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What are we working on? Check out the latest publications, policy documents and more from the Youth Forum.
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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.
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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.
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Change starts with us, Young people’s ideas on the future of Europe
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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.
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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.
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European Youth Forum’s demands on the review of the Quality Framework on Traineeships
young people and youth organisations on trainee-
ships and advocated on their behalf at...