Family rationales behind child begging in Antananarivo, Madagascar
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Chapitre d'ouvrage
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Child Exploitation in the Global South. 2018p. 17-36
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
English Abstract
The media have often presented child labour as one of the most striking symbols of poverty. Although it first came to attention in the Western world with the advent of the industrial revolution (Schlemmer 2006), child ...Read more >
The media have often presented child labour as one of the most striking symbols of poverty. Although it first came to attention in the Western world with the advent of the industrial revolution (Schlemmer 2006), child labour, particularly in developing countries, was thrust into the spotlight in the mid-1990s with the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 and the creation of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) by the International Labour Organization (ILO).Read less <