Campaign for Refugees
The United Nations most recently estimated that for the first time in recorded history, the number of people forcibly displaced is now 82.4 million, with more than 26.4 million refugees. We must protect these people and insist our elected officials implement appropriate and compassionate refugee policies.
Our world is in constant conflict — and the people who pay the ultimate price for this political divergence is always innocent civilians. We must act now to insist our governments implement permanent and compassionate policies to accept refugees as needed.
To help kickstart your activism, we have drafted templates for you adapt and send to traditional institutions within your own communities, to insist they take action.
The refugee crisis cannot be addressed with one broad-brush email. However our drafts can encourage you to think about these topics within your domain, to research some statistics within your communities and take action.
The below email draft sets you on the path to demand that our elected officials protect refugees and implement appropriate and compassionate climate refugee policies immediately.
How to use this email template
ADAPT • Edit the <italics> words, sentences and/or paragraphs with your appropriate text, adding your own details as well as researched statistics, experiences and data
EMAIL • Your local state and federal elected officials.
Email draft
To whom it may concern,
My name is <Your name> and I am a constituent of your <suburb, municipality and/or state>. I am writing to you as a member of your electorate regarding our moral obligation to immediately accept, process and welcome human beings who are fleeing conflict or persecution in their own country.
The United Nations most recently estimated that for the first time in recorded history, the number of people forcibly displaced is now 82.4 million, with more than 26.4 million refugees. Refugees are defined and protected in international law, and must not be excluded or returned to circumstances where their lives and freedoms are at risk.
As <Americans/Australians/Britons/Your Country> we regularly involve ourselves in international affairs and diplomacy. However, our lack of concrete intervention when it comes to refugees is severely inadequate. We have a responsibility to care for these human lives immediately.
Our government needs to implement permanent and compassionate policies to accept refugees as needed. These policies must include expediting infrastructure and the integration of refugees safely into society, as well as giving them immediate access to citizenship, social systems and due process, in order for them to be able to establish their new lives as humanely and easily as possible.
<In this paragraph detail information about your own country’s economic budget citing examples of where money could and should be redistributed (for example in the U.S., the $6 billion budget of the NYPD)>
Displacement from one’s heritage is a devastating tragedy and refugees need our help, compassion and inclusion immediately. Our pressing need to commit to enacting permanent and compassionate policies for refugees cannot be understated.
I assure you I will be using my future votes to support elected officials who are committed to compassionately caring for refugees — and I will be active and vocal in my encouraging others within our electorate to do the same.
I await your response with anticipation.
Kind regards,
<Your Name>
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