Law of 25 October 2015; appearance and security features of passports; specimen of passports (2015-January 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
13 February 2018
Accessed Date:
21 February 2018
Title:
Requirements and procedures to obtain tazkira [tazkera], including from abroad; appearance and security features (2017-February 2019)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
6 February 2019
Accessed Date:
26 February 2019
Title:
Requirements and procedures to obtain an e-Tazkira; description of the card, including appearance and security features
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
14 February 2014
Accessed Date:
26 February 2014
Title:
Report on Citizenship Law: Afghanistan
Code:
RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2017/9
Source:
European University Institute. Global Citizenship Observatory.
Date of Document:
March 2017
Accessed Date:
13 February 2018
Title:
Afghanistan. Birth Registration - Phase Two. A Comparative Report Prepared for UNICEF.
Date of Document:
May 2016
Accessed Date:
23 February 2018
Title:
Requirements and procedures to obtain, renew, and replace a biometric passport, both within and outside the country; validity period of passport; whether the ‘place of birth' noted in the passport is the same as the one listed on the tazkira, an...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
20 February 2017
Accessed Date:
24 February 2017
Title:
Description and samples of the Tazkira booklet and the Tazkira certificate; information on security features
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
16 September 2011
Accessed Date:
31 October 2012
Title:
Law of 2014 on Registration of Population Records
Accessed Date:
18 February 2015
Title:
Documentation and Legal Identification in Afghanistan. Research Report.
Source:
International Organization for Migration et al.
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Procedures and requirements for issuance of passports in Canada to Afghan citizens without documents (2014-January 2016)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
3 February 2016
Accessed Date:
19 February 2016
Title:
Documents required to travel within Afghanistan, documents required to pass checkpoints (2013-January 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
3 February 2016
Accessed Date:
19 February 2016
Title:
Snapshot of civil registration and vital statistics systems of Afghanistan
Source:
International Development Research Centre. Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems.
Accessed Date:
6 January 2023
Title:
Legal identity in Afghanistan. Migration Policy Practice. Vol. XI, Number 4, December 2021-April 2022.
Source:
International Organization for Migration; Eurasylum
Author:
Katherine James; Margo Baars
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Documentation Problems for Asylum Seekers and Refugees from Afghanistan
Source:
Refugee Council of Australia
Date of Document:
October 2022
Author:
Ali Reza Yunespour
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan Protection Cluster: Thematic Note: Legal Identity and Civil Documentation in Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
May 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan : la carte d'identité (tazkira)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
13 November 2023
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
The Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Law, translated into English
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
31 August 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan: Le mariage avec une personne de nationalité étrangère et de confession autre que musulmane
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
26 March 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan navigates controversies on digital identity journey
Date of Document:
2 July 2024
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Instability in Afghanistan
Source:
Center for Preventative Action
Date of Document:
16 December 2025
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan: The situation of individuals who worked for the former government, international forces, or the judiciary under the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2004-2021)
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
COI Query Response. Afghanistan: Governance and state administration under the Taliban
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
15 November 2021
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : La Shola-e Jawid et les groupes maoïstes
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
5 April 2022
Accessed Date:
23 January 2023
Title:
Taleban Perceptions of Aid: Conspiracy, corruption and miscommunication
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
July 2023
Author:
Sabawoon Samim; Ashley Jackson
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
U.S. Military Withdrawal and Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan: Frequently Asked Questions
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
17 September 2021
Author:
Clayton Thomas et al.
Accessed Date:
27 January 2022
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Afghanistan: Fear of the Taliban. Version 5.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
August 2025
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
The Taleban's Caretaker Cabinet and other Senior Appointments
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
13 November 2023
Author:
Martine van Bijlert
Accessed Date:
24 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : La situation des anciens agents civils de la République islamique d'Afghanistan
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
18 January 2022
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
The Politics of Survival in the Face of Exclusion: Hazara and Shia Actors Under the Taleban
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
February 2023
Editor:
Martine van Bijlert; Kate Clark
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
From Land-grabbing to Haircuts: The decrees and edicts of the Taleban supreme leader
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
2 August 2023
Editor:
Roxanna Shapour; Jelena Bjelica
Accessed Date:
29 January 2024
Title:
The Taliban in Afghanistan
Source:
Council on Foreign Relations
Date of Document:
14 August 2025
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
'One-Party Rule': Taliban Wages Crackdown On Political Parties
Source:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Radio Azadi.
Date of Document:
8 May 2024
Author:
Abubakar Siddique et al.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Taliban Edicts Against Afghan Women and Girls
Source:
Feminist Majority Foundation
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Access to justice and protection for women and girls and the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
16 June 2025
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
The Taliban's war on women: The crime against humanity of gender persecution in Afghanistan
Source:
International Commission of Jurists; Amnesty International
Date of Document:
March 2023
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Taliban Restrictions on Women's Rights Deepen Afghanistan's Crisis. Asia Report N°329.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
23 February 2023
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Divergence of Practice: The Handling of Complaints of Gender-Based Violence against Women and Girls by Afghanistan's de facto Authorities
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
December 2023
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Injustice and Impunity: Mediation of Criminal Offences of Violence against Women
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
May 2018
Accessed Date:
22 February 2019
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Afghanistan: Unaccompanied children. Version 4.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
November 2024
Accessed Date:
22 January 2025
Title:
Report on the impact of the Taliban's information practices and legal policies, particularly on women and girls
Source:
Austrian Red Cross. Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation.
Date of Document:
February 2025
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Shaking the Sky: Women's attempts to claim their inheritance rights under the Emirate
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
February 2025
Author:
Letty Phillips; Rama Mirzada
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Whether seigha (temporary marriage) is practiced in Afghanistan and by which groups
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
24 October 2012
Accessed Date:
26 February 2014
Title:
Afghanistan: Updated information for the Committee on the Rights of the Child on conflict-related sexual violence against boys in Afghanistan, 88th Session, September 2021
Source:
All Survivors Project; Youth Health and Development Organisation
Date of Document:
August 2021
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : La pratique du bacha bazi : Une tradition d'esclavage sexuel des jeunes garçons en augmentation
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
14 November 2016
Accessed Date:
15 February 2018
Title:
Causes and Consequences of Bacha Bazi in Afghanistan
Source:
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
Date of Document:
18 August 2014
Author:
Mohammad Hossein Saramad et al.
Accessed Date:
19 February 2018
Title:
Fourth periodic report submitted by Afghanistan under article 18 of the Convention, due in 2024
Date of Document:
19 March 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Violence Against Women Under the Taliban in Afghanistan. Women Break the Silence Gender-Based Torture in Asia.
Source:
World Organisation Against Torture; Philippine Alliance for Human Rights Advocates
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
What Do Young Afghan Women Do? A glimpse into everyday life after the bans
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
17 August 2023
Author:
Jelena Bjelica et al.
Editor:
Roxanna Shapour; Kate Clark
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
The phenomenon of an institutionalized system of discrimination, segregation, disrespect for human dignity and exclusion of women and girls
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
13 May 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
10 July 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
De Facto Authorities' Moral Oversight in Afghanistan: Impacts on Human Rights
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
July 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Gender Country Profile: Afghanistan.
Source:
United Nations. UN Women.
Author:
Michelle Gehrig; Caitlin Williscrof
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. Spotlight on Social impact (March-June 2024)
Date of Document:
7 August 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Women's rights in Afghanistan: An ongoing battle
Source:
European Union. European Parliament.
Date of Document:
16 September 2024
Author:
Gabija Leclerc ; Rosamund Shreeves
Accessed Date:
22 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan: Women Protesters Detail Taliban Abuse
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
20 October 2022
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan. Our Identities Under Arrest: A global overview on the enforcement of laws criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults and diverse gender expressions.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
November 2023
Author:
Kellyn Botha et al.
Editor:
Lucas Ramón Mendos
Accessed Date:
29 January 2024
Title:
No Safe Way Out: Human Rights Violations against LGBTQ+ People under the Taliban
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Shadow Report for the 4th Periodic Review on CEDAW: The Human Rights Situation of LBTI+ Women in Afghanistan: Before and After the Taliban's Takeover
Source:
Rainbow Afghanistan et al.
Date of Document:
1 April 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan : Les minorités sexuelles et de genre
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
18 January 2022
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
A Mountain on My Shoulders: 18 Months of Taliban Persecution of LGBTIQ Afghans
Source:
Outright International
Date of Document:
February 2023
Editor:
Rahel Beigel; Neela Ghoshal
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Source:
Human Dignity Trust
Date of Document:
31 October 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
Afghanistan: Taliban torture and execute Hazaras in targeted attack – new investigation
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
15 September 2022
Accessed Date:
27 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan: Tier 3. Trafficking in Persons Report 2025.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
29 September 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan. International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2025, Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
March 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan. Country Reports on Terrorism 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 December 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
EASO Country of Origin Information Report. Afghanistan: Recruitment by armed groups.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
September 2016
Accessed Date:
21 February 2017
Title:
Afghanistan: Recruitment to Taliban
Source:
Norway. Norwegian Country of Origin Information Centre, Landinfo.
Date of Document:
29 June 2017
Accessed Date:
15 February 2018
Title:
Arms Smuggling Dynamics under Taliban Rule
Source:
Afghan Peace Watch; Small Arms Survey
Date of Document:
July 2023
Author:
Justine Fleischner
Editor:
Luisa Meneghetti; Emile LeBrun
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan: La corruption dans les services publics de la République islamique d'Afghanistan : Focus sur le domaine judiciare
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
16 April 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Thematic Report Afghanistan: Blood Feuds
Source:
Country of Origin Research and Information
Date of Document:
February 2014
Accessed Date:
18 February 2015
Title:
Night letters [Shab Nameha, Shabnamah, Shabnameh], including appearance (2010-2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
10 February 2015
Accessed Date:
24 February 2015
Title:
Treatment of members and former members of the Afghan military by the Taliban and other anti-government groups, including whether they are personally targeted outside of active conflict zones; whether rank, branch or type of military services poses ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
31 August 2017
Accessed Date:
6 February 2018
Title:
Afghanistan : Point de situation sécuritaire (janvier à décembre 2023)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
14 February 2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Source:
Stanford University. Mapping Militant Organizations.
Accessed Date:
21 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan : traitement par les talibans de personnes soupçonnées d'être liée à la résistance armée
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
8 June 2022
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Fifteenth report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team submitted pursuant to resolution 2716 (2023) concerning the Taliban and other associated individuals and entities constituting a threat to the peace, stability and security of Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
8 July 2024
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan : La milice du soulèvement populaire du district de Nazyan
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
2 June 2021
Accessed Date:
27 January 2022
Title:
Terrorist Groups in Afghanistan. In Focus.
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
2 April 2024
Accessed Date:
16 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. Global Organized Crime Index 2025.
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan : situation des membres des anciens « groupes de soulèvement populaire »
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
1 November 2022
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : La situation sécuritaire dans le district de Jaghori, province de Ghazni, entre 2018 et 2021
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
3 November 2023
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan : Le Front de la résistance (Jabha-ya Moqawamat), groupe armé hazara chiite
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
25 October 2019
Accessed Date:
14 January 2021
Title:
The Growing Threat of the Islamic State in Afghanistan and South Asia
Source:
United States Institute of Peace
Date of Document:
June 2023
Author:
Abdul Sayed; Tore Refslund Hamming
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : l'Autorité nationale afghane de normalisation (ANSA)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
14 April 2022
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Afghanistan.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
27 August 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan : Le département provincial de la Lutte antistupéfiants du Logar
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
28 November 2022
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : La Direction indépendante de la gouvernance locale (IDLG)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
25 November 2022
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : enrôlement forcé de mineurs par les talibans
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
12 May 2022
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Legal Pluralism in Afghanistan: Historical Context and Future Prospects
Source:
Afghanistan Rule of Law Observatory
Date of Document:
June 2024
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Judicial independence in Afghanistan: Legal framework and practical challenges
Source:
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
Date of Document:
21 February 2021
Accessed Date:
27 October 2022
Title:
Torture and Ill-Treatment: The state of prisons in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Date of Document:
June 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Going Back to Zero: How the Afghan Legal and Judicial System is Collapsing Under the Taliban Regime
Date of Document:
7 March 2022
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
ILAC Rule of Law Report 2023. Justice Matters: A Status Report on Afghanistan Since the Taliban Takeover.
Source:
International Legal Assistance Consortium
Author:
Christopher Lehmann
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : La prison de Pul-e Charkhiet les établissements pénitentiaires de Bagram
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
20 January 2023
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
COI Query Response. Afghanistan: Justice system and implementation of Sharia law under the Taliban
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
15 November 2021
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
Justice Denied: An Examination of the Legal and Judicial System in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan
Date of Document:
June 2023
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
May 2023
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : la justice talibane
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
17 May 2023
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
Afghanistan: Taliban Execute, ‘Disappear' Alleged Militants
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
7 July 2022
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
“No Forgiveness for People Like You”: Executions and Enforced Disappearances in Afghanistan under the Taliban
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
30 November 2021
Author:
Patricia Gossman et al.
Accessed Date:
28 January 2022
Title:
Afghanistan : Le President Protective Service (PPS)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
11 March 2022
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : Le malik (malek)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
20 January 2020
Accessed Date:
14 January 2021
Title:
Human rights abuses committed by the Afghanistan National Army and security forces (1989-2009)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
30 April 2013
Accessed Date:
26 February 2014
Title:
Afghanistan : L'Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) : Focus sur la 2ème brigade et ses activités dans la province de Laghman
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
20 May 2022
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : Organisation et exactions du National Directorate of Security (NDS), principalement depuis 2017
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
20 January 2022
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : La Direction nationale de la sécurité (NDS) dans la province de Laghman
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
1 February 2023
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : Crisis Response Unit 222
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
17 June 2022
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : Les actions du NDS à Ghazni, 2019-2021
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
4 April 2022
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : La situation des anciens membres des forces de sécurité
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
18 January 2022
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
A barrier to securing peace: Human rights violations against former government officials and former armed force members in Afghanistan: 15 August 2021 – 30 June 2023
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
August 2023
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : Exactions envers les civils imputées à la Direction nationale de la sécurité(National Directorate of Security, NDS)dans la province de Kapisa entre 2010 et 2021
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
27 February 2023
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Double Betrayal: Abuses against Afghan Policewomen, Past and Present
Source:
Human Rights Watch.
Date of Document:
10 October 2024
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Regime Change, Economic Decline and No Legal Protection: What has happened to the Afghan media?
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
7 March 2022
Accessed Date:
27 January 2023
Title:
Media Freedom in Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
November 2024
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan: Taliban Trample Media Freedom
Source:
Human Rights Watch.
Date of Document:
23 October 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan: Hitting Rock Bottom. Frontline Democracy: Media Amid Political Churn. South Asia Press Freedom Report 2024–2025.
Source:
International Federation of Journalists
Date of Document:
May 2025
Editor:
Jane Worthington; Laxmi Murthy
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Brief No. 1: Media Restrictions and the Implications for Gender Equality in Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations. UN Women.
Date of Document:
October 2022
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan. International Religious Freedom Report for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
26 June 2024
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. 2025 Annual Report.
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
25 March 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Fatwas, including authorities, legal status, and enforcement (2014-July 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
23 July 2015
Accessed Date:
18 February 2016
Title:
Afghanistan. The Freedom of Thought Report 2024.
Source:
Humanists International
Date of Document:
31 October 2024
Editor:
Emma Wadsworth-Jones
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan: The situation of Christian converts
Source:
Norway. Norwegian Country of Origin Information
Centre, Landinfo.
Date of Document:
7 April 2021
Accessed Date:
14 September 2021
Title:
Religious Freedom under Taliban‑Controlled Afghanistan
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
August 2024
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan: Taliban Forcibly Evict Minority Shia
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
22 October 2021
Accessed Date:
28 January 2022
Title:
Issue Update: Religious Freedom and Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
August 2023
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan: Ahl-e Hadith
Source:
Denmark. Danish Immigration Service.
Date of Document:
October 2023
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Taliban War Against Minorities in Afghanistan. South Asia State of Minorities Report 2024: Economic, Political and Social Participation and Representation of Minorities.
Source:
South Asia Collective
Date of Document:
April 2025
Author:
Abdul Rahman Yasa; Sayed Hussian Anosh
Editor:
Apurwa Baral et al.
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Briefing on the Situation of the Hazaras in Afghanistan
Source:
Germany. Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
Date of Document:
May 2022
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan. World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
Source:
Minority Rights Group International
Date of Document:
December 2021
Accessed Date:
28 January 2022
Title:
Hazaras and Afghan insurgent groups
Source:
Norway. Norwegian Country of Origin Information Centre, Landinfo.
Date of Document:
3 October 2016
Accessed Date:
21 February 2017
Title:
Situation of Hazara people living in Kabul City, including treatment by society, security situation, and access to employment; security situation for Hazara traveling to areas surrounding Kabul City to access employment (2014-April 2016)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
20 April 2016
Accessed Date:
24 February 2017
Title:
Afghanistan's Ethnic Faultlines Under Taliban Rule
Source:
Centre for Strategic and Contemporary Research
Date of Document:
16 July 2024
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Religious Freedom in Afghanistan: Three Years After the Taliban Takeover
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
20 March 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
The Uzbek minority, including size, locations, relations with authorities and with other ethnic groups and the ability to live in Kabul; treatment of returning Afghan citizens, including those of Uzbek origin who were born or lived abroad...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
27 July 2018
Accessed Date:
26 February 2019
Title:
A Community Under Attack: How successive governments failed west Kabul and the Hazaras who live there
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
16 January 2022
Accessed Date:
27 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : La situation des Hazaras depuis le retour au pouvoir des talibans
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
24 January 2022
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
COI Query Response. Afghanistan: Situation of Sikhs.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
March 2022
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Whether the Taliban has the capacity to pursue individuals after they relocate to another region; their capacity to track individuals over the long term; Taliban capacity to carry out targeted killings (2012-January 2016)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
15 February 2016
Accessed Date:
26 February 2016
Title:
Two years on: Afghans still lack pathways to safety in the EU
Source:
International Rescue Committee
Date of Document:
31 May 2023
Author:
Olivia Sundberg Diez
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Query response. Afghanistan: Departures and returns after Taliban's takeover of power.
Source:
Norway. Norwegian Country of Origin Information Centre, Landinfo.
Date of Document:
29 September 2022
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Keep on Moving on the Balkan Route: No quarter for Afghan asylum seekers in Croatia and Serbia
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
13 October 2023
Author:
Fabrizio Foschini
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Pakistan: Situation of Afghan refugees. Country of Origin Information Report.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
May 2022
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
Iran: Situation of Afghan refugees. Country of Origin Information Report.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
December 2022
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Afghan Returns - South West Asia Quarterly Update, 2023 Q4
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
19 March 2024
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Escaping War: Where to next? The Challenges of IDP Protection in Afghanistan.
Source:
Samuel Hall et al.
Date of Document:
24 January 2018
Accessed Date:
18 October 2019
Title:
Kabul Unpacked: A geographical guide to a metropolis in the making
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
January 2019
Author:
Fabrizio Foschini
Editor:
Kate Clark; Thomas Ruttig
Accessed Date:
18 October 2019
Title:
Pakistan: Forced Returns Expose Afghans to Persecution, Destitution
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
19 March 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Like an obstacle course: Few routes to safety for Afghans trying to flee their country
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
21 October 2021
Accessed Date:
28 January 2022
Title:
“They don't treat us like humans” Unlawful returns of Afghans from Turkey and Iran
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
31 August 2022
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
Mobility Trends Report: Afghan Nationals in Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and Central Asia
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
September 2022
Author:
Ridgeway Information; Stop The Traffik
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
“No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan”: Pushbacks and Deportations of Afghans from Turkey
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
November 2022
Editor:
Michelle Randhawa
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
UAE: Arbitrarily Detained Afghans Stuck in Limbo
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
15 March 2023
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan Border Monitoring Report January–May 2025
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
24 June 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan : Frontières et points de passage, 15 août 2021- 31 décembre 2022
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
16 August 2023
Accessed Date:
24 January 2024
Title:
COI Query Response. Afghanistan: Situation of Afghan returnees from Pakistan amid the campaign linked to the ‘Illegal Foreigners' Repatriation Plan' (IFRP).
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
14 December 2023
Accessed Date:
24 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan: Migration movements of Afghans since the Taliban takeover of power. COI Focus.
Source:
Belgium. Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons.
Date of Document:
14 December 2023
Accessed Date:
24 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan: Understanding the key human safety and security issues that returnees to Afghanistan are facing
Date of Document:
16 August 2024
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Spotlight – Afghanistan: Earthquakes extend cycle of conflict
Source:
Norwegian Refugee Council. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
Date of Document:
May 2024
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
No safe haven: Human rights risks faced by persons involuntarily returned to Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mision in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
July 2025
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 31 January 2025:
Title:
Guidance Note on the International Protection Needs of People Fleeing Afghanistan – Update I
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
February 2023
URL:
https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/63e0cb714.pdf
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
16 January 2025
URL:
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/afghanistan/
Accessed Date:
22 January 2025
Title:
Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan. Afghanistan.
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Date of Document:
December 2024
URL:
https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-humanitarian-needs-and-response-plan-2025-december-2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan Emergency Situation Report. No. 46: November 2024.
Source:
United Nations. World Health Organisation.
Date of Document:
26 December 2024
URL:
https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-emergency-situation-report-issue-46-reporting-period-november-2024
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. The State of the World's Human Rights: April 2024.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
23 April 2024
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/POL1072002024ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Human rights situation in Afghanistan: October - December 2023 Update
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
October 2023
URL:
https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/english_hr_update_22jan_2024.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
The Afghanistan Mid-Year Human Rights Situation Report: January-June 30 2024
Date of Document:
August 2024
URL:
https://rawadari.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/RW_MidYear2024_HRReport_ENG.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
URL:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Afghanistan.html
Accessed Date:
16 January 2025
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Afghanistan: Fear of the Taliban. Version 4.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
August 2024
URL:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghanistan-country-policy-and-information-notes/country-police-and-information-note-fear-of-the-taliban-afghanistan-february-2022-accessible
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
The Taliban in Afghanistan
Source:
Council on Foreign Relations
Date of Document:
19 January 2023
URL:
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/taliban-afghanistan
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Instability in Afghanistan
Source:
Center for Preventative Action
Date of Document:
1 July 2024
URL:
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/war-afghanistan
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Source:
Human Dignity Trust
Date of Document:
7 January 2025
URL:
https://www.humandignitytrust.org/country-profile/afghanistan/
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan: Tier 3. Trafficking in Persons Report 2024.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
24 June 2024
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-trafficking-in-persons-report/afghanistan/
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2023, Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
March 2023
URL:
https://insightcrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/INCSR-2023-Vol-1.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan. Global Organized Crime Index 2023.
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
URL:
https://ocindex.net/2023/country/afghanistan
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Afghanistan.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
28 March 2024
URL:
https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/5d227d21-22f3-4e6d-ad00-1c2c665cc94f
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
IFJ Afghanistan Country Report: Rising to the Challenge. 22nd Annual South Asia Press Freedom Report 2023-2024: Artificial Independence: The Fight to Save Media and Democracy.
Source:
International Federation of Journalists
Date of Document:
3 May 2024
URL:
https://samsn.ifj.org/SAPFR23-24/afghanistan/
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. 2024 Annual Report.
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
1 May 2024
URL:
https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/Afghanistan.pdf
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Prospects of International Human Rights Standards Implementation by the Taliban and its Implications for Minority Groups in Afghanistan. South Asia State of Minorities Report 2022: Weakening Human Rights Commitments and its Impact on Minorities.
Source:
South Asia Collective
Date of Document:
February 2023
Editor:
Sanjit Shrestha et al.
URL:
https://minorityrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SASM2022.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan Border Monitoring Report January-June 2024
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
15 August 2024
URL:
https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/110564
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan : Le handicap sous les talibans
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
19 December 2023
URL:
https://coi.euaa.europa.eu/administration/france/PLib/2312_AFG_Handicap_sous_les_talibans_160402.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan: Update on Taliban decrees and directives affecting the humanitarian response
Date of Document:
1 December 2023
URL:
https://www.acaps.org/fileadmin/Data_Product/Main_media/20231201_ACAPS_Afghanistan_analysis_hub_Update_on_Taliban_decrees_and_directives.pdf
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Land in Afghanistan: This time, retaking instead of grabbing land?
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
20 December 2023
Author:
Ali Mohammad Sabawoon
URL:
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/economy-development-environment/land-in-afghanistan-this-time-retaking-instead-of-grabbing-land/
Accessed Date:
24 January 2024
Title:
The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security: Report of the Secretary-General
Code:
A/78/628-S/2023/941
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
1 December 2023
URL:
https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/sg_report_on_the_situation_in_afghanstian_december_2023.pdf
Accessed Date:
24 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan. Documents associés.
Source:
Larousse. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
URL:
http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/pays/Afghanistan/104172
Accessed Date:
29 January 2024
Title:
Key socio-economic indicators in Afghanistan and in Kabul city. Country of Origin Information Report.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
August 2022
URL:
https://coi.euaa.europa.eu/administration/easo/PLib/2022_08_EUAA_COI_Report_Key_socio_economic_indicators_in_Afghanistan_and_in_Kabul_city.pdf
Accessed Date:
5 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : Le département d'éducation de la province du Logar
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
13 December 2022
URL:
https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/ofpra_flora/2212_afg_ministere_education_logar_158179_web.pdf
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
EASO Country of Origin Information Report. Afghanistan: Individuals targeted under societal and legal norms.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
December 2017
URL:
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/350ca8b8-2029-11e8-ac73-01aa75ed71a1/language-fr
Accessed Date:
13 January 2021
Title:
Afghanistan : les conditions de sécurité actuelles
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
2 November 2022
URL:
https://www.osar.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Publikationen/Herkunftslaenderberichte/Mittlerer_Osten_-_Zentralasien/Afghanistan/221102_AFG_Sicherheitslage_FR.pdf
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Economic Causes of Afghanistan's Humanitarian Crisis
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
4 August 2022
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/04/economic-causes-afghanistans-humanitarian-crisis
Accessed Date:
5 January 2023
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Afghanistan: Security situation. Version 2.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
April 2022
URL:
https://www.ecoi.net/en/file/local/2072484/AFG_CPIN_Security_situation.pdf
Accessed Date:
23 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan: COI Repository. 1 Sept 2021 – 31 Dec 2022.
Source:
Asylum Research Centre et al.
Date of Document:
December 2022
URL:
https://www.asylos.eu/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=e3400d01-e5c8-474b-9473-5ea1ae009109
Accessed Date:
23 January 2023
Title:
Taxing the Afghan Nation: What the Taleban's pursuit of domestic revenues means for citizens, the economy and the state
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
September 2022
URL:
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Taleban-Taxation-Final-1.pdf
Accessed Date:
6 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : profils à risque
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
2 November 2022
URL:
https://www.osar.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Publikationen/Herkunftslaenderberichte/Mittlerer_Osten_-_Zentralasien/Afghanistan/221102_AFG_Gefa__hrdungsprofile_FR.pdf
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : sanctions pour consommation et vente d'alcool
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
17 November 2022
URL:
https://www.osar.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Publikationen/Herkunftslaenderberichte/Mittlerer_Osten_-_Zentralasien/Afghanistan/221117_AFG_Alcool.pdf
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
No escape: War crimes and civilian harm during the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
15 December 2021
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ASA1150252021ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
27 January 2022
Title:
Examining poverty and food insecurity in the context of long-term social-ecological changes in Kabul, Afghanistan
Source:
Chr. Michelsen Institute
Date of Document:
May 2023
Author:
Yograj Gautam et al.
URL:
https://www.cmi.no/publications/8825-examining-poverty-and-food-insecurity-in-the-context-of-long-term-social-ecological-changes-in
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Situation of human rights in Afghanistan: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
1 September 2023
URL:
https://undocs.org/en/A/78/338
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan: Continued Raids on and Detention of Activists, Journalists, and Crackdown on Peaceful Protests
Date of Document:
25 October 2023
URL:
https://monitor.civicus.org/explore/afghanistan-continued-raids-on-and-detention-of-activists-journalists-and-crackdown-on-peaceful-protests/
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Impact of Improvised Explosive Devices on Civilians in Afghanistan. UNAMA Human Rights. 15 August 2021 – 30 May 2023.
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
June 2023
URL:
https://unama.unmissions.org/file/21205/download?token=-TeeWpAe
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Analysis and Assessment of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Situation Following Taliban's Retake of Afghanistan
Source:
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
Date of Document:
15 August 2022
URL:
https://www.aihrc.org.af/media/files/Analysis%20and%20Assessment%20of%20International%20Human%20Rights%20and%20Humanitarian%20Law%20Situation%20Following%20Taliban%27s%20Retake%20of%20Afghanistan.pdf
Accessed Date:
6 January 2023
Title:
Arbitrary and Illegal Detentions in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan. 15 August 2021 – 15 November 2022.
Date of Document:
23 January 2023
URL:
https://rawadari.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/RW-Report-03-Arbitrarary-Detention-23-Jan-2023-English.pdf
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Unlawful & Targeted Killings in Afghanistan: Kandahar, Nangarhar, Panjshir and Sar-e Pol. August 2021-November 2022.
Date of Document:
January 2023
URL:
https://rawadari.org/040120231174.htm/
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Situation of human rights in Afghanistan: Report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
23 February 2024
URL:
http://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/55/80
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Update on the human rights situation in Afghanistan: April – June 2024
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
29 July 2024
URL:
https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/english_-_unama_hrs_-_update_hr_situation_afghanistan_april-june_2024.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Situation of human rights in Afghanistan: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
23 February 2024
URL:
http://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/55/80
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
One Year Later: Taliban Reprise Repressive Rule, but Struggle to Build a State
Source:
United States Institute for Peace
Date of Document:
17 August 2022
URL:
https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/08/one-year-later-taliban-reprise-repressive-rule-struggle-build-state
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : Sazman-e Nasr (l'Organisation de la victoire), Sepah-e pasdaran (l'Armée des gardiens), leur union au sein de Hezb-e Wahdat (Partie de l'unité) et leurs dissensions
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
18 April 2016
URL:
https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/57bd653f4.pdf
Accessed Date:
20 February 2017
Title:
The Bride Price: The Afghan tradition of paying for wives
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
9 March 2020
Author:
Fazl Rahman Muzhary
Editor:
Lenny Linke et al.
URL:
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/the-bride-price-the-afghan-tradition-of-paying-for-wives/
Accessed Date:
29 January 2024
Title:
National Inquiry report on Factors and causes of Rape and Honor Killing in Afghanistan
Source:
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
Date of Document:
26 August 2015
URL:
http://www.aihrc.org.af/media/files/PDF/Natioan%20Inquiry%20final%20-%20for%20-P-R.pdf
Accessed Date:
9 February 2016
Title:
Education for Afghan Girls Under the Taliban: Status and Issues for Congress
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
6 April 2022
URL:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11908
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : La situation des femmes depuis le retour au pouvoir des talibans
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
9 May 2022
URL:
https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/ofpra_flora/2205_afg_situation_des_femmes_155247_web.pdf
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan. 2022 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor.
Source:
United States. Department of Labor.
Date of Document:
29 September 2023
URL:
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/resources/reports/child-labor/afghanistan
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Gender alert no. 4: Back to the 1990s? Women's rights under the Taliban
Source:
United Nations. UN Women.
Date of Document:
3 March 2023
URL:
https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/af-IWD2023_Gender-Alert-4-ss-020323.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : Les femmes et l'adultère
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
7 September 2016
URL:
https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/ofpra_flora/1609_afg_adultere.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 February 2018
Title:
Afghanistan under the Taliban: A state of “Gender Apartheid”?
Source:
Princeton University. Afghanistan Policy Lab.
Date of Document:
January 2023
Author:
Naheed Farid; Rangita de Silva de Alwis
URL:
https://spia.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2023-02/SPIA_NaheedRangita_PolicyBrief_07.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
The Maternal and Child Health Crisis in Afghanistan
Source:
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; John Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health
Date of Document:
30 October 2022
Author:
Rabia Jalazai et al.
URL:
http://hopkinshumanitarianhealth.org/assets/documents/Matern-Child-Health-Afghanistan-Report-FINAL_30-Oct_2.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Situation of Afghan Women - Summary report of country-wide women's consultations
Source:
International Organization for Migration et al.
Date of Document:
December 2023
URL:
https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2023-12/af-c509-q4-consultation-report-291123.pdf
Accessed Date:
24 January 2024
Title:
Struggling to Survive: Gender, Displacement, and Migration in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan
Source:
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Date of Document:
23 February 2022
Author:
Marie McAuliffe; Mohib Iqbal
URL:
https://www.csis.org/analysis/struggling-survive-gender-displacement-and-migration-taliban-controlled-afghanistan
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
A Brief Guide to Women's Land Rights in Afghanistan
Source:
Norwegian Refugee Council et al.
Date of Document:
2 September 2021
URL:
https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/pdf/reports/womens-land-rights-in-af/hlp-tf_brief-on-women-land-rights.pdf
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan crisis update: Women and girls in displacement. Factsheet III.
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees et al.
Date of Document:
May 2023
URL:
https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/100885
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
“Even If You Go to the Skies, We'll Find You”: LGBT People in Afghanistan After the Taliban Takeover
Source:
Human Rights Watch; OutRight Action International
Date of Document:
26 January 2022
Author:
Heather Barr; J. Lester Feder
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2022/01/26/even-if-you-go-skies-well-find-you/lgbt-people-afghanistan-after-taliban-takeover
Accessed Date:
27 January 2022
Title:
Situation in Afghanistan. Summary of the Prosecutor's Request for authorisation of an investigation pursuant to article 15.
Source:
International Criminal Court. The Office of the Prosecutor.
Date of Document:
20 November 2017
URL:
https://www.icc-cpi.int/itemsDocuments/Afghanistan/171120-afgh-art_15-app-summ_ENG.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 February 2018
Title:
Afghanistan: Taliban's Intelligence and the intimidation campaign
Source:
Norway. Norwegian Country of Origin Information Centre, Landinfo.
Date of Document:
23 August 2017
Author:
Antonio Giustozzi
URL:
https://landinfo.no/asset/3590/1/3590_1.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 February 2018
Title:
Afghanistan: Surge in Islamic State Attacks on Shia
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
25 October 2021
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/10/25/afghanistan-surge-islamic-state-attacks-shia
Accessed Date:
27 January 2022
Title:
Special Report 363. Islamic Law, Customary Law, and Afghan Informal Justice.
Source:
United States Institute of Peace
Date of Document:
6 March 2015
URL:
https://www.usip.org/publications/2015/03/islamic-law-customary-law-and-afghan-informal-justice
Accessed Date:
10 February 2016
Title:
Policing Public Morality: Debates on promoting virtue and preventing vice in the Taleban's second Emirate
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
28 August 2024
URL:
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/rights-freedom/policing-public-morality-debates-on-promoting-virtue-and-preventing-vice-in-the-talebans-second-emirate%ef%bf%bc/
Accessed Date:
14 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan : Formation et nomination des juges sous la République islamique d'Afghanistan
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
29 April 2022
URL:
https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/ofpra_flora/2204_afg_formation_et_nomination_juges_156163_web.pdf
Accessed Date:
24 January 2023
Title:
EASO Country of Origin Information Report. Afghanistan: Criminal law, customary justice and informal dispute resolution.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
July 2020
URL:
https://coi.euaa.europa.eu/administration/easo/PLib/2020_07_EASO_COI_Report_Afghanistan_Criminal_Law_Customary_Justice_Dispute_Resolutions.pdf
Accessed Date:
14 January 2021
Title:
The treatment of detainees in Afghanistan. Respecting human rights: a factor for trust.
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
September 2023
URL:
https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/unama_report_-_eng_-_treatment_of_detainees_sept_23_0.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan: Taliban ‘Vice' Handbook Abusive
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
29 October 2021
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/10/29/afghanistan-taliban-vice-handbook-abusive
Accessed Date:
27 January 2022
Title:
Afghanistan : Les juridictions en charge des affaires impliquant la sécurité nationale.Focus sur le Justice Center in Parwan (JCIP).
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
3 October 2022
URL:
https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/ofpra_flora/2210_afg_tribunaux_affaires_securite_nationale_157485_fmg.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Two years into Taliban rule, media repression worsens in Afghanistan
Source:
Committee to Protect Journalists
Date of Document:
14 August 2023
Author:
Beh Lih Yi; Waliullah Rahmani
URL:
https://cpj.org/2023/08/two-years-into-taliban-rule-media-repression-worsens-in-afghanistan/
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Afghan Media under the Taliban. Restrictions and Violations.
Source:
Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization
Date of Document:
September 2022
URL:
https://www.ictj.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/AHRDO_Report_Afghan-Media-Under-Taliban.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan: COI relating to Pashtuns
Source:
Country of Origin Research and Information
Date of Document:
20 January 2015
URL:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/54f9c87e4.html
Accessed Date:
21 February 2017
Title:
Afghanistan: ISIS Group Targets Religious Minorities
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
6 September 2022
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/09/06/afghanistan-isis-group-targets-religious-minorities
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
Pakistan: Widespread Abuses Force Afghans to Leave
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
28 November 2023
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/28/pakistan-widespread-abuses-force-afghans-leave
Accessed Date:
15 January 2024
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Afghanistan: Humanitarian situation. Version 3.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
August 2024
URL:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghanistan-country-policy-and-information-notes/country-policy-and-information-note-humanitarian-situation-afghanistan-february-2022-accessible
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan: Continued risk of forced eviction due to complex land rights and tenure (in)security
Date of Document:
27 February 2023
URL:
https://www.acaps.org/fileadmin/Data_Product/Main_media/20230227_acaps_thematic_report_continued_risk_of_forced_eviction_due_to_complex_land_rights_and_tenure_insecurity_in_afghanistan.pdf
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Conflict Management or Retribution? How the Taleban deal with land disputes between Kuchis and local communities
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
22 December 2022
Author:
Fabrizio Foschini
Editor:
Martine van Bijlert; Kate Clark
URL:
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/political-landscape/conflict-management-or-retribution-hoe-the-taleban-deal-with-land-disputes-between-kuchis-and-local-communities/
Accessed Date:
27 January 2023
Title:
Afghanistan : Situation sécuritaire et arbakis dans le district d'Alishang (province de Laghman)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
16 March 2023
URL:
https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/ofpra_flora/2303_afg_alp_a_alishang_158482_web.pdf
Accessed Date:
10 January 2024
Title:
Country of Origin Information Report. Afghanistan: Country focus.
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
November 2024
URL:
https://coi.euaa.europa.eu/administration/easo/PLib/2024_11_EUAA_COI_Report_Afghanistan_Country_Focus.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
The Emergent Taleban-Defined University: Enforcing a top-down reorientation and unquestioning obedience under ‘a war of thoughts'
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
July 2023
Editor:
Martine van Bijlert
URL:
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Higher-Education-Final.pdf
Accessed Date:
11 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan: Three years since the Taliban takeover civic space remains ‘closed'
Date of Document:
15 August 2024
URL:
https://www.civicus.org/index.php/media-resources/news/7233-afghanistan-three-years-since-the-taliban-takeover-civic-space-remains-closed
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
22 April 2024
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/afghanistan
Accessed Date:
14 May 2024
Title:
Instability in Afghanistan
Source:
Center for Preventative Action
Date of Document:
16 December 2025
URL:
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/war-afghanistan
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Divergence of Practice: The Handling of Complaints of Gender-Based Violence against Women and Girls by Afghanistan's de facto Authorities
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
December 2023
URL:
https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/the_handling_of_complaints_of_gbvawg_english_141223.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Violence Against Women Under the Taliban in Afghanistan. Women Break the Silence Gender-Based Torture in Asia.
Source:
World Organisation Against Torture; Philippine Alliance for Human Rights Advocates
URL:
https://www.omct.org/site-resources/legacy/Gender-based-Torture-in-Asia.pdf
Accessed Date:
9 January 2023
Title:
De Facto Authorities' Moral Oversight in Afghanistan: Impacts on Human Rights
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
July 2024
URL:
https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/moral_oversight_report_english_final.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Gender Country Profile: Afghanistan.
Source:
United Nations. UN Women.
Author:
Michelle Gehrig; Caitlin Williscrof
URL:
https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2024-06/Gender-country-profile-Afghanistan-en.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Afghanistan. Spotlight on Social impact (March-June 2024)
Date of Document:
7 August 2024
URL:
https://www.acaps.org/fileadmin/Data_Product/Main_media/20240807_ACAPS_Spotlight_on_social_impact_6.pdf
Accessed Date:
8 January 2025
Title:
Arms Smuggling Dynamics under Taliban Rule
Source:
Afghan Peace Watch; Small Arms Survey
Date of Document:
July 2023
Author:
Justine Fleischner
Editor:
Luisa Meneghetti; Emile LeBrun
URL:
https://smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/Situation%20Update-Smuggling-Dynamics-under-Taliban-Rule-Final.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : situation des membres des anciens « groupes de soulèvement populaire »
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
1 November 2022
URL:
https://www.osar.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Publikationen/Herkunftslaenderberichte/Mittlerer_Osten_-_Zentralasien/Afghanistan/221101_AFG_forces_soulevement_populaire.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
ILAC Rule of Law Report 2023. Justice Matters: A Status Report on Afghanistan Since the Taliban Takeover.
Source:
International Legal Assistance Consortium
Author:
Christopher Lehmann
URL:
https://ilac.se/resources/justice-matters-a-status-report-on-afghanistan-since-the-taliban-takeover-2023
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan : La prison de Pul-e Charkhiet les établissements pénitentiaires de Bagram
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
20 January 2023
URL:
https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/ofpra_flora/2301_afg_prison_pul_e_charkhi_et_bagram_108939_web.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Justice Denied: An Examination of the Legal and Judicial System in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan
Date of Document:
June 2023
URL:
https://rawadari.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Justice-Denied.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
May 2023
URL:
https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/05/hr_brief_on_cpdp_03052023-_english.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 January 2024
Title:
Afghanistan: Socio-Economic Survey 2025
Source:
European Union. European Union Agency for Asylum.
Date of Document:
24 October 2025
URL:
https://coi.euaa.europa.eu/administration/austria/PLib/2025-10-24_COI_CMS_Dossier%20Socio-Economic%20Survey%202025%20-%20AFGHANISTAN_Version_1.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan: Third update on Taliban decrees and directives relevant to the humanitarian response (July - December 2024)
Date of Document:
24 December 2024
URL:
https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/acaps-thematic-report-afghanistan-third-update-taliban-decrees-and-directives-relevant-humanitarian-response-july-december-2024
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Afghanistan: Healthcare and medical treatment. Version 2.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
October 2025
URL:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghanistan-country-policy-and-information-notes/country-policy-and-information-note-healthcare-and-medical-treatment-afghanistan-october-2025-accessible
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security: Report of the Secretary-General
Code:
A/80/366-S/2025/554
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
5 September 2025
URL:
https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/n2522699.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
After the Aid Axe: Charting a Path to Self-reliance in Afghanistan
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
2 October 2025
URL:
https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia-pacific/afghanistan/350-after-aid-axe-charting-path-self-reliance-afghanistan
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan Education Situation Report 2025
Source:
United Nations Children's Fund
Date of Document:
October 2025
URL:
https://www.unicef.org/afghanistan/media/12691/file/Report_AFG_Education_PRINT_final-.pdf.pdf
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
The Islamic State in Afghanistan: A Jihadist Threat in Retreat?
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
16 July 2025
URL:
https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-asia/afghanistan/b183-islamic-state-afghanistan-jihadist-threat-retreat
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2024.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 August 2025
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/afghanistan/
Accessed Date:
16 January 2026
Title:
Situation of human rights in Afghanistan: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
8 October 2025
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/A/80/432
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Manoeuvring Through the Cracks: The Afghan human rights movement under the Islamic Emirate
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
June 2025
URL:
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/themed-reports/rights-and-freedoms-themed-reports/manoeuvring-through-the-cracks-the-afghan-human-rights-movement-under-the-islamic-emirate/
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Report on the Implementation, Enforcement and Impact of the Law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.
Date of Document:
10 April 2025
URL:
https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/unama_pvpv_report_10_april_2025_english.pdf
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan. Freedom in the World 2025.
URL:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/afghanistan/freedom-world/2025
Accessed Date:
21 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan navigates controversies on digital identity journey
Date of Document:
2 July 2024
URL:
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202407/afghanistan-navigates-controversies-on-digital-identity-journey
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan: The situation of individuals who worked for the former government, international forces, or the judiciary under the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2004-2021)
URL:
https://asylos.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Afghanistan-COI-2025_final.pdf
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Access to justice and protection for women and girls and the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
16 June 2025
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/25
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Report on the impact of the Taliban's information practices and legal policies, particularly on women and girls
Source:
Austrian Red Cross. Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation.
Date of Document:
February 2025
URL:
https://www.ecoi.net/en/file/local/2122510/ACCORD_Afghanistan_February_2025_FINAL.pdf
Accessed Date:
17 January 2026
Title:
Shaking the Sky: Women's attempts to claim their inheritance rights under the Emirate
Source:
Afghanistan Analysts Network
Date of Document:
February 2025
Author:
Letty Phillips; Rama Mirzada
URL:
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/20250130-women-inheritance-FINAL-.pdf
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Fourth periodic report submitted by Afghanistan under article 18 of the Convention, due in 2024
Date of Document:
19 March 2025
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/CEDAW/C/AFG/4
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
10 July 2025
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/CEDAW/C/AFG/CO/4
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Shadow Report for the 4th Periodic Review on CEDAW: The Human Rights Situation of LBTI+ Women in Afghanistan: Before and After the Taliban's Takeover
Source:
Rainbow Afghanistan et al.
Date of Document:
1 April 2025
URL:
https://rainbowafghanistan.com/storage/uploads/pdf_en/1764937419_en.pdf
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Fifteenth report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team submitted pursuant to resolution 2716 (2023) concerning the Taliban and other associated individuals and entities constituting a threat to the peace, stability and security of Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
8 July 2024
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/S/2024/499
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Legal Pluralism in Afghanistan: Historical Context and Future Prospects
Source:
Afghanistan Rule of Law Observatory
Date of Document:
June 2024
URL:
https://arlo.online/upload/arlo_articles/files/Legal%20Pluralism%20in%20Afghanistan-%20Historical%20Context%20and%20Future%20Prospects.pdf
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Torture and Ill-Treatment: The state of prisons in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Date of Document:
June 2025
URL:
https://rawadari.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/RW_TortureReport_English-Final.pdf
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Double Betrayal: Abuses against Afghan Policewomen, Past and Present
Source:
Human Rights Watch.
Date of Document:
10 October 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/10/10/double-betrayal/abuses-against-afghan-policewomen-past-and-present
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Media Freedom in Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
November 2024
URL:
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/afghanistan/241120-Freedom-Medi-report.pdf
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan: Taliban Trample Media Freedom
Source:
Human Rights Watch.
Date of Document:
23 October 2025
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/23/afghanistan-taliban-trample-media-freedom
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Afghanistan's Ethnic Faultlines Under Taliban Rule
Source:
Centre for Strategic and Contemporary Research
Date of Document:
16 July 2024
URL:
https://cscr.pk/explore/themes/politics-governance/afghanistans-ethnic-faultlines-under-taliban-rule/
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Religious Freedom in Afghanistan: Three Years After the Taliban Takeover
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
20 March 2025
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/20/religious-freedom-afghanistan-three-years-after-taliban-takeover
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
Pakistan: Forced Returns Expose Afghans to Persecution, Destitution
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
19 March 2025
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/19/pakistan-forced-returns-expose-afghans-persecution-destitution
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
Title:
No safe haven: Human rights risks faced by persons involuntarily returned to Afghanistan
Source:
United Nations Assistance Mision in Afghanistan
Date of Document:
July 2025
URL:
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/afghanistan/unama-human-rights-risks-and-returns-en.pdf
Accessed Date:
19 January 2026
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