Child Labour resources

June 2023

  1. Children paying a high price for engaging in work in Myanmar

    Survey reveals poverty a main driver of child labour in Yangon Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Kayin State with dangerous work and long hours common.

  2. Assessment of child labour in the Yangon Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Kayin State

    This assessment report, launched to mark the World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2023, provides an in-depth picture of child labour in the Yangon Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Kayin State in Myanmar. It also maps current child protection and vocational educational services in these regions, as a basis for developing referral mechanisms, including labour market and training opportunities for vulnerable youth. Additionally, it provides recommendations for appropriate awareness raising, advocacy and overarching key policy interventions to be pursued, when the situation allows.

  3. Message at the Training of Trainers on Child Labour “Capacity building of BARMM Ministries, Law Enforcement Agencies, Workers’ and Employers’ Organizations and Stakeholders to Promote Compliance and Enforcement of Child Labour Laws”

    By First Secretary Kanno Chihiro of the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines at the Training of Trainers on Child Labour “Capacity building of BARMM Ministries, Law Enforcement Agencies, Workers’ and Employers’ Organizations and Stakeholders to Promote Compliance and Enforcement of Child Labour Laws”, 20 June 2023, Koronadal City, Philippines

  4. Marines, PDEA join BARMM anti-child labor bloc

  5. Groups unite to end child labor

  6. LGUs support BARMM, UN anti-child labor campaign

  7. Concept Note: Training of Trainers (ToT) on Child Labour organized by ILO and MOLE

  8. Training of Trainers (ToT) on Child Labour organized by ILO and MOLE

    With funding support from Japan, International Labour Organization (ILO) partnered with the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MOLE) and the Integrated Resource Development for Tri-People (IRDT) in the implementation of capacity building of Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) ministries, law enforcement agencies, worker's and employer's organizations, and stakeholders to promote compliance and enforcement of child labour laws.

  9. Timor-Leste develops various programmes to reach a future without child labour

    In conjunction with the commemoration of the World Day Against Child Labour (WDCAL), the Government of Timor-Leste, with support from the ILO and UNICEF, take actions to eradicate child labour in the country.

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    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.