El trabajo infantil en el deporte: desafíos y regulación en la protección de los derechos de los menores atletas

Abstract

Child labor in Ecuador represents a serious violation of the rights of boys and girls that over time can generate negative impacts throughout their lives. Its existence is directly linked to the violation of other fundamental rights of children, such as the right to education, to an adequate standard of living, specifically those who live in poverty, in rural areas, indigenous and Afro-descendant children, further limiting their right to proper training from an early age. This study analyzes in depth the challenges that minors present in the sports area, within the lines of research will be studied in depth multiple environments in which the minor is developing, his family environment, that is, who or who will watch over the rights of the minor, his parents or legal representatives, that they have the correct supervision of the specialists in charge of health and well-being issues within the institution to which they attend. Within educational sport, several doubts arise about how entities regulate said contracts and development of young athletes since each of them must mainly be in charge of the correct inclusion of the minor into a competitive environment and of high physical and psychological demand, where a specific base will be used, which will dictate whether they are capable of determining whether the minor in question can and has the necessary faculties to become a professional, and is nothing more than a tool when it comes to generating a purely economic profitability for the institution. This study determines the capacities that sports institutions have when it comes to guaranteeing a correct formation of the minor both in the sports and personal fields.