National Youth Rights Association Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The National Youth Rights Association is the largest Youth Rights group in the United States, with several thousand members. NYRA proposes lessening and removing various legal restrictions that are imposed on young people but not adults, for example, the voting age, drinking age, curfews, and the like. NYRA also favors easier access to legal emancipation for young people and is generally opposed to compulsory school attendance laws.
NYRA's current president is Alex Koroknay-Palicz. He has overseen the organization for several years. As its key spokesman he has been featured on CNN and the Christian Science Monitor, as well in many local papers, on the issues of the voting and drinking ages.
The youth rights movement first utilized the internet to help the struggle in 1991, with the creation of the Y-Rights listserv mailing list. Two members of that original internet presence, Matthew Walcoff and Matt Herman, began a non-profit organization out of that mailing list known as ASFAR. Not too long after ASFAR was founded, a Rockville, Maryland high school student named Avram Hein began a youth rights group called YouthSpeak. At the same time, a third youth from Canada, Joshua Gilbert, was starting a youth rights organization for his country, CYRA. Walcoff, Hein and Gilbert all met through ASFAR, and decided to start a non-profit corporation to help unify the youth rights movement, which at that point consisted of almost a dozen different groups around North-America and the world. They eventually joined with Herman and created NYRA, the National Youth Rights Association. By June 1998, NYRA was incorporated as a non-profit benefit organization with intention to lead the Youth Rights political movement in the United States.
The National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) was founded in 1998 by the original founders of ASFAR because of the desire to create a moderate, pragmatic organization in the Youth Rights Movement. NYRA is led by Alex Koroknay-Palicz and its significant accomplishments to date include several appearances on CNN, increased awareness of Youth Rights among the youth service field, and its campaign to lower the voting age in Takoma Park, Maryland. This is an Article on National Youth Rights Association. Page Contains Information, Facts Details or Explanation Guide About National Youth Rights Association Background