Since the end of 2019, Joël Martins Da Silva, with the help of POINT BARRE and its partners, has been developing a project to collect testimonies of young people who have been discriminated against or have witnessed situations of discrimination. This project does not aim to exacerbate tensions that seem to be increasingly present in our daily lives. Instead, we hope to create a space to understand the reality of some people and to encourage dialogue, debate, and awareness.

To launch this sensitive project, the first step was to make a filmed interview with researcher Anne Morillon in January 2020 (+).

This one hour and thirty minutes interview has been edited into a fifteen minute film. It is a first pedagogical support that allows us to introduce the topic and to open debates with groups of young people who follow insertion programmes within different associations in Rennes (We Ker, Prisme). At the end of the meetings, we invite the young people who wish to produce video, audio or written testimonies.

On this website, young people can find information and contribute directly if they wish to.

According to the Defender of Rights (French independent constitutional authority), a discriminatory situation exists when three factors come together: when a person or a group of people are treated less favourably than others based on criteria defined by law in international, European and national texts (see here) in the following situations:

● access to employment, career, disciplinary action, dismissal

● pay and benefits

● access to private goods and services (housing, credit, leisure)

● access to public goods and services (school, health care, civil status, social services)

● access to a public place (nightclub, prefecture, shop, town hall)

● access to social protection

● education and training (conditions for enrolment, admission, assessment, etc.)

You can also read about more specific situations on the website of the Defender of Rights and get help from specialised lawyers (see the Resources page).