The record petition has a simple and clear message: “Immediately create international humanitarian corridors to save Afghan women and their children, as well as children from orphanages in all cities that have fallen into the hands of the Taliban.” It was launched on August 16 on change.org by Luisa Castellazzo, Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Cellatica, on behalf of the February 22nd Women’s Group and is addressed to Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese. It went viral on social media, three days later it has already exceeded 330,000 signatures and is running fast towards 500,000.
Among the signatories there is also Elisabetta Trenta, Minister of Defense during the first Conte government, and scrolling through the names there are many women and men of all ages who would like to do something for all those Afghan women who are trying to let their children pass. beyond the barbed wire of the Kabul airport to save them.
Why sign? “Because the future of women all over the world is the future of my mother, my sister, my daughter, my son, and I won’t look away …”, writes one of the users who joined the petition, Manila Giovannini. «The Middle Ages have long passed. He must not go back to Afghanistan !!! », is the message of another signatory, Renato Calò.
There are many activists and non-governmental organizations who are asking to save women and children from the Taliban, worried about the possible reintroduction of rules that damage their fundamental rights through the strict application of Sharia law, Islamic law. Among these, Pangea Onlus, the Casa delle Donne and the Cisda, the Italian Coordination for Afghan Women.