While the harms of child labour are undisputed and human rights discourse has for decades tried to find solutions, the complexity of the subject remains. It has not been enough to identify the effects of child labour on the lives these children. Rather, it has proven equally important to understand the causes of child labour, the enablers as well as the gaps in protections. This project seeks a multidisciplinary approach to child labour, its drivers and the barriers to protection of children by exploring the enabling social, cultural attitudes and traditions as well as economic and political drivers.
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Isabelle Zundel is a researcher in international human rights law, with research interests spanning regional human rights systems, international environmental law, and socio-legal studies. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Law and Development Research Group at the University of Antwerp, where she works on the ERC Starting Grant 2023-funded GENESIS Project, led by Gamze Erdem Türkelli, which examines multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) as actors in achieving sustainable development and their interrelationship with human rights. In addition, she coordinates the Sustainable Development and Global Justice Cluster of the LLM programme at the University of Antwerp for the academic year 2025–2026 and supports a five-year VLIR-UOS-funded research project in partnership with Mzumbe University.
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