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Multiple discrimination and young people in Europe

This report presents the findings of the online exploratory survey on multiple discrimination affecting young people in Europe, launched by the European Youth Forum (Youth Forum) between March and June 2014, which involved 495 young people between 18 and 35. The study collected data from across Europe (across the countries of the Council of Europe) on how multiple discrimination occurs in young people’s lives, on which grounds as well as on young people’s awareness of the existing anti-discrimination law on this topic. The survey aims to raise awareness of multiple discrimination, to support the development of evidence-based policies and adequate measures to tackle multiple discrimination based on an open-ended list of discrimination grounds (for instance, along the lines of the European Convention of Human Rights and Revised Social Charter of the Council of Europe). We believe that it should also lead to further research on how multiple discrimination affects young people, more specifically, how it aims to support the adoption of the so called EU ‘Horizontal Directive’. This would extend the protection from discrimination based on age, sexual orientation, religion or belief and disability beyond the area of occupation and employment, and which is still in the hands of the Council of the European Union. This report supports the European Youth Forum’s goal to promote and adopt a rights-based approach to youth policy that integrates the norms, standards and principles of the international human rights system into the development, implementation and evaluation of youth policy. There is a lack of general data on multiple discrimination affecting young people and there is the need to gather more information about this topic. In order to achieve this goal, this survey widened the spectrum of grounds and areas where discrimination can take place in young people’s lives and it focused on their experiences of discrimination based on more than one ground beyond the perspective of a single group of young people. It also inquired into respondents’ perception about the grounds on which their young peers are more likely to be discriminated against or at risk of discrimination in their country.

Young people, Europe, multiple discrimination

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