The Challenge of Child Labour in International Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-76490-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 64, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 809 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

Child labour remains a widespread problem around the world. Over 200 million children can be regarded as child labourers, and about 10 million children are involved in producing either agricultural or manufactured products for export. Franziska Humbert explores the status of child labour in international law. Offering a wide-ranging analysis of the problem, she explores the various UN and ILO instruments and reveals the weaknesses of the current frameworks installed by these bodies to protect children from economic exploitation. After assessing to what extent trade measures such as conditionalities, labelling and trade restrictions and promotional activities can reduce child labour, she suggests an alternative legal framework which takes into account the needs of children.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Humbert, Franziska

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The problem with child labour; 2. The prohibition of child labour; 3. UN and ILO implementation mechanisms for the prohibition of child labour; 4. Trade measures on child labour; 5. An ILO-WTO agreement on child labour.

Über Autor(innen)

Humbert, Franziska
Franziska Humbert is a policy advisor on labour standards with Oxfam Germany and a research fellow in the Swiss academic research NCCR project on trade regulation in the field of trade and human rights at the University of Zurich.