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The Decolonisation of Children's Rights and the Colonial Contours of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (2020)
Journal Article
Faulkner, E. A., & Nyamutata, C. (2020). The Decolonisation of Children's Rights and the Colonial Contours of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. International Journal of Children's Rights, 28(1), 66-88. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02801009

© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2020. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (uncrc) 1989 has been celebrated for its universal acceptance. However, questions still arise around its provenance and representation. In particular, the... Read More about The Decolonisation of Children's Rights and the Colonial Contours of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The development of child trafficking within international law: A socio-legal and archival analysis (2019)
Book Chapter
Faulkner, E. A. (2019). The development of child trafficking within international law: A socio-legal and archival analysis. In R. Deplano (Ed.), Pluralising international legal scholarship: the promise and perils of non-doctrinal research methods (104-126). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976374.00011

Human trafficking has appeared in numerous international instruments since the early twentieth century, and predates the formation of the current international legal system.1 This chapter seeks to demonstrate the emergence of child trafficking within... Read More about The development of child trafficking within international law: A socio-legal and archival analysis.

Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique (2019)
Book Chapter
Faulkner, E. A. (2019). Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique. In J. Winterdyk, & J. Jones (Eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking (79-95). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63058-8_113

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG 2020. All rights reserved. The trafficking of children has received extensive attention from both academic and political arenas in recent years, yet this growing phenome... Read More about Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique.

Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique (2019)
Book Chapter
Faulkner, E. A. (2019). Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique. In J. A. Winterdyk, & J. Jones (Eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking (1-18). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63192-9_113-1

The trafficking of children has received extensive attention from both academic and political arenas in recent years, yet this growing phenomenon remains a relatively new area of international law (Gallagher, The international law of human traffickin... Read More about Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique.

The Victim, the Villain and the Rescuer: the trafficking of women and contemporary abolition (2018)
Journal Article
Faulkner, E. A. (2018). The Victim, the Villain and the Rescuer: the trafficking of women and contemporary abolition. Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.31273/LGD.2018.2101

A term as morally and politically loaded as ‘modern day slave trade’ inevitably provokes strong and emotive responses. From the current Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) (António Guterres) to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (There... Read More about The Victim, the Villain and the Rescuer: the trafficking of women and contemporary abolition.