Submitted on Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Rejected on Tuesday 9th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Prevent the proposed cut of humanitarian aid to Yemen
Parliament has committed 0.7% of GDP to aid budgets since 2013, but this was recently slashed to 0.5%. Yemen desperately needs aid - the current government has undermined British aid by merging DFID and the FCO, and now threatens lives by cuts. I beg this government to show some compassion.
2 million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, and 20 million Yemeni people depend on aid. The UN chief described cutting aid as a 'death sentence'. The government says COVID has squeezed government finances - the proposed cut of £87m is relatively small for the UK, but invaluable for Yemen.
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