Child Rights Organizations and Youth-Led Liberation Efforts

Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (PTAVE)
http://www.nospank.net
Organization to end spanking , paddling and corporal punishment of young people by parents and schools

Youth Power.net
http://www.youthpower.net
A youth-led organization to assist youths in taking charge of their schools, lives and their world. Provides petitions, self-directed learning info and information on finding safe adult boarding "hosts" for traveling youth.

The International Youth Rights Action Alliance "http://www.alcade.net"

The Free Child Project
"http://freechild.org/allies_of_youth.htm"
"Advocating social change by and with young people"

TakingChildrenSeriously
"http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/node.php?id=13"

National Youth Rights Association
"http://www.youthrights.org"

American Civil Liberties Union Student/Youth Rights Page
"http://www.aclu-wa.org/issues/students/index.phpl"
Constitutional rights

Kid Lib Youth Liberation Homepage
"http://www.rootmedia.org/~messmedia/kidlib/#list"

Free The Children
"http://www.freethechildren.org/"

United American Youth Liberalists
"http://uayl.freeservers.com/"

The Association for Children’s Suffrage
"http://www.brown.edu/Students/Association_for_Childrens_Suffrage/"
Giving minors the right to vote politically

Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions (ASFAR)
"http://www.asfar.org"

Oblivion: A Youth Rights Organization
"http://www.oblivion.net"

Teen Liberty.org
"http://www.teenliberty.org"
Exposing the abusive treatment of youth residential and behavior modification programs

Article 12 Scotland
"http://www.article12.org/index2.htm"
Info on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

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