Edward van Daalen is a PhD researcher in law at the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies of the University of Geneva. He has previously conducted socio-legal research in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, concerning the drafting of a local law on street children. His current research is based on fieldwork done in Africa, Latin America, and India and focuses on the role and resistance of working children’s movements in the continuous development of international child labour norms.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySalvar a niñas y niños con canciones y refrigeriosSi la conversación en el «Debate de Alto Nivel sobre el trabajo infantil» de la OIT hubiera estado a la altura de su nombre, el mundo podría haber comenzado a avanzar en esta cuestión tan importante. English
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA tale of two conferences: exploring the politics of global child labour policiesTwo international conferences on child labour were held in South America this fall. In one working children participated, the other not. The results couldn't have been more different.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySaving the children with songs and light refreshmentsIf the conversation at the ILO's ‘high level panel discussion on child labour’ had lived up to its name the world might have started to make progress on this important issue. Español
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCan campaigns to stop child labour be stopped?Working children’s organisations have had limited success in challenging dominant abolitionist perspectives on child labour. Working children’s realities and conceptions of rights need to be taken more seriously in international debates.