U.S. Department
of Justice
Republic of Afghanistan
US Government Reports
- State Department - Country Documents
Foreign Government Reports
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- AFG106237.E - Afghanistan: Requirements and procedures to obtain tazkira [tazkera], including from abroad; appearance and security features (2017-February 2019) - February 2019
- AFG106043.E - Afghanistan: Passport Law of 25 October 2015; appearance and security features of passports; specimen of passports (2015-January 2018) - February 2018
- AFG105732.E - Afghanistan: 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, and whether it refers to the place of birth of the owner of the passport or their father's (2015-January 2017) - February 2017
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office – EASO Country of Origin Report – Afghanistan: Key Socio-Economic Indicators – 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
- Department of Labor - Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - 2021, 2020
- Congressional Research Service
- Child Soldiers Prevention Act: Security Assistance Restrictions - Nov. 2020
- United Kingdom: Home Office Country Policy and Information Note - Afghanistan: Unaccompanied children - Oct. 2021
- UK Border Agency Country of Origin Information (COI) Report - Children - July 2011
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Coalition to stop the use of Child Soldiers - Child Soldiers Global Report - 2004
- Child Soldiers International - Ongoing Recruitment and Use of Children by Parties to the Armed Conflict in Afghanistan - March 2016
- Human Rights Watch Annual Report - Children's rights - 2021
- “Schools are Failing Boys Too” The Taliban’s Impact on Boys’ Education in Afghanistan - Dec. 2023
- Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
- Do children aged 15/16 years old get married in Afghanistan? - Apr. 2011
- How widespread is child prostitution in Afghanistan? - Sept. 2010
Foreign Government Reports
- UK Home Office Country Information and Guidance
- Background Note: Afghanistan - Corruptions – Dec. 2020
- Afghanistan: Unaccompanied children - October 2021
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- State Structure and Security Forces – Aug. 2020
- Human Right Watch
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“Today We Shall All Die” Afghanistan’s Strongmen and the Legacy of Impunity - March 2015
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Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- Country Guidance: Afghanistan - Common analysis and guidance note –Persons living with disabilities and persons with severe medical issues - Dec. 2020
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Country of Orgin Research and Information (CORI) - CORI Thematic Report: Elderly and Disabled Kabul, Mogadishu, Kinshasa - March 2015
- Human Rights Watch Profiles - “Disability Is Not Weakness”: Discrimination and Barriers Facing Women and Girls with Disabilities in Afghanistan - April 2020
- Library of Congress
- Afghanistan: President Approves New Election Law - 2013
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) report
- Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance - April 2013, Jan. 2012, Sept. 2010, May 2010, Feb. 2010
- Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- VOTING TOGETHER: Why Afghanistan's 2009 Elections were (and were not) a Disaster - Nov. 2009
- Election Guide - Recent Elections
- International Crisis Group
- Afghanistan’s Low-turnout Election, Insecurity and Unsettled Prospects for Peace - October 2019
- Afghanistan: Elections and the Crisis of Governance - November 2009
- Afghanistan Elections: Endgame or New Beginning? - July 2005
- Afghanistan: From Presidential to Parliamentary Elections - Nov 2004
- Elections and Security in Afghanistan - March 2004
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- Country Guidance: Afghanistan - Common analysis and guidance note – Ethnic and religious minorities – Individuals involved in blood feuds and land disputes - November 2021
- EASO Country of Origin Information Report - Afghanistan Networks - Jan. 2018
- Minority Rights Group International
- Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
- Afghanistan: 6th European Country of Origin Information Seminar, Vienna, 13-14 November 2000, Final Report - Ethnicity - May 2001
- Afghanistan: 5th UNHCR Country of Origin Information Workshop, Bratislava, 13-14 December 1999, Final Report - Situation Update - Ethnic and political persecution - May 2000
Foreign Government Reports
- UK Home Office Country Policy and Information Note Afghanistan: Hazaras - Aug. 2018
- UK Border Agency Country of Origin Information (COI) Report - Hazaras - April 2008
- Norway Country of Origin Information Centre (Landinfo) - Hazaras and Afghan insurgent groups - Oct 2016
- Austrailian Migration Review Tribunal - Refugee Review Tribunal
- AFG36456 - Apr. 2010
- Please provide information about whether in 1989 or 1990 there was trouble in Afghanistan whereby Hazaras were being killed by the Pushtuns, Tajiks and Uzbeks?
- Is there evidence to confirm Afghan Hazaras escaped to Pakistan around this time?
- Please provide information on the treatment or protection of illegal Afghan Hazara Shia Muslim refugees, especially those who moved into Pakistan around 1989 or 1990, by the Pakistani authorities. Is the treatment of those who moved then any different to the treatment of those who moved more recently?
- Please provide information about the Wahabis and Sunni Muslims and the Baloch targeting the Hazaras in Pakistan.
- Is there information indicating that Hazara people in Quetta are unable to go out freely at night or that they are found dead in the streets?
- Please provide information on the treatment of the Hazaras of the Shia Muslim religion in Afghanistan and whether they face serious harm in Afghanistan.
- Please provide information on whether the authorities in Afghanistan, most of whom are not Hazara, can actually protect Hazaras.
- AFG36160 - Feb. 2010
- Can you provide information on whether Shia Muslims of Hazara identity are likely to experience ill-treatment more than any other ethnic group in Afghanistan?
- AFG30446 - Aug. 2006
- What is their known or likely attitude to Hazaras/Shi'a Muslims?
- Can a Hazara safely return to Kabul and/or Mazar-e-Sharif directly (e.g. by plane), or do they have to return through occupied and/or dangerous areas?
- AFG36456 - Apr. 2010
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- AFG106491.E - Afghanistan: 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) - April 2016
- AFG103757.E - Situation and treatment of the Hazara people - July 2011
- Danish Immigration Service - Report on fact-finding mission to Afghanistan - Hazaras - July 1998
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Human Rights Watch
- Afghanistan: Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan - Feb. 2001
- Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
- Information on the Hazara - January 2014
- Treatment of Hazara by government forces - Nov. 2009 - Nov. 2010
- World Directory of Minorities - Hazaras
Non-Government Organization Reports
- World Directory of Minorities - Kuchis
Non-Government Organization Reports
- World Directory of Minorities - Nuristanis
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Human Right Watch
- Paying for the Taliban's Crimes: Abuses Against Ethnic Pashtuns in Northern Afghanistan - Apr. 2002
- World Directory of Minorities - Pashtuns
- International Crisis Group - Afghanistan: The Problem of Pashtun Alienation - August 2003
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Human Rights Watch
- Tajik Refugees in Northern Afghanistan: Obstacles to Repatriation - May 1996
- World Directory of Minorities - Tajiks
Non-Government Organization Reports
- World Directory of Minorities - Uzbeks and Turkmen
Non-Government Organization Reports
- World Directory of Minorities - Jogi and Chori Frosh
Non-Government Organization Reports
- World Directory of Minorities - Panjshiris
US Government Reports
- Congressional Research Service
- Afghan Women and Girls: Status and Congressional Action – Aug. 2021
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- AFG104238.E - Whether seigha (temporary marriage) is practiced in Afghanistan and by which groups - October 2012
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Amnesty International
- Afghanistan: “They are the revolution”: Afghan women fighting for their future under the Taliban rule – Nov. 2021
- Afghanistan: Their lives on the line: Women human rights defenders under attack in Afghanistan - April 2015
- International Crisis Group
- Women and Conflict in Afghanistan - Oct 2013
- Afghanistan: Women and Reconstruction - March 2003
- Human Rights Watch Annual Report - Women's and Girl's Rights - 2021
- Human Rights Watch
- “I Thought Our Life Might Get Better” Implementing Afghanistan’s Elimination of Violence against Women Law – Aug. 2021
- “I Would Like Four Kids — If We Stay Alive” Women’s Access to Health Care in Afghanistan – May 2021
- "I Had To Run Away" The Imprisonment of Women and Girls for "Moral Crimes" in Afghanistan - Mar. 2012
- The "Ten-Dollar Talib" and Women's Rights: Afghan Women and the Risks of Reintegration and Reconciliation - July 2010
- “We Have the Promises of the World” Women’s Rights in Afghanistan - Dec. 2009
- Humanity Denied: Systematic Violations of Women's Rights in Afghanistan - Oct 2001
- Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
- Afghanistan: Information on arranged marriages including consequences of refusal - October 2015
US Government Reports
- State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
- Austrailian Migration Review Tribunal - Refugee Review Tribunal
- AFG36497 - Apr. 2010
- Please provide information on state protection.
- AFG30446 - Aug. 2006
- How are persons who have been Westernised treated in Afghanistan, Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif?
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- AFG104294.E - Human rights abuses committed by the Afghanistan National Army and security forces (1989-2009) - April 2013
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- EASO COI Query: Information on the treatment of Afghan nationals perceived as ‘Westernised’ (2018-2020) – Sept. 2020
- Afghanistan: Key socio-economic indicators – Focus on Kabul City, Mazar-e Sharif and Herat City – Employment - 2019
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Amnesty International: Death Sentences and Executions - 2020
- Amnesty International
- Too many missed opportunities: Human rights in Afghanistan under the Karzai administration - March 2014
- Freedom House - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
- Human Rights Watch Report
- International Crisis Group
- Beyond Emergency Relief: Averting Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Catastrophe - December 2021
- Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
- Information on the stability of the Afghan government - Aug. 2012
- Information regarding the treatment of human rights by the authorities in Afghanistan. - Jan. 2011
- Information on people reclaiming their land or property after returning to Afghanistan, having spent years away from the country. - Oct. 2009
Foreign Government Reports
- Norway Country of Origin Information Centre (Landinfo) - National Arrest Warrants - Feb. 2011
- Can Landinfo say anything in general about the issuing the national arrest warrants in Afghanistan? Is it likely that an arrest warrant would be issued to a person who has made blasphemous statements by criticising a mullah during Friday prayers?
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- Country Guidance: Afghanistan - Country Guidance -Nov. 2021
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Amnesty International: Death Sentences and Executions - 2020
- Human Rights Watch Annual Report - Arbitrary Detention, Torture, and Discriminatory Practices - 2020
- Human Rights Watch Profile - "Troops in Contact": Airstrikes and Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan - 2008
- Human Rights Watch Profile - “Just Don’t Call It a Militia” Impunity, Militias, and the “Afghan Local Police” - Sept. 2011
- International Crisis Group
- Reforming Afghanistan's Broken Judiciary - Nov. 2010
- Reforming Afghanistan's Police - Aug. 2007
- Afghanistan: Judicial Reform and Transitional Justice - January 2003
- Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
- Information on corruption within the police force - Sept. 2009
- Information on the availability of a fair trial - Sept. 2009
- Policing in Afghanistan: Still Searching for a Strategy - December 2008
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
- Afghanistan: What is the penalty in Afghan law ( for the man ) if an unmarried man has a sexual relationship with an unmarried woman where...the unmarried woman becomes pregnant; parties are of different ethnicities; parties are of different branches of Muslim religion (one Shia muslim and other party Sunni muslim); parties are both minors (is there an age of majority in Afghanistan for women and men with regard to sexual relationships. Is a sexual relationship considered rape when parties are minors?) - Dec. 2010
- University of Texas at Austin - Map Collection
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
European Asylum Support Office
Afghanistan: Key socio-economic indicators – Focus on Kabul City, Mazar-e Sharif and Herat City - Map – Aug. 2020
Foreign Government Reports
- Austrailian Migration Review Tribunal - Refugee Review Tribunal
- AFG36497 - Apr. 2010
- Please provide recent information on Jaghouri district in general, but also with reference to ethnic make-up, Taliban presence, political governance and economic circumstances.
- AFG36222 - Feb. 2010
- Please provide some information about Maydan Shahr and Markazi Bihsud districts in Wardak province
- AFG36497 - Apr. 2010
Foreign Government Reports
- UK Border Agency Country of Origin Information (COI) Report
- Afghanistan: Medical and healthcare – Oct. 2021
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- World Health Organization Page
US Government Reports
- CIA - Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports -
- Afghanistan: Background and U.S. Policy In Brief - March 2021
- Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy - Dec. 2017
- Austrailian Migration Review Tribunal - Refugee Review Tribunal
- AFG37401 - Sept. 2010
- Are supporters of Dr. Abdullah Abdullah (including government employees) at risk of harm in Afghanisatn because of that support?
- In what period was Hajji Bahlol Bahej Governor of Panjshir province? What are his current circumstances? How influential is he?
- AFG36222 - Feb. 2010
- Please provide information about whether anyone who is, or is not, affiliated with the Nasr party/Hezb-i Wahdat Khalili would be likely to face ill-treatment or other adverse consequences.
- AFG36160 - Feb. 2010
- Please provide general information about what the Nasr Party is, what they stand for, and who they are affiliated with. Do they have anything to do with the Taliban?
- AFG31599 - April 2007
- Could a grade 6 child be a member of PDPA?
- Was there a youth group?
- AFG30446 - Aug. 2006
- What is the present role of Wahdat in Afghan politics?
- AFG37401 - Sept. 2010
- Danish Immigration Service
- Political Conditions, Security and Human Rights Situation in Afghanistan - May 2002
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- State Structure and Security Forces – Aug. 2020
Non-Government Organization Reports
- International Crisis Group
- Afghanistan: The Future of the National Unity Government - April 2017
- Afghanistan's Political Transition - Oct 2014
- Afghanistan's New Legislature: Making Democracy Work - May 2006
- Political Parties in Afghanistan - March 2005
- Afghanistan: The Constitutional Loya Jirga - December 2003
- The Loya Jirga: One Small Step Forward? - May 2002
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Amnesty International Report
- Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
- Country Report Afghanistan. 11th European Country of Origin Information Seminar (Vienna, 21-22 June 2007) - IDPs return, the protracted and new/battle affected IDPs: - November 2007
- Afghanistan: 5th UNHCR Country of Origin Information Workshop, Bratislava, 13-14 December 1999, Final Report - Situation Update - Displacement - May 2000
- Human Rights Watch Report
- Closed Door Policy: Afghan Refugees in Pakistan and Iran - Feb. 2002
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
- Disaster Displacement In Asia And The Pacific - Sept. 2022
- Severity of internal displacement Report - Nov. 2021
- Afghanistan: What Now for Refugees? - Aug. 2009
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan - August 2013
US Government Reports
- State Department International Religious Freedom Report - 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
- U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
- U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
- UK Home Office Country Information and Guidance
- Danish Immigration Service - Report on fact-finding mission to Afghanistan - Religious matters - July 1998
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- Country Guidance: Afghanistan - Common analysis and guidance note - Individuals considered to have committed blasphemy and/or apostasy - Dec. 2020
US Government Reports
- U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom - Factsheet on Shari’a and LGBTI Persons – March 2021
Foreign Government Reports
- UK Home Office Country Information and Guidance
- Afghanistan: Humanitarian situation - April 2022
- Afghanistan: Security - April 2022
- Norway Country of Origin Information Centre (Landinfo) - Afghanistan: The security situation in Nangarhar province - Oct. 2016
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO) -
- Afghanistan: Security situation – Sept. 2021, June 2021, Dec. 2020, Sept. 2020, 2017, 2016,
- EASO COI Query: Education sector: personnel and students: Treatment of education personnel by AGEs – Sept. 2020
- Afghanistan Security Situation - Sept. 2020
- Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
- Afghanistan: 5th UNHCR Country of Origin Information Workshop, Bratislava, 13-14 December 1999, Final Report - Situation Update - Fighting - May 2000
- Human Rights Watch
- No Safe Place” Insurgent Attacks on Civilians in Afghanistan - May 2018
- "I Won't Be A Doctor, and One Day You'll Be Sick" Girls' Access to Education in Afghanistan - Oct. 2017
- “Education on the Front Lines” - Military Use of Schools in Afghanistan’s Baghlan Province - 2016
- Getting Away with Murder: The Impunity of International Forces in Afghanistan - 2008
- Blood-Stained Hands - Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity - June 2005
- "ALL OUR HOPES ARE CRUSHED: Violence and Repression in Western Afghanistan" - Nov. 2002
- Crisis of Impunity - The Role of Pakistan, Russia, and Iran in Fueling the Civil War - July 2001
- Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
- International Crisis Group
- Afghanistan's Insurgency after the Transition - May 2014
- A Force in Fragments: Reconstituting the Afghan National Army - May 2010
- Afghanistan: Getting Disarmament Back on Track - Feb. 2005
- Countering Afghanistan's Insurgency: No Quick Fixes - November 2006
- Disarmament and Reintegration in Afghanistan - September 2003
- Securing Afghanistan: The Need for More International Action - March 2002
- Asylum Research Consultancy - Afghanistan Security Situation - Jan. 2016
US Government Reports
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Taliban Establish Control Over Afghanistan Amid Government Collapse and U.S. Withdrawal – Aug. 2021
- Afghanistan: Background and U.S. Policy: In Brief – February 2022
Foreign Government ReporT
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- AFG105047.E - Afghanistan: Night letters [Shab Nameha, Shabnamah, Shabnameh], including appearance (2010-2015) - Feb 2015
- Amnesty International
- Afghanistan: “They are the revolution”: Afghan women fighting for their future under the Taliban rule – Nov. 2021
- The Fate of Thousands Hanging in The Balance: Afghanistan’s Fall into the Hands of the Taliban – Sept. 2021
- Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
- What areas are presently under Taliban/AGF control - October 2014
- Information on whether persons who worked in a civilian capacity for American companies were targeted in Afghanistan by the Taliban. Information on whether death threats / warning letters were issued by the Taliban, otherwise "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Ministry of Intelligence, Directorate of Administration". Are these death threats from the Taliban considered credible by the Afghan authorities and non-governmental agencies? HaveAmerican companies or the Afghan authorities provided any form of significant protection to Afghan workers and their families? - May 2012
- Information on relations between Hizb e Islami and Taliban insurgents? - Oct. 2011
- Information on the calendar used by the Taliban in Afghanistan. - Apr. 2010
- Possibility of relocation within Afghanistan for those who fear the Taliban - March 2010
- Any clear information about risks to people who run foul of Taliban and also the local commander (who also happens to be a local administrator). What are the risks to a potential victim of Taliban revenge, or revenge from a local commander? - Oct. 2009
- International Crisis Group
- Human Rights Watch - “You Have No Right to Complain” Education, Social Restrictions, and Justice in Taliban-Held Afghanistan - June 2020
Not Available
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
- Information on relations between Hizb e Islami and Taliban insurgents? - Oct. 2011
- Information on role of Hizb e Islami in the insurgency. Any reports of killings of civilians by Hizb e Islami in last few years. How do Afghan authorities treat Hizb e Islami insurgents that are arrested or captured? Any reports on what has happened any high profile insurgents when they get captured or if they surrender to govt forces ? any executions by government forces? - Oct. 2011
- Treatment of ex-members of Hizb-e-islami by government in Afghanistan - Sept. 2011
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office
- Afghanistan: Key socio-economic indicators – Focus on Kabul City, Mazar-e Sharif and Herat City – Internal mobility - Aug. 2020
Non-Government Organization Reports
Foreign Government Report
- Austrailian Migration Review Tribunal - Refugee Review Tribunal
- AFG33041 - Feb. 2008
- Is there any current information on whether an Afghan national who has resided for any period in a western country would be subject to harm on return to Afghanistan now because they would be perceived as having been secularised?
- AFG31828 - June 2007
- What is the latest country information on the treatment of Westernised returnees to Afghanistan?
- AFG33041 - Feb. 2008
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- AFG103650.E - Situation of Afghan exchange students who study in the United States; whether they face difficulties from Afghan authorities or society when they return to Afghanistan - Dec. 2010
- ZZZ103544.E - Afghan citizens claiming asylum in the US; statistics on the rates of approval and rejection; types of claims; social and professional acceptance of Afghans in the US; difficulties encountered by Afghans in the US - July 2010
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- EASO COI Query: Journalists, media workers, and human rights defenders – Sept. 2020
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Freedom House
- Human Rights Watch
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“Stop Reporting or We’ll Kill Your Family” - Threats to Media Freedom in Afghanistan - Jan. 2015
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US Government Reports
- Trafficking in Persons Report - 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Intergovernmental Organization Reports
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons - South Asia - 2016
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