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The Challenge of Child Labour in International Law
Abstract
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.
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“However, child labor where the children are media products, is uniquely challenging to assess and adjudicate because it is situated between and across boundaries (Hudders & Beuckels, 2024;Humbert, 2009).”
From The Child Labor in Social Media: Kidfluencers, Ethics of Care, and Exploitation (2025) · cites this paper as Humbert, 2009
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- Authors
- Humbert, F.
- Affiliations
- World Trade Organization (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Humbert, Franziska
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2009-08-27
- OpenAlex
- W631738671
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 101
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 2.36
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Labor and Employment Law
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Law and Human Rights
- Social Sciences › Law › Legal and Social Justice Studies
- Keywords
- child labor, international law, children's rights, economic exploitation of children, Convention on the Rights of the Child, ILO Convention 182, labeling, trade barriers, export production, legal framework for child protection
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