THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND THE ROLE OF THE STATE

The recognition of children's rights as a subject of rights can be referred to the Constitution of 1988, followed by the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989 and ratified by Brazil on September 24, 1990. The International Convention and its ratification by Brazil, our country knew the sanction of Law n. 8,069 of July 13, 1990, the Child and Adolescent Statute. Previously, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations Assembly on November 20, 1959, was ratified by Brazil; through art. 84, item XXI, of the Constitution, and in view of the provisions of arts. 1 degrees of Law n. 91, of August 28, 1935, and 1 degrees of Decree n. 50,517, of May 2, 1961. This legal set, national and international, was not only expanded, as in the Law of Directives and Bases and in the National Education Plan, but also determined new ways of managing early childhood education as this became a component of basic education. Alongside the principle of democratic management, these realities imply respect for this identity of a cycle of existence whose voices of its subjects cannot be ignored in their specificity.