The dissertation discusses the relationship between childhood, rape and representation of children born of rape in wartime rape in the international scenario. The main purpose is to understand the reasons why we left the invisibility of the existence of children born of wartime rape in International Politics to its discursive construction as a security problem that deserves international attention. Through the analysis of documents from the organizations that make up the UN System, we demonstrate that the recognition of these children as victims who need international attention is derived from the evolution of the debate on rape as a weapon of war in International Politics, especially with Bosnian (1992-1995) and Rwandan (1994) genocides. In this way, as the acronym itself suggests, this group s recognition is linked to rape, and not to the marginalization they suffer as individuals victimized by a conflict. In addition, the fact that the term children born of wartime rape applies to people of any age means that these individuals have limited agency, since social constructions about childhood place the child as vulnerable, dependent and with a reduced ability to express themselves their demands. The poststructuralist theoretical framework adopted in this research allows us to examine how the social and cultural representations of this group exclude a series of other individuals born of rape outside conflict contexts.