Professor Burns H. Weston UI Center for Human Rights 300 Communications Center (CC) The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242 Email: burns-weston@uiowa.edu Web: http://www.burnsweston.com Telephone: (319) 335-3900 Burns H. Weston, Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Director of The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR) serves as Principal Investigator (PI) of the Child Labor Research Initiative (CLRI). He retired from The University of Iowa law faculty in May 1999. Weston's teaching and research interests center on international jurisprudence, international human rights law, the laws of war, the law of state responsibility (particularly in relation to the concerns of developing countries), and international environmental law. He is the author of many books and articles, including the "Human Rights" entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. During 1998-99, Professor Weston chaired Global Focus: Human Rights '98, a University-wide initiative instituted and coordinated by him to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the University Declaration of Human Rights. In late 1999, as an outgrowth of that initiative, he spearheaded the founding of the UICHR, which he now directs in association with other university faculty and staff as a project of International Programs and the College of Law's International and Comparative Law Program. Widely traveled, Weston also has participated in numerous human rights fact-finding and conflict mitigation missions abroad, including Cuba, the West Bank and Gaza, Kosovo, and the Republic of Georgia. In 1985, he was a member of the human rights observer delegation that met armed resistance when accompanying the Korean opposition leader (recently President of the Republic of Korea) Kim Dae Jung. Detailed information on Professor Weston is available from his home page at: http://www.burnsweston.com. The contributors so far include, in alphabetical order, the following persons: Sarah Bachman Visiting Scholar, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University and Program Director, Institute on Globalization, Santa Clara University. Independent journalist and former editorial writer and reporter, San Jose Mercury News. Articles about child labor have appeared in academic journals (e.g. Business Economics, Journal of International Affairs, Health & Human Rights) and public media (e.g. Los Angeles Times Magazine, Mother Jones Magazine, U.S. News & World Report). Researched for UNICEF the development of the Harkin Bill and subsequent Memoranda of Understanding that removed children from garment factories and put them in newly established schools. Michael Bourdillon Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Zimbabwe. Recent books: Women, Men and Work: Rural Livelihoods in South-Eastern Zimbabwe (Harare, Weaver Press, co-editor with Paul Hebinck, 2002); Earning A Life: Working Children in Zimbabwe (Harare: Weaver Press, 2000); Where Are the Ancestors? Changing Traditions in Zimbabwe (Harare: University of Zimbabwe, rev. ed., 1997); Poor, Harassed, But Very Much Alive: An Account of Street People and Their Organisation (Gweru Mambo Press, 1991). Dr. Bourdillon has for many years with non-governmental organizations focused on street children and other working children. Holly Cullen Senior Lecturer in Law and Deputy Director, European Law Institute, Durham University. Recent publications: "International Civil Society in International Law The Growth of NGO Participation," in Non-State Actors and International Law 1: 7-39 (co-author with Karen Morrow, 2001); "The Right of Child Workers to Protection from Environmental Hazards," in The Right of a Child to a Clean Environment 35-39 (Aldershot Ashgate, M. Fitzmaurice & A. Fijalkowski eds., 2000); "The Interaction of Forms of Regulation in International Labour Law" in Legal Regulation of the Employment Relation 461-80 (Kluwer, H. Collins et al. eds. 2000); "The Collective Complaints Protocol of the European Social Charter," European Law Review 25:18-30 (2000); "The Limits of International Trade Mechanisms in Enforcing Human Rights: The Case of Child Labour," International Journal of Children's Rights 7:1-29 (1999). Forthcoming: "Children's Rights and the Charter," in The European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights: Context and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, A. Ward, P. Carroza & S. Peers, eds., 2003). Hugh Cunningham Professor of Social History, University of Kent at Canterbury. Recent publications: "The Rights of the Child and the Wrongs of Child Labour: An Historical Perspective," in Child Labour: Policy Options 13-26 (Amsterdam: Aksant, K. Lieten & B. White, eds., 2001); "The Decline of Child Labour Labour Markets and Family Economies in Europe and North America since 1830," Economic History Review 53:409-28 (2000); Child Labour in Historical Perspective 1800-1985: Case Studies from Europe, Japan and Colombia (UNICEF, co-editor with Pier Paolo Viazzo, 1996). Judith Ennew Senior Research Associate, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmith's College, University of London. Principal author of the 2002 Report of the Director General of the ILO on child labour and evaluator of UNICEF's Global Programme on using education as a strategy to prevent child labour. An activist and researcher in children's rights since 1979 (specialising in child workers, "street children" and child sexual exploitation), Dr. Ennew is the former International Coordinator of the Childwatch International Monitoring Children's Rights Project (1993-98) and has worked extensively in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia on children's rights and child labour issues. In 2000, she was elected an "Academician" of the United Kingdom's Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. Alec Fyfe Senior Adviser, Child Protection, UNICEF Headquarters, New York. Former ILO official who began researching and writing on child labor with the British Trade Union Congress in 1983 and has authored and co-authored four books on the subject, most notably Child Labour (Polity Press, 1989). Recent article: "Child Labour and Education: Revisiting the Policy Debate," in Child Labour: Policy Options (Amsterdam: Aksant, K. Leiten & B. White eds, 2001). Frank Garcia Associate Professor of Law, Boston College. Recent publications: "Integrating Trade and Human Rights in the Americas," in International Trade and Human Rights: Foundations and Conceptual Issues (F. Abbott & T. Cottier eds., 2002); "Protecting the Human Rights Principle in a Globalizing Economy," in Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights: Prevention and Intervention, Trade, and Education (D. Barnhizer ed., 2001); "The Global Market and Human Rights: Trading Away the Human Rights Principle," Brooklyn J. Int'l L. (1999), 25:51. Forthcoming from Transnational Publishers, Inc. in 2003: Trade, Inequality and Justice. Professor Garcia's current research focuses on the effects of globalization on the formation of social policy. He speaks and writes frequently on trade and human rights and on trade and development topics. James A. Gross Professor of Labor Policy and Labor Arbitration, Cornell University. Former Chair, Department of Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History. Author of 3-volume study of the National Labor Relations Board and U.S. labor policy, the most recent volume being Broken Promise: The Subversion of American Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994 (Temple University Press,1995). Author also of various topics in labor law and labor arbitration appearing in the Arbitration Journal, the University of Buffalo Law Review, the Catholic University Law Review, the Chicago-Kent Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Labor History, the Labor Law Journal, and the Syracuse Law Review. Professor Gross teaches Labor Law, Labor Arbitration, and a course entitled Values, Rights and Justice in Economics, Law, and Industrial Relations. A member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and on the labor arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and New York State Public Employment Relations Board, he has arbitrated disputes in the private and public sectors for over thirty years, served on several committees of the National Academy of Arbitrators and the Industrial Relations Research Association, and is currently an executive board member of the Society for the Promotion of Human Rights Education. Mark Hecht Mr. Hecht is a lawyer (Member, Law Society of Upper Canada and the International Bar Association) and the Executive Director of Human Rights Internet (HRI), an international NGO based in Ottawa. He is also the national coordinator for the Canadian Information Network on Child and Youth Rights (CINCYR), co-founder and Senior Legal Counsel for Beyond Borders: Ensuring Global Justice for Children, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and sits on the Executive Committee of the ECPAT-International campaign to end child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes, and the federal government's Committee against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth. Previous to his appointment as HRIs Executive Director, Mr. Hecht was HRI's Deputy Director and coordinator of its children's rights and international health programs; prior to which he was involved in youth development and the provision of legal services at various community centres/residential camps, child welfare agencies, and mental health facilities across Canada. Soohyun Jun J.D., Boston College Law School, 2002; M.A. in Law, Graduate School of International Studies, Sogang University (Seoul), 1999; B.A. in French Language and Literature, Ewha Women's University (Seoul), 1996. Legal Consultant to Sang-Yong Park, Expert Member of the U.N. Sub-Commission on Human Rights, Summer 1997; U.N. Secretariat, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Disability Unit), Summer 1998. Victor Karunan Project Officer for Participation and Partnerships, UNICEF Regional Office for East Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok). Founding member of the Regional Working Group on Child Labor in Bangkok (a partnership of ILO-IPEC, UNICEF, and other international and regional NGOs in Southeast and East Asia). A sociologist, Dr. Karunan has worked for the last 18 years in South and Southeast Asia in the areas of policy research, NGO capacity building and advocacy in the field of rural development, child labor, macro-economics, participatory research and social development. For many years, he was the Regional Development Advisor with Save the Children UK in the regional office in Bangkok and initiated work on child-centered policies and programs for working children, and conducted trainings and research on child labor in South and Southeast Asia. In recent years, Dr. Karunan he has been working in particular on macro-economic policies and child labor and the role of the private-corporate sector, and has authored numerous articles and other publications in the region and internationally. Donald Mmari Consultancy Coordinator for the Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), an NGO involved in research and policy on poverty and development, based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Previously management consultant at Massawe Ernst and Young Tanzania; an Economist at Arcadis EuroConsult; Research Officer for Cooperative and Rural Development Bank, Tanzania; Teaching Assistant at the Economics Department, University of Dar es Salaam; and a Teaching Fellow, College of Business at the University of Oregon, USA. Holder of an M.A. degree in Economics from University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and an MBA from the University of Oregon, Mr. Mmari's work on child labor issues includes "a country study on the costs and benefits of eliminating child labour," which was part of an ILO/IPEC project to extrapolate the global costs and benefits of eliminating child labour. He is currently leading a team of REPOA and collaborating researchers to carry out a baseline and attitude surveys on the worst forms of child labour in Tanzania as part of the ILO/IPEC Time Bound Programme. William Myers Visiting Scholar, Department of Human and Community Development, The University of California at Davis. Most recent publications: "Valuing Diverse Approaches to Child Labour," in Child Labour: Policy Options (Amsterdam: Aksant, K. Leiten & B. White eds., 2001); "Can Children's Education and Work be Reconciled?", International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice (Nov. 2001); "The Right Rights? Child Labor in a Globalizing World," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (May 2001); What Works for Working Children (Stockholm: Radda Barnen and UNICEF, co-author with Jo Boyden & Birgitta Ling, 1998). An international consultant on child rights issues (specializing in child labor, education and children's participation), Dr. Myers is a former official of both the ILO and UNICEF, where he had major responsibility for child labor activities. His current work focuses primarily on the impact of work and of interventions in work relative to the children involved. Dominique Plateau Coordinator, Secretariat of the Regional Working Group on Child Labour (RWG-CL, Bangkok), managing projects in South, Southeast and East Asia and the Pacific (since 1998). Most recent publication: Child Labour: Getting the Message Across (dealing with the production and strategic use of information about child labour in Asia) (RWG-CL Bangkok, co-author with J. Ennew, 2001). A communications specialist, M. Plateau began his career at the headquarters of the U. N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and began working in Southeast Asia in 1988 with the UNHCR's Vietnamese Boat People Voluntary Repatriation Program. He subsequently worked in the Office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General's Land Mines Awareness Program and the UNHCR-UNTAC's Cambodian Repatriation Operation before joining the private sector as a senior consultant in marketing communications. David Post Professor of Education and Latin American Studies, The University of Pittsburgh (specializing in child labor and public education policy). Most recent book: Children's Work and Schooling in Latin America (Boulder: Westview Press, 2001), with a Spanish translation recently released by the Fondo de Cultura Economica. Dr. Post has been a Fulbright-Hayes scholar, a Spencer Fellow, and worked as a visiting researcher in Peru, Mexico, and Hong Kong. Victoria Rialp Presently an independent consultant on child protection issues and issues of corporate responsibility. Previously UNICEF program officer in the Philippines, Brazil, and New York in respect of urban basic services and children in difficult circumstances (1981-93); UNICEF Area Representative for Jordan, Syria, West Bank and Gaza, including programs for Palestinian children in these countries (1993-96); various consultancies on child labor and corporate social responsibility with UNICEF, the ILO, the Center for Corporate Citizenship (Philippines), and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (Philippines) (1996-present). Holder of a B.A. degree in sociology from Maryknoll College (Philippines) and an M.A. degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ms. Rialp has contributed major working papers on child-related issues to the ILO and UNICEF, including a monograph entitled "Children and Hazardous work in the Philippines" (ILO, 1993) and chapters in The Best Interests of the Child: Reconciling Culture and Human Rights (UNICEF-ICDC: P. Alston ed., 1994) and in Action Against Child Labor (ILO: N. Haspens & M. Jankanish eds., 2000). In addition, for UNICEF, she has helped to organize national-level, regional, and global seminars and training workshops on street and working children. Benedito Rodrigues dos Santos University Professor, Catholic University of Goiás State, Brazil; Kellogg Fellow (pursuing Ph.D in anthropology), University of California at Berkeley; Consultant to UNICEF regarding child labor and street children in Albania, Brazil, and Romania. Co-ordinator of the chapter on Brazil in Towards An International Strategy for the Elimination of Child Labor developed by the International Working Group on Child Labor in 1995 (TWGCL, ISPCAN/DCI), his recent publications include "Trabalho Infantil no Brasil Discussão e Balanço das Principais Estratégias de Erradicação," in Crinças e Adolescentes no BrasilDiagnósticos, Pol’ticas e Participação da Sociedade (Cargill Foundation, Braz Araujo ed., 1997); "Mobilizing Business Companies for Eradication of Child Labor: A Study on Strategies Developed by the Abrinq Foundation for Children's Rights" (UNICEF/Abrinq, 1997). An activist for children's rights, Sr. dos Santos is a co-founder and member of several Brazilian organizations, including the Brazilian Movement of Street Boys and Girls (MNMMR), where he occupied positions on the national board during 1985-95, and the National NGO Forum in Defense of Children's Rights (DCA), of which he was General Secretary during 1988-92. Prizes in recognition of his work for children and adolescents include: Menção Honrosa Direitos Humanos 88, from the Centro de Direitos Humanos Alceu de Amoroso Lima; and Premio Criança 1990, from the Fundação Abrinq pelos Direitos da Criança. Shelton Stromquist Professor of History, The University of Iowa (specializing in American social and labor history, with a particular research interest in U.S. labor and social reform in the late 19th and early 20th centuries). Major publications: A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987); Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993). Forthcoming book: Reinventing "the People": The Progressive Movement and the Class Problem. Dr. Stromquist is presently working on a new comparative labor history entitled "Beyond Exception: Municipal Labor and Socialist Politics in Comparative Perspective," and will be doing research for that project as a UI Global Scholar in Australia, England, Germany, New Zealand, and Sweden during 2003-2005. Mark Teerink International Law & Policy and International Trade Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Washington, D.C.). Previously Election Registration and Polling Supervisor, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (Jun-Jul & Sep 1998); Visiting Member of the Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (Jun-Sep 1997); Legal Intern, International Human Rights Law Group, Washington, D.C. (May-Aug 1996); Agricultural Trainer, U.S. Peace Corps; Sierra Leone (Jul 1988-Oct 1989). Burns Weston Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, The University of Iowa; Director, The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR); Principal Investigator, UICHR-US Department of Labor Child Labor Research Initiative (CLRI). Member, World Academy of Art and Science; Honorary Editor, American Journal of International Law; Series Editor, Procedural Aspects of International Law Monograph Series; Vice-Chair, Editorial Board, World Editorial and International Law (http://www.worldeditorial.net). Most recent book: The Future of International Human Rights (Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, Inc., co-author/co-editor with Steven Marks, 1999). Currently preparing 4th edition of International Law and World Order: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook (with Richard Falk, Hilary Charlesworth & Andrew Strauss) (St. Paul, MN: West Group, forthcoming 2004). Ben White Professor of Rural Sociology and Director, Post-Graduate Programme on Children, Youth and Development, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague; Professor of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam; Member, International Advisory Board of Child workers in Asia (Bangkok). Authored and edited books on child labor include: Child Labour: Policy Options (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2001); "Understanding Child Labour," Childhood 6:1 (Special Issue, 1999); "Child Workers," Development & Change 13:4 (Special Issue, 1982); Child Workers in Indonesia (Bandung: Akatiga, 1998). Recent articles: "Childhood, Work and Education, 1900-2000: The Netherlands and Netherlands Indies/Indonesia Compared," in Bread and Roses: Journal of the History of Social Movements Social Movements (Special Issue on Child Labor 2001/4); "Defining the Intolerable: Child Labour, Global Standards and Cultural Relativism," in T. O'Neill & T. Willoughby eds. Introduction to Child & Youth Studies (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt 2000). Current research focuses on the impact of Indonesia's recent economic and political crisis on different groups in Indonesian society, including children and youth. Laurie Wiseberg Head of Office of the UN Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) for Human Rights in Montenegro, engaged in monitoring the human rights situation in that region of the former Yugoslavia and providing technical assistance to the Government and capacity-building for NGOs. Founder of Human Rights Internet (HRI), an international NGO now based in Ottawa, and its Executive Director for 25 years, in which capacity Dr. Wiseberg created and edited the quarterly magazine, Human Rights Tribune and the annual report, For the Record: The United Nations Human Rights System. In April 2000, she left HRI to join the OHCHR as NGO Liaison Officer for the World Conference Against Racism. A graduate of McGill University (B.A.), the University of London (M.Sc.Econ.), and the University of California Los Angeles (Ph.D.) where she was trained as a political scientist, Dr. Wiseberg has taught at universities in Canada, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Also, she has written extensively on the role of non-governmental organizations in the protection and promotion of human rights, and has done pioneering work in the areas of information, documentation and education in human rights.
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