Aportes de las políticas de niñez y desde adolescencia desde un enfoque de derechos

Abstract

This project targets students and professional who work with the minor child population through direct intervention or by formulating public policies. Its purpose underscores the poverty and social inequality situation that characterizes that population, as well as the response provided by the Costa Rican government and international organizations through guidelines and social policies founded on an approach that focuses on rights.

To fulfill the preceding purpose, the article presents a series of statistical data that evidence the main situations that violate this population’s rights and the existing legal mechanisms for the rights to be guaranteed and enforced; these mechanisms are described within the legal-political framework that underlies the focus on rights and the comprehensive protection doctrine.

In addition, the response from the Costa Rican government based on the social policy designed to attend to children and adolescents is raised. Some contributions by the University of Costa Rica are addressed that deal with this subject based on the Pridena Program and the master’s program in Children’s and Adolescents’ Human Right in the Social Work post-graduate program.

The main conclusion to be emphasized lies in the challenge that the Social Work profession faces to respond to situations that violate the rights of boys, girls, and teenagers in relation to the research and properly founded social intervention where the social policy is the path to follow. That path supposes initiative, creativity and, above all else, social commitment.