Children and adolescents’ rights: towards a legal system

Abstract

The objective  of this article  is to show the current  claims  presented  globally  in the development  of children  human  rights,  from the Convention  on the Rights  of the Child, and their incorporation into domestic legislation, especially at state and regional law. Given the regulatory  updating,  through recent reforms of the Spanish and Catalan legislation,  it points  to a gradual  trend  of setting  up an autonomous  legal discipline,  which  takes  into account the role of children and adolescents  in building and strengthening  their rights, in their def inition  and exercise  for their true owners,  according  to its progressive  capacity. From the def inition  of the issues  now require  more and better  intervention,  also it aims to  promote  networks  of study and research  on children  and adolescents’ rights, from the idea of social utility for progress towards the full realization and respect for the individual rights of children and adolescents.