Thought over about the rights of the childhood in Costa Rica I met a few indicators that, analyzing from the perspective of change and social organization, they express a serious racial prejudice. I say specifically to the definition of special populations that it he appears in the promotion of the social politics. To refer to the
black childhood as special population relates to disabled beings for being negroes and consequently it he incapacitates his autoimage to develop as normal, active subjects and of rights, in a country that promotes the equality from our Political Constitution. <
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The sad of this analysis was to discover in the social programs directed the children and girls in Costa Rica, the trend of discriminating against them according to the prior topics of the public institutions. For example, the black childhood lives in the whole national territory but the public entities they insist on locating them, exclusively, in the Caribbean zone. This geographical differentiation historically has limited the territoriality of the black population; in other words: to be a black people is synonymous of the typical folclore of the tropical regions in Latin America: carnival, poverty, criminality, drug addiction, prostitution and other evil that afflict these localities.
In this context I interpret that, political public an exclusive treatment encourages towards this childhood in relation with his ethnic, geographical, cultural condition or of any other type that there establishes a discretionary, distinctive way or segregationist.
Let'' me show you. There do not exist ethnic indicators of development and social mobility related to the black population on Rich Coast - and I add that we are one of few countries where the black population has achieved significant advances in his quality of life. Then; how they does it happen to believe that only we are in the Carib if we live in the whole country? This thought and belief; is not it discriminatory and racist? It is said that 7 % of the population is black and crossbreeds; without the correspondent determines, of this percentage, to black children and girls in Costa Rica and much less his geographical distribution. Inside this scene we observe that though mechanisms do not exist to identify more that for the tone of skin and certain physical features, the rights and interests of the black children and girls are contemplated and admitted in the regulation the respect of all his human wrights, such rights and since it is established by the article 2 of the Convention about the Laws of the Childhood: " The States Parts will respect the rights enunciated in the present Convention and will assure the application every child subject to his jurisdiction without any distinction, independently of the race, the color, the sex, the language, the religion, the political opinion or of another nature, the national, ethnic or social origin, the economic position, of his parents or of his legal representatives ".
Costa Rica was one of the countries that signed the above mentioned letter but the application of this right in terms of political public is different. The concept used of special populations reflects this complication, which, not only it is methodological; also it is of ethical and Biblical character on not having understood integrally the situation through that the children and girls live. It is not his color of skin the one that determines the plans, programs and social projects of the public institutions.
For it I elaborated a methodological offer that favors the integral analysis of the current situation through that these children, youth and young men and women live, in order that they are not seen by his color of skin but by his fundamental and like that needs to eliminate these indicators of racial prejudices that commit an outrage against his rights and dignity. The political ones have to of bemplementing to face the effects of the social inequality what in turn and sensibilizar with regard to the need of a political integral analysis of the black childhood in Costa Rica. This approach neither would segregate a methodological boarding nor would justify that transgreda the approach of integral protection of the rights of the childhood.
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