The case of the firework factory in Santo Antônio de Jesus as a violation of rights and the convention on the rights of the child

Abstract

Although provided for in the Brazilian Constitution and the American Convention on Human Rights, the right to legal process within a reasonable period was not realized when we refer to the case of workers at the firework factory in Santo Antônio de Jesus, in the interior of Bahia, this which killed 20 children and adolescents in one of the worst forms of child labor. The objective of this article was to analyze, from the perspective of the largest international Convention on the rights of children of the UN, of November 20, 1989, having as subsidy other human rights treaties, in addition to checking factors and procedural delay in the case that left 64 people dead and six others seriously injured, among which two children with severe burns. The bibliographic research was carried out using documents from the Inter-American Court, the Brazilian Justice, data from the municipality of Santo Antônio and documents related to the case, in order to answer the question-problem: “How does the case of the factory in Santo Antônio violate Rights and Convention on the Rights of the Child?”. It is concluded that not only the exploiters, but also the Union, the State, and the Municipality, violated the rights of those girls and boys, allowing, still, that the latter are submitted to precarious working conditions, which, as defended in the course of the article, more closely identifies with a condition analogous to slavery.