Rejected petition Support the people of Afghanistan

Rejected on 17 August 2021

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 was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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

Help the people of Afghanistan: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/594723

Redeploy UK Forces to Afghanistan to protect the citizens against the Taliban: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/594823

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.

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