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The article analyzes the principles of legal policy in the field of age discrimination. It is stated that the principles of legal policy are the basis of legal regulation, as they form the basis for regulatory activities of the state, law implementation and law enforcement practice. The principles of legal policy in the field of overcoming age discrimination are divided into two groups. The first should include the general principles established in the legal system, legislation system and state-building policy of a legal, democratic state (general). The second – principles that broadly reveal the essence and are intended to overcome certain issues (special). The general principles of legal policy are those fundamental basic components that reflect the basic essence, i.e. the maximum protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens. Thus, the general principles of law include such as the rule of law, legality, equality, justice. Before that, it is important to understand that the first of the identified principles is dominant. Special principles, i.e. those that are due to a special feature of discrimination - age. Comprehensive analysis of monitoring reports of the UN and the Council of Europe, national legislation, legislation of European states, case law of the ECtHR allows us to highlight the principle of horizontality (implementation of legal policy of non-discrimination in all spheres of public life, including social protection, education, housing, health care and access to goods and services) and the principle of individualization in determining the factors and means of protection against discrimination. It is necessary to change the ideology in the direction of moving away from generalizations to more individualized assessments of differentiated age attitudes, which can help overcome age stereotypes.

The term "discrimination" is now one of the most used in the theoretical and practical spheres. There is no unified concept of "discrimination" in international legal regulation and scientific practice. Human rights violations are compared to the concept of discrimination and defined as a negative factor of legal reality. However, despite the fact that a certain concept has been used for almost a century in legal and political science, a common understanding of it has not yet been developed. We associate this with two factors, first, the manifestations and signs of discrimination change every time, their understanding is updated, new features are added, so the concepts are transformed under the influence of the globalization of legal reality. Secondly, "discrimination" as a certain category has a multiscientific meaning, it is used in many fields of knowledge from sociology and journalism, to public administration and political science. Therefore, a universal understanding cannot yet be developed. Discrimination is the unfair attitude or prejudice against people and groups based on certain characteristics. However, this understanding is quite general. However, most scholars try to provide an expanded understanding of the concept under study. And here the positions of the authors can be reduced to the following. The first group of researchers analyzes discrimination through actions that violate human rights and affect their dignity. Such a position is also represented in normative international standards. Art. 1 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and in Art. 1 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The second group of understanding includes the positions of the authors who motivate discrimination through its understanding as an illegitimate unjustified distinction on any grounds. Such positions are contained in the normative sense. The term "discrimination" is positioned in the Convention concerning Discrimination in ...

The article is devoted to the problems of discrimination, especially one of them - age discrimination. Discrimination is recognized as a situation in which a person and / or group of persons on their grounds is restricted in recognizing, exercising or exercising their rights and freedoms in any form. The case of Schwitzgebel v. Switzerland was analyzed, the essence of which was that an unmarried woman of a certain age was denied the adoption of a second child. She was denied due to the government's legal policy on family matters. The applicant's age was crucial in rejecting her application by the domestic authorities. The applicant could claim that she had been the victim of a difference in treatment compared to younger single women, who could have been entitled to adopt a second child under the same circumstances. The denial of her request pursued the legitimate aim of protecting the welfare and rights of the child. Thus, the European Court of Human Rights has quite rejected the motives of age discrimination. It has been proven that age discrimination is not an independent sign of discrimination. Quite often this happens in addition to gender motives. In the case of Carvalho Pinto de Sousa Morais v. Portugal, which amounts to improper medical intervention by a medical court, the applicant's age was presumed. The National Court held that sexuality and social life were not as important to the applicant at her age as to men of the same age. The European Court of Human Rights was therefore obliged to accept the grounds of age and other discrimination. Paragraph 141 of the Manual of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Protocol No. 12 to the Convention also states that age is a "different status" for the purposes of Article 14. However, it should be noted that the ECtHR seldom recognizes age as a sign of discrimination. In general, the analysis of the European Court of Human Rights indicates the following: there are very few decisions on age discrimination; The Convention for the Protection of ...