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Mainstreaming youth rights in the UN human rights mechanisms
This paper analyses the extent in which young people’s rights are accounted for under three of the UN’s human rights mechanisms: the Universal Periodic Review, the UN Treaty Bodies, and the UN Special Procedures.
Making Digitalisation Work for Young People
Young people today are the first generation to have most of their lives reflected in online data, raising concerns about privacy, safety and wellbeing.
Change starts with us, Young people’s ideas on the future of Europe
Research on volunteer-based youth work: Final report
The research findings reveal that the understanding of the concept of volunteer-based youth work is lacking amongst various members of the youth work community of practice, and that its relationship with the concept of volunteering is unclear.
Be Seen, Be Heard: Understanding young people's political participation
From 2022-2023, the European Youth Forum and several youth organisations in Europe partnered with the UN Youth Office and The Body Shop on the global campaign “Be Seen Be Heard”, striving to improve young people’s involvement in public life.
Generation Austerity: When governments cut budgets young people suffer. Don't do it again.
Austerity policies taken in the early 2010s by various governments under EU pressure have affected multiple areas in the lives of young people.