Press Statements
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Advocates for Youth Condemns Thursday
Upon learning this Thursday that not only will House Republicans call a vote on yet another anti abortion bill; that the Trump Administration plans to issue guidelines permitting health workers…
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Youth Activists Claim “This Is Ours” at 2018 Women’s March Events
Organizers Push to Elevate Youth Issues Nationwide In This Year’s Protests As the Trump Administration continues its attacks on women’s rights and progressive values, young activists from across t…
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Statement on the end of TPS Protections by the Trump Administration
This week, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced the decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 262,500 Salvadorans living in the United States. TPS designation will end for El…
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Harming Young People With Both Word And Deed
The Trump Administration’s relentless march toward fascism continues. On Friday, we learned that the Administration had banned the CDC from using specific words in its budget requests (vulnerable, e…
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Great News from Alabama
Advocates for Youth congratulates Doug Jones as the winner of the Alabama special Senate election. We honor the survivors who spoke out about Roy Moore’s long history of sexual violence.…
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In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Laws Must Protect LGBTQ People and Religious Minorities, Not Burden Them
This week, Advocates for Youth joins a coalition of 15 diverse civil rights and faith-based organizations on an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v.…