Introduction: the worst forms of child labour in Latin America

Authors
Publication date 2011
Host editors
  • G.K. Lieten
Book title Hazardous Child Labour in Latin America
ISBN
  • 9789400701762
Pages (from-to) 1-19
Publisher Dordrecht: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract Child labour, despite a broadly accepted understanding that it must be eradicated, and despite the International Conventions, national legislation and various time-bound programmes, lingers on in many parts of the world, including Latin America, which albeit has a much higher GDP than countries in Africa and South Asia. Despite the commitment to include universal primary education leading to the elimination of child labour as one of the millennium development goals, to be achieved by 2015, it has remained difficult to tackle the problem.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0177-9_1
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