Background Why does abusive and exploitative child labor warrant responsible national and international attention? Why must it be seen as a constituent aspect of the welfare and dignity of children generally? Can it be treated as a human rights concern, engaging not only children's rights but workers' rights and all three "generations" of civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights, and community (or solidarity) rights? Should it be so? If so, why? What are the various responses of the world community in relation to abusive and exploitative child labor? What are some of the most effective strategies to combat it and can we universalize any lesson from specific approaches? Are there programmatic innovations that we have overlooked in the international effort to eliminate child labor? Project Overview These are some of the major questions that the contributors to this essay collection — tentatively entitled "Child Labor and Human Rights" — tackled as part of the Child Labor Research Initiative. Professor Burns H. Weston, Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Director of the UICHR served as organizer and editor of this collection, completed in September 2004. Project Status "Child Labor and Human Rights" will be published by Lynne Rienner Publishers (Boulder, CO) in 2005. Information on other authors appearing in the collection can be found on the Project Personnel page. The working Table of Contents can be found on the Project Materials page. Further Information For further information, please contact: Professor Burns Weston UI Center for Human Rights Email: burns-weston@uiowa.edu
[an error occurred while processing this directive]

[an error occurred while processing this directive]