Prime Minister

Rishi

Sunak

Government

Dear Prime Minister,

I am writing to express my concern about the situation in Afghanistan now that the emergency evacuations have ceased. Urgent action remains needed to protect Afghan civilians targeted by the Taliban. We cannot leave people at risk; teachers, journalists, and women human rights defenders, among many others, face a profoundly unsafe and uncertain future.

The UK Government pledged to champion human rights in Afghanistan and support these brave women and men struggling for a safer and fairer future in Afghanistan. You must not abandon them now.

I urge you to do everything in your power to:

- Ensure asylum is both available and accessible to Afghans who are at risk of reprisal and persecution in the country and need to escape.

- Ensure the UK's relocation (ARAP) remains open for as long as there remain people eligible under it; and extend its scope to both include family members, who would have been eligible but for a locally employed staff member now being killed or missing, and to remove the stipulation that eligible persons must be in Afghanistan.

- Ensure the UK's resettlement scheme (ACRS) is quickly established and implemented.

- Ensure Afghans with family in the UK are reunited in safety, suspend all returns to Afghanistan and provide Afghans in this country the protection status they need.

- Drop proposals in the Nationality and Borders Bill that aim to criminalise and exclude people seeking asylum in the UK simply because they have had to make a dangerous journey to the UK without a visa.

- Enable an international humanitarian response that swiftly and effectively responds to the scale of the crisis; to prevent more violations of international human rights law, refugee law and international humanitarian law; and to set up a UN Fact-Finding Mission to monitor and report regularly to the UN’s Human Rights Council, General Assembly, and Security Council, and to collect and preserve evidence for future prosecutions.

I urge you to act now to help ensure the safety of those at risk in Afghanistan.

Thank you,

Yours sincerely,

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