This article aims to contribute to the state of the art of the rights of children and adolescents (NNA, in Spanish) in Latin America and Spain. For this purpose, 195 sources were analyzed, including articles, books and chapters of books written in Spanish, obtained through the databases and the search managers Scopus, Web of Science, Proquest, Mendeley, Ebsco, Clase, Redalyc, Scielo, Dialnet, Latindex, Academic Record, Researchgate.net and Academia.edu. The inquiries allowed to establish that in the literature produced in Spanish about the rights of children there are three research developments. In the first one, the texts that indicate that children cannot have rights or, in their absence, have to assign their ownership to an adult because of their vulnerability, irrationality and disability. In the second, the writings that replicate the Convention on the Rights of the Child or that r...

This article aims to contribute to the state of the art of the rights of children and adolescents (NNA, in Spanish) in Latin America and Spain. For this purpose, 195 sources were analyzed, including articles, books and chapters of books written in Spanish, obtained through the databases and the search managers Scopus, Web of Science, Proquest, Mendeley, Ebsco, Clase, Redalyc, Scielo, Dialnet, Latindex, Academic Record, Researchgate.net and Academia.edu. The inquiries allowed to establish that in the literature produced in Spanish about the rights of children there are three research developments. In the first one, the texts that indicate that children cannot have rights or, in their absence, have to assign their ownership to an adult because of their vulnerability, irrationality and disability. In the second, the writings that replicate the Convention on the Rights of the Child or t...

This article aims to contribute to the state of the art of the rights of children and adolescents (NNA, in Spanish) in Latin America and Spain. For this purpose, 195 sources were analyzed, including articles, books and chapters of books written in Spanish, obtained through the databases and the search managers Scopus, Web of Science, Proquest, Mendeley, Ebsco, Clase, Redalyc, Scielo, Dialnet, Latindex, Academic Record, Researchgate.net and Academia.edu. The inquiries allowed to establish that in the literature produced in Spanish about the rights of children there are three research developments. In the first one, the texts that indicate that children cannot have rights or, in their absence, have to assign their ownership to an adult because of their vulnerability, irrationality and disability. In the second, the writings that replicate the Convention on the Rights of the Child or t...

La investigación está dividida en tres grandes partes. En la primera se hace una presentación de la problemática de la investigación, sus objetivos, la hipótesis que la guía y la justificación que la legítima. La segunda plantea al lector la infinidad de representaciones sociales sobre infancia, pretéritas y opositoras del proyecto de la CDN. Presenta a su vez, una definición sociológica de los derechos humanos y de los derechos específicos de los NNA. Así, como hace un recorrido histórico de la empresa de los derechos humanos y su convergencia con la infancia por medio de dos grandes procesos y fenómenos enfrentados: por un lado, toda la postura tutelarista y proteccionista direccionada por el Estado respecto a la infancia; por el otro, los movimientos de liberación, impulsores natos de la denominada emancipación jurídica de la infancia en los Estados Unidos, Europa y...