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    Tagged: child labour

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    Too young to toil: Burma’s child labour epidemic

    The government has taken the first step to address the rampant problem of child labour throughout the country by drafting a five-year National Action Plan to eliminate child labour.

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    Court holds hearing in Ava Tailor abuse case

    The Western Rangoon District Court holds a hearing in the high-profile case of a family accused of severely abusing two young girls who worked at their tailor shop in downtown Rangoon.

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    Lack of rights leaves housemaids open to abuses

    Thousands of girls from poor families across Burma work as maids for wealthier households, and often face gruelling working hours and abuse.

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    Survey finds child labour in supply chains

    Child labour continues to be a serious problem affecting supply chains for goods sourced from Burma and other Asian countries, a new survey finds.

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    Children labour under Burma’s economic boom

    When a boat stacked with gravel moors at a jetty in Rangoon, a child fills a basket he carries to trucks that whisk the load to construction sites.

    Migrant children left out of new democracy video

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    Migrant children left out of new democracy

    “The kids are getting older and they won’t be able to return to Burma until their parents make some money. So they just grow older and older.”

    To the end of the world Pt 1: Burma’s child labourers video

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    To the end of the world Pt 1: Burma’s child labourers

    In this first episode of a new investigative documentary series: To the end of the world, DVB delves into the lives of some of the thousands of Burma’s working children.

    Interview: DVB speaks to Steve Marshall, ILO video

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    Interview: DVB speaks to Steve Marshall, ILO

    DVB sat down with ILO country liaison officer Steve Marshall to discuss how five years of political and economic reforms have touched Burma’s working class.

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    Thailand tries to clean up its fishing act

    Thai authorities are issuing labour ID cards to migrant workers within its fishing industry to combat rampant human trafficking in the trade.

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    British activist’s defamation trial begins in Bangkok

    A potentially precedent-setting trial began on Tuesday in Bangkok, as British activist Andy Hall faced the first of four libel charges against him for his research about a Thai company’s alleged abuse of migrant labourers, the majority of whom are Burmese

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    Education would help stop child labour, say experts

    A compulsory middle school education for all children in Burma would help to eradicate child labour in the country, several educational experts have said.

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    Bullet Points: 22 August 2014

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    Telenor discovers child labourers on its sites

    With a roll-out across Burma of mobile phones, Internet packages and other telecommunications devices scheduled for next month, Telenor announced on Thursday that it has discovered cases of underage labour in its supply chain.

    Ratifying ILO convention should be child’s play video

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    Ratifying ILO convention should be child’s play

    Burma’s parliament has announced it will ratify the International Labour Organization’s Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour on 18 December, exactly one year after signing.

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    Child labour sullies reforms

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    Global recession ‘fuelling’ child labour

    International Labour Organisation sends out ominous warning with implications for Burma which has never signed the UN child labour convention

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