Resources on Child labour in Myanmar

  1. Brochure

    Child Labour in Myanmar, A Legal review

    08 December 2021

    This brochure is based on the edition of the legal review of national laws and regulations related to child labour in light of international standards in Myanmar, which was conducted in 2020. It covers the period up to December 2020.

  2. Reduction of Child Labour in Myanmar

    Achieving reduction of child labour in support of education: Programme to reduce the worst forms of child labour in agriculture

    20 August 2021

    The project’s overarching goal is the reduction of the worst forms of child labour in the agricultural/rural communities in selected zones.

  3. World Day Against Child Labour 2021

    The ILO makes an urgent appeal to protect Myanmar’s children as child labour rises to 160 million worldwide

    11 June 2021

  4. Case study

    Safety first: Adapting the ILO’s child labour response in the face of COVID-19

    01 December 2020

    When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Selim Benaissa’s first thought was of vulnerable children. As the ILO’s Chief Technical Advisor for the Myanmar Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, he has seen firsthand that poverty is a major factor driving high rates of child labour in the country – a problem that affects one in every 11 under-18-year-olds.

  5. Publication

    Virtual Press Briefing on ILO Convention 138

    23 November 2020

    Media coverage report

  6. Publication

    Myanmar signs up to key international convention on minimum working age ahead of the World Day Against Child Labour

    23 November 2020

    Media coverage report

  7. Video

    I want to be a photographer

    18 November 2020

    “There is a great deal of inequality in our world. Some children get pocket money from their parents, study with great teachers, and play when they get back home. These kids can enjoy being children.”

  8. Video

    Burning hands

    06 November 2020

    Ko Ko Kyaw - the young boy in Kit Kit’s film ‘Burning Hands’ - has been working since he was seven-years-old, carrying cement on construction sites in the hot Mandalay sun. His hands get so raw and bloody that his mother tries to heal them with candle wax. Physical exhaustion and sleep deprivation are daily struggles.

  9. Video

    Nowhere to go

    05 November 2020

    At seven months pregnant, this young woman has nowhere to go. She left school to work aged 7, started to sniff glue at 12, spent time in jail, and has already lost two newborn babies.

  10. Op-Ed

    Turning the tide against child labour – for Khin’s sake

    03 November 2020

    More than a million Myanmar pupils returned to the classroom in late July but a surge in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks has forced schools to close again. Selim Benaissa, Chief Technical Advisor at the International Labour Organization (ILO), shifts the focus to those left behind – the one in 11 children trapped in child labour across the country – those who have had to drop out of school even before the pandemic. In the midst of a worsening health and economic crisis, is there still hope in the horizon for them?