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11:00 - 1:00PM on Monday, November 24 2008

(General Session #7)



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These student occupations come at a depressing time for British teenagers and gates young adults. The United Nations recently described young people in Britain as being the unhappiest in all of Europe. They are also forced to take more exams throughout their time at school - around 70 by the time they're 16 years old. Britain also door handles incarcerates more children than any other country in western Europe (nearly 3,000 under-18s in 2007), with the UK actually breaching the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in several areas. Young people in Britain continue to be demonised by a society that provides them with little other than a strange juxtaposition of consumerism and relative poverty.[1] Time and again researchers and advocates of the rights of young adults have argued patio doors that what young people in Britain need is their own space, to be allowed to raise their heads in public without fear of being portrayed as troublesome hoodies.

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