CHILD LABOR AND ITS CRIMINAL LAW REGULATION

The study is dedicated to the tough fight against child labor and upcoming 20th Anniversary of the adoption of the ILO Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labor. The study pays attention to the importance and contribution of this Convention in limiting the worst forms of child labor. In details are examined some of the worst forms of child labor with the attention to the criminal law protection of the child against the child trafficking, trafficking in children, sexual exploitation of children, child pornography and others in the sense of Bulgarian law. Through this study. the author concludes that Bulgarian criminal legislation is taking cam and measures to deal with this growing problem in the conditions of a global economic crisis.