Helping Hands Or Shackled Lives?

Helping Hands Or Shackled Lives?
Author: June Kane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2005-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780756747374

Although domestic labor by children (CDL) has often been excluded from nat. min. age for work leg'n. -- usually because of the difficulty of implementing it in private households -- the reality is that the majority of CDL would find a place in one or more of the cat. that fall under the Min. Age Conv., & the Worst Forms of Child Labour Conv., either because of the nature of the work they are required to perform, the treat. they receive or the means by which they entered into their present situation. This report throws light on the phenomenon of CDL, & the actions that are being taken to respond to it. Includes case studies drawn from field work, & suggests possible future actions to be taken at all levels, & by different players: gov'ts., labor sector partners & NGOs.

Helping Hands

Helping Hands
Author: Della M. Bray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1991
Genre: Christian biography
ISBN:

Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking
Author: Mary C. Burke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2013-04-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135081840

The practice of one human being exploiting another in slavery-like conditions is not new. Today, it is called human trafficking. Social, political, and economic forces over the past 60 years have changed how and why this human rights abuse occurs. In order to solve this or any social problem, it is important that it is fully understood. With a range of contributing subject experts from different disciplines and professions, this text comprehensively explains human trafficking as it exists and is being addressed in the twenty-first century. Human Trafficking is essential reading for professionals working in many fields, including law enforcement, human services, and health care, and for concerned citizens interested in human rights and how to make a difference in their communities. This book is also intended for use in undergraduate and graduate interdisciplinary courses in human trafficking. A bank of test items applicable to each article in the book is available to instructors interested in selecting this edition for course use. Simply send an e.mail to the publisher at [email protected]

Children’s Lives in an Era of Children’s Rights

Children’s Lives in an Era of Children’s Rights
Author: Afua Twum-Danso Imoh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2014-01-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1135071780

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, marked a turning point in the perception of children in international law and policy. Although it was hoped that the Convention would have a significant and positive impact on the lives of all children, this has not happened in many parts of the world. This edited volume, based on empirical research and Non-Governmental Organisation project data, explores the progress of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to a lesser extent, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, in nine African countries in the 25 years since it was adopted by the UN General Assembly. The book considers the implementation of the Convention both in terms of policy and practice, and its impact on the lived experiences of children in societies across the continent, focusing on specific themes such as HIV/AIDS, education and disability, child labour, witchcraft stigmatisation, street children, parent-child relationships and child participation. The book breaks new ground in blending legal and social perspectives of the experiences of children, and identifies concrete ways forward for the better implementation of the CRC treaty in the various political contexts that exist in Africa.

Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking
Author: Louise Shelley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139489771

This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the trafficking business and the nature of the traffickers themselves. Using a historical and comparative perspective, it demonstrates that there is more than one business model of human trafficking and that there are enormous variations in human trafficking in different regions of the world. Drawing on a wide body of academic research - actual prosecuted cases, diverse reports and field work and interviews conducted by the author over the last sixteen years in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe and the former socialist countries - Louise Shelley concludes that human trafficking will grow in the twenty-first century as a result of economic and demographic inequalities in the world, the rise of conflicts and possibly global climate change. Coordinated efforts of government, civil society, the business community, multilateral organizations and the media are needed to stem its growth.

Working to Be Someone

Working to Be Someone
Author: Beatrice Hungerland
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2007-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1846426073

Working to be Someone presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that considers children's own views of employment in favour of adult-constructed arguments about child work. This book brings together contributions by internationally renowned researchers who are committed to a 'subject-orientated' approach as well as views and observations of activists from organizations that either work with child labour or support working children's movements. Chapters examine the traditionally widespread care and domestic work carried out by children, discuss localized explorations of working children - for example in Morocco, India and Europe - as well as consider work as a means for children to contribute economically to the family. Contributors also discuss children's movements and organizations in Africa, Asia and South America that claim work as a necessity for survival as well as a key to children's own agency and citizenship. This book is a key text for both academics and social work practitioners that encourages re-evaluation of the notion of childhood and understands the complex phenomenon of working children.

Contemporary Slavery

Contemporary Slavery
Author: Annie Bunting
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501718770

This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to combat contemporary slavery are too often sensationalist, self-serving, and superficial and, therefore, end up failing the crucial test of speaking truth to power. The widely held notion that antislavery is one of those rare issues that "transcends" politics or ideology is only sustainable because the underlying issues at stake have been constructed and demarcated in a way that minimizes direct challenges to dominant political and economic interests. This must change. By providing an original approach to the underlying issues at stake, Contemporary Slavery will help readers understand the political practices that have been concealed beneath the popular rhetoric and establishes new conversations between scholars of slavery and trafficking and scholars of human rights and social movements. Contributors: Jean Allain, Jonathan Blagbrough, Roy Brooks, Annie Bunting, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Andrew Crane, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Fuyuki Kurasawa, Benjamin Lawrance, Joel Quirk, and Darshan Vigneswaran

Family Violence

Family Violence
Author: Paul Harvey Wallace
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1317348354

Examines the entire spectrum of family violence, focusing onsocial processes and social relationships. The seventh edition of Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives by Harvey Wallace and Cliff Roberson is a comprehensive introduction to the study of family violence that guides readers to a better understanding of the challenges involved in reducing or eliminating violence. The six major topics are: domestic partner abuse, child abuse, elder abuse, physical and psychological abuse, identifying when abuse occurs, and discussing the effects of the various types of abuse or violence. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: -Understand the facets of family violence. -Discuss how violence may be reduced or eliminated. -Identify how each major type of abuse impacts the social and law enforcement agencies that are involved.