Rejected petition Take urgent action to get aid and food to 1.5m starving children in Yemen.

Yemen is fighting a bitter civil war and is on the verge of collapse. 1.5m children are at risk of starvation and death from diseases such as diarrhoaea because they do not have the medicines needed.
The UK needs to do more to broker a ceasefire and get aid to the desperate people.

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BBC news report this week.
Unicef and Oxfam both highlight this potential humantitarian disaster.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/163892

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Date submitted 25 September 2016
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