Human Rights and the Violation of Civil Rights of Children and Teenagers in Brazil
The objective of this article is to provide a discussion around the issue of human rights of children and teenagers in Brazil. In the first part the social history of infancy and adolescence in Brazil is analyzed, starting from the change of the legal and institutional paradigm as in how to approach the subject, mainly the passage of the doctrine of the irregular situation to the doctrine of integral protection. In the second part, the meaning and the reaching of the Statute of the Child and the Teenager is studied, starting from the proclaimed rights and the social policies that are intended to have it working (basic and complementary social policies, and of the warranty of rights). At this moment, some objections to the efficiency of the Statute are pinned, in the matter of the persistency of violations of children and teenager rights, which become social issues, such as work during childhood, domestic violence, children and teenager sexual abuse, children and teenagers who live in the streets, institutional violence against the teenagers that have committed crimes, among others. Finally, in the last part, the role of the Social Service is examined as for the promotion of the human rights of children and teenagers in Brazil. Through the developed analysis, it’s possible to get to the conclusion that, after fifty years of the institution of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man (1948), after more than 10 years of the institution of the Federal Constitution (1988), which meant to be the return to the democracy in Brazil, and, even more, after more than ten years of the registering of the Statute of the Child and the Teenager, what is said has really changed, but the social practices are those of violation of human rights, the most elementary ones, in our country.