Abstract

GALVIS ORTIZ, Ligia. The convention on the rights of the child twenty years later. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2009, vol.7, n.2, pp.587-619. ISSN 1692-715X.

This essay is a reflection on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the occasion of its twenty years in vogue. We start with the development of the antecedents concerning the recognition of children's rights in the XIX century, after universal literature authors such as Charles Dickens, Jules Vallès presented the state of authoritarianism and abuse in experiential narratives in their works. These narratives opened the debate in Europe and Latin America on those rights and, consequently, various Declaration projects before the Geneva Declaration, approved by the Society of Nations in 1924, appeared. These projects are based upon the conceptual development of the new pedagogy which, at the same time, became very popular in the last decades of the XIX century, and accompany the development of the debate until reaching the approval of the Convention, that today consecrates the rights of the girls, boys and adolescents all over the world. Then there is the analysis of the influence of the liberty legacy of the new pedagogy expressed in the content of the Convention, through two main entities such as the tenure of rights and integral protection. We conclude that the conceptual advances that provide elements for a holistic, dynamic and present interpretation of the convention, such as the gender perspective, the active tenure of the children's rights, the recognition of the adolescents' world and the new perspectives on disability, are the elements that provide a new dynamism and imprint current importance to the Convention postulates.

Keywords : Children's Rights; tenure of the integral protection rights; co-responsibility; child's higher interest.

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