“Prosecutors For Prosecutors” Campaign Unites US Prosecutors to Deliver Afghan Prosecutors and their Households to Secure International locations
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, July 27, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — The Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA-US) has launched Prosecutors For Prosecutors (PFP) to unite prosecutors in the USA and overseas to save the lives of their colleagues who stay in Afghanistan.
The marketing campaign was launched in response to a dire request for assist from the APA-US counterpart in Afghanistan (APA-AF), which stories the quantity of prosecutors tortured and killed by the Taliban as 26, to date. Members of the family of prosecutors are being killed as effectively.
The purpose is to elevate $15 million to save the lives of 1,500 Afghan prosecutors and their households by evacuating them to protected nations.
“We imagine nobody can stand on the sidelines when prosecutors are being killed for upholding the rule of regulation,” mentioned APA-US President and CEO David LaBahn. “Our colleagues in Afghanistan, together with their households, are being persecuted for working in direction of a safer, extra simply society—the exact same mission all of us attempt in direction of. They’re one of us. We can’t go away them behind.”
Prior to the autumn of Kabul in August of 2021, there have been roughly 6,000 Afghan workers members of the Afghanistan Legal professional Common Workplace supporting rule of regulation packages. Many had been the prosecutors liable for felony circumstances towards members of the Taliban for homicide, terrorism, assaults, kidnapping, abductions, violence towards girls, and drug crimes. Most had been members of the Afghanistan Prosecutors Association (APA-AF), and skilled by the US and allied nations.
APA-AF, now in exile, has recognized over 3,800 prosecutors and key workers members that stay in Afghanistan. They’re hiding – unemployed and dealing with famine and hunger. They’re in want of help and relocation out of Afghanistan to security for themselves and their households.
Afghan prosecutors usually are not eligible for Particular Immigrant Visas (SIV) to the US as they weren’t straight employed by the US authorities and different visa packages can take years earlier than they’re processed. The quickest means to get these prosecutors and their households to security is by funding NGOs which are in a position to relocate them, similar to Jewish Humanitarian Response.
Each greenback donated to the PFP marketing campaign will go to NGOs to fund the protected relocation of Afghan prosecutors. Donations could also be made at apa-pfp.org. As soon as PFP has achieved its purpose of elevating $15 million to save 1,500 prosecutors, efforts will broaden to each Afghan prosecutor looking for relocation as funds are acquired.
As well as to funds, PFP is looking for skilled, proficient, and passionate companions to assist relocate prosecutors to locations of security and assist them safe employment.
PFP invitations organizations from the worldwide, authorized, immigration, refugee and human rights communities, and, most significantly, particular person prosecutors upholding the rule of regulation around the globe, to be part of this mission.
The founding organizations of the Prosecutors For Prosecutors marketing campaign embrace:
Association of Prosecuting Attorneys
AfghanEvac
Afghan Prosecutors Association
Jewish Humanitarian Response
Worldwide Association of Prosecutors
NATO AFG Justice Sector
No One Left Behind
Operation Restoration
Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association
About Prosecutors For Prosecutors
All donations are tax deductible to the total extent of US legal guidelines for 501(c)3 non-profit organizations. APA-US intends to solicit funds from all individuals and organizations who assist prosecutors and the work wanted to uphold the rule of regulation around the globe.
All funds raised, all funds expended, the precise companion initiatives supported with mission goals, and outcomes will likely be obtainable on APA-PFP.org web site. No particular person names and areas of prosecutors and their households’ members will likely be publicly disclosed. Any funds acquired by APA-US for “Prosecutors For Prosecutors” will likely be solely to rescue Afghan prosecutors and their households to convey them security. Further details about PFP will be discovered at apa-pfp.org.
Beth Parker
Association of Prosecuting Attorneys
+1 202-421-7789
beth.parker@apainc.org
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