Flexible work, self-employment or entrepreneurship are terms often employed to disguise and sugar-coat the implementation of labour arrangements fostering economic insecurity. The precariat is on the rise everywhere and neoliberal labour reforms have been one of the main triggers of such phenomenon. In this seminar, speakers will address working conditions, labour regulations and the advance …
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[Video] A Candle in the Dark: Illuminating Crises in the Peripheries | Equality in Socio-Economic Rights: Access Delayed is Access Denied
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A Candle in the Dark: Illuminating Crises in the Peripheries | Equality in Socio-Economic Rights: Access Delayed is Access Denied
Complications relating to access to socio-economic rights have existed since the inception of the second generation rights. States perpetually defend restrictions to access by pleading a lack of resources. The last few months have made the unequal access to socio-economic rights ever more clear. The long and continuous dismantling of the welfare state by neoliberal …
[Video] A Candle in the Dark: Illuminating Crises in the Peripheries | Elections: the Demos in Crisis
For those who could not attend the event live, below is the recording of the session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RASoXS5F_Oc&feature=youtu.be
2020 PoL Webinar Series | A Candle in the Dark: Illuminating Crises in the Peripheries
‘Unprecedented crisis’ has become a popular term used by media outlets and academic discourse to describe the present state of affairs in the world. Certainly, the last decade has been marked by epochal shifts in the global order, of which the 2008 economic crash and the current pandemic are the poster children. These and other …
Colloquium Glocalizing the Peripheries of Law
The deployment of legal technique is increasingly marked by the superimposition of global and local dynamics. These “glocal” legal practices, however, seem to reproduce well-established spatial and epistemic hierarchies. This colloquium, which is organised with the generous support of the Doctoral Program of Sciences Po Law School, is part of a progressive reflection on the …
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Seminary Report: Re-conceptualizing Child Soldiering
On 18 April 2018, we had the opportunity to discuss with Professor Karl Hanson (University of Geneva) his work on the re-conceptualization of child soldiering. His talk highlighted the gap between empirical reality and normative aspirations enshrined in the formal regulation of child soldiering, which led to a lively discussion on agency and childhood. In …
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Reconceptualizing Child Soldiering
International law and policies regarding children and armed conflict have largely been informed by humanitarian perspectives that are built on the presumption of children’s victimhood and their incapacity to voluntarily taking part in military life or violent political struggles. Such a protectionist view forecloses that at times of social, economic and political instability children and …
Third World Resistance in International Human Rights Law: Working Children’s Movements, the ILO, and the Global Child Labour Regime
In November 2017, the international community came together in Argentina to adopt the ‘Buenos Aires Declaration’, in which it agreed to eradicate all forms of child labour by 2025. Together with the ILO Conventions, such declarations constitute the backbone of the global regime on child labour. However, while inside of the conference venue the Declaration …
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