Center for Youth Rights Research

Youth Rights Research

Introduction

Part of the dilemma of fighting for the recognition of the rights of young people and advocating for extending those rights is that many people do not know what rights they have now, which rights are infringed on by law, and which rights they should advocate for.

Point to Ponder

"And surely there is in all children... a stubbornness, a stoutness of mind arising from natural pride, which must, in the first place, be broken and beaten down; that so the foundation of their education, being laid in humility and tractableness, other virtues may, in their time, be built thereon." - John Robinson, pastor of the 1650's Pilgrim colony in the New World, as quoted in A People's History of the United States by H. Zinn.

Resources

The following websites will assist your anti-youth laws and city policy searches. On some you can punch in your youth-related topic, including curfews, voting involvement, civic engagement, community service, etc., into the site's search window, and related laws will appear.

Other Sources

Thomas - Federal legislative information on the Internet

Under the directive of making Federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, Thomas has all federal bill information available.

The United States Constitution

The United States Bill of Rights

Data Management

laws from throughout the United States.

BCPnet

city and county codes online

AmLegal.com

provides data, including codes and laws, for cities across the United States.

Municipality Codes

searches for city, county and state codes for all of the United States.

UNICEF convention on the rights of the child
International law advocating children's rights. Read the full text in the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

The Canadian Bill of Rights

Official City Sites

Features International searches, includes Australia, Japan, and other nations.

The Freechild Project

Survey of North American Youth Rights, or SNAYR,

is brought to you in partnership with the National Youth Rights Association

For more information visit the Youth Rights Network

Return to the SNAYR homepage