Abstract
This article analyzes the emergence of the issue of child sexual abuse as a public problem, its inclusion and permanence in the national policy agenda in the decades of 1990 and 2000. Through the construction of public policy agendas and further analysis, this text highlights historical aspects which developed into a huge popular movement in the 1990s against child sexual violence, giving birth to the National Child Sexual Violence Combat Plan as an intersector public policy and the decade of 2000 devoted to its implementation.
Keywords:
child sexual abuse; public policy network; child and teenager human sexual rights.