During the conference “Youth in Action for Diversity and Tolerance” young people are going to develop a binding action plan against right-wing extremism

Approximately 180 young people and experts from 40 European countries are the participants of the conference “Youth in Action for Diversity and Tolerance”. The conference, organized by the European Commission and the German federal government, is going critically review the progress in the fight against racism and xenophobia. It thereby refers to the first international conference “Youth for Tolerance and Democracy” which was also held in Berlin in 2001. This time, however, the young people are not only going to present their demands to the political decision-makers, but the are also going to develop their own contribution to an improvement of the situation in form of a binding action plan.