- Target:
- Students and staff of Cardiff University and anyone else supportive of our campaign
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- occupiedcardiff.blogspot.com
Students in conflict zones often face disrupted and halted education due to forces beyond their control. We believe everyone should have the right to education and freedom.
The United Nations Development Programme has estimated that 240 schools were destroyed in the recent attacks on Gaza. The Islamic University of Gaza suffered extensive damage to all its buildings and facilities.
There have been many precedents for universities, such as Goldsmith’s and Plymouth, to offer scholarships to students from conflict zones so they can study uninterrupted.
Our university and government were complicit in providing weapons which have been used with terrible effect in Gaza through the bombing of schools and universities.
We hold a duty to help people affected to rebuild their lives and to provide them with the opportunity for education. We the undersigned call for Cardiff University to host 5 students from conflict zones to study at the university on a scholarship.
We propose that a proportion of the places offered are reserved for Palestinian students.
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The Scholarships for Students Living in Conflict Zones petition to Students and staff of Cardiff University and anyone else supportive of our campaign was written by Cardiff Students Against War and is in the category Education at GoPetition.