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2.9.5. Women perceived as ‘Westernised’

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Guidance note
    • General remarks
    • Actors of persecution and serious harm
    • Refugee status
      • Guidance on particular profiles with regard to qualification for refugee status
    • Subsidiary protection
      • Article 15(a) QD
      • Article 15(b) QD
      • Article 15(c) QD
    • Actors of protection
    • Internal protection alternative
    • Exclusion
      • a. Crime against peace, war crime or crime against humanity
      • b. Serious (non-political) crime
      • c. Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN
      • d. Danger to the community or the security of the Member State
  • Common analysis
  • General remarks
  • 1. Actors of persecution or serious harm
    • Preliminary remarks
    • 1.1. Taliban
    • 1.2. Former State actors and resistance to the Taliban
    • 1.3. Haqqani network
    • 1.4. Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP)
    • 1.5. Al Qaeda
    • 1.6. Foreign terrorist groups and fighters
    • 1.7. Other non-State actors
  • 2. Refugee status
    • Preliminary remarks
    • Analysis of particular profiles
      • 2.1. Persons affiliated with the former Afghan government
      • 2.2. Individuals who have worked for foreign military troops or perceived as supporting them
      • 2.3. Religious leaders
      • 2.4. Persons fearing forced recruitment by armed groups
      • 2.5. Educational personnel
      • 2.6. Healthcare professionals and humanitarian workers, including individuals working for national and international NGOs
      • 2.7. Journalists, media workers and human rights defenders
      • 2.8. Children
        • 2.8.1. Violence against children: overview
        • 2.8.2. Child marriage
        • 2.8.3. Child recruitment
        • 2.8.4. Child labour and child trafficking
        • 2.8.5. Education of children and girls in particular
        • 2.8.6. Children without a support network in Afghanistan
      • 2.9. Women
        • 2.9.1. Violence against women and girls: overview
        • 2.9.2. Harmful traditional marriage practices
        • 2.9.3. Women in public roles
        • 2.9.4. Women perceived to have transgressed moral codes
        • 2.9.5. Women perceived as ‘Westernised’
        • 2.9.6. Single women and female heads of households
      • 2.10. Individuals perceived to have transgressed moral codes
      • 2.11. Individuals perceived as ‘Westernised’
      • 2.12. LGBTIQ persons
      • 2.13. Persons living with disabilities and persons with severe medical issues
      • 2.14. Individuals considered to have committed blasphemy and/or apostasy
      • 2.15. Ethnic and religious minorities
        • 2.15.1. Individuals of Hazara ethnicity
        • 2.15.2. Shia, including Ismaili
        • 2.15.3. Hindus and Sikhs
        • 2.15.4. Baha’i
      • 2.16. Individuals involved in blood feuds and land disputes
        • 2.16.1. Blood feuds
        • 2.16.2. Land disputes
      • 2.17. Individuals accused of ordinary crimes
      • 2.18. Individuals who were born in Iran or Pakistan and/or who lived there for a long period of time
  • 3. Subsidiary protection
    • 3.1. Article 15(a) QD
    • 3.2. Article 15(b) QD
    • 3.3. Article 15(c) QD
      • Preliminary remarks
      • 3.3.1. Armed conflict (international or internal)
      • 3.3.2. Qualification of a person as a ‘civilian’
      • 3.3.3. Indiscriminate violence
        • Assessment of indiscriminate violence: general approach
        • Security situation in Afghanistan: recent events
      • 3.3.4. Serious and individual threat
      • 3.3.5. Qualification of the harm as ‘threat to (a civilian’s) life or person
      • 3.3.6. Nexus/’by reason of’
  • 4. Actors of protection
  • 5. Internal protection alternative
  • 6. Exclusion
    • Preliminary remarks
    • 6.1. Exclusion grounds
      • 6.1.1. Crime against peace, war crime, crime against humanity
      • 6.1.2. Serious (non-political) crime 
      • 6.1.3. Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations
      • 6.1.4. Danger to the community or the security of the Member State
    • 6.2. Relevant circumstances
      • 6.2.1. Past conflicts (1979-2001)
      • 6.2.2. Conflicts since 2001
      • 6.2.3. Criminality
    • 6.3. Guidance with regard to Afghanistan
      • 6.3.1. Article 12(2)(a) QD and Article 17(1)(a) QD
      • 6.3.2. Article 12(2)(b) QD and Article 17(1)(b) QD
      • 6.3.3. Article 12(2)(c) QD and Article 17(1)(c) QD
  • Abbreviations and glossary
  • Country of origin information references
  • Relevant case law

 

Please cite as: EASO, '2.9.5. Women perceived as ‘Westernised’' in Country Guidance Afghanistan, November 2021.

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  • 2.9.1  Violence against women and girls: overview
  • 2.9.2. Harmful traditional marriage practices
  • 2.9.3. Women in public roles
  • 2.9.4. Women perceived to have transgressed moral codes
  • 2.9.5. Women perceived as ‘Westernised’
  • 2.9.6. Single women and female heads of households

 


 

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