Young Greens Northern Ireland Manifesto 2016
Young Greens Northern Ireland Manifesto 2016 Introduction • Give Women Choice: Extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, ending the archaic and oppressive healthcare inequality currently in place in NI. Young people face immense troubles in our society. We are confronted by unemployment, a lack of public provisions, • Gender Representation: Introduce quotas to increase female impending climate change, various institutionalised representation in the Assembly and in boardrooms. discriminations, and a political system which refuses to • Racial Equality: Implement and enhance measures set out in change in response to people’s needs. In Northern Ireland, the current Racial Equality Strategy. we often have to leave the country in order to find work, or in search of a less divided society. • Support Minority Languages: Introduce legislation to protect and support minority languages, including British Sign While the Executive wastes time, money and energy perpetuating Language and Irish Sign Language. sectarianism, austerity, and policies of bigotry and inequality, No-one should be working for less than what young people are left without jobs, with increasingly expensive • A Living Wage: they can live on. Raise the minimum wage to £8.25 an hour. and difficult educations, and without hope. If we can’t make change in the Assembly, we will be wasting the futures of young people across Northern Ireland, and wasting the opportunities for equality, democracy and liberty which are held here. A Good Education In this Manifesto, we’ll be highlighting some of the Green Party Northern Ireland needs a modern, inclusive, publicly policies which will help young people most, and which young funded education system.
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