Commentary Children's Work, Children's Rights

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-38
Author(s):  
Karen Porter
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The World ◽  
Children’S Work

Most people would agree that enslaving children or forcing them to work in sweatshops or brothels are morally reprehensible practices. Yet the number of children laboring in hazardous and exploitative conditions around the world continues to grow. In June 1998, the International Labour Organization reported that, in the developing countries, some 250 million children aged 5 to 14 work— 120 million of them full time. Outlawing child labor may seem to be the obvious solution, but it is not the best way to protect children.

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 Work and fertility in Taiwan: How women’s and men’s career sequences associate with fertility outcomes?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-Hao Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Lower Number ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
The World ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
And Gender

There has been much debate over the micro-level relationship between employment situations and fertility in Europe and Northern America. However, related research in East Asia is scant, although countries in this region have some of the lowest fertility rates in the world. Moreover, most studies analyze the employment-fertility relationship from a static perspective and only for women, which underemphasizes life-course dynamics and gender heterogeneity of employment careers and their fertility implications. Drawing on retrospective data from the 2017 Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS), this study explores women’s and men’s career trajectories between ages 18 and 40 in Taiwan using sequence cluster analyses. It also examines how career variations associate with different timing and quantum of birth. Empirical results show that economically inactive women experience faster motherhood transitions and have more children by age 40 than women with stable full-time careers. For men, having an unstable career associates with slower fatherhood transitions and a lower number of children. For both genders, self-employed people are the earliest in parenthood transitions and have the highest number of children by midlife. Our findings demonstrate sharp gender contrasts in employment careers and their diversified fertility implications in low-fertility Taiwan

Introduction: Children’s Rights as Human Rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Richard P. Hiskes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

The world does not really believe that human rights pertain to children. This is so in spite of the fact that the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has been ratified by all nations worldwide except for one, the United States. This book explores the reasons behind the US refusal in ...

Child Labor, Education, and Children’s Rights

2005 ◽  
pp. 173-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Betcherman ◽  
Jean Fares ◽  
Amy Luinstra ◽  
Robert Prouty
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Labor Education

The Politics of Traveller 'Child Begging' in Ireland

2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Helleiner
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Legislative Reform ◽  
Children’S Work

Prompted by legislative reform with respect to 'child begging' in the Irish Children Act 2001, this article examines the history and politics of 'child begging' and other children's work among the minority population of Travelling People in Ireland. Increased official focus on Traveller 'child begging' in the 1990s, and an attempt on the part of Traveller advocates to defend related children's work from criminalization, is located within the context of economic growth, social inequality, and struggles over cultural and children's rights.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child – 30th Anniversary

2020 ◽  
Vol 595 (8) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Anna Górka-Strzałkowska
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
30Th Anniversary ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Society ◽  
United Nations General Assembly

The issue of children’s rights is extensive and multi-threaded. Studies on this subject show different perspectives and views, referring to various areas of children’s functioning and development. The article presents the perspective of children’s rights in the activities of organizations, local governments, educational and culture institutions on the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was created, adopted on November 20, 1959 by the United Nations General Assembly, which developed the scope of children’s rights. However, it still had no legal value. It was only the Convention on the Rights of the Child, established on the initiative of Poland on November 20, 1989, that became a global constitution protecting children all over the world. The events related to the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention became the culmination of the contemporary activities undertaken to mobilize the entire society to fight for children’s rights. These initiatives enabled the presentation of positions and views on the issue of the child. In a broad sense, they allowed the possibility of implementing program changes to improve the situation of children not only in Poland, but also in the world.

Homeless Children and Children's Rights: The Starting Line in the Human Race

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-54
Author(s):  
Chris Goddard
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Homeless Children ◽  
Human Race ◽  
New Born ◽  
Born Child ◽  
The World ◽  
Wilhelm Reich ◽  
New Residents

The new-born child arrives in the world with an awesome array of capacities and reflexes. They can suck, cough, cry, squirm, turn their heads and grip objects (Segal and Segal, 1985). As Somerville points out, however, what we have to remember is that all children are born ‘prematurely’, in that their character and personality are yet to be fully formed (1982: 242).It was Wilhelm Reich, I believe, who clearly portrayed the shock of being born. After 40 weeks or thereabouts of security, the newborn arrives in a world that is far less warm and far more threatening than the womb. The baby is picked up by the legs, slapped briskly and removed from his or her mother. Reich argued that the world was destined to remain in a mess while new residents are greeted in such a fashion. For some children, even in wealthy countries like Australia, those first few minutes set the scene for much of their future lives.

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