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The Global Youth Action Network engages young people around the world in advocating for youth rights, and Peacefire provides technology-specific support for youth rights activists. Choose Responsibility and their successor organization, the Amethyst Initiative , founded by John McCardell, Jr. , exist to promote the discussion of the drinking ...
During the rest of the 1970s and early 1980s, youth rights faced a backlash, succumbing to the more protectionist-oriented and well-established children's rights movement. In March 1986 the National Child Rights Alliance was founded by seven youth and adults who had been abused and neglected as children. [ 9 ]
Walker, N.E., Brooks, C.M. and Wrightsman, L.S. (1999) Children's Rights in the United States: In Search of a National Policy. Sage Publications. Hawes, J.M. (1991) The Children's Rights Movement: A History of Advocacy and Protection. Jacobs, T.A. (1997) What Are My Rights? Ninety-Five Questions and Answers about Teens and the Law.
The Austin Brown Beret chapter was considered a grassroots organization with the intentions of protecting youth and the rights of citizens. During its active years it worked closely with other grassroots organization and other local chapters when necessary. The chapter ultimately dissolved in 1983.
The National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) is an American youth-led Civil and political rights organization promoting youth rights, [1] with approximately 10,000 members. [ citation needed ] NYRA promotes the lessening or removing of various legal restrictions that are imposed on young people but not adults, for example, the drinking age ...
This means young men could be required to fight and possibly die for their nation in wartime at 18. However, these same citizens could not have a legal say in the government's decision to wage that war until the age of 21. A youth rights movement emerged in response, calling for a similarly reduced voting age.
Youth suffrage is the right to vote for young people. It forms part of the broader universal suffrage and youth rights movements. Most democracies have lowered the voting age to between 16 and 18, while some advocates for children's suffrage hope to remove age restrictions entirely.
Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) is a libertarian student activism organization headquartered in Austin, Texas. Formed in 2008 in the aftermath of the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign , YAL establishes chapters on high school and college campuses across the United States, for the purpose of "advancing liberty on campus and in American ...