we actually did it and the government is finally granting those 3000 spots which feels like such a massive relief honestly. i am sitting here just staring at my screen because it still feels a bit surreal that we managed to force this outcome but we have to keep watching …
October 3, 2021
Final supporters
Update:
Thanks to everyone for supporting this humanitarian petition. Thanks to your support, the Australian Government announced that 3000 visas will be granted to Afghan refugees whose lives are in danger. This is a great achievement for all of us and proved that our voices are being heard. Please keep up your support by signing this petition to save more lives. Australia is a vast country and I am sure we can accept way more than 3000 people in such a life-threatening emergency in Afghanistan.
You are all champions in your lives and the humanity will never forget this. Stay safe! Hossein.
https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/AlexHawke/Page...
To: Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Scott Morrison
Subject: An URGENT call to facilitate a special fast-track refugee/humanitarian visa sub-class for Afghan refugees to allow Australian citizens and permanent residents including the Afghan-Australians sponsor at least one Afghan family and other vulnerable groups to Australia.
My name is Dr. Hossein Mohammadi, a lecturer at Curtin University in Western Australia. This is an urgent call to all Australians to support us saving lives in Afghanistan by urging the Australian federal government to facilitate a fast-track special humanitarian visa for Afghanistan to allow all Australians and permanent residents including the Afghan-Australians sponsor at least one Afghan family and other vulnerable groups including women to Australia.
With rapid collapse of the Afghan government on 15 August 2021, many Afghans including women, ethnic and religious minorities, journalists, and human right activists were forced to flee from the country to save their lives from the Taliban persecution. Although the Taliban has made a public announcement after capturing Kabul, the country's capital city that they are not seeking revenge, it is very unlikely that the Taliban regime leave them without punishment. Therefore, before it is too late, we need to take action now and help them survive. The Taliban militants are going door to door in their recently seized cities in Afghanistan to list girls above 12 and widows under 45 to be married to their fighters as prizes of war. This has also created an extreme public fear among families with young females.
What we expect from the Australian government is to facilitate a special refuges/humanitarian visa sub-class for Afghanistan to save lives urgently. We, in Australia will do our share by providing emotional and any other supports including temporary accommodation where possible to reduce burden on the Australian government. Other countries, including Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom have already announced that they will accept thousands of Afghan vulnerable groups, especially those who have been part of their development or military assignments in Afghanistan.
Afghan cameleers have played a significant role in the early exploration of the interior of Australia and also developing Australia's infrastructure including train lines and roads during the eighteen's century. Now that they're in trouble and need our help, we should not leave them alone. I completely understand Australia's hard days now fighting with COVID-19 disaster in New South Wales and other states, but if we close our eyes on this human catastrophe in Afghanistan, we may violate one of our most important Australian values: compassion for those in need! It's time to open our doors to save lives and be a role model for other countries to do the same.
I would like to finish my petition with this famous quote from our Persian poet, Saadi Shirazi:
“All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.”
We appreciate your help and support with this humanitarian petition.
Kind regards,
Hossein Mohammadi
Dr. Hossein Mohammadi
PhD (Management and Sustainability)
Lecturer | School of Management and Marketing
Faculty of Business and Law
Curtin University
Tel | +61 8 9266 7673
Mobile | +61 4 1005 9491
Email | [email protected]
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
August 18, 2021
August 17, 2021
I really never expected this to take off like it has when I first sat down at my desk to type this out because the exhaustion is just so heavy these days. It feels like the news from there gets worse every time I check my phone but seeing these names popping up is the only thing keeping me going while I draft letters to those offices that keep ignoring us. We have to keep pushing because the reality on the ground is changing so fast and we honestly cannot afford to stop now.
Reached 100 supporters
August 17, 2021
94 Comments
Please save Afghan’s families they need your support especially my husband is right now because of the covid 19 we didn’t meet each other now he is in a dangerous place everyone can see every second we just lose our hope with this situation please Australia support our families members
Please help the Afghanis. My friend was a Diplomat and now he is stuck in a third country desperate to come to Australia to live by our values, to aid in service as a quad-lingual person, to work in the Australia Government (should he be allowed). Please don't fail him and others who will be persecuted by the Taliban.
Dear PM, as an Australian I am horrorfied to hear we may not be helping every single Afghani who helped us and is now in danger. We have a large prosperous country and need to help them. Please do not turn your back on them. That would be inhumane and you would be sentrncing them to death
Please urgently act to fast track the visa applications for Afghan residents, especially Hazara and women at risk.
Please facilitate Australians stuck in Afghanistan. Protect and help the many Afghans who have suffered at the hands of poorly implemented policies set by the countries who decided to "help".
gj
This is a humanitarian crisis. Australia should do all we can since we already have benefitted from peace and multiculturalism. We should give back to our global citizens.
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we actually did it and the government is finally granting those 3000 spots which feels like such a massive relief honestly. i am sitting here just staring at my screen because it still feels a bit surreal that we managed to force this outcome but we have to keep watching …
October 3, 2021
Final supporters
Update:
Thanks to everyone for supporting this humanitarian petition. Thanks to your support, the Australian Government announced that 3000 visas will be granted to Afghan refugees whose lives are in danger. This is a great achievement for all of us and proved that our voices are being heard. Please keep up your support by signing this petition to save more lives. Australia is a vast country and I am sure we can accept way more than 3000 people in such a life-threatening emergency in Afghanistan.
You are all champions in your lives and the humanity will never forget this. Stay safe! Hossein.
https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/AlexHawke/Page...
To: Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Scott Morrison
Subject: An URGENT call to facilitate a special fast-track refugee/humanitarian visa sub-class for Afghan refugees to allow Australian citizens and permanent residents including the Afghan-Australians sponsor at least one Afghan family and other vulnerable groups to Australia.
My name is Dr. Hossein Mohammadi, a lecturer at Curtin University in Western Australia. This is an urgent call to all Australians to support us saving lives in Afghanistan by urging the Australian federal government to facilitate a fast-track special humanitarian visa for Afghanistan to allow all Australians and permanent residents including the Afghan-Australians sponsor at least one Afghan family and other vulnerable groups including women to Australia.
With rapid collapse of the Afghan government on 15 August 2021, many Afghans including women, ethnic and religious minorities, journalists, and human right activists were forced to flee from the country to save their lives from the Taliban persecution. Although the Taliban has made a public announcement after capturing Kabul, the country's capital city that they are not seeking revenge, it is very unlikely that the Taliban regime leave them without punishment. Therefore, before it is too late, we need to take action now and help them survive. The Taliban militants are going door to door in their recently seized cities in Afghanistan to list girls above 12 and widows under 45 to be married to their fighters as prizes of war. This has also created an extreme public fear among families with young females.
What we expect from the Australian government is to facilitate a special refuges/humanitarian visa sub-class for Afghanistan to save lives urgently. We, in Australia will do our share by providing emotional and any other supports including temporary accommodation where possible to reduce burden on the Australian government. Other countries, including Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom have already announced that they will accept thousands of Afghan vulnerable groups, especially those who have been part of their development or military assignments in Afghanistan.
Afghan cameleers have played a significant role in the early exploration of the interior of Australia and also developing Australia's infrastructure including train lines and roads during the eighteen's century. Now that they're in trouble and need our help, we should not leave them alone. I completely understand Australia's hard days now fighting with COVID-19 disaster in New South Wales and other states, but if we close our eyes on this human catastrophe in Afghanistan, we may violate one of our most important Australian values: compassion for those in need! It's time to open our doors to save lives and be a role model for other countries to do the same.
I would like to finish my petition with this famous quote from our Persian poet, Saadi Shirazi:
“All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.”
We appreciate your help and support with this humanitarian petition.
Kind regards,
Hossein Mohammadi
Dr. Hossein Mohammadi
PhD (Management and Sustainability)
Lecturer | School of Management and Marketing
Faculty of Business and Law
Curtin University
Tel | +61 8 9266 7673
Mobile | +61 4 1005 9491
Email | [email protected]
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
August 18, 2021
August 17, 2021
I really never expected this to take off like it has when I first sat down at my desk to type this out because the exhaustion is just so heavy these days. It feels like the news from there gets worse every time I check my phone but seeing these names popping up is the only thing keeping me going while I draft letters to those offices that keep ignoring us. We have to keep pushing because the reality on the ground is changing so fast and we honestly cannot afford to stop now.
Reached 100 supporters
August 17, 2021
94 Comments
Please help evacuate as many women as possible! Their lives are in danger and they have lost everything they spent 20 years to build
Please save Afghan’s families they need your support especially my husband is right now because of the covid 19 we didn’t meet each other now he is in a dangerous place everyone can see every second we just lose our hope with this situation please Australia support our families members
Please help the Afghanis. My friend was a Diplomat and now he is stuck in a third country desperate to come to Australia to live by our values, to aid in service as a quad-lingual person, to work in the Australia Government (should he be allowed). Please don't fail him and others who will be persecuted by the Taliban.
Dear PM, as an Australian I am horrorfied to hear we may not be helping every single Afghani who helped us and is now in danger. We have a large prosperous country and need to help them. Please do not turn your back on them. That would be inhumane and you would be sentrncing them to death
Please urgently act to fast track the visa applications for Afghan residents, especially Hazara and women at risk.
Please facilitate Australians stuck in Afghanistan. Protect and help the many Afghans who have suffered at the hands of poorly implemented policies set by the countries who decided to "help".
gj
This is a humanitarian crisis. Australia should do all we can since we already have benefitted from peace and multiculturalism. We should give back to our global citizens.
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Please help evacuate as many women as possible! Their lives are in danger and they have lost everything they spent 20 years to build