Here are some other webpages advocating the youth rights cause.
They are currently listed in the order that they were found, but will be
organized into a more usable format soon.
- NCRA
- The National Children's Rights Alliance. The founding organization of
the youth rights movement, they wrote the
Youth Bill of Rights and publish great newspaper called the Freedom Voice
NCRA, PO Box 422, Ellenville, NY 12428 USA
- Oblivion
- The youth rights epicenter of the web, putting out a 'zine as
well as hosting other youth rights organizations
- BRAT
- Another great youth rights webzine run out of the Louisville KY area.
Their email discussion groups, Bratchat and Worldbrats, hold good discussions
and act as dispatches for urgent issues
- International Student Activism Alliance
- One of the most successful youth-run organizations for the Students rights
- TeenAid
- A web page fighting against the injustices of Gulag Schools. It is maintained
by Alexia Parks, the author of "An American Gulag" the book that brought
this issue to the forefront.
- Specialty Schools for Defiant Teens, Intrepid Net Reporter
- A group of independant online journalists, this series of articles blew the cover off the youth prison racket
- YouthSpeak
- Advocating voting rights for youth
- The Roc
- Opposes music censorship and the right of young people to decide what
they want to listen to
- Amnesty International
- The worlds largest and most succesful human rights organization!
- Human Rights Watch
- Another large human rights organization.
- Americans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions
- ASFAR works for a society where all ages are created equal
- The Natural Child Project
- Promoting a parenting style of nonauthoritarianism and mutual respect.
- The KidLib Homepage
- An online pamplet that outlines youth liberationism
- The Official Youth Rights Web Page
- Essays on youth freedom and contemporary issues
- Coalition for Positive Sexuality
- Advocating the right of youth to be informed about and in control of
their own bodies,
- School is Dead - Learn in Freedom
- Encyclopeidic listing of unschooling information and resources
- ACLU Youth Civil Liberties Project
- Because civil rights apply to everyone
- "An American Gulag" Online
- Read and download the full text of Alexia Park's controversial book
on prison schools.
- RightsTalk Forum
- A discussion group on children's rights
- Deadly Restrain
- A newspaper series about the dangerous methods of confinement used in juvenile prisons.
- Student Press Law Center
- Advocates the free speech rights of students and opposes censorship in school newspapers.
They have helped me a lot!
- UNICEF convention on the rights of the child
- International law about children's rights. The United States has yet to sign it.
- Project NoSpank
- Against the child abuse of corporal punishment
- Teen Revolutionary Front Conference System
- Youth discussion system on radical politics
- The Bolt Reporter
- Online student-run newspaper
- Center for the study of Psychiatry
- A psychiatrist who opposes the involuntary drugging of children
- Children's Political Rights by Bob Franklin
- A good essay on the rights of young people
- Libertarian Rock
- Supporting the consitutional rights of youth, especially Anti-Curfew
- Student School Change Network
- Working to change high schools nationwide
- Never Hit a Child
- Against corporal punishment
- Eryn's Page
- A great page from an unschooler with links to unschooling resources.
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook
- The ULTIMATE book on unschooling. Inspiring and informative, it helps you set the path
for your own education. Order it here from Amazon.com.
- Unschooling.com"
- Finally, unschooling has a domain!
- John's Homeschool Resource Page
- Another encyclopeidic listing of home/un schooling resources. Probably the most linked-to
homeschooling page on the web
- Unschooling Support Online
- More on "homeschooling without a net"
- Family Unschoolers Network
- Support for self-directed learners
- Saor Oilean
- That's Irish Gaelic for "Free Learning"
- Homeschooling Email Lists
- A list of homeschooling newsletters and listserv's
- Heather's Homeschooling Page
- One woman's adventure with homeschooling
- Not Back to School Camp
- A great gathering of unschoolers from all over the country
- The Nation
- A liberal magazine that has published articles on the rights of young people
- Youth Law Center
- Toll Free hotline from the State of Ohio to learn about your rights 1.800.728.1172
- Rock for Choice
- Opposes parental consent laws for abortion, giving young women control over their
own bodies. Supports the Becky Bell
campaign, named after a girl who died because she could not get consent for an abortion.
- Parents for Rock and Rap
- Yes, some parents do understand our music!
Advocates freedom of expression for artists in the music industry under the first amendment, and
supports youth music. Run by the mother of Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha!
Parents for Rock and Rap, P.O. Box 53, Libertyville, IL, 60048.
- PIRG Student's Rights
- A page on student's rights from the Public Interest Research Group
- BRAT Infoshop
- From the kids at BRAT, an online bookstore
where you can buy books on youth liberationism and liberal causes.
- JuvenileJustice.com
- "Resources for the Juvenile Justice professional" as well as the activist
- Student's Rights
- Another student's rights page
- Children's Rights Law Resources
- From Cornell University law department
- Teen's Legal Pad
- Law resources for youth
- youth Law Center
- More youth law resources
- Power of Positive Youth
- Working to change stereotypes about youth and show that we can accomplish great things
- Human Rights Internet - Children's Rights
- Children's righs info and activism from Human Rights Internet
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- Australian National Youth Initiative
- Working to give youth a voice in the government Down Under
- Activate!
- More youth rights radicalism from Australia.
- Factsheet 5
- Online zine review, with lots of webzine resources
- ZineBook
- A comprehensive list of zines, both web and otherwise.
- The Teenage Lockup Racket
- An article from the usenet webzine The Last Word about "behavior modification" schools.
- The Underground - Against Porn on AOL
- America Online has not taken adequate steps to stop the child pornography trading
on its servers, and this group wants to make AOL obey its commitments to child safety.
- Anti Child Pornography Militia
- A group of hackers using their skills against child exploiters
- Pedowatch.org
- Working to stop children from being sexually abused by pedophiles
- US Customs Child Pornography Report
- A report from US customs - way to much makes it through our borders (of course, any is too much)
- Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- help stop a kidnapping
- Children of the Night.org
- A shelter to help children escape forced prostitution
- Children's Defense Fund
- Modeled after the NAACP legal defense fund, this helps pay the legal fees of children
in court for their rights
- GlobalMarch.org
- The global march against child labor
- Prevent Abuse Now
- Massive 270 page archive of child abuse information and how to help prevent it
- The Mark McGuire Fund for Children
- Baseball star Mark McGuire's fund against child abuse
- Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women
- In southeast asia thousands of women and children are forced into the sex trade against their
will anually. This organization is working to stop that
- Child Workers in Asia
- Advocating on behalf of the child slaves in Asia that make goods for the US
- Child Slave Labor News
- The latest news for the movement against child labor
- Stolen Dreams
- A shocking photo series on the ordeals faced by child laborers, from Harvard University
- Iqbal Masih School
- Iqbal Masih was a child who escaped the horrible rug factories of pakistan
to tell the plight of child laborers to the world, and was assasinated for his activism
at age 12. This organization wants to build a school in Pakistan in his memory.
- Sweatshop Abuses
- More information on child laborers in sweatshops
- Freethechildren.org
- Free the Children International
- sweatshopwatch.org
- News on the campaign against sweatshops
- No Sweat!
- The US government's campaign against sweatshops
- USAS
- United Students Against Sweatshops
- Sweat Gear
- A biting parody of the fashion industry and its use of sweatshops
- Sweatshops on the US island of Saipan
- If you think "Made in the USA" means no sweatshop labor, think again.
- Child News Line
- News for child's rights activism
- Laws on child pornography and harassment in each state
- There is still much work to be done before this trash is universally illegal
- UNICEF report on child exploitation
- This frightening report shows that child prositituion is growing in the world
- Ageofconsent.com
- What the age of consent is in different states and nations
- The Oppression and Liberation of Youth
- A masters thesis.
- Adultism
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- S.C.R.E.A.M.
- The Student Committee Resisting Enlistment and Militarization : Opposes the forced draft
and the military presence in schools.
- Stand for Children
- Children's advocacy organization
- American Bar Association
- Comprehensive archive of legal information
- Vote Smart
- A nonpartisan record of which candidates voted for what
- Free Spirit Publishing
- A publishing company that releases books that affirm youth
- Crucial Arts Webzine
- A webzine with lots of youth rights information, especially on the group
that started it all, Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention">
- Lots of information on juvenile justice law
- Teen Court
- An interesting
system of youth governing themselves rather than the justice system.
- Exploited Children's Help Organization
2440 Grinstead Drive
Louisville, KY 40204
- Founded by abused children, this group helps give kids the courage to
testify against their abusers.
- Anarchy & Kidz
- Kid lib and anti-authoritarian resources
- Kids Voting USA
- As close as youth can come today to suffrage
- Iqbal Masih
- Information on Iqbal Masih, the sweatshop worker who became a martyr
at 12 for children's rights
- Kratza
- Youth rights activism from Germany. This page is also available in German,
French, and Esperanto!
- Progressive Links:Students Right's
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- Learning through literacy
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If you have a link or address you would like added to this page please send
it to me at jrussell@wnec.edu
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