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Child
labor is recognized as one of the major problems in the
Philippines and combating it is a goal not unique to the
US. The paper
discusses the country’s response to child labor which
includes the different legislations that are inconsistent
with ILO conventions on the subject (e.g., Child and
Welfare Code, R.A. No. 7610 and 7658, etc.).
It
also discusses the implications of the Harkin Bill on the
plight of child workers.
While the bill has good intention – to provide an
effective enforcement machinery for ILO convention 138 ad
other international standards that prohibit child labor,
it is believed that the use of trade sanctions to achieve
this objective would be punitive and counter-productive
and may actually do more harm than good in helping uplift
the plight of child workers in developing countries.
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