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Sites related to youth rights and general stuff to do with young people.

ACLU
http://www.aclu.org/  [report broken link]
Most active and powerful defender of civil liberties in the nation. The ACLU defends youth rights in school, at home, and in the community with dozens of lawsuits over the years.
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ACLU Youth Speak
http://www.aclu.tv/episodes/youth  [report broken link]
In this episode of The ACLU Freedom Files, you’ll meet young people whose rights were violated and who fought back.
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Adultism is the foundation for all forms of oppression
http://www.american-pictures.com/english/racism/oppression.htm  [report broken link]
From the "American Pictures" project by Danish photographers Tony Harris and Jacob Holdt. Explores adultism in the context of all social oppressions, including racism and sexism.
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Article 12 in Scotland
http://www.article12.org/  [report broken link]
National network of young people which promotes youth rights as laid out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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ASFAR
http://www.asfar.org/  [report broken link]
ASFAR is an organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the legal civil rights of youth. ASFAR fights the voting age, curfew laws, and other laws that limit the freedom of young people.
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Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood
http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/  [report broken link]
A national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children.
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ChildAdvocate.org
http://www.childadvocate.org/  [report broken link]
The purpose of this web site is to educate the public about the overlooked ways in which children's human rights are not protected; how these abuses have contributed to dysfunction in society; and how we can become true advocates for kids.
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idealist.org Kids and Teens
http://idealist.org/kt  [report broken link]
Idealist Kids and Teens is designed to introduce you to the world of nonprofit organizations and the activities and issues that they pursue.
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Kidz Revolution
http://www.freewebs.com/kidzrebellion/  [report broken link]
A worldwide organization of protests. Kidz Revolution is a non-violent organization dedicated to helping our fellow youth gain respect.
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KRATZA
http://en.kraetzae.de/  [report broken link]
We are a group of about 20 young people (15 to 23 years old) who stand up for equal rights for children in Germany. Our main subjects are the right to vote, school and family. But we are also engaging in other subjects that deal with age discrimination, such as child labour and kids and youth protection.
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NYRA
http://www.youthrights.org  [report broken link]
NYRA proposes lessening and removing various legal restrictions that are imposed on young people but not adults, for example, the voting age, drinking age, curfews, and the like.
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Oblivion
http://oblivion.net/  [report broken link]
Oblivion started as a zine in 1995 and is now a nonprofit youth rights organization. Oblivion's official mission statements reads: "To educate about and encourage involvement in issues affecting youth."
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Student Press Law Center
http://www.splc.org/  [report broken link]
Legal assistance agency supporting the student news media in their struggle to cover important issues free from censorship. Provides free legal advice and information as well as low-cost educational materials for student journalists.
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Student Rights: Articles, law cases and links
http://www.tentler.com/StudentsRights.htm  [report broken link]
Articles, law cases and links regarding Student Rights, such as Constitutional Rights, Academic Freedom, School Dress Codes, Book and Newspaper Censorship, Internet Access, etc.
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TakingITGlobal
http://www.takingitglobal.org/  [report broken link]
Connects youth around the world to find inspiration, information and get involved in improving their local and global communities.
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Teensource
http://www.teensource.org/  [report broken link]
TeenSource.org is a complete guide that strives to answer all your questions about the experiences all teens face in life, but are too afraid to ask. This is your resource to information about sexual health, relationships, and issues that affect teens and young adults today.
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The Freechild Project
http://freechild.org  [report broken link]
Tons of resources for young people to help make a change.
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The Natural Child Project
http://www.naturalchild.org/  [report broken link]
Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.
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The Student Bill of Rights
http://www.studentbillofrights.org/wiki/  [report broken link]
This website was created to draft the first truly representative Student Bill of Rights for youth in schools across the United States. The purpose of this project is to create a national student-led mandate for schools to acknowledge and protect the rights of all students in every school. We seek to accomplish this by creating a comprehensive document detailing what students' rights are and how they can be upheld.
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Trashing Teens
http://psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20070302-000002&print=1  [report broken link]
Psychologist Robert Epstein spoke to Psychology Today's Hara Estroff Marano about the legal and emotional constraints on American youth.
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youthlib.com
http://www.youthlib.com/  [report broken link]
This website contains original essays about Adultism and Youth Liberation. Youth activists and adult allies are the intended audiences. My hope is to inspire readers to start new direct action groups based on the Youth Liberation model -- and to help existing groups thrive.
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Youth Action Net
http://www.youthactionnet.org  [report broken link]
Information, resources and tools to help the youth community have greater impact.
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Youth AMP
http://www.youthamp.org/  [report broken link]
Youth AMP is a project intended to spread accurate information about drinking practices and to raise support for safe, responsible, and effective drinking laws. Our main focus will be on raising support for a lower drinking age.
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Youth Communication: Metro Atlanta
http://www.youthcommunication-vox.org/  [report broken link]
Youth Communication (YC) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to raise youth voice. We use peer-to-peer communication to involve teenagers as citizens in the metro-Atlanta community.
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Youth Free Expression Network
http://www.yfen.org/  [report broken link]
A US coalition of teens and adults committed to defending the free expression rights of youth.
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Youth Law Center
http://www.youthlawcenter.org/  [report broken link]
A full-service nonprofit law office for children, combining the skills of specially trained and experienced attorneys and caseworkers to help victimized and troubled children.
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Youth Rights Network
http://www.youthrights.net/  [report broken link]
This website is for every young person who wants to learn more about their rights, get help in fighting for them, and participate in a community of youth working to build those resources.
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Youth Rights UK
http://www.youth-rights-uk.org/  [report broken link]
Youth Rights UK aims to provide commentary about matters effecting the rights of young people in the UK. The site aims to provide a voice for young people whose rights are being abused.
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