Dr Nicolás Brando (QUB) "What (if anything) is wrong with child labour?"

Nicolás Brando is a Newton International Fellow at the Centre for Children’s Rights, QUB.

Dr. Brando’s research project, Childhood at the Margins: A Normative Analysis of Children’s Status as Right Holders, aims to explore the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Particularly, it looks at how three elemental principles of the Convention have been defined and interpreted in the theoretical literature on children’s rights: the non-discrimination principle, the evolving capacities principle, and the best interests’ principle.

Nicolás is a Colombian philosopher, working on ethics, moral and political philosophy. His research studies the treatment of vulnerable and marginalised populations in liberal societies, with a particular focus on issues of discrimination and the protection of rights of children.

Contact Dr Suzanne Whitten, HAPP suzanne.whitten@qub.ac.uk to register for the seminar.