Child Labor: The Pakistani Effort to End a Scourge upon Humanity - Is It Enough?

Authors

Aine Smith

Library of Congress Authority File

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79122466

Document Type

Comment

Abstract

This Article will encompass the issues necessary to create such a report card. In the process of assessing Pakistan's efforts, this article will demonstrate that the measures taken in Pakistan are not sufficient to end bonded child labor. In addition, this comment proposes that the international community must expend more financial and legal resources to tackle the problem of child labor. Part II focuses on Pakistan's use of child labor. This includes a discussion of the history of child labor, the international rights being abrogated by child labor, the efforts implemented to combat child labor, and an evaluation of Pakistani children's status today. Part III argues that the only way to truly abolish this practice is to make child labor a jus cogens by raising it to the same level as torture and slavery?

Recommended Citation

Aine Smith, Child Labor: The Pakistani Effort to End a Scourge upon Humanity - Is It Enough?, 6 San Diego Int'l L.J. 461 (2005)
Available at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/ilj/vol6/iss2/11