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

• 1. Recent developments
• 2. Actors of persecution and serious harm
  • 2.1. Taliban de facto authorities and affiliated groups
  • 2.2. 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
  • 3.15. Women and girls
  • 3.16. Children
  • 3.17. LGBTIQ persons
  • 3.18. Individuals involved in blood feuds and 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
  • 4.3. 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
    • 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
  • 7.2. Guidance with regard to Afghanistan