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New study of migrant and child labour in the Thai seafood industry

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and The Asia Foundation released a new report, revealing the physical hazards and other vulnerabilities faced by migrant child workers in Thailand’s shrimp and seafood processing industries.

Human trafficking

Combating forced labour through e-learning

A new ILO online course teaches participants to better understand and prevent trafficking in persons in East and South-East Asia

Thai rock stars song against child labour reaches one million hits

The anti-child labour song recorded by two of Thailand’s rock music icons has reached a million hits on social media within less than one month of being released.

The twin challenges of child labour and educational marginalisation in the East and South-East Asia regions

World Day Against Child Labour

‘Til Everyone Can See - Thai rock stars use their talents to fight child labour

To mark World Day Against Child Labour, Thailand's biggest rock stars have worked with the International Labour Organization on the first national language cover version of the song 'Til Everyone Can See.

Thai rock stars join the International campaign against child labour

To mark the World Day Against Child Labour (June 12), Thailand’s biggest rock stars have worked with the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the first national language cover version of the song 'Til Everyone Can See.

ILO to publish the world employment and social outlook 2015

The ILO is to launch its new annual flagship report “World Employment and Social Outlook 2015".

Migrant Workers’ Forum in Bangkok brings together tripartite stakeholders on labour rights of migrant workers

Tripartite stakeholders from Thailand’s seafood processing sector highlighted migrant worker rights at the Migrant Workers Forum that was organized on International Migrants Day. The International Migrants Day marks the adoption of the International...

ILO's Regional Director

New ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific

Ms Tomoko Nishimoto has taken up her post as the ILO's Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific since 12 January 2015.

Local economic development in Sri Lanka

Peace, prosperity and papayas

Her papaya crop is paying off for a widowed farmer helped by the ILO-supported LEED program, which has boosted business in fisheries, construction and agriculture.

Labour migration and entrepreneurship

Skills for a brighter future

Refugees in a camp along Thai-Myanmar border are equipped with livelihood and buisness skills for a better future.

Domestic worker

No one should work this way – ending the abuse of Asian domestic workers

There are more than 52 million domestic workers worldwide but the vast majority are unprotected by labour laws. This leaves them open to – sometimes terrible – abuse and exploitation. The journalist Karen Emmons worked with the photographer Steve...

Child labour

Dancing together against child labour

An up-and-coming hip-hop dance group, The Zoo Thailand, put their talent to good use and joined the ILO in its campaign to end child labour.

Employment services

ILO Thai Twitter account launched

The ILO tweets in Thai. Follow ILO ภาษาไทย @ILOThai

Skills

The road to entrepreneurship

Than Wai Aung, a Myanmar migrant worker in Thailand, turned himself from a construction worker into a mushroom entrepreneur with the help of the ILO's C-BED business skills training.

ASEAN report launch

Launch of new study on labour market effects of AEC 2015

A new study on how labour markets will be affected by deeper ASEAN integration will be launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), in Jakarta, on Wednesday 20 August.

ILO Meeting to discuss ways to improve skills development in Asia-Pacific

An International Labour Organization (ILO) meeting is expected to roll out new action plans to improve skills development in Asia and the Pacific.

Migrant workers

Saphan Siang Youth Ambassadors: Engaging youth to change public attitudes towards migrant workers

Migrant workers often suffer from discrimination and biased public attitudes in Thailand. An ILO-supported programme aims to change the situation by engaging a group of university students with the migrant workers. Better understanding and mutual...

WDACL 2014: ILO-IPEC Shrimp Project in Thailand hosted a group of Thai youth for discussion and study tour on engaging the youth and the...

On the World Day Against Child Labour, 24 Thai children, youth and instructors from several high-schools, academies and universities such as the Zoo Crew dance group and the SuperStar Academy visited the ILO-IPEC Shrimp Project team to discuss child...

WDACL 2014: ILO-IPEC Thailand partners join the global campaign against child labour

All children in Thailand, including those that are migrants, should enjoy their right to education. This is one of the key tenets of the ILO-IPEC’s work in Thailand. The ILO-IPEC partners are joining the ILO’s global campaign against child labour...