Essays about: "Child-Labour"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 51 essays containing the word Child-Labour.

  1. 21. Protecting Labour Rights Within the Global Supply Chain Through Trade Agreements While Avoiding Protectionism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Kenneth William Munro Cameron; [2017]
    Keywords : Labour Rights; Child Labour; Forced Labour; Trade Agreements; Protectionism; Initiatives; Labour Provisions.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Severe human rights abuses have been associated with globalisation. This paper explores the link between the aforementioned with a focus on some of the most severe impacts on workers within global supply chains – predominantly focusing on child labour and forced labour – and how trade agreements could help to lessen the blow, while at the same time avoiding protectionism. READ MORE

  3. 22. Can Gender Make a Difference? : A Minor Field Study on the Street-Connected Children in The Gambia.

    University essay from Växjö universitet/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap

    Author : To Ly Pham; Ina Byström; [2016]
    Keywords : street-connected children; street-connected boys; street-connected girls; gender; livelihoods; Martha Nussbaum; Capability Theory of Justice; Ten Central Human Capabilities; The Gambia.;

    Abstract : Many studies have been carried out throughout the world on how street-connected children relate to the streets, but not enough of these studies are seen through a gender perspective. Hence, the general conception of street-connected children is in some manner still mainstreamed, which casts an image claiming all children in the same category. READ MORE

  4. 23. Child labour, child labour laws and economic growth - The case of Bolivia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Emelie Göransson; [2016]
    Keywords : Children; Child labour; Economic Growth; Laws and regulations; Bolivia; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to conduct an illustrative case study examining how child labour and the decision to legalize child labour from age ten might impact Bolivia’s future economic growth and development. By doing so, this thesis yields insight into the issue of child labour and its impact on economic growth and development as well as the effectiveness of child labour laws and regulations, especially minimum age of employment regulation. READ MORE

  5. 24. Cash for class - an investigation into child labour and enrolment subsidies in Peru

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Emma Johansson; Julie Rondeau; [2015]
    Keywords : Child labour; Unpaid labour; Conditional cash transfers; Child poverty;

    Abstract : With high rates of child labour as a result of extensive poverty in Peru, measures are needed to protect children from exploitation. The conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme Juntos provides enrolment subsidies to incentivise sending children to school, with an indirect goal of keeping them out of the labour market. READ MORE

  6. 25. Made By Children - A study of the elimination of child labour in Bangladesh’s textile industry

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Linn Holmström; [2015]
    Keywords : Labour Law; Child Labour; Bangladesh; Garment industry; Law; Human Rights; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In the stitches of our clothes one can often find traces of child labour. The garment industry in Bangladesh is the country’s largest export sector. It is also a sector where sever human rights violations take place on a daily basis in relation to child labour. READ MORE