{UAH} Matsyetsye, what is your take on this? Ugandan Youth to Petition UN over poverty!
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KAMPALA. Over 10,000 Ugandan youth have drafted a petition to Parliament calling on government to make interventions in the increasing poverty rates due to unemployment. According to the Ministry of Finance statistics over 70 percent of the youth are unemployed.
"Young people will challenge the Speaker of Parliament this week to listen to their demands when they hand over a petition signed by over 10,000 young people. The plea is also to be sent to two UN summits later this year; UN Special Summit on Sustainable Development due to take place in September in New York and the UN Climate talks in Paris in December," Uganda National NGO Forum executive director, Mr. Richard Ssewakiryanga said.
In a statement issued on Monday, Mr Ssewakiryanga said, "In Uganda we celebrate the halving of income poverty as a target met under the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), the need to end all forms of poverty, securing development and economic systems that benefit everyone not only a few is still a development challenge. Policy makers must tackle this unfair and dysfunctional trend and realize that real recovery means a recovery for all, not simply the recovery of few economic indicators and wealthy persons."
The handing over of that petition is part of the launch of the action/2015 campaign which calls on local and world leaders to take urgent action to halt man-made climate change, eradicate poverty and address inequality during the upcoming international UN summits, whose decisions affect the ordinary person.
The action/2015 campaign activities are taking place in more than 50 countries across the world, he noted.
"Young people will challenge the Speaker of Parliament this week to listen to their demands when they hand over a petition signed by over 10,000 young people. The plea is also to be sent to two UN summits later this year; UN Special Summit on Sustainable Development due to take place in September in New York and the UN Climate talks in Paris in December," Uganda National NGO Forum executive director, Mr. Richard Ssewakiryanga said.
In a statement issued on Monday, Mr Ssewakiryanga said, "In Uganda we celebrate the halving of income poverty as a target met under the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), the need to end all forms of poverty, securing development and economic systems that benefit everyone not only a few is still a development challenge. Policy makers must tackle this unfair and dysfunctional trend and realize that real recovery means a recovery for all, not simply the recovery of few economic indicators and wealthy persons."
The handing over of that petition is part of the launch of the action/2015 campaign which calls on local and world leaders to take urgent action to halt man-made climate change, eradicate poverty and address inequality during the upcoming international UN summits, whose decisions affect the ordinary person.
The action/2015 campaign activities are taking place in more than 50 countries across the world, he noted.
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Peter Simon
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