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Issues :: Teen Life
Children, Youth and Family :: Issues
Human Rights and Liberties :: Issues

National Youth Rights Association - America's largest and most successful youth rights organization. NYRA supports rights for all youth including lowering the drinking age, lowering the voting age, repealing curfews, and combating age discrimination.
Meta Description: [ Largest and most active Youth Rights organization in the country. Fights to lower the drinking age, voting age, and eliminate curfews. ]

Action on Rights for Children - UK network committed to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Supports the rights of children to have their views on educational issues which affect them considered within the family, within schools and at national level.
Meta Description: [ Action on Rights for Children is a UK internet based group committed to the UN convention on the rights of the child. ]

Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions (ASFAR) - Organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the legal civil rights of youth; opposes voting age restrictions, curfews, and others laws which it considers age discrimination.
Meta Description: [ ASFAR fights laws that limit the legal, civil, educational and social rights of young people. ]

Article 12 in Scotland - National network of young people which promotes youth rights as laid out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

ChildAdvocate.org - A web resource that brings attention to the human rights of young people, with a focus on educating the public about overlooked forms of child maltreatment such as corporal punishment and detrimental schooling.

K.R.Ä.T.Z.Ä. (KinderRÄchTsZÄnker) - German site for equal rights for people under the age of 18: voting rights, and democratic education. [Multilingual]
Meta Description: [ Bildungsrecht statt Schulpflicht, Wahlrecht ohne Altersgrenzen, Erziehungskritik, Menschenrechte auch fuer Kinder ]

Libertarian Rock - Libertarian Rock fights against lifestyle laws, such as teen curfews, which are written by intolerant politicians.
Meta Description: [ Libertarian Rock fights against lifestyle laws, such as teen curfews, which are written by intolerant politicians. ]

Peace Fire - Youth against internet censorship.

Students Against Name Tags Association (SANTA) - Opposes mandatory identification tags worn around the neck in public schools. Specifically Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Florida.

Survey of North American Youth Rights (SNAYR) - The Freechild Project has developed the SNAYR to study the implications, impacts, and outcomes of the youth rights movement. Includes information and history on the rights and issues facing youth, rights of students in schools, advancing the rights of youth, youth suffrage, the liberation of youth, addressing adultism, and a unique self-guided research library.

YCLC - Youth and Civil Liberties Council - Project sponsored by the Wisconsin ACLU that promotes youth civic involvement, particularly on issues of social justice and youth issues such as curfews and students' free speech.

Youth on Board - Through trainings, workshops, and publications, Youth on Board prepares youth to be leaders and decision-makers in their communities and strengthens relationships between young people and adults.

Youth Rights Media - Youth Rights Media is an organization dedicated to making youth aware of their rights in difficult situations. YRM uses video based, peer-taught, presentations created by law students, to get its message across.
Meta Description: [ In order to create transformative leadership opportunities for these traditionally disengaged youth, YRM engages youth in video media production and community organizing so that young people are equipped with tools, skills, and strategies for affecting change within themselves, their communities,... ]

Youth Rights UK - Campaigns for youth rights in the UK. Includes issue papers on areas of concern such as curfews, Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs), ADHD, and unjust treatment of young offenders.
Meta Description: [ Information and campaigning site for youth rights in the UK ]