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Migrant workers
ILO welcomes ASEAN steps to support migrant workers and prevent child labour
ASEAN leaders have agreed on important declarations regarding skills mobility for migrant workers and the prevention of child labour, and have also issued guidelines on the portability of social security benefits for migrant workers as well as the...
Myanmar
Working hard. Spending less!
Her dream is simple yet powerful: to send one of her five siblings to school. To make this happen, she needs to save for a bike because the school is far away.
Myanmar
The village entrepreneur
Si Thu Phyo, a 17-year-old from War Taw Kone village, quit school when he was 12 years old following his parents' divorce. Raised alongside his three siblings by their grandfather, financial struggles soon forced him into dangerous fishing work, but...
Myanmar
Smiling towards a brighter future
Chit Yin Htoo, a 14-year-old, had to leave school to work due to his father's illness and his family's debt, earning just 3,000 Kyat (US$1.4) for long hours of labour. His parents attended awareness sessions on child labour supported by the ILO and...
Myanmar
My childhood dream
Mi Eizali Myat Mon Oo, a teenage girl from a migrant household in Myanmar, had a passion for sewing since childhood but had to leave school in grade 10 due to financial strain. She successfully completed a three-month sewing course supported by the...
Myanmar
Urgent action needed to protect children from child labour amid rising security concerns
On World Day Against Child Labour ILO calls for all children in Myanmar to be protected and allowed to meet their full potential.
World Day Against Child Labour 2023
ILO Myanmar calls for concerted actions to promote social justice in the fight against child labour
Urgent action needed to help the more than one million children trapped in child labour in Myanmar due to poverty and crises.
World Day Against Child Labour 2022
ILO Myanmar calls for more action to end child labour
This World Day Against Child Labour on June 12, taking place shortly after the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, ILO Myanmar calls to accelerate multi-stakeholder efforts to prevent and eliminate child labour, with priority...
ILO to launch Myanmar eLearning Programme on Child Labour to bolster social protection and community action
ILO (Myanmar) launches eLearning Programme on child labour.
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
World Day Against Child Labour
“I just want to go to school”: New Myanmar photo exhibitions offer powerful insights into the lives of children trapped in child labour
A six-year-old who begs at a Pagoda to buy medicine for her sick mother, so desperate to return to school that she often still wears her old school uniform. A fisherman who has worked on Or Khom lake since he was five years old. A girl who burns...
World Day Against Child Labour
Confederation of Trade Unions Myanmar issue a statement on World Day Against Child Labour (2020)
World Day Against Child Labour presents us with an important opportunity to stand united in the fight to end child labour. This year WDACL is drawing particular attention to the need to eliminate child labour and the impact of the Covid-19 health...
World Day Against Child Labour
Myanmar Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population issue a statement on World Day against Child Labour, 2020
As the saying ‘The youth of today are the future of tomorrow’, in the future, the duty to safeguard the sovereignty and to work for the development of the State will be delegated to youths of today. Youths grow up from infants and become adults and...
World Day Against Child Labour
Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) issue a statement on World Day Against Child Labour (2020)
Our world today has changed significantly with many uncertainties. Especially in times like this, we must remain committed to creating a better tomorrow for our children, the future of our planet. We must nurture them, and invest in them, so that...
World Day Against Child Labour
Myanmar signs up to key international convention on minimum working age ahead of the World Day Against Child Labour
Amid COVID-19 crisis, ILO and UNICEF call to ‘Protect Children, Now More than Ever’
A year of partnership and action on child labour has begun
On 21 January 2021 the International Labour Organization (ILO) joined activists and UN, regional and national partners from around the globe to launch the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.