We present the results of a research conducted between 2007/2011 on the "characteristics of the UNESCO guidelines for protection of the right to childhood in the Brazilian state policies since 1990". The objects of analysis are UNESCO's guidelines to protect the right to childhood in order to identify the contradictions in said policies to guarantee the right to childhood. From 1980 to 2011, the reach of UNESCO is implicit in the appropriation of the National States in the world peace discourse, the justification for strengthening the third sector and, in government action, the legal recognition of judgments and guidelines of international treaties ratified by Brazil. We approach the political contradictions based on the concept of "decent work", in the early-labor eradication policies after Fed Dec. No.3597 of September 12, 2000, for its policies to provide children in rural areas.
educational policies; UNESCO; the right to childhood