This textbook provides a comprehensive picture of child labour, its causes, and how various actors can combat it. It is geared towards university students in all regions of the world. It discusses different forms of child labour and its physical and psychological effects on children and explains why child labour may be culturally sanctioned in some settings. The text presents the different actors in the global fight against child labour and discusses actions these groups and individuals, including students, can undertake. The textbook provides an explanation and the full text of the Minimum Age Convention, Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
