Home Country Guidance: Afghanistan 4. Subsidiary protection 4.3. Article 15(c) QD: indiscriminate violence in situations of armed conflict 4.3.4. Indiscriminate violence Table of Contents Introduction Guidance note Common analysis 1. Recent developments 2. Actors of persecution or serious harm 2.1. Taliban de facto authorities and affiliated groups 2.2. Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) 2.3. Other armed groups opposing the Taliban 2.4. Other non-State actors 3. Refugee status General remarks 3.1. Members of the security institutions of the former government 3.2. Public officials and servants of the former government and judicial system 3.3. Persons affiliated with foreign forces 3.4. Individuals perceived as members or supporters of the National Resistance Front (NRF) 3.5. Individuals perceived as members or supporters of the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) 3.6. Persons fearing forced recruitment 3.7. Human rights defenders, activists and others perceived as critical of the Taliban 3.8. Journalists and media workers 3.9. Educational personnel 3.10. Humanitarian workers 3.11. Individuals considered to have committed blasphemy and/or apostasy 3.12. Individuals perceived to have transgressed religious, moral and/or societal norms 3.13. Individuals (perceived as) influenced by foreign values (also commonly referred to as ‘Westernised’) 3.14. Ethnic and religious minorities 3.14.1. Overview 3.14.2. Individuals of Hazara ethnicity and other Shias 3.14.3. Hindus and Sikhs 3.14.4. Salafis 3.14.5. Tajiks 3.15. Women and girls 3.16. Children 3.16.1. Violence against children 3.16.2. Child recruitment 3.16.3. Child labour and trafficking in children 3.16.4. Children without a support network in Afghanistan 3.17. LGBTIQ persons 3.18. Individuals involved in blood feuds and land disputes 3.18.1. Blood feuds 3.18.2. Land disputes 3.19. Persons living with disabilities and persons with severe medical issues 3.20. Individuals who were born in Iran or Pakistan and/or who lived there for a long period of time 4. Subsidiary protection 4.1. Article 15(a) QD: death penalty or execution 4.2. Article 15(b) QD: torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 4.2.1. Healthcare 4.2.2. Socio-economic conditions 4.2.3. Arbitrary arrests and detentions, prison conditions and enforced disappearances 4.2.4. Corporal punishments 4.2.5. Criminal violence 4.2.6. Other circumstances 4.3. Article 15(c) QD: indiscriminate violence in situations of armed conflict 4.3.1. Preliminary remarks 4.3.2. Armed conflict (international or internal) 4.3.3. Qualification of a person as a ‘civilian’ 4.3.4. Indiscriminate violence a) Assessment of indiscriminate violence: general approach b) Security situation in Afghanistan: recent events Presence, methods and tactics of actors Security incidents Civilian casualties Conflict-related displacement c) Assessment of indiscriminate violence in Afghanistan 4.3.5. Serious and individual threat: assessment of personal circumstances 4.3.6. Qualification of the harm as ‘threat to (a civilian’s) life or person' 4.3.7. Nexus/’by reason of’ 5. Actors of protection 6. Internal protection alternative 7. Exclusion 7.1. Relevant circumstances 7.1.1. Human rights violations by armed actors since 2001 7.1.2. Past conflicts (1979-2001) 7.1.3. Criminality 7.2. Guidance with regard to Afghanistan 7.2.1. Article 12(2)(a) and Article 17(1)(a) QD 7.2.2. Article 12(2)(b) QD and Article 17(1)(b) QD 7.2.3. Article 12(2)(c) QD and Article 17(1)(c) QD 7.2.4. Article 17(1)(d) QD Abbreviations and glossary Country of origin information references Citation Please cite as: EUAA, '4.3.4. Indiscriminate violence' in Country Guidance: Afghanistan, May 2024. Copy Share Print COMMON ANALYSIS Last update: May 2024 The contents of this section include: a) Assessment of indiscriminate violence: general approach b) Security situation in Afghanistan: recent events Presence, methods and tactics of actors Security incidents Civilian casualties Conflict-related displacement c) Assessment of indiscriminate violence in Afghanistan Book traversal links for 4.3.4. Indiscriminate violence Previous Parent Next
