OIT e Quebradeiras de Coco Babaçu

discussões acerca do envolvimento de crianças e jovens em atividades produtivas

Abstract

This article analyzes the negotiations involving children and youngsters in the processing of babaçu nuts. It focuses on the way the International Labor Organization (ILO) discussed this issue with traditional communities in Maranhão. Although the meeting was open to participation and social agency, it failed to listen to the local agents and to cope with the different conceptions of extant child labor, risk, and violence. The communities felt they were misunderstood an regarded the application of child and teenager rights as contradictory.