Combate à exploração do trabalho infantil no Estado do Pará

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the exploitation of child labor in the state of Pará, looking for its causes, in order to analyze possible solutions to combat child labor based on them. In order to achieve this objective, the origins of child protection will be initially confronted, approaching the conception of childhood in our society, which led to the propagation of children's rights. From then on, the country's existing legal framework for the protection of children and adolescents will be analyzed, especially in relation to the right to non-working at an early age. In order to investigate the causes of this form of labor to be intensely present in the state of Pará, despite the existing legal protection, the work will address the economic formation of the Amazon, relating the specificities arising from this training to the numbers of child labor in the state, for this purpose, social indicators and those provided by the demographic census will be used. Early work in Pará was analyzed, the main types of child labor in the state of Pará were demonstrated, making a brief analysis of the impacts caused by the COVID19 pandemic in Brazil. Finally, the research suggests the investment of public policies in early childhood education in order to prevent the exploitation of child labor in the analyzed state. Keywords: Child labor exploitation in the state of Pará, Child protection, Children's rights, Public Policy.