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H&M factory in Burma damaged in violent labour dispute

Workers demanding better conditions and benefits have destroyed the production line of a Chinese-owned factory making clothes for Swedish fashion retailer H&M, in one of the most violent labour disputes in Burma in years.

Despite calls for reform, prisoners continue hard labour in shackles

Months after a report on abuses and corruption in prison labour camps prompted calls for reforms and investigations, little has changed.

No plan to close prison labour camps: deputy minister

Overcrowding at penitentiaries will not allow for the closure of the country’s notorious prison labour camps any time soon, Deputy Home Affairs Minister Major General Aung Soe told Lower House lawmakers at Wednesday’s parliamentary session.

Labour rights reforms and impatient unions a challenge for NLD

Burma’s growing industrial workforce is becoming increasingly unionised and assertive.

Thai chicken farm not ‘slave labour’, says rights commission

The NHRC's findings matched results from an earlier Labour Ministry and Labour Protection and Welfare Department probe.

Life with hard labour

Some 20,000 convicts toil in prison labour camps across the country, where they face abuse, exploitation and forced labour, a Myanmar Now investigation finds.

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