The Concept of Child's Dignity- Vulnerabilities and Minority Rights

The paper examines the connection between the concepts of child's dignity, socially perceived necessities, multidimensional poverty, and children’s fundamental human rights. The Consensual Approach presents an opportunity for legal scholars in Brazil to use it to examine societal notions of met and unmet needs. Using focus groups we examine the links and dynamics between SPNs and understandings of human dignity and, consequently, the dignity of children. The paper aims to present to Brazilian Courts how socially perceived needs and multidimensional poverty measurement research are fundamental for informing decisions about scarce public resources, services and social rights. One objective of this body of work is to contribute to the construction of the legal concept of children's dignity to aid courts on deciding on what rights and entitlements should be guaranteed to children and their families.

This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001

Research was financed in part by FAPESP (proc. 2022/15017-5) and CNPq (proc. 403578/2021-3)