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International Youth Day 2025 solidarity statement
As the Harare Declaration states, the African youth bulge as an engine for the continent’s structural transformation agenda is at risk of being a missed opportunity due to being saddled with accumulated debt, while potentially being locked out of accessing finance that is desperately needed to invest in them, and making them carry the burden of a mortgaged future. Instead of investing in our potential, governments are forced to divert billions to creditors, too often to lenders who prioritise profit over people. This is not only an economic imbalance; it is a generational betrayal. We thus demand debt and tax justice that put people and the planet first.
A Statement from the Youth for Tax Justice Network on the June 25 Protests in Kenya
The Youth for Tax Justice Network (YTJN) stands in solidarity with young people across Kenya who gathered peacefully on June 25 to mark one year since the tragic events of June 2024, and
to continue calling for justice, good governance and economic accountability.The Power Of The Pursue
We’ve slid but shouldn’t accept to fall! I went to the garden and the flowers Were busy singing…
Why Should Young People Care about the Financing for Development Agenda?
It’s a call to action for youth to rise, engage, demand, and drive transformative change and co-creators of a new financing paradigm that truly serves the people and the planet. This piece is also a call to action for governments, multi-lateral institutions and civil society organizations to rise to the challenge of meaningful youth inclusion.
Hits And Misses For The Youth In The 2021-2022 Budgets For Uganda, Kenya And Tanzania
It is high time the three countries moved to regulate the market prices of agricultural products and inputs and their transportation to curb price fluctuation. The three countries run free market economies where market prices are determined by the forces of demand and supply. These have resulted into price fluctuations which have caused losses to farmers.
Outcome document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development
The leaders committed to “strengthen measures to curb corrupt borrowing and lending, including by enhancing domestic legal frameworks as appropriate, including clarifications regarding the authority to borrow, and fully utilizing UNCAC and its Conference of the State Parties to explore options to make such contracts unenforceable. We will establish a platform for borrower countries with support from existing institutions, and a UN entity serving as its secretariat.
