El rol participativo del niño, niña y adolescente dentro de la esfera institucional para su protección

Abstract

This article intends to demonstrate, from a legal and conceptual perspective, the participatory role of children and adolescents in administrative and institutional processes, as subjects of rights, governed in all judicial proceedings by the principle of Best Interest of the Child, which guarantees the special and differential treatment before public and private entities. For this purpose, a bibliographic and jurisprudential review was carried out based on academic and legal databases. The results reveal that child participation is more relevant and practiced in the Colombian context, since the formation of the Political Constitution of 1991 and the Childhood and Adolescence code.