In this article, we look again at literature relating to socio-political contexts and the text of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as some of its repercussions in Brazil. Our interest in presenting and discussing the literature on the Convention stems not only from the fact that little has been written in Brazil on this theme, despite its speedy ratification of the document, and the fact that it inspired the drafting of Article 227 of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution and the Statute of the Child and Adolescent. It derives above all, from the way it innovated in representing childhood and children's rights and, as a consequence, the intense and challenging academic production it provoked in the northern hemisphere. Furthermore, it seems for us that Brazilian society urgently needs to have a more consistent basis for the legal frameworks it adopts
rights of the child and adolescent; policies; child welfare; children
