Title: Child labour: an 'outdated' violation of children's rights or a modern problem?

Authors: Despina Tziola

Addresses: Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece

Abstract: Child labour is an enduring phenomenon of exploitation of children who are up to the age of 18. Many scholars believe that the age interval 13 to 15 years old should not be talked about as child labour but as teenage or youthful employment. However, the majority of authors do not accept this view. This article will examine the exploitation of children aged up to 18 years in the USA and Europe from a comparative perspective.

Keywords: child labour; children's rights; European Court of Human Rights; International Convention on the Rights of the Child; European Convention on Human Rights; US Supreme Court; child trafficking; forced labour; servitude; slavery; ILO Convention 138; ILO Convention 182; children; child exploitation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRCS.2014.062754

International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 2014 Vol.2 No.2, pp.125 - 137

Received: 17 Nov 2012
Accepted: 17 Feb 2013
Published online: 26 Jul 2014 *

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