The right to identity between local dramas and global categories. The “Argentine articles” of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Abstract
Articles 7, 8 and 11 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) protect the right to identity and because of the work of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo in its drafting they are known as "the Argentine articles". From an ethnographic perspective and on the basis of in-depth interviews with those who participated in the debate and drafting of the Convention, this text analyzes the process by which –through the construction of networks of relationships and consensus among various actors– the right to identity was included in this legislation.
The analysis reveals, on the one hand, how vernacular concepts can be translated into the language of global human rights law and generate categories that make it possible to construct new rights. And on the other hand, how Latin American activism, and that of other countries of the global South, influenced the global arena and proposed other views on children and violations of their rights in the process of drafting the Convention.
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