Submitted on Friday 18th February 2022
Rejected on Monday 21st February 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Stop starving the people of Afghanistan
The UK is one of the countries directly responsible for the state Afghanistan is currently in. Sign this petition to demand the UK government pay its part of the $4.4 billion the UN is requesting to help save Afghanistan and use its international position to encourage other countries to do the same.
The World Food Programme describes the situation in Afghanistan as “the worst humanitarian crisis on earth”. At least a million children under five are at risk of dying of malnutrition. 95% of people don’t have enough to eat.
80% of Afghanistan’s budget comes from external aid. Most of this was suspended following the change in government and financial assets (~$10bn) were frozen causing economic collapse. Afghanistan is also suffering from the worst drought for 27 years.
The withholding of foreign aid is a form of collective punishment on the people of Afghanistan. Starving an entire country and destroying its economy is not going to get rid of the Taliban.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The UK is currently contributing to aid in Afghanistan
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-59518628
We could accept a petition calling for the Government to increase aid to Afghanistan, if that's what you'd like to see happen.
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