Dear friend, 

Last Monday, people across Australia came together for candlelight vigils, as we marked one year since Kabul fell to the Taliban. Now, we need your help in calling on the Albanese government to immediately provide an additional 20,000 emergency humanitarian places for people fleeing the Taliban.

Please, can you email your MP today and ask them to speak up for people from Afghanistan

In May, 10 months after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the former government finally announced an additional 16,500 humanitarian places. However, instead of being offered immediate protection, the additional visas are being spread out over four years.

Journalists at risk of torture and civilians targeted for extrajudicial killing can’t wait four years. Women and girls banned from working or going to school can’t wait four years. And Hazaras, Sikhs and other persecuted minorities can’t wait four years. 

Can you please ask your MP to get behind the call for our government to meet its urgent moral obligation to help people get to safety and freedom?

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In the year since Kabul fell to the Taliban, the Australian government has received 40,000 applications, covering over 211,100 people from Afghanistan who are trying to get to safety. But so far, the government has only granted around 6,000 permanent visas.

Over 5100 people from Afghanistan who can never return to a Taliban ruled Afghanistan are still living without permanent protection and being prevented from reuniting with their families, despite living and working as part of our community for 10 years or more.

The action you took after Kabul fell to the Taliban a year ago eventually persuaded the former government to provide additional humanitarian places for people from Afghanistan - but the new government can and must do better.

Please take a moment to email your MP now to support our urgent call

Yours in solidarity,

The #ActionForAfghanistan Campaign