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This paper comes from developments in the research “Protection and guarantee systems for human rights aimed at children and youth in Portugal, Angola, Brazil, and Mozambique.” We reflect on the lack of protection for children and adolescents in Brazil, analyzing it from the point of view of structural racism in a colonial context, in the post-Abolition period, as well as its persistence in the process of consolidating capitalism and its contemporary expressions. We mention two emblematic cases of violence against black children that occurred during the pandemic, thus demonstrating that the tragedy caused by the crisis of capital, along with the crisis of public health and other elements aggravated by the COVID19 pandemic, is the persistence and exacerbation of coloniality and racism that has plagued Brazil for over 500 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the profile of adolescent offenders in correctional semi-liberty facilities in the Federal District (DF) of Brazil. A quantitative approach was used to analyze secondary electronic data collected from the System Information for the Childhood and Adolescence (SIPIA) about the six semi-liberty facilities in the DF. The variables of age, gender, ethnicity, education, work status, family life, district of residence, family income, and drug use were analyzed in comparison to the results from other studies and the current literature. The findings suggest that most of the adolescents in semiliberty facilities in the DF are afro-descendants, are enrolled in educational institutions, have delayed school achievement, do not work, belong to femaleheaded single-parent families, and live in the districts of Planaltina, Ceilândia, and Sobradinho. This scenario coincides with the one described by a study carried out 10 years earlier, which indicates that the profile of this public has not changed much. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]