700 Australian high-school students have penned and signed an open letter calling on Immigration Minister Alex Hawke to protect their peers living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
In the letter to the Minister, the students urged the Australian Government to provide an additional 20,000 humanitarian places, giving safety to young people facing persecution, discrimination and violence.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has estimated that 97% of the people in Afghanistan will fall below the poverty line by mid-2022.
The Morrison Government has yet to offer an increase in humanitarian places for people from Afghanistan to seek safety in Australia.