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This is a wiki on [[Wikipedia:youth rights|youth rights <sup>[Wikipedia link]</sup>]].
The wiki is in its early stages, contributions are '''''welcome'''''. You do ''not'' need an account to contribute and your IP address will ''not'' be publicly exposed if you do so.
 
Over on Wikipedia, there's this Draft that might need help: [[wikipedia:Draft:Moral_panic_over_digital_technology|Draft:Moral panic over digital technology - Wikipedia]]
 
== Motivation ==
Some intrinsic rights of young people are not respected. People don't seem to understand the implications.
 
We believe that young people deserve: '''''[[The issues]]'''''<sup>[placeholder]</sup>.
 
== Discrimination against young people ==
 
* [[coercive control]], often from parents, including invasion of privacy, tracking, and denial of basic liberties
* [[age-based restrictions]] including [[teen curfews]], [[the voting age]] and bans on buying certain items
* [[social media bans]] and other forms of government interference with young people's personal development, well-being and access to information and support
* [[authoritarian schooling systems]] including [[school corporal punishment in the 21st century]] and [[school corporal punishment prior to the 21st century]], as well as the [[school to prison pipeline]]
* [[authoritarian parenting]] including [[parental corporal punishment in the 21st century]] and [[parental corporal punishment prior to the 21st century]]
* children are denied the [[right to leave their parents]] and are punished for [[Runaways|running away from their parents]]
* [[interference in young people's bodily autonomy]] including genital mutilation, forced medical treatment and denying basic medical treatment to children
 
== Online resources ==
https://takingchildrenseriously.com/ This website has essays mostly related to parenting that support treating children with no coercion.


The wiki is in its early stages, contributions are '''''welcome'''''. You do ''not'' need an account to contribute and your IP address will ''not'' be publicly exposed if you do so.
https://discord.gg/pBBJWnNscU This is a small discord server for youth liberationists to talk about these issues.


== The motivation==
== Local resources in the UK ==
We have noticed that some moral rights of young people are not respected. People don't seem to understand the implications.  
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/


We believe that young people deserve:
== Local resources in the USA ==
* [[dignity]],
[https://www.youthrights.org www.youthrights.org] A local organisation limited to the USA. This website has numerous articles and videos, including interviews and podcasts all about youth rights.
* [[safety]],
* [[agency]],
* [[justice]],
* [[information]],
* [[freedom of thought and expression]]
* [[growth]],
* [[enjoyment of rights]],
* and [[Youth's moral rights|others]].


== The editing needs ==
== Editing needs ==
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<span style="font-size: 1.5em;">[[The Issues]]</span>
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