{"id":37170,"date":"2021-09-22T00:45:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/21\/help-for-vulnerable-afghans-must-be-top-of-liz-trusss-priorities"},"modified":"2021-09-22T00:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:45:29","slug":"help-for-vulnerable-afghans-must-be-top-of-liz-trusss-priorities-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37170","title":{"rendered":"Help for vulnerable Afghans must be top of Liz Truss\u2019s priorities | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the government\u2019s duty to help avert a humanitarian and human rights catastrophe, say <strong>Elizabeth Winter<\/strong>,<strong> Stephanie Draper <\/strong>and<strong> Christine Allen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a new secretary of state, Liz Truss, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/15\/in-liz-we-truss-uk-gets-first-female-conservative-foreign-secretary\">takes the reins<\/a> at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, continued support for the people of Afghanistan \u2013 many of whose lives remain at great risk \u2013 must remain a top priority.<\/p>\n<p>Civil society groups and NGOs have been inundated with requests from people needing help to reach safer locations, but only a few have received it (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/17\/they-left-us-to-die-uk-afghan-aid-staff-hiding-from-taliban\">\u2018They left us to die\u2019: UK\u2019s Afghan aid staff in hiding from Taliban, 17 September<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/21\/help-for-vulnerable-afghans-must-be-top-of-liz-trusss-priorities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the government\u2019s duty to help avert a humanitarian and human rights catastrophe, say Elizabeth Winter, Stephanie Draper and Christine AllenAs a new secretary of state, Liz Truss, takes the reins at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,247,319,1879,393,2351,4,494,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-humanitarian-response","category-liz-truss","category-politics","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37171,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37170\/revisions\/37171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}