Results of ballot for Women’s conference motion

The result is the following:

Winning option

Option 1: Mothers Abandoned by British Governments

Final count

Mothers Abandoned by British Governments

There are orphaned children, and displaced mothers with their children, born to UK and former UK citizens, for whom the UK has a responsibility, still living in camps, which were under the control of the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES).

Conference acknowledges:
• Our duty of care to them;
• Their neglect by UK Governments.

Conference notes:
1. 2019 the Government promised to repatriate orphans from Syria. It’s 2026 and
some are still waiting;
2. Fall of ISSIS. Mothers are still detained, and violence has intensified1;
3. July 2026 UN Commission Syria Inquiry’s, after a week-long visit. The
Commission:
3.1. pressed for answers on missing detainees;
3.2. urged Syria to trace missing detainees;
3.3. raised concern over detentions in the north-east, where more than six in 10
of those held are children;
3.4. called on countries to repatriate their citizens2.
Conference calls on the:
1. Labour Parliament’s Women MPs to:
1.1. Demonstrate the same compassion shown by Syrian families3;
2. Home Secretary, R. Hon. Shabana Mahmood MP, to:
2.1. put the case for these children at the top of her agenda;
2.2. support bringing them to the UK.
3. Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon. Ed Miliband MP, Under Secretary, Rt Hon. Chris Elmore MP and, Under Secretary Rt. Hon. Uma Kumaran MP, to arrange for these mothers and children to be brought to the UK;
3.1. request, help from;
a) NGOs;
b) UNICEF.