Tuku endorses campaign

He joins South African leading superstar Yvonne Chaka, Global Call to Action against Poverty ambassadors in Zimbabwe Victor Kunonga and Pastor G, who also appended their signatures to country’s anti-poverty campaign tool where concerned citizens were reiterating that (MDGs) are the world’s shared development agenda to reduce major aspects of human poverty.
The petition acknowledges that these goals are derived from more far-reaching international declarations, protocols and conventions such as the universal declaration of human rights, including the protocol on social and economic rights; education for all, health for all; reproductive rights for all; the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women; the rights with disabilities and the convention on the Rights of Indigenous people, among others.
Among other things, the petition calls on African governments to work with their citizens, parliaments and local governments to develop and implement break-through action plans; adress inequality, discrimination and marginalisation of specific social groups including people with disabilities, women, and youth; put employment and decent work for women and young people at the centre of economic policies and finally, put more efforts into mobilising and retaining domestic resources through fair and efficient taxation, fair sharing of natural resource rents and the prevention of illicit capital flight.