National Youth Rights Association

Cause Area

  • Advocacy & Human Rights
  • Children & Youth
  • Education & Literacy
  • Justice & Legal
  • Politics

Location

PO Box 5865Takoma Park, MD 20913 United States
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Mission Statement

The National Youth Rights Association is dedicated to defending the civil and human rights of young people in the United States. We believe certain basic rights are intrinsic parts of American citizenship and transcend age or status limits. As the world's leading democracy, the United States should not lag behind other nations in granting first-class citizenship to its young people. NYRA aims to achieve its goals through educating people about youth rights, working with public officials to devise fitting policy solutions to problems affecting young people and empowering young people to work on their own behalf.

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The National Youth Rights Association is a national non-profit dedicated to fighting for the civil rights and liberties of young people. We fight against age discrimination. NYRA has members in all 50 states, and chapters from coast to coast. We work to lower the voting age, lower the drinking age, repeal curfew laws, protect student rights, and fight against ageism where ever we see it.

In the grand tradition of the civil rights movements in the past, we seek to write a new chapter, and create a world where people are not judged by their birth date, but by the content of their character. Our mission centers on challenging age discrimination against young people, both in law and in attitudes. Many of the basic freedoms afforded to Americans in the Bill of Rights are withheld from youth, and not without troubling consequences for both youth and society as a whole.

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by Olivia P. from Sparta, NJ (2018-04-19 15:20:54.0)
Fantastic opportunity to get involved with, using skills most teens are already proficient in.
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