{"id":5015,"date":"2025-09-26T12:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barnensidrott.nu\/en\/approach\/voting-rights-from-the-age-of-12\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:46:11","slug":"voting-rights-from-the-age-of-12","status":"publish","type":"arbetssatt","link":"https:\/\/barnensidrott.nu\/en\/approach\/voting-rights-from-the-age-of-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Rights from the Age of 12!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-section-id=\"17krbrd\" data-start=\"374\" data-end=\"414\">Your Voice Counts \u2013 Voting Rights from the Age of 12<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"703\"><strong>Children and young people should not only be allowed to say what they think \u2013 they also need the opportunity to genuinely influence the association\u2019s decisions. One concrete way is voting rights at the association\u2019s annual general meeting. In RF\u2019s model bylaws, members have voting rights from the year they turn 12, provided the other conditions for voting rights are met.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"703\">But voting rights are difficult to use if you don\u2019t understand how an annual general meeting works, or what different words mean. The association needs to make <strong data-start=\"813\" data-end=\"899\">the language, the information and the democratic processes understandable and accessible<\/strong> for children, young people and others who are not used to association life. <\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"14ax16b\" data-start=\"959\" data-end=\"984\">This is what IFK Ume\u00e5 has done<\/h3>\n<ul data-start=\"986\" data-end=\"1412\">\n<li data-section-id=\"394nlq\" data-start=\"986\" data-end=\"1141\">Developed <strong data-start=\"999\" data-end=\"1030\">easy-to-read association documents<\/strong> that explain, among other things, the bylaws, the annual general meeting and members\u2019 rights.<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"xyyno3\" data-start=\"1142\" data-end=\"1234\">Developed a <strong data-start=\"1158\" data-end=\"1170\">glossary<\/strong> that explains common words and concepts within association democracy.<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"4kwcu9\" data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1412\">Had a <strong data-start=\"1245\" data-end=\"1282\">meeting chair at the annual general meeting<\/strong> tasked with continuously explaining what is happening, how the meeting works and difficult words that are used \u2013 so that more people can understand and take part.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"1617\" data-end=\"1658\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/barnensidrott.nu\/en\/approach\/easy-to-read-club-documents\/\">Read our easy-to-read association documents  &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1617\" data-end=\"1658\">See our glossary  &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting Rights from Age 12 \u2013 RF-SISU&#8217;s Recommendation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4936,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"tema":[],"class_list":["post-5015","arbetssatt","type-arbetssatt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Voting Rights from the Age of 12! 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