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Reverse 2023/24 cuts to overseas aid to save thousands of lives

Submitted by Samuel Lawrence on Friday 1st September 2023

Published on Wednesday 13th September 2023

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 13th March 2024

Signatures: 135

Petition Action

Reverse 2023/24 cuts to overseas aid to save thousands of lives

Petition Details

Thousands of lives will be lost due to spending cuts of over £900m to the 2023/24 Overseas Development Assistance budget, according to the Government's 19 July Equality Impact Assessment. To prevent these deaths and many other harms laid out in the assessment, these cuts should be reversed.

Additional Information

Quotes from the government assessment:

South Sudan: “27,000 children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition will go untreated, of which 12 per cent (over 3,000) could die."

Yemen: “Half a million women and children in Yemen will not receive healthcare and fewer preventable deaths will be avoided”.

Pan Africa: “number of maternal deaths prevented will drop from 2,531 to just over 1,000”.

We cannot accept that this much preventable death and suffering is justified. The cuts must be reversed.


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