Diversity and inclusion is about empowering citizens by respecting and appreciating what makes them different in terms of age, gender, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education, and national origin.
It’s also about communities and organisation’s efforts and practices to ensure people from different backgrounds will be culturally and socially accepted, welcomed, and treated equally.
Diversity and inclusion play an important role in providing a positive working environment that will enable innovation in any grassroot and community. Although the civil groups and organisations in Europe are rising in opportunities and growth, in some European countries, their "Diversity and Inclusion" Strategies implementation and action is moving at a snail’s pace.
HRA Network seeks to foster awareness and boost capacity of youth organisations to meet their general duty to take steps to:
- Eliminate discrimination, harassment and victimisation
- Advance equal opportunities for all
- Foster good relations between all individuals
In order to celebrate diversity in European communities and youth organisations, we need to ensure that all young people are not discriminated and included.
Freedom from discrimination is enshrined in a number of international human rights documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The European Convention on Human Rights and a large number of regional human rights documents.
The HUB`s mission is to help European communities and organisations grow better. That's why we view diversity, inclusion, and belonging as mission critical, not just nice to have.
Our partners around Europe speak more than 100 languages, go by different pronouns, and have unique racial identities. We seek to help our communities grow, we need to build a company that's reflective of their diversity.
So whether you’re a human rights activist, youth worker, researcher, minority community leader, or part of our broader community, we’re committed to helping you do your best work on inclusion.
Our promise is to champion diversity, build an inclusive culture and product, and do our part to create a more equitable Europe.
Based on the above-mentioned characteristics, young people can be subjected to four levels of discrimination:
- Direct discrimination: This happens when someone treats you worse than another person in a similar situation because of your race, ethnicity, religion, migration status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ect.
- Indirect discrimination: This happens when an organisation, institution or a group has a particular policy or way of working that puts people of different groups at a disadvantage.
- Harassment: This happens when someone makes you feel humiliated, offended or degraded because of your race, ethnicity, religion, migration status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ect.
- Institutional or structural discrimination occurs when rules, norms, routines, patterns or attitudes and behaviour in institutions such as schools, work places, public authorities and other societal structures represent obstacles to certain people in achieving the same rights and opportunities that are available to the majority of the population.