Abstract

RAVETLLAT BALLESTE, Isaac  and  CABEDO MALLOL, Vicente. Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights in the European Constitutions. Opin. jurid. [online]. 2021, vol.20, n.spe43, pp.295-313.  Epub Nov 19, 2022. ISSN 1692-2530.  https://doi.org/10.22395/ojum.v20n43a12.

This piece of writing has the goal of observing with a critical and contingent look the producedure of constitutionalization of the rights of children and adolescents in the European normative context. For this study, a qualitative and hermeneutic approach of documental type was used. As a result, the study confirmed that even if the Constitutions of the Eastern European and Eurasian countries, with young democracies and fundamental texts relatively young as well, have incorporated within its articles precepts allusive to the rights of childhood and adolescence, there is not an homogenous and uniform will in sight by the States of the old continent for adapting its supreme norms to the provisions of the Convention on the Child ‘s Rights. Which led this study to conclude that there is a need for reformulating a high number of European Constitutions for assuring with it that the rights of childhood and youthness are guaranteed and protect through it the mechanism within those fundamental charts. As well as evidentiating, even from a symbolic perspective, that childhood has been, at last, made visible and taken into consideration in the most adequate way possible.

Keywords : child rights; constitutionalization; childhood wellness; childhood protection.

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