ECOWAS Parliament Convened Youth Peace Dialogue In The Gambia

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    Team Outpost 


The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliaments on Thursday, 29th August 2024, convened a National Youth Dialogue at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center in Bijilo.


The delocalized meeting of the joint committee on Trade, Customs and free movement and social affairs, Gender Women empowerment and persons with disabilities and Legal Affairs and Human rights, Political affairs, peace, Security and African peer review mechanism (APRM), which was themed: "Parliament's role in the implementation of the protocol on the free movement of persons, rights of residence and establishment in the ECOWAS region."


The youth dialogue tagged amalgamating youth forks under one umbrella for peace and nation-building within the ECOWAS member countries.


On her part, Veronica Kadie Sesay, co-chair from Freetown who doubles as the Chairwoman of the Committee on Social Affairs, Gender and Women empowerment, said the number of migrants detected to be rather victims of human trafficking was on the rhyme. 


Madam Sesay asked why African youths are leaving the shores of their mothers and fathers even though the journey is risky and full of stigmatization that the journey is faced with. 


She continues: "You see people dying, but still you want to go."


Awa Jobe, a victim of human trafficking, narrated how a Gambian Immigration Officer trafficked her to Egypt, where she was subjected to all forms of abuse, dehumanization, and sexual exploitation, amongst others.

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