Human Rights Issues

• Overview
• Death penalty
• Torture/Ill-treatment
• Arbitrary detention
• Fair trial
• Prison conditions
  • Overview
  • Informal and secret prisons
  • Women's prison Kabul Welayat
• Demonstrations
• Ethnic affiliation
• Religious affiliation
  • Overview
  • Shia and Sunni
  • Hindu and Sikhs
  • Bahai
  • Christians & Converts
  • Secular attitude and atheism
  • Blasphemy
• Political affiliation
  • Persons affiliated with the former Communist regime
  • Violence related to selection of candidates and Loya Jirga proceedings
  • Hezb-e Islami
  • Former members of the Taliban
• NGOs and Human Rights Defenders
• Women
  • Overview
  • Gender-based violence
  • Forced marriages and child marriages
  • Social norms
  • Women's health
  • Education of women and girls
  • Legal situation of women
  • Political participation of women
• Children/Youth
  • Overview
  • Forced marriages and child marriages
  • Juvenile detention
  • Child labour
  • Education of children and juveniles
• Sexual orientation
• Media/Journalists
  • General freedom of expression
  • Journalists
• Military Service/Desertion
• Refugees
• Music/Art
• Positions on groups at risk
  • UNHCR
  • Amnesty International
  • Human Rights Watch
  • UK Home Office
  • European Council on Refugees and Exiles