Tag: Youth rights
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Youth Infusion
The term youth infusion was coined by expert and Freechild Project advisor Wendy Lesko, who says the term summarizes “where young people are involved in every conceivable way — as volunteers and paid community organizers, as facilitators and trainers, as conference planners, and as full-fledged members on a board of directors.”
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The Future of Youth Rights
As the youth rights movement reaches into the future, we think it is important to ask if it is healthier to have a single, unified movement, or a movement coming from many directions asking different things. Is there a new agenda for youth rights in this millennium, or is the agenda set 40 years ago […]
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Today’s Youth Rights Movement
Young people themselves, as well as adults who were youth rights activists, are winning court cases, taking influential jobs, and serving their communities in a variety of ways that continue to promote youth rights agendas, all without the multi-million dollar budgets and high influence of the people involved in the children’s rights movement.
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A Short History of the Youth Rights Movement
Its important to understand that there is no single agenda for youth rights everywhere, all of the time. Instead, the youth rights movement is made of many, many agendas reflecting the diversity of young people around the world today. Following are some of the youth rights issues being addressed today.
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Expanding Youth Rights
Somewhere along the way somebody got the idea that children and youth were not sufficiently protected by the general human rights documents. Worse still, youth believed they were protected but still had their rights routinely violated. So different people have created a variety of documents to expand the rights of children and youth.
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Nontraditional Youth Rights Issues
These are issues not traditionally addressed by people who are concerned with young people. That’s slowly changing, but these are still important issues.
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Freechild Institute believes Article 12 is one of the most important parts of the CRC. Young people of all ages should have a voice in every single decision affecting them, and their voice should be taken seriously. As our website details extensively, there are many ways this can happen.
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Traditional Youth Rights
Following is a list of the traditional youth rights that people have granted youth before, or that have been advocated for across the last hundred years.
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Youth Rights in Schools
The information in this section was adapted with permission from The Student Bill of Rights Project. It was a collaboration to create a national student-led mandate for schools in the United led by the National Youth Rights Association in coordination with Oblivion, The Freechild Project and Students for a Sensible Drug Policy. More than 3,000 edits were made by more than 100 participants from each of these organizations.
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Youth Rights Resources
The Freechild Institute has created many resources focused on youth rights. They include everything in our Youth Rights Toolkit. Introduction—This section introduces the idea of youth rights, including what it is, what they do, who they are for and why they matter. What Are Rights?—Summarizing the concept of rights, this section also address responsibilities and […]
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