Diagnóstico situacional sobre trabalho infantil em Natal/RN, Brasil (2019 e 2020)

Abstract

Child labor, as a violation of the fundamental rights of children and adolescents, must be fought, as it harms their health and their mental, physical, social and/or moral development. From this, it was understood that the situation of working children could have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in 2020, a year of greater social restriction. Thus, the general objective of this work is to carry out a comparative diagnosis of child labor between the years 2019 and 2020 in the context of Natal, understanding the reality around the subject before the pandemic and during its course in 2020. In order to achieve For this objective, the research had as methodological procedures the bibliographic survey, the documental research, the realization and application of a semi-structured interview script, and data analysis from the SWOT analysis technique. Concluding, therefore, that the strategic actions and measures to face the pandemic that were adopted, for example, training lives to discuss the confrontation, creation of the @Petinatal Program instagram, to carry out informative and enlightening campaigns to society, and continuity of activities of the SEAS, were the possible ones, given the circumstances of the reality of that moment.