This part of the country guidance includes the common analysis. The contents of this part include:
- General remarks
- 1. Recent developments
- 2. Actors of persecution and serious harm
- 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
- 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 '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