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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIgnoring the benefits of children’s workWork can have many benefits for children. Policy responses need to understand and foster those benefits, not succumb...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTime to take working children seriouslyOn the occasion of the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, it is time to listen to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBizarre bureaucratic dysfunction in child labourThe ILO, UNICEF, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child promote policies known to harm children. What will...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe globalisation of dignityWorking children have been prevented from attending the ILO’s child labour conference, currently taking place in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOpen letter from working children to the UN Committee on the Rights of the ChildAfter being excluded from the IV Global Conference on the Eradication of Child Labour, working children and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe La Paz DeclarationFor the global defence of the dignity and well-being of children and adolescents who work. Español
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTrust in our own strength: the African Movement of Working Children and Youth in SenegalThe working children of Senegal have long organised to educate, support, and protect one another from the everyday...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOpen essay: a better approach to child workAs the UN considers its position on child labour, a global group of experts lay out the case against a universal...
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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...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat’s wrong with the World Day Against Child Labour?Working children everywhere reject the mainstream anti-child labour paradigm. A major new video campaign tells us why.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryResponse to Human Rights Watch's letter on minimum-age standards with respect to child labourAs the UN considers its position on child labour, a group of academics and practitioners have engaged in open debate...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySupporting working children as social, political, and economic agentsPeru’s movement of working children offers a visionary model for collaborative, caring, and egalitarian communities...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOpen letter: a better approach to child workAs the UN considers its position on child labour, 59 experts lay out the case against a universal minimum age....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryChild trafficking: what are we really talking about?The moral panic over child trafficking detracts from important questions about children and childhood, the state,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDoing more harm than good: the politics of child trafficking prevention in South AfricaRecently introduced anti-trafficking regulations in South Africa are doing more harm than good. This is because they...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBeyond child traffickingNot all child mobility is ‘trafficking’ and some forms of child mobility might not be detrimental to children’s...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFake morals and forced identities for young migrants in EuropeYoung migrants live dynamic lives, yet dominant conceptions only allow them two identities: ‘victim of child...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe creation of ‘trafficking’Trafficking received its current definition only fifteen years ago. Since that time, the policies pursued in its...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWorking children: rights and wrongsMany children improve their current and future lives through work. Programmes to protect working children should...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat do children need most: saving, rights or solidarity?All the major critiques of ‘child-saving’ fall short of the mark. We must reconceptualise our solidarity with the...
