Afghanistan

Important Documents

December 2017 | EASO – European Asylum Support Office
Afghanistan

Report on targeting of individuals by armed actors in the conflict (targeting by insurgents; targeting by government forces; targeted profiles; family members)
Afghanistan - Individuals targeted by armed actors in the conflict (Special or Analytical Report, English)
en ID 1419800
December 2017 | EASO – European Asylum Support Office
Afghanistan

Report on individuals targeted under societal and legal norms (socio-legal framework; crimes; perceived transgressions of Islam; women; sexual orientation; children; land disputes; blood feuds; "Westernised" returnees)
Afghanistan - Individuals targeted under societal and legal norms (Special or Analytical Report, English)
en ID 1419802
December 2017 | IDMC – Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (formerly Global IDP Project)
Afghanistan

Report on the situation of returnees and internal displacement (national policy on IDPs; access to land, housing and shelter; economic security; documentation and access to services; relations between IDPs, returnee-IDPs and their host communities)
Going "home" to displacement; Afghanistan’s returnee-IDPs (Special or Analytical Report, English)
en ID 1420345
5 October 2017 | AI – Amnesty International
Afghanistan

Report on forced returns despite precarious security situation (case examples; developments regarding security and human rights; situation of Afghan asylum seekers in Europe; measures by European countries to facilitate returns to Afghanistan) (German translation see ID 349684)
Forced back to danger: Asylum-seekers returned from Europe to Afghanistan [ASA 11/6866/2017] (Special or Analytical Report, English)
en ID 1411051
August 2017 | EASO – European Asylum Support Office
Afghanistan

Report on socio-economic conditions, state protection and mobility in Kabul City, Mazar-e Sharif and Herat City (information on the cities; economic growth; employment; poverty; food security; education; health care; housing and living conditions; other topics) (update of ID 331929)
EASO Country of Origin Information Report Afghanistan; Key socio-economic indicators, state protection, and mobility in Kabul City, Mazar-e Sharif, and Herat City (Special or Analytical Report, English)
en ID 1405774
20 June 2017 | Ruttig, Thomas (Author), published by SEM – State Secretariat for Migration (formerly: Federal Office for Migration; Switzerland)
Afghanistan

Lecture on the situation in Kabul (security; socio-economic situation; migration; single women; outlook)
Notiz Afghanistan: Alltag in Kabul; Referat von Thomas Ruttig (Afghanistan Analysts Network) am 12. April 2017 (Special or Analytical Report, German)
de ID 1433179
March 2017 | Stahlmann, Friederike (Author), Habbe, Heiko (Author), published by Informationsverbund Asyl und Migration
Afghanistan

Country focus from German journal "Asylmagazin" with reports on the humanitarian situation of returnees and on security threats in everyday social life; information for practitioners confronted with collective deportations from Germany to Afghanistan
Themenschwerpunkt Afghanistan (aus: Asylmagazin 3/2017) (Special or Analytical Report, German)
de ID 1406731
September 2016 | EASO – European Asylum Support Office
Afghanistan

Report on recruitment by armed groups (Taliban, including background information on the Taliban; Islamic State in Khorasan; Hezb-e Islami; pro-government militias and ALP; child recruitment) (Update of ID 221592, also see ARC & DCR comment on this report: ID 331040)
Afghanistan; Recruitment by armed groups (Special or Analytical Report, English)
en ID 1131093
July 2016 | BFA Staatendokumentation (Austrian Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum, COI unit)
Afghanistan, Pakistan

Dossier on clan and tribal structures in Afghanistan and Pakistan (ethnic groups; Pashtunwali; Hazara; religious welfare structures) (for an English translation see ID 1397585)
AfPak - Grundlagen der Stammes- & Clanstruktur (Special or Analytical Report, German)
de ID 1236701
June 2016 | ACCORD – Austrian Centre for Country of Origin & Asylum Research and Documentation
Afghanistan

Report on seminar with two experts (introduction; society; state structure & governance; rule of law; anti-government groups; security; return; socio-economic situation)
Afghanistan; Dokumentation des Expertengespräches mit Thomas Ruttig und Michael Daxner vom 4. Mai 2016 (Special or Analytical Report, German)
de ID 1097373

Overview of security in Afghanistan

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Important Documents

Report on targeting of individuals by armed actors in the conflict (targeting by insurgents; targeting by government forces; targeted profiles; family members)

Report on individuals targeted under societal and legal norms (socio-legal framework; crimes; perceived transgressions of Islam; women; sexual orientation; children; land disputes; blood feuds; "Westernised" returnees)

Report on the situation of returnees and internal displacement (national policy on IDPs; access to land, housing and shelter; economic security; documentation and access to services; relations between IDPs, returnee-IDPs and their host communities)

Report on forced returns despite precarious security situation (case examples; developments regarding security and human rights; situation of Afghan asylum seekers in Europe; measures by European countries to facilitate returns to Afghanistan) (German translation see ID 349684)

Report on socio-economic conditions, state protection and mobility in Kabul City, Mazar-e Sharif and Herat City (information on the cities; economic growth; employment; poverty; food security; education; health care; housing and living conditions; other topics) (update of ID 331929)

Lecture on the situation in Kabul (security; socio-economic situation; migration; single women; outlook)

Country focus from German journal "Asylmagazin" with reports on the humanitarian situation of returnees and on security threats in everyday social life; information for practitioners confronted with collective deportations from Germany to Afghanistan

Report on recruitment by armed groups (Taliban, including background information on the Taliban; Islamic State in Khorasan; Hezb-e Islami; pro-government militias and ALP; child recruitment) (Update of ID 221592, also see ARC & DCR comment on this report: ID 331040)

Dossier on clan and tribal structures in Afghanistan and Pakistan (ethnic groups; Pashtunwali; Hazara; religious welfare structures) (for an English translation see ID 1397585)

Report on seminar with two experts (introduction; society; state structure & governance; rule of law; anti-government groups; security; return; socio-economic situation)