{"id":3874,"date":"2022-04-04T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/welcome-climate-activists-in-the-afghan-refugee-programme-our-call-to-the-government"},"modified":"2022-04-04T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:42:00","slug":"welcome-climate-activists-in-the-afghan-refugee-programme-our-call-to-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/welcome-climate-activists-in-the-afghan-refugee-programme-our-call-to-the-government","title":{"rendered":"Welcome climate activists in the Afghan refugee programme &#8211; our call to the Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People fighting for the future of life on our planet should be celebrated &#8211; but climate activists in Afghanistan are at huge risk.\u202f\u00a0<br \/>\nSince the Taliban took over, at least eight civil society activists and human rights defenders have been assassinated, with many more forced into hiding, or fleeing the country.\u202f\u00a0<br \/>\nThe UK should be standing in solidarity with these activists &#8211; and with every person who is at risk of persecution by the Taliban. Last summer, in the midst of the crisis, the Government promised a new refugee resettlement programme to bring Afghans to the UK. But very little progress has been made. \u00a0<br \/>\nThere will be no way for refugees to apply to the scheme &#8211; instead people will have to hope to be hand-picked by a UK Government partner organisation. So far, details of who will be eligible are vague \u2013 and environmental activists have been completely forgotten.<br \/>\nAlong with 23 partner organisations, we have written to the Minister responsible for the Afghan&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People fighting for the future of life on our planet should be celebrated &#8211; but climate activists in Afghanistan are at huge risk.\u202f\u00a0 Since the Taliban took over, at least eight civil society activists and human rights defenders have been assassinated, with many more forced into hiding, or fleeing the country.\u202f\u00a0 The UK should be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}