The panel condemned the escalating attacks on health workers and facilities in conflict-affected countries and called for strict enforcement of international humanitarian law, stronger national protections, and accountability for violations. Unions committed to intensifying documentation, legal and psychosocial support, gender-responsive protection measures, and coordinated regional solidarity to safeguard the lives, rights and dignity of health workers on the frontlines.

The conference renewed the call for full ratification and implementation of ILO Convention 190, stressing that ending violence and harassment at work requires strong union leadership, enforceable policies, social dialogue and confronting the structural causes of gender inequality.

The Tax Forum denounced a global tax system that enables multinational corporations and the super-rich to avoid fair taxation, draining resources needed for public services, and called for urgent progressive tax reforms and reparative economic justice. Union leaders agreed to campaign for national reforms, advance a 25% Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax in selected countries, and mobilise labour and civil society support for a strong and inclusive UN Tax Convention.

The side event called for education support personnel to be recognised as essential workers in public education, with fair pay, career progression, inclusion in policy processes, and protection from austerity, privatisation and workplace discrimination. Union leaders agreed to strengthen organising, promote unity between teaching and non-teaching staff, advance gender justice and GBV protections, and deepen Africa–Arab solidarity to secure dignity and decent work for all education workers.

The session examined how social dialogue and collective bargaining can improve solid waste management and secure decent work for waste workers, amid underfunding, privatisation, unsafe conditions and weak institutional support. Unions shared efforts to formalise jobs, strengthen health and safety, organise private-sector workers and push for stronger bargaining frameworks and re-municipalisation of services.

During the 2025 AFRECON, Young workers from the region raised alarm over rising unemployment, insecurity, weak social protection and shrinking space for youth participation in unions, and pledged to rebuild union power and defend decent public jobs.They resolved to organise for fair recruitment and job security, and add their voices to tax justice campaigns, utilise training and mentorship to advocate for other young workers in conflict-affected areas.