Youth’s rights, a mere reminder! [Archives:2007/1069/Community]

Nowadays, it seems the age of “Rights”, i.e. human rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, etc. But we have never heard about the “youth’s rights”. In the case of women, there should be rights because, as women claim, they are faced with “violence” by men. Children, though they know nothing about that, must enjoy rights of well education, good health, etc. let us forget men’s rights in order not to be accused of prejudice. Undoubtedly, children in the process of time will be young. They would be astonished by “new reality” in which no “Youth’s Rights” are offered. It really looms as if young people do really enjoy full rights, while reality daily proves the opposite.

Ac a claim, Young generation is “young”. That means they are able to achieve ambitions and establish a better future. Unlike children, they understand everything around, and according to which they obtain the required rights themselves. And unlike women, they are not oppressed by children or even “women”. The human rights also offer them some rights when they are grouped as humans. They, therefore, must be satisfied with these rights. 70

In the beginning of youth-age, about 15 years old, “a so-called good education right” welcomes a young generation. I think no need to talk about school education because it is already known to all how much it is “so-called good”. Only because they are young, together with some other aids_ “C-vitamin”, some can pass this stage to come to a higher educational stage- “University”.

And also because they are young, without other aids, they join, or get joined, different colleges, and departments according to the will and choice of chance. By real efforts, some do not fail, at all, to memorize “handouts” or “summaries” to be poured out in the exam papers which would guarantee the “right of finishing” or what is called “graduation”.

Of course, it is silly if generations are satisfied with this kind of education. Changing it becomes not a mere right, but a dire need since education is a main pillar in establishing a better future, and subsequently, a better society. This is not a call for international or local organizations to adopt the issue of “youth’s right”, nor an incitation for the youth to rebel against the relevant institutions. It is only a mere reminder for the institutions, ministries, and “government” to feel responsibility, to keep out promises, and to think of its long-life impacts, not through personal benefits, but through the mind’s eye.

Majed Thabet Al-kholidy is a writer from Taiz, currently doing his M.A. at English Dep, Taiz Uni. He is an ex-editor of English Journal of the University.

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