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๐ NEW UN SUBMISSION: Silencing a Generation: Youth power, the Milk Tea Alliance, and the rise of age-gating laws in Asia-Pacific ๐
- Manushya Foundation
- Jun 12
- 1 min read
#NoToAgeGating! ๐ ๐ฝโโ๏ธ When states say they want to โprotect childrenโ by banning them online, which children do they mean? ๐๐ฅ๐ค๐๐ก๐๐ง: ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ค๐ค๐ง! ๐
Freedom has never been granted from above. It has been seized, again and again, by the people most determined to be free, and most often by the young.
In Manushya Foundation's submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, โ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ: ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ฆ๐ข ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ-๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ญ๐ข๐ธ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ด๐ช๐ข-๐๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ง๐ช๐คโ, we write about:
โ๏ธ ๐๐ด๐ฒ-๐ด๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ-๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ, beginning with Australia and copied in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines under the language of protecting children.
โ๏ธโ๐ฅ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฎ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, the children charged under lรจse-majestรฉ in Thailand, the protesters killed in Indonesia and Nepal, the activists red-tagged in the Philippines, the young people in Myanmar buried under cement so they could not become symbols.
๐ค And ๐๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ณ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ด๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ.
As decolonial and intersectional feminists, we do not ask to be included in the systems that were engineered to fail this generation. ๐ข We are demanding their transformation. Inclusion without transformation only makes an unjust order more comfortable to occupy.
๐ Read the full submission at the link, and stay with us in this work: bit.ly/SilencingAGeneration
Struggle continues for as long as there are people willing to wage it. โ
#WeAreManushyan โพ๏ธ Equal Human Beings
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