- A call to enable young people to achieve their will to be today’s leaders for a better, fairer, more dignified and democratic Tunisia, no missed opportunity and wasted energy
- Open letter to The President of the Republic, President of all Tunisians, Mr. Qais Said
- “Young people now!”
Mr. President,
The time has come for young people to play important roles in local and national affairs. Today, they represent a striking demographic force, with about half of society, the most dynamic age group capable of innovation and creativity and dealing with modern media and technologies, the makers of change and the builders of the revolution, but they are the most vulnerable to exclusion and marginalization. Unemployment and poverty among them are among the highest nationally and internationally, and two thirds of those with fragile jobs unstable and without social coverage, their participation in public affairs and in decision-making institutions and sites is very low and is totally incompatible with their capabilities and potential, and their opportunities for training, training and skills refinement are often very limited and selective.
Mr. President,
Today, Tunisia is experiencing a historic moment and an opportunity to change the situation of young people and meet their long-awaited legitimate needs and aspirations, to put an end to the exclusion and marginalization that most of its groups are experiencing today, and to starkly differentiate between their abilities and opportunities.
We hope that you will give high priority to youth issues and their rights and to activate their full participation, within the urgent national policies with a strategic dimension, and one of its priorities is to propose the following urgent measures:
Developing and adopting a national vision and policy to empower young people and support their participation locally and nationally, promising broad participation for different groups,
Direct representation of young people within sectoral development ministries through youth advisory technical committees to enable them to participate directly in the formulation of sectoral reforms and the proposal of youth-friendly legislation, the establishment of a national youth parliamentary council, a representative of elected members of local youth councils, to ensure a heavy presence of votes of all categories and to present their perceptions and visions on various youth and national issues,
Accelerate the creation of an academy for young leaders, enabling a broad audience of young people with the knowledge and skills necessary to exercise their leadership roles locally and nationally and within the various legislative and executive branches.
The youth of Tunisia hold you accountable for your historic responsibility to activate and support their rights and make them among your most assured priorities, For Tunisia, it is nurturing, dreamy, creative and creative.
Rifi-JDD
