scholarly journals Children’s Rights in the Indonesian Oil Palm Industry: Improving Company Respect for the Rights of the Child

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 500
Author(s):  
Stephany Iriana Pasaribu ◽  
Frank Vanclay
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Social License

Although companies have many direct and indirect impacts on the lives of children, discussion of the responsibility of business to respect the rights of children has primarily focused on child labor. Using UNICEF’s Children’s Rights and Business Principles as a framework for our analysis, we considered the activities of oil palm plantation companies operating in Indonesia. Our data come from key informant interviews and reflection on two programs established to promote respect for children’s rights in the Indonesian palm oil industry: one by Pusat Kajian Perlindungan Anak (PKPA) (Center for Child Study and Protection); and one by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in conjunction with UNICEF. We considered: how plantation company activities impacted children’s lives; how companies demonstrated respect for children’s rights; and how observance of children’s rights can be improved. We discuss four problematic issues: getting company commitments to children’s rights into policy and practice; having a strong business case for respecting human rights and children’s rights; contradictory objectives within companies; and complexities around children in the workplace. We argue that a children’s rights based approach should be applied to the activities of all organizations. This children’s rights lens is needed to overcome the invisibility of children in society and industry, and to address the root causes of human rights harms. We note that respecting children’s rights will likely contribute to getting a social license to operate and grow.

scholarly journals Urgensi Ratifikasi Konvensi International Labor Organization: Perspektif Perlindungan Pekerja Anak Pada Sektor Rumah Tangga

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Rika Putri Subekti
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Domestic Worker ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
International Labor

The issue of domestic worker has not become governor of Indonesia policy priorities. This can be seen from the lack of a structure for the comprehensive and lack of regulations that provide solutions, as well as lack of supporting structure of the implementation. The Act of Manpower is not regulating specifically on the protection of domestic workers, especially for children. International Labor Organization Convention Number 189 concerning Decent Works for Domestic Worker, regulates the protection of domestic workers all over the world, however, Indonesia has not ratified this convention yet. This research is normative legal research that using statute and conceptual approach. Data collection techniques used in this study is literature study. The results of the study indicate that the regulation on the protection of child laborers employed as a domestic worker in Indonesia has not been regulated separately so that in the case of legal protection is not sufficient, in the case of law enforcement in case of violation of the law on the rights of the child. The urgency for the Government to immediately ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on Decent Work of Domestic Workers in order to establish a standard of employment for domestic workers as an effort to realize protection for domestic workers in general and for child domestic workers in particular. It is important for government to carry out the National Action Plan for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor (RAN-WFCL) to prevent and eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Isu tentang Pekerja Rumah Tangga (PRT) belum menjadi suatu prioritas kebijakan pemerintah Indonesia. Hal ini terlihat dari belum adanya suatu struktur regulasi yang komprehensif dan solutif, disertai struktur pendukung dalam tataran implementasinya. Ketentuan Undang-Undang tentang Ketenagakerjaan belum mengatur secara khusus mengenai perlindungan terhadap pembantu rumah tangga khususnya bagi anak-anak. Namun telah ada konvensi internasional yang mengatur secara khusus tentang Pekerja Rumah Tangga (PRT) yaitu Konvensi ILO Nomor 189 tentang Kerja Layak Pembantu Rumah Tangga. Konvensi ini merupakan perlindungan bagi pembantu rumah tangga di seluruh dunia. Namun, hingga saat ini Indonesia belum meratifikasi konvensi tersebut. Jenis Penelitian ini adalah jenis penelitian hukum normatif. Jenis pendekatan yang digunakan adalah pendekatan perundang-undangan dan pendekatan konseptual. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah studi kepustakaan. Hasil Penelitian menunjukan bahwa pengaturan tentang perlindungan pekerja anak yang dipekerjakan sebagai pembantu rumah tangga di Indonesia belum diatur secara khusus sehingga dalam hal perlindungan hukum belum memadai. Urgensi bagi Pemerintah untuk segera meratifikasi Konvensi ILO Nomor 189 tentang Kerja Layak PRT dalam rangka menetapkan suatu standard ketenagakerjaan bagi PRT sebagai upaya mewujudkan perlindungan bagi PRT secara umum dan bagi PRT Anak pada khususnya. Upaya Pemerintah dalam mewujudkan perlindungan terhadap PRT Anak adalah dengan melakukan Rencana Aksi Nasional Penghapusan Bentuk-Bentuk Pekerjaan Terburuk Bagi Anak (RAN-BPTA) yang bertujuan untuk mencegah dan menghapus bentuk-bentuk pekerjaan terburuk untuk anak.

scholarly journals LEGAL ADJUSTMENT OF ILLEGAL EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN SLOVAK REPUBLIC

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 566-569
Author(s):  
Peter ÄŚonka
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Advanced Society ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Important Benefit ◽  
Definition Of

Illegal employment of children deserves our specific attention because the healthy development of children is one of the most important factors of an advanced society. The aim of this contribution is to provide a preview of a theme, especially in a branch of the Criminal law. The contribution deals with the definition of child labor and analyses the legal adjustment of illegal employment of children included in Criminal Code of the Slovak Republic while also pointing out international sources of this legal adjustment. The Criminal code of the Slovak Republic, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and other relevant literature and documents about child labor are the main sources of this survey. We can consider this legal adjustment as suitable, but it is important to focus on its adherence. An important benefit of this particular analogy is a general overview on the theme of illegal child labour by analysis of relevant legal adjustment.

The Evolution of the Children’s Rights Movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Jonathan Becker
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Past Century ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
International Laws

This chapter examines the evolution of the children’s rights movement and particularly the role of individuals and nongovernmental organizations in driving the creation of new international laws and norms and global campaigns to address the abuse and exploitation of children. Over the past century, child rights advocates have helped shape the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and international treaties addressing child labor and child soldiers, thereby influencing policies and practices related to education, child marriage, corporal punishment, sexual exploitation, and violence against children. The chapter also explores the role of children themselves as activists at the forefront of change.

5. The century of the child and beyond

2018 ◽  
pp. 96-122
Author(s):  
James Marten
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children Health ◽  
War And Conflict ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Impact

The 1989 Convention of the Rights of the Child, issued by the United Nations, provided a far more detailed and supposedly binding set of conditions and rights than the 1924 Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which would define childhood globally. And yet the dying and injustice and exploitation continue. “The century of the child and beyond” considers the impact of war and conflict on children; the creation of global agencies and organizations designed to provide aid to and advocate for children; health, poverty, and quality of life; child labor and slavery; changes and challenges in education; modern forms of families; and the globalization of children’s culture.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL REGIMES FOR CHILD RIGHTS

2018 ◽  
pp. 229-236
Author(s):  
Rachana Raval ◽  
Bhavesh Bharad
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Court System ◽  
Rights Of The Child

It was not until the late nineteenth century that a nascent children‘s rights protection movement countered the widely held view that children were mainly quasi property and economic assets. In the United States, the progressive movement challenged courts reluctance to interfere in family matters, promoted broad child welfare reforms and was successful in having laws passed to regulate child labor and provide for compulsory education. It also raised awareness of children‘s issues and established a juvenile court system. Another push for children‘s rights occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, when children were viewed by some advocates as victims of discrimination or as an oppressed group. In the international context, ―the growth of children‘s rights in international and transnational law has been identified as a striking change in the post-war legal landscape. 1 Children are a ―supremely important nation and international asset of the future well-being of the world depends on how the children grow & develop. United Nations adopted a resolution which proclaimed 1979 as an international year of the child. In consequence of this proclamation, In 1979, the Government of Polland submitted a draft on the rights of child for adoption by U.N. General Assembly as a lasting memorial year of the child after revised version & a decade campaigning, the UN General Assembly adopted the convention on the rights of the child on November 20 1989 and ratified by 135 nations including India.

Images toward the Emancipation of Children in Modern Western Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-31
Author(s):  
Gertrud Lenzer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Western History ◽  
Victorian Novels ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Enlightenment

This chapter outlines how in modern Western history since the late seventeenth century the modern concepts of the child and childhood have evolved and how these images have increasingly entailed conceptions of the rights of the child as a human subject. These transformations eventually became the central affirmations of the human rights of all children, as they are articulated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and in the best interests of the child. The foundations of the new images of childhood are prepared in the work of empiricist philosophy, the Enlightenment, the Romantic poets, and Victorian novels and are, in turn, connected to the reform movements against child labor and the innovations of childhood education in the nineteenth century with their emphasis that every child has a right to a humane and nurturing childhood. The arc of these developments also leads, in important part, to the establishment of such new disciplines as pedagogy, psychology, psychoanalysis, and social work with their concentrated focus on the child and childhood.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI PROGRAM PENARIKAN PEKERJA ANAK – PROGRAM KELUARGA HARAPAN (PPA-PKH) DI KABUPATEN MAGELANG

GEMA PUBLICA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Dewi Rostyaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
School Attitudes ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Pull Factors ◽  
Push And Pull Factors ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Implementation Team ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Push And Pull

Children is an investment of the nation in carrying out development. Theyneed to get protection in accordance with the rights of the child. In Indonesiathere are still many children who work in hazardous places for their developmentso that their rights are not being met. To reduce the number of child workers, thegovernment made a reduction program in child labor in very poor householdscalled Withdrawal of Child Labor Program Family Hope Program (PPA-PKH). Theresearch objective is to describe the implementation of PPA-PKH program inMagelang and analyze the push and pull factors program. This study used aqualitative approach, with data analysis techniques include data reduction,presentation, conclusions and verification.Implementation of PPA-PKH program includes productivity, linearity andefficiency. The results showed that the productivity of children who return toschool only 60%. Linearity views of conformity procedures, time, cost, place andimplementing many are not appropriate. The efficiency has been achieved inimplementing the empowerment resources and assets, whereas for the utilizationof funds and technology are still less efficient. The push factors are include thesubstance of the policies and behavior of implementor, while the pull factors,interaction networks, the participation of target groups and resources; as well asother factors include a lack of awareness of parents and school attitudes thatwere not receiving target.Implementation of PPA-PKH program in Magelang District has not gonewell. Recomendation submitted in the implementation of the PPA-PKH include:data collection target group, the timely implementation, coordination betweenteam PPA-PKH and implementation team, increased oversight of funds, anincrease in facility premises, facilities and infrastructure, as well as assistingparents to raise awareness parents of the importance of school for the future oftheir children.Keywords : implementation, productivity, linearity, efficiency, push and pullfactors.

scholarly journals The agricultural impasse: creating "normal" post-war development in Northern Sierra Leone

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Bolten
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Local People ◽  
Diamond Mining ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Education Design ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War

This article analyzes the notion of "normal" post-war development in Makeni, northern Sierra Leone in light of the fact that local people, the national government, and NGOs appear to be at an impasse concerning agricultural practices.  I argue that fundamentally different perspectives on what construes desirable post-war development are causing this deadlock.  The government adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to make the country more attractive donors (and more resistant to donor fatigue), thus making primary education compulsory and removing important child labor from farms. NGOs, believing that the government's adoption of the CRC meant that Sierra Leoneans agreed with universal education, design and fund agricultural programs from which child labor is excluded.  Local people are torn between wanting their children—whom they dutifully send to school—to have a better future outside of agriculture, and needing their assistance to ensure operating farms in the present.  These children, once they either finish or drop out of school, rarely return to the villages.  Lacking any other means to recruit labor, farmers argue passionately that they need mechanization in order to ensure future food security, and are usually rebuffed by NGOs who call them lazy.  Local people yearn for a life where they can have educated children and productive farms, and resist efforts by their government and aid organizations to "develop" their children without replacing their labor. This labor has been diminishing since diamond mining and education created alternatives to farming beginning in the 1930s.  Where the international community assumes that the labor-poor, low-level subsistence farming that existed before the war is the norm that should be recreated in the aftermath, local people resist these initiatives that will only recreate the end-state of years of agricultural deterioration.  Their idea of a "normal" world is one where large farms can provide farmers with the cash and surpluses they need to live in dignity.Keywords: agriculture, education, child labor, mechanization, NGOs, Sierra Leone, Africa

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