Participation in the labour market

A program to identify and contextualise barriers to employment for young people of African descent was initiated. This also included some mothers who had school-aged children and were keen to get back. Africause brokered several successful initiatives, but there is more work that needs to be done to minimise the exclusion of young people from chosen career paths because of discrimination.

In the next three-year Africause intends to deliver more human rights education as the UN Human Rights Council 55^th Session noted that “Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance etc.” (Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Elaboration of Complementary Standards on its twelfth session” – can only be addressed through robust human rights education.