A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ─ Protection from Economic Exploitation

Formerly a human rights adviser for the International Labour Organisation, Swepston is now a teacher and consultant in Sweden. He contributes to the series commenting on the articles of the Convention by examining in detail the one protecting against economic exploitation, referring when necessary to other international instruments where detailed obligations have been set out. Texts of the article and of the entire Convention are included. Martinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. There is no index. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lee Swepston is the Former Senior Advisor on Human Rights of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and is now a teacher (University of Lund, Sweden and Raoul Wallenberg Institute, inter alia) and consultant. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and took his Juris doctor degree at Columbia University in New York. He joined the ILO in 1973, where his posts included being Regional Adviser on International Labour Standards in Africa, Chief of the Equality and Employment Branch, and Director of the Department of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. He has written numerous books and articles on various aspects of human rights and international labour law, child labour, freedom of association, discrimination, HIV and AIDS, migrant workers and indigenous and tribal peoples.