CHILD ARTISTIC LABOR: FROM LEGAL (DE) PROTECTION TO FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

Abstract

This paper deals with the violation of the fundamental rights of children and adolescents under 16 (sixteen) years old due to the practice of child labor in artistic world. It contextualizes international legal protection against child labor, addressing the importance of the United Nations and the International Labor Organization in protecting against the exploitation of child labor. It verifies national legal protection against child labor, elucidating basic guidelines for the understanding of the rights of children and adolescents based on the theory of integral protection derived from the Federal Constitution of 1988, as well as studying the provisions on Children’s Statute, and on the Adolescent and in the National Plan for Prevention and Elimination of Child Labor, highlighting the protections against the practice of child labor. This paper also analyzes the legitimacy of the violation of constitutional and international norms as a result of judicial authorizations for child artistic labor, in order to establish a deeper understanding of the origin of these authorizations as well as their legal support and the consequent violations of the fundamental rights of children and adolescents. The research problem that was sought to solve with the scientific article was: “How
has been developed the treatment in relation to child artistic labor?”. The approach method is the deductive and the method of procedure is the monographic with bibliographic and documentary research techniques.