UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan

Document source:

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date:
July 2009

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Title

UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan

Document source

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Date

July 2009

Document number

Rev.

Document type

Country/Situation Specific Policy & Guidance

Collection

Policy & Guidance

Country

Afghanistan

Keywords

Asylum policy

Child labour

Children's rights

Complementary forms of protection

Domestic violence

Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment

Gender-based persecution

Human rights and fundamental freedoms

International protection

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI)

Non-refoulement

Persecution based on political opinion

Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity

Religious persecution (including forced conversion)

Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)

Sexual and reproductive rights

Social group persecution

Transgression of social / cultural norms

Women's rights

Women-at-risk

Protected persons

Asylum-seekers

Refugees

Returnees

Comments:

Superseded and replaced by the UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan (17 December 2010).
The Guidelines originally superseded and replaced the UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Afghan Asylum-Seekers (31 December 2007) and the Afghanistan Security Update Relating to Complementary Forms of Protection (6 October 2008).

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