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…
Last week NYRA published our comprehensive section on Age Discrimination. It’s the sixth issue section on our website, and the second in the past year. At NYRA we stand against discrimination and actively work against ageism in all facets of society. To end age-based discrimination, we must work against the prejudicial treatment of people based…
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] This wasn’t a role that I actively sought. Rather, it came to me with a question mark – and after some consideration and confused “why me?”, I realized I was called to serve. I began in NYRA just over a year ago as a new member of the…
Last week NYRA published our comprehensive section on Medical and Behavioral Treatment rights. It’s the fifth issue section on our website and the second since we unveiled our new site a year ago. Young people are denied the right to bodily integrity, so NYRA believes that medical consent is equally important to other youth rights…
At the beginning of the year, NYRA’s Board of Directors met in Washington, DC to decide what strategy the organization should focus on. We decided that one of our focal strategies should be riding the wave of youth activism that’s happening to bring youth rights to the center of the movement. To that end we…
Reposted from Aaliyah Would Be Proud with permission from the author. The eleventies (2010-2019) ended on December 31, and the twelveties (2020-2029) began. We begin a new year, as well as a new decade. In 2020, the ages of the eight living generations are: Interbellum Generation (1901-1910): age 109+ Greatest Generation (1911-1924): age 95-109 Silent…
Last month, NYRA’s Board of Directors met in Washington, DC to decide what strategy the organization should focus on. This is what we came up with: We decided to focus on growing in these four areas. With recent surges in both youth activism and oppressive legistlation, we believe that these strategies will respond to the…
After months of hard work by NYRA’s team of volunteers, we are pleased to finally unveil our brand new look! With a new logo, a new website, and lots of new content, we’re excited for all youth rights supporters to check out the new YouthRights.org. As part of last year’s strategic planning process we decided…
There’s a very exciting opportunity coming up for us next week. On Tuesday, November 28th after 8 AM, the Gates Foundation is teaming up with Facebook to match funds to non-profits up to $50,000 for each non-profit. We also have matching funds from an anonymous donor, which means that any donation we receive through Facebook…
NYRA’s current website was redesigned in 2011 and while it looked great for the time, it is now dated in both style and function. The current site doesn’t load smoothly, isn’t mobile friendly and hasn’t kept up with modern design standards. So NYRA is now working on a brand new website, and we need your…
