All publications: Myanmar

DIILM Updates

Internal Labour Migration Governance

DIILM Update No. 4, January 2021

Labour migration

Media-friendly glossary on migration: Women migrant workers and ending violence against women (EVAW) edition

This glossary serves as a guide for journalists, researchers, practitioners and others who conduct trainings or write about women’s labour migration and violence against women.

Women's groups

For women, by women: Guidance and activities for building women migrant workers’ networks

This guidance draws on lessons learned over years of supporting women’s groups. It outlines how migrant women’s groups can be catalysed; what expectations service providers, donors and the development community should have for network building; and...

Making women migrant workers count: Sex disaggregation of labour migration statistics in ASEAN (2019 data)

The International Labour Migration Statistics (ILMS) Database in ASEAN has been published annually since December 2014. In validating, annotating and gathering information from relevant surveys and administrative records produced in ASEAN, ILMS...

Mobile women and mobile phones: Women migrant workers’ use of information and communication technologies in ASEAN

The joint ILO-UN Women Safe and Fair Programme: Realizing women migrant workers’ rights and opportunities in the ASEAN region (part of the multi-year EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls) undertook a qualitative...

Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No.189) and Domestic Workers Recommendation, 2011 (No.201)

The Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No.189) recognizes the special conditions under which domestic work is carried out and provides provisions concerning decent work for domestic workers. The Domestic Workers Recommendation, 2011 (No.201)...

Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (No.131)

The Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (No.131) protects wage earners against unduly low wages, with special reference to developing countries, and provides provisions regarding minimum wage fixing machinery and related challenges. (Both in...

Extending the scope of social security to internal migrants in the informal economy: An analysis for Myanmar

Extending the scope of social security to internal migrants in the informal economy: an analysis for Myanmar, examines the extent of social protection coverage for workers in Myanmar, particularly internal migrant workers in the informal economy.

Assessment Study on the Skills of Returned Myanmar Migrants

The Assessment Study on the Skills of Returned Myanmar Migrants was conducted in November 2019 prior to the return of Myanmar workers due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Virtual Press Briefing on ILO Convention 138

Media coverage report

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

Media coverage report

DIILM Updates

International Labour Migration Governance

DIILM update #3 focuses on the ILO’s work with the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, and Population (MOLIP); Parliamentarians, the Myanmar Overseas Employment Agencies Federation, labour organizations and CSOs to strengthen the legislative and policy...

Brief

Gendered impacts of COVID-19 on the garment sector

This brief, co-authored by the ILO and Better Work, aims to raise awareness of the gendered reality of COVID-19 and to outline some of the ways in which the pandemic impacts women and men workers in the garment sector in the short, medium and long...

DIILM Updates

Making decent work a reality for domestic workers

DIILM Update No. 2 Domestic Workers, October 2020

Labour migration

Recommendations of the Myanmar National Tripartite Preparatory Workshop for the 13th AFML

These are the Myanmar national recommendations for the 13th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour.

DIILM Updates

DIILM’s responses to the needs of migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic

DIILM Update #1 Covid-19 Response, September 2020

What next for Asian garment production after COVID-19? The perspectives of industry stakeholders

This report summarizes findings from a qualitative study conducted with a group of industry experts to explore the implications of COVID-19 for production systems and practices in Asia. The results provide an early and tentative picture of industry...

An assessment of the social protection needs and gaps for workers in informal employment in Myanmar

This report provides analyses of policy gaps and barriers to access social protections to workers in informal employment in Myanmar. This paper also provides recommendations for policy makers to improve access to social insurance, health protection,...

Labour mobility between Asia and the Arab States: Sharing of experiences and progress under the Bali Declaration with specific focus on...

Background paper presented at the inter-regional meeting "Labour mobility between Asia and the Arab States: Sharing of experiences and progress under the Bali Declaration with specific focus on women migrant workers" held on 3-4 December 2019 in...

Brief

Bending the rules

How to use a systemic approach to improve the rules of the game