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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.
Peace Fire
Youth against internet censorship.
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]
Campaign for a Democratic Future
A group of teenagers seeking the right to vote in city and town elections.
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.
Libertarian Rock
Libertarian Rock fights against lifestyle laws, such as teen curfews, which are written by intolerant politicians.
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.
YouthSpeak
Organization promoting the youth right to vote in the United States.
United American Youth Liberalists
The United American Youth Liberalists is a unification working diligently to push for more youth rights and activism in government. Newly added and revised Bill of Beliefs included.
Association for Children's Suffrage
Student organization at Brown University challenging the voting age through lobbying, public meeting, and media.
JustAct: Youth Action for Global Justice
Promoting youth leadership and action for global justice. Details of the programmes and network.
LAFAA (Legalize Alcohol For All Adults)
A special interest group who's goal is to lower the drinking age and teach youths responsible drinking.
Youth Rights
Informational site on the rights of abused youth, and alternatives to running away.
B418.com: A site by Teens to defend Teens' Rights
B418.com believes that teens have to take all the responsibilities of a Liberal Democracy without all rights that differentiate democracy from autocracy. Through out activities we aim to change this so with responsibilities come rights.
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.
The Legal Drinking Age
Gives key facts, provides links, offers a poll, and includes an analysis paper on whether or not the drinking age should be lower.
Legal Drinking Age
Lists minimum legal drinking ages in countries around the world and presents essays by researchers on drinking age issues.
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.
Speaking out Against 'Teen Help' Facilities
True stories of abusive 'Teen Help' facilities, and links.
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.
Teen Vote
Campaign to lower the United States universal voting age to 15 and extend conditional voting rights to younger people. It includes arguments about why the voting age should be lowered.
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.
National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984
An article analyzing the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, which reveals that this law only addresses the purchase or possession of alcohol by those under age 21, not its consumption by them.

sub categories in Youth Rights

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cross references

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

other references

Society : Issues : Crime and Justice : Juvenile Justice Society : Issues : Crime and Justice : Juvenile Justice
Society : Organizations : Student : Rights Society : Organizations : Student : Rights

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