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The Movements of Working Children and the International Labour Organization. A Lesson on Enforced Silence
Author(s) -
Liebel Manfred,
Invernizzi Antonella
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12305
Subject(s) - child labour , grassroots , complaint , convention , silence , social movement , convention on the rights of the child , political science , movement (music) , sociology , law , human rights , work (physics) , politics , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , aesthetics
Relations between the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) and grassroots movements of working children are characterised by tensions. Working children's claim to participate in conceptualising child labour policy is increasingly rejected. Most recently, in November 2017, the Latin American Movement of Working Children and Adolescents ( MOLACNAT s) lodged a complaint with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child over violations of rights enshrined in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This article reconstructs the history of working children's movements and their communication with ILO since the 1990s.