Child Labour and a Search for Conceptual Clarity: Congruence or Contradiction in Children's Rights Treaty Law?
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2021-12-12
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Carnelian Journal of Law and Politics
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Child labour is among the indeterminate, but widely overlooked, concepts in children's rights law. In many ways, relevant child labour studies are field-oriented, focusing mainly on eradication in local contexts, with little clarification of the concept itself and its legal ramifications. As such, the social rendering of the term often depicts it in a legally confusing manner-to cover benign and exploitative works simultaneously. Although the prohibition of child labour features prominently in treaty law, the definition of the term itself is not contained in any instrument. An implicit assumption about work and its psychosocial ills has probably informed this CC gap as well as the uncritical approach to the subject in the literature. The identification of a legal meaning is, however, important, serving as a Copyright:© 2021 foundation for more coherent normative standards. Using the doctrinal
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Child labour definition, Child protection, Child exploitation, Hazardous work, Child labour treaties