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Child labour is pervasive and has been escalating over the last decade. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that there are approximately 250 million working children between the ages of 5 and 14, of which at least 120 million are involved in full time work that are both hazardous and exploitative. Driven by public outrage, and the adoption of the ILO’s 1999 convention C182, the exploitation of child labour has received increasing attention, and efforts to combat this phenomenon has gained momentum, yet solutions remain elusive.
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Yiadom, P.K. (2017). Interrogating Child Labour from an Anti-Racism Prism. In: Newton, J., Soltani, A. (eds) New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-131-5_10
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