Youth are not being heard, according to this article. "Of the youth and student organizations surveyed, 57% submitted feedback on education policy. Only 35% saw that feedback reflected in final decisions. Fewer than one in six were ever asked to monitor implementation." This article argues that it's their own fault. "The problem is that youth, by and large, are trying to change institutions using tools those institutions have no structural reason to respond to. The strategy is the gap." What they should be doing, argues Max Genin, is to learn international law and cite it as a demand for compliance when they meet with institutions. "What needs to change first is not government willingness," he writes. "It is the technical fluency of youth organizations themselves, their ability to walk into a room knowing the treaty, the budget cycle, and how decisions actually get made." Ridiculous.
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