Youth rights |
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Rights |
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Theoretical distinctions |
Human rights |
Rights by beneficiary |
Other groups of rights |
The youth rights movement (also known as youth liberation) seeks to grant the rights to young people that are traditionally reserved for adults. This is closely akin to the notion of evolving capacities within the children's rights movement, but the youth rights movement differs from the children's rights movement in that the latter places emphasis on the welfare and protection of children through the actions and decisions of adults, while the youth rights movement seeks to grant youth the liberty to make their own decisions autonomously in the ways adults are permitted to, or to abolish the legal minimum ages at which such rights are acquired, such as the age of majority and the voting age.[1]
Codified youth rights constitute one aspect of how youth are treated in society. How youth are treated and thought of by adults are others.[2]