Publication: Derechos de la infancia: nuevo contexto, nuevos retos
Loading...
Identifiers
Publication date
2009-06
Defense date
Authors
Advisors
Tutors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto de Derechos Humanos Bartolomé de las Casas; Dykinson
Impact
Export
Abstract
En las últimas décadas hemos asistido a un importante desarrollo de los derechos de la infancia y de la adolescencia. Los propios trabajos preparatorios de la Convención determinaron de forma significativa una mayor sensibilización con respecto a los derechos de las niñas y de los niños, cuya expresión más simbólica es quizá la Convención sobre los derechos del niño de 1989; pero que tiene una prolongación importante en instrumentos de carácter regional y estatal. Como consecuencia, puede afirmarse que hemos vivido una buena época para el avance de los derechos de la infancia y de la adolescencia. Sin ninguna duda, la especificación y el reconocimiento de los mismos son importantes. Ahora bien, este trabajo da un paso más y se pregunta por los retos de los derechos de la infancia y de la adolescencia desde el punto de vista de su eficacia. Lo cual lleva a analizar la situación de algunos derechos de la infancia en el contexto de una globalización que se desarrolla en términos generales de espaldas a los derechos. Este análisis se centra inicialmente en los países en desarrollo, donde las carencias y violaciones de estos derechos son más dramáticas; pero sin olvidar que también los derechos de las niñas y de los niños en los países ricos estarían en algunos casos en retroceso.
The last few decades have seen significant developments in children’s and adolescents’ rights. The preparatory work leading to the Convention led to a greater sensibility towards the rights of children, the most symbolic expression of which is perhaps the Convention on the Rights of the Child itself, but which has an ongoing significance in state and regional instruments. Consequently, it can be said that we have lived through a good period from the point of view of an advance in children’s and adolescents’ rights. Undoubtedly the fact of defining and recognising them is important. However, this paper goes one step further and concentrates on the challenges for children’s and adolescents’ rights from the point of view of their effectiveness. This involves an analysis of the situation of children’s rights in the context of a globalisation developing in general terms with its back to these rights. This analysis concentrates initially on developing countries, where the lack or violation of these rights is most marked. However, it must not be forgotten that children’s rights in wealthy countries are also in decline in some cases.
The last few decades have seen significant developments in children’s and adolescents’ rights. The preparatory work leading to the Convention led to a greater sensibility towards the rights of children, the most symbolic expression of which is perhaps the Convention on the Rights of the Child itself, but which has an ongoing significance in state and regional instruments. Consequently, it can be said that we have lived through a good period from the point of view of an advance in children’s and adolescents’ rights. Undoubtedly the fact of defining and recognising them is important. However, this paper goes one step further and concentrates on the challenges for children’s and adolescents’ rights from the point of view of their effectiveness. This involves an analysis of the situation of children’s rights in the context of a globalisation developing in general terms with its back to these rights. This analysis concentrates initially on developing countries, where the lack or violation of these rights is most marked. However, it must not be forgotten that children’s rights in wealthy countries are also in decline in some cases.
Description
Keywords
Derechos de la infancia y de la adolescencia, Eficacia de los derechos, Globalización, Children rights, Globalisation
Bibliographic citation
Derechos y Libertades: revista de filosofía del derecho y derechos humanos, junio 2009, n. 21, pp. 57-93