The Youth Committee is an advisory committee within our organization. It is composed of members, young people aged 18 to 35, representing all cathegories of disabilities. It is chaired by one of its members who is supported by one of the Executive Committee member and by a staff from the secretariat to achieve its plans.

The members of the committee are eight strong young activists in the disability rights fields and youth movement and they are strongly committed to bring forword the rights of young people with disabilities in both disability and youth movement.

Get to know the members of the Youth Committee and their work.

However, to be sure that the entire youth with disability is represented a strong partnership exist between the Youth Committee and the youth movement within the member organisations of EDF. This is represented by the wider Youth Network.

Are you a group, organization representing young people with disabilities and you wish to stay in toutch with us. Contact the Youth Officer, who will further guide you. Your opinion and views count for us.

The EU and all its member states have adopted and ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) that is an international human rights treaty. Thus the signatories of this treaty engaged themselves to implement and promote the full realisation of all human rights for all persons with disabilities through the adoption of new political tools and review of existing policies.

In the Convention there is not a specific article on young people, but there are several articles that are key for young people with disabilities. Education of persons with disabilities where and how they wish in article 24, employment with adequate support and a correct wages, in article 27, leisure and culture in article 31.

We work to ensure our advocacy includes the perspectives of youth with disabilities, for which our Youth Committee plays a fundamental role. We also watch carefully that the youth movement becomes more and more aware of the disability perspective in their work and become more inclusive. For this, our partnership with the European Youth Forum plays a key role, and the Youth Committee attends regularly meetings and activities of this one.

To make visible the youth perspective with disabilities we are partnering and participating in the European Youth Event, the event on Youth of the European Parliament, we are part of the Erasmus+ Coalition and of the Inclusive Mobility Alliance.

The members of the Youth committees are part of several advisory boards of youth projects to ensure that the disability perspective is taken into account and activities and initiatives become more and more inclusive.

• Discover EU
• Erasmus+
• European Solidarity Corps
• Youth Guarantee

We will highlight just some of the most recent resources below, but there is much more in the Resources if you filter by Youth category. You can find our latest reports, webinars that you can watch and consult the presentations and the transcript of it.

• Young People with Disabilities in Times of Covid-19 a report of a survey of the Youth Committee
• Webinar on Erasmus+
• Webinar on the European Solidarity Corps, volunteering opportunities abroad
• EU Youth Initiatives

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