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marginalized groups

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Different groups of people within a given culture, context and history at risk of being subjected to multiple discrimination due to the interplay of different personal characteristics or grounds, such as sex, gender, age, ethnicity, religion or belief, health status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, education or income, or living in various geographic localities. 

Additional notes and information

Sources

Information provided by European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) – Treaty bodies.

Relations

Broader term:
civil society, intersectionality
URI: 
https://eige.europa.eu/taxonomy/term/1280?lang=en
Filed under: 
Sex, gender and sexuality
Identity and the body
Social affairs
Society

 

The concepts and definitions found in this glossary were published in 2016, and some may be out-of-date. EIGE is currently looking into which terms may need to be updated in the future.