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International Women's Day 2021

SCORE Training adapts to continue promoting gender equality despite COVID-19

While the priority in 2020 was health and safety, the SCORE Programme adopted several strategies to meet gender equality objectives. On this International Women's Day, let's look back at SCORE Programme activities that helped ensure progress on this...

Workers' rights

ILO statement on Myanmar

The ILO has issued a statement following allegations of harassment and intimidation of trade unionists in Myanmar by police and military authorities.

Labour rights

ILO calls on Myanmar to respect freedom of association and restore democratic order

In the wake of the military takeover that has sparked widespread demonstrations in Myanmar, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization says workers and employers must be able to exercise their right to protest without violence or...

ILO Myanmar launches online learning platform

Today, the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched a digital learning platform – ecampus.iloyangon.org – to share knowledge and skills related to the world of work in Myanmar.

Ship to Shore Rights

Decent work for fishing and seafood migrant workers in Asia Pacific

European Union and United Nations continue efforts to support safe labour migration and decent work in the fishing and seafood processing sectors in South East Asia

ILO Voices | Child labour

Child labour in Myanmar’s jade mines is a deadly gamble

Min Min is 13 and scavenges for scraps of jade stone in northern Myanmar, “the land of jade”.  It’s a hazardous undertaking.  In 2020 nearly 200 people died from a mudslide at a nearby mining site.

SCORE Training

Stay safe and resilient: ILO SCORE Programme expands its OSH and Business Continuity training under the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world of work. Production disruptions have caused demand for many goods and services to plummet and forced enterprises around the world to suspend or scale down operations, with enormous impacts for workers.

Making Migration Safe and Fair for Women Workers

Women play a central role in Myanmar society and its economic development and it is our hope that together we can ensure that the contributions of Myanmar’s migrant women – home and abroad – are applauded, recognised and acknowledged, and that we...

Case study

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

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...

Promoting responsible business practices in Myanmar. An ILO/EU press release

A high-level conference on policy options for promoting responsible investment in Myanmar convened online with senior government officials and business leaders for discussions on investment policy, and the role of responsible business conduct in...

Discussing opportunities to improve occupational safety and health in myanmar’s construction sector

Meeting with Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Construction to discuss opportunities for improvement of occupational and health in the construction sector in the country.

Garment sector in Asia and the Pacific

Women hit hard by COVID-19 impact on garment sector

A new brief highlights COVID-19 impacts on women and men workers in the garment sector and recommendations for a gender-responsive recovery.

Op-Ed

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

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...

Garment sector in Asia and the Pacific

Asia-Pacific garment industry suffers as COVID-19 impact ripples through supply chain

Collapsing consumer demand, government lockdown measures and disruptions to raw material imports have taken their toll on the Asia Pacific garment industry, says a new ILO report.

New Zealand and ILO launch NZ$ 3 million project for remittance dependent communities in South-Eastern Myanmar to cope with COVID 19...

Responding to the unprecedented crisis and pressing needs created by COVID-19 outbreak in Myanmar particularly in disaster and conflict-affected areas, the New Zealand Aid Programme and International Labour Organisation (ILO) technical team in...

ILO, through the EU supported Safe and Fair Programme, opens two new Migrant Worker Resource Centres

The ILO, through Safe and Fair Programme, under the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population (MOLIP) opened the Aung Lan Migrant Resource...

Case study

It takes a village: The community saving scheme transforming children’s lives in Myanmar

It was in 2017, in a small village in the Ayeyarwady region of Myanmar, that 45-year-old Naw Thawri’s life took a terrible turn. Her husband passed away and she found herself alone – a widow with four children and no source of income to support her...

After COVID-19: A stronger Myanmar through responsible business practices

A conference on the impact of the pandemic and opportunities to build stronger, more resilient businesses has taken place online

The ILO supported Kawthaung Migrant Centre receives recognition for assisting returning migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Kawthaung Migrant Centre run by the Foundation for Education and Development is the second of the Migrant Centres supported by the ILO to receive the Honorary Record from the National League of Volunteers, chaired by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar gears up to implement minimum working age convention

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population (MoLIP), together with the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNICEF, and Myanmar workers and employers’ organisations, and child protection civil society organizations today have come...