عمالة الأطفال بين العوامل الديموغرافية والأطر القانونية

الملخص EN

There are many conventions, laws and legislation that criminalize child labor under the legal age for them, but they were not applied on the ground and were not taken into account in order to protect children from all forms of exploitation, and among these conventions is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989, which entered into force on September 2 1990 AD and ratified by most of the member states of the United Nations, as it dealt with the rights of the child in Article (27) first and second, as well as in Articles (33) and (34) and (35).

Several agreements were issued regarding child labor, including Convention No.

(5) of 1919, No.

(7) of 1920, No.

(10) of 1921, and No.

(33) of 1932, etc., and there is also interest on the part of the Labor Organization Arab countries in many agreements that dealt with child labor in particular, including Convention No.

1 of 1966 and Convention No.

18 of 1996 that dealt with juvenile labor.

The Iraqi Labor Law No.

72 of 1936 and Law No.

1 of 1958 in its first and second articles also dealt with Law No.

37 of 2015 on child labor and setting the child’s age at 15 years.

There is a reference in the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq for the year 2005 A.

D.

A clear reference to the concern for children in Article (29) and Article (30) first, and there is a clear impact of demographic factors on the increase in the phenomenon of child labor represented by population increase and migration.