{"id":51,"date":"2021-04-08T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jos.world\/yfj-policy\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2023-03-27T12:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:17:54","slug":"youth-rights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/youth-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young people\u2019s path to adulthood and independence is strewn with obstacles. They often encounter barriers in accessing quality education, quality employment, social protection and full access to civil and political rights, limiting their potential. When paired with other other personal characteristics (gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, religion, etc.), age can often mean facing even greater obstacles. In short, far too many young people are living without access to their rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While international human rights conventions apply to everyone, not all groups in society have been granted the same level of protection by the international community. Despite the multitude of barriers and discrimination that young people face, they have yet to be recognised as a group in need of specific attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Youth Rights have therefore been one of the European Youth Forum\u2019s everlasting policy objectives and have played a central part in defining all its policy and advocacy work. From campaigns calling for a Convention on the Rights of Young People towards various international institutions, to mainstreaming youth rights in human rights processes; and from calling for a rights-based approach to youth, to the lodging of a legal complaint on the issue of unpaid internships in Belgium, advocacy actions towards this policy goal have taken diverse forms.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people\u2019s path to adulthood and independence is strewn with obstacles. They often encounter barriers in accessing quality education, quality employment, social protection and full access to civil and political rights, limiting their potential. When paired with other other personal characteristics (gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, religion, etc.), age can often mean facing even greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-policy-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,23,22,12,18,17,16,19,14,20,13],"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-age-based-discrimination","category-collective-complaint","category-digital-rights","category-equality","category-human-rights","category-intergenerational-solidarity","category-intersectionality","category-multiple-discrimination","category-non-discrimination","category-rights-based-approach-rba","category-rights-holders","category-youth-rights"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}