The Challenge of Child Labour in International Law

by Franziska Humbert

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521764902
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/27/2009
Series:	Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law , #64
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.