As if America didn’t already have an appalling record on youth rights, the Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting age to 25 unless 18 to 24-year-olds serve in the military or pass a civics test. Really, Vivek? When there’s a growing movement to lower the voting age to 16 to give…
In three states, Mississippi, Virginia, and Utah, Pornhub has completely banned user access due to mandatory online ID checks that are supposed to prevent minors under 18 from accessing content. Websites complying with regulations, like xHamster, require users to upload a picture of their photo ID and face. While I think porn can be harmful…
Written by Katelyn Pioy Recently, The Fayetteville City Council in North Carolina struck down a proposal for a restrictive youth curfew. The curfew, proposed by Police Chief Kemberle Braden, aimed to impose limitations on youth. According to the proposal, individuals under 16 years old would be prohibited from going out between 11 p.m. and 6…
NYRA supports Choose To Rally, a movement to give Floridians back their abortion rights. Abortion is currently restricted to six weeks in the state. This constitutes a near-total ban on the procedure. Abortion is restricted in many states across the country to minors under 18 without parental consent, and states like Florida that seek to…
The Barnes and Noble location in West Hartford, CT has been engaging in youth discrimination by displaying the sign “unaccompanied minors may be asked to leave.” Bookstores are places of learning and exploration, where no minors should be told to leave but instead encouraged to enter. In April, we reached out to Barnes and Noble…
To the City of Fayetteville: The National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) is a non-profit that upholds youth rights nationwide. The proposed youth curfew in Fayetteville will implement first-of-its-kind laws that restrict suspended students from being out of their homes during the business day from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm, and during the nighttime curfew hours….
The proposed youth curfew in Fayetteville, NC has been advanced 7-2 by the city council. It would prohibit minors aged 17 and 18 from being out of their houses 12 am – 5 am on weeknights, 1 am – 5 am on weekends, and would bar minors 16 and younger from being on the street…
In his 1776 manifesto, “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine established the national project of “securing freedom and property to all men, and above all things, the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience.” For Paine, it was all but common sense that people are free, and thus, free to choose their beliefs. In…
Observing the United States in the 1830s, the French political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in his Democracy in America that “the position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in one.” Tocqueville was observing the exceptionality of American society, with its…
Reposted from our coalition’s website, We Warned Them. We are asking for your help. In Missouri, our friends from the TTI survivor community have drawn the line: Agape Boarding School has gone too far. Agape, a residential troubled teen program located in Cedar County, Missouri, is under investigation for their abuse and for using unsafe,…
