The unanimous decision of the Second Section of the European Court of Human Rights (‘Court’) in Siliadin v France , 1 strikes at the heart of a number of topical and conceptual issues in international human rights law. Although this is not the first time a European-level tribunal has addressed questions of child labour, 2 this case arises from an alleged incident of trafficking of a child for the purpose of forced labour, an area of heightened attention in international law over the past decade. 3 The decision also marks the first recognition by the Court that Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), concerning slavery, servitude and forced labour, imposes positive obligations on states. The ruling thereby expands the range of rights where positive obligations are attached, and potentially increases the importance of a provision which has not heretofore generated much case law for the...
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Holly Cullen (2006) studied this question.