Abstract
century, in different parts around the world, children’s rights have become acknowledged in laws and codes. Childhood-related issues are incorporated on the social policy agenda. Because of their vulnerable condition, in 1923, the first international document in defense of children was issued, incorporated into the “Declaration of the Rights of the Child”, known as the Geneva Declaration, in 1924. This document declares that, independently from color, creed and age, children should be guaranteed conditions for normal development, i.e. they should be fed when hungry, taken care of when ill; they should have freedom, be protected from any form of exploration and their talents should be placed at the service of man
Highlights
Childhood-related issues are incorporated on the social policy agenda
This document declares that, independently from color, creed and age, children should be guaranteed conditions for normal development, i.e. they should be fed when hungry, taken care of when ill; they should have freedom, be protected from any form of exploration and their talents should be placed at the service of man(1)
In 1959, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child was unanimously approved in the General Assembly of the United Nations
Summary
Diagnostic care, respecting the child’s cognitive phase; besides receiving psychological support when necessary; enjoying some form of recreation, health education programs, accompaniment of the school curriculum during hospitalization; parents or responsible caregivers’ active participation in treatment and prognosis, receiving information about the procedures the child will be submitted to; receiving spiritual and religious support, in accordance with the family’s practice; not being subject to clinical essays, diagnostic and therapeutic tests without the informed consent of the parents or responsible caregivers and their own, if they are able to decide; receiving all therapeutic resources available for cure and rehabilitation; protection against any form of discrimination, neglect or mistreatment; respect for one’s physical, psychic and moral integrity; preservation of one’s image, identity, autonomy of personal values, spaces and objects; not being used by mass communication means without the parents or responsible caregivers’ expressed will or against their own will, safeguarding ethics; confidentiality of one’s clinical data, as well as the right to know the data, filed at the institution during legally established terms; having a dignified death, together with one’s relatives, when available therapeutic resources are exhausted; having hospitals fully respect one’s constitutional rights and rights in the Statute of the Child and Adolescent. Because of their vulnerable condition, in 1923, the first international document in defense of children was issued, incorporated into the “Declaration of the Rights of the Child”, known as the Geneva Declaration, in 1924.
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