Youth Rights Organizations and Groups

• ACLU  More of a general civil rights organization, but they fight against curfews and for students' rights.

• ACLU-Washington: Youth Issues  Information aimed at youth regarding their constitutional rights.

• ACS - The Association for Children's Suffrage  Challenges the voting age through lobbying, public meeting, and media.

• Age of Consent  Lists the ages of consent throughout the United States and the world. (We are not responsible for the accuracy of the information presented here.)

• Alcohol: Problems and Solutions  This is not an organizion, however I included it because the enormous amount of scientific information presented in favor of lowering the drinking age probably outdoes that of any other youth rights organization in existence at this time.

• Article 12 in Scotland - Young Person's Rights  Promotes youth rights as laid out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

• ASFAR - Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions  An organization with the idea that freedom should be based on merit, and not a date of birth.

• BRAT Online  A youth activist zine organizing against curfews, book bannings, skateboard laws, and dress codes.

• Corporal Punishment: Society's Acceptable Violence Against Children  A research-based site that advocates for ending the tolerance for legal violence against children in the home and in schools. This site offers alternatives to corporal punishment and discusses why corporal punishment is damaging to children.

• Curfew.Org: Fighting Youth Curfews  Everything you need to know about curfews; fighting them, history, etc.

• Free Youth Internet  Fighting to save an innocent youth from death in Pakistan.

• Generation Now!  Arguments for youth suffrage.

• KYR - Know Your Rights, Inc.  Formerly the ISSA. Information for youths who believe their rights or liberties were violated.

• Let Kids Vote  Dedicated to the proposition that kids have the fundamental right to vote in every election.

• Lower the Vote  Campaigning to lower the voting age.

• Mowat Dean & Co. Youth Rights Page  A legal firm in the United Kingdom specializing in youth rights.

• NYRA - National Youth Rights Association  Fights the drinking age, voting age, age of majority, and driving age.

• Oblivion  A youth rights 'zine with humorous articles and artwork concerning problems faced by young persons today in school and society.

• Peacefire  A website helping combat censorship of youth online. They provide support to help disable evil parental blocking software, and information regarding the ignorant and arrogant corporations running these blocking systems.

• Project NoSpank  A crusade against spanking children for "discipline."

• RALLY - Realistic Alcohol Laws for Legal Youth  Supports lowering the drinking age to 18.

• *Rock Out Censorship*  Opposed to efforts to restrict the first amendment rights of all people, including those under 18.

• SAFE - MIT Student Association for Freedom of Expression  Fights against censorship on the net, including that on young people.

• SNAYR - Survey of North American Youth Rights  Studies the implications, impacts, and outcomes of the youth rights movement.

• Teen Liberty  Protecting the civil and human rights of teens. Information on the cruel and inhumane treatment teens receive at the hands of "behavior modification" schools.

• YouthSpeak  A grassroots organization advocating a lower voting age.

• Youthwork  Helping young people deal with a variety of issues.