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Giảng viên Đại học Luật TP.HCM.

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For as long as it may be, child labour exploitation has become a subject of multi-level attention as it deprives children of their basic rights to physical and mental development and protection to the fullest, and adversarially lead to the economic’s labor force breakdown. Confronting these risks, the International Labor Organization has maneuvered its two fundamental legal instruments, namely the Convention No. 138 of 1973 on Minimum labour age and Convention No. 182 of 1999 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour. What is more, in the context of today’s globalisation, international entities have witnessed more and more new-generation free trade agreements consistently affirming their mission to eradicate child labour. The article, applying analytical and comparative methods to the provisions of the ILO‘s conventions, the FTAs and Vietnamese laws on elimination of child labour, shall try to examine the ability of Vietnam to fulfill these commitments and finally bring about a few recommendations to improve its fulfillment.

Keywords: child labour, ILO, EVFTA, CPTPP, labor laws.