La Convención Internacional sobre los Derechos del Niño y su falta de aplicación en América Latina

Abstract

This article analyses the current situation of the Child Rights International Convention (CRIC) and its true power as protection rules for children in Latin America. Despite of having consolidated as a system of international rules along ten years, the CRIC hasn’t improved substantially the situation of children involved in the penal system of each country which has signed this treaty. The paper digs in the reality of the application of the CRIC for three countries: Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela. In Argentina and Venezuela the Convention it is not yet incorporated to the national legislation. In Brazil the Convention has been incorporated but its rules are not taken in account to deal with minority and crime. These facts open two questions to be solved: the true power of international treaties as a solution in internal matters of the countries, and the different causes which constitute an obstacle to modify the situation of adolescents whose rights the CRIC intends to protect.