Support the people of Afghanistan

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

Are we Global Britain? We must take action against the Taliban in Afghanistan. There is spiraling loss of life and devastating loss of freedom. Parliament should be recalled, we should support an emergency session of the UN security council, we should use our military capability to protect Afghans.

Britain has been at war against the Taliban in Afghanistan since we supported the American invasion in 2001. I’ve never visited Afghanistan nor do I know anyone who lives there, my only connection is that I am British and our identities as British citizens mean we are inseparably linked with the unravelling of Afghanistan today. Loss of government control to the Taliban, loss of rights for women and children, is as a direct result of our abrupt retreat, our interventions, our choices.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Help the people of Afghanistan: Help the people of Afghanistan.

Redeploy UK Forces to Afghanistan to protect the citizens against the Taliban: Redeploy UK Forces to Afghanistan to protect the citizens against the Taliban

Since you started your petition an emergency UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan has been held, and Parliament has been recalled to meet on Wednesday 18 August.

Timeline

14 Aug 2021	Petition opened for signatures
17 Aug 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 17 Aug 2021

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