AFGHANISTAN
- Current Issues
- Country Background, Politics & Law
- Human Rights Issues
- Security, Humanitarian Issues and Protection Related Issues
- Ethnicity
- Please Note: The information in this topics & issues file is no longer updated (last update November 2008). It remains online for archive purposes until further notice.
Security
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Humanitarian Issues
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Social security |
Internal displacement |
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Housing |
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Health
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Protection Related Issues
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Internal flight alternative |
Third countries |
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Return/repatriation |
07.09.2007 - Source: UK Border Agency (Home Office)
Cancerous diseases can not be treated in Afghanistan ("Country of Origin Information Report; Afghanistan") [ID 22396]
"Currently, no cancerous diseases can be treated in Afghanistan. (UNHCR, May 2006)"
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07.09.2007 - Source: UK Border Agency (Home Office)
Information on the situation of mentally ill persons ("Country of Origin Information Report; Afghanistan") [ID 22544]
For information on the situation of mentally ill persons see chapter 26 (pages: 186 - 188)
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2006 - Source: World Health Organization
Report on mental health system (policy and legislative framework, mental health services, mental health in primary health care, human resources, public education) ("WHO-AIMS Report on Mental Health System in Afghanistan") [ID 22392]
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13.06.2003 - Source: Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Due to the shortage of medical facilities, mentally ill people are treated at holy shrines, with no drugs and no counselling ("Tough Cure for Mental Problems") [#13607], [ID 2417]
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