Challenge of Child Labour in International Law

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Franziska Humbert analyses how the prohibition of child labour is protected under international law and proposes an agenda for reform. Zusammenfassung Franziska Humbert analyses how the prohibition of child labour is protected under international law. Concluding that the UN and the International Labour Organization provide for weak implementation mechanisms! the work examines existing trade measures such as import bans! labeling and activities by transnational companies! and recommends a more effective regime. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Franziska Humbert, Franziska (WTO Appellate Body Humbert
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521764902
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76490-2
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 235 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law