Publications
2023
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Policy review on social security for domestic workers in Thailand
28 April 2023
In contemporary society, care work at home is vital for the economy outside the household to function. Domestic work, nonetheless, is undervalued and poorly regulated, and many domestic workers remain overworked, underpaid, and unprotected. Notions of family and “non-productive” work divert attention from the existence of an employment relationship. This renders domestic workers vulnerable to unequal treatment and means they are usually excluded from employment-based social protection mechanisms. Thus, a crucial component of achieving decent work for domestic workers lies in the recognition that domestic workers are workers, whether they work in a family, are placed in a private household by an agency or are employed in a public or private institution.
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Protection in Practice: Challenges and perceptions of domestic workers accessing social protection in Thailand
25 April 2023
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World Employment and Social Outlook 2023: The value of essential work
15 March 2023
Key workers are essential for societies to function. The new edition of the ILO flagship report calls for a revaluation of their work to reflect their social contribution, and for greater investment in key sectors.
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Regional operational guidelines on fair and ethical recruitment in ASEAN. Improving regulation and enforcement: A resource for regulators
09 March 2023
The regional operational guidelines provide guidance to government regulators on fair recruitment practices, licensing private recruitment agencies, monitoring recruitment processes, and acting on complaints related to the recruitment process. Developed within the framework of the ILO general principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment, these regional operational guidelines are relevant to both countries of origin and destination.
2022
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Lessons learned: Building migrant women’s groups and networks
16 December 2022
The Lessons Learned outlined in this paper draw attention to reflections and good practices from the experiences of building of migrant women’s groups and networks in both countries of origin and destination.
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Achieving fair and ethical recruitment: Improving regulation and enforcement in the ASEAN region
15 December 2022
This report focuses on the efforts of ASEAN Member States to foster fair and ethical recruitment. It maps the laws and regulations, and moreover, the enforcement mechanisms States have employed, and reviews evidence of the results achieved.
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ASEAN: The Employment - Environment - Climate Nexus: Employment and environmental sustainability factsheet
30 November 2022
The Employment-Environment-Climate Nexus Factsheets are a series produced for countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This Factsheet provides key features of labour market and environmental sustainability performance in ASEAN, as well as vulnerability to climate change and sectors with green jobs potential.
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Myanmar: The Employment - Environment - Climate Nexus: Employment and environmental sustainability factsheet
30 November 2022
The Employment-Environment-Climate Nexus Factsheets are a series produced for countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This Factsheet provides key features of labour market and environmental sustainability performance in Myanmar, as well as vulnerability to climate change and sectors with green jobs potential.
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Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work (Summary)
28 November 2022
Labour markets are recovering from the COVID-19 crisis in Asia and the Pacific, but now face new challenges like inflation and geopolitical tensions. The report gives the regional labour market context and makes a first-time assessment of regional sectoral estimates to highlight which sectors are growing as sources of jobs, which are shrinking and which harbour opportunities for “decent work”.
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Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work
28 November 2022
Labour markets are recovering from the COVID-19 crisis in Asia and the Pacific, but now face new challenges like inflation and geopolitical tensions. The report gives the regional labour market context and makes a first-time assessment of regional sectoral estimates to highlight which sectors are growing as sources of jobs, which are shrinking and which harbour opportunities for “decent work”.
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လှိုင်းထန်သောပင်လယ်: အရှေ့တောင်အာရှနိုင်ငံများမှ ငါးဖမ်းလုပ်သမားများအပေါ် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ကပ်ဘေး၏ သက်ရောက်မှု။
01 November 2022
အစီရင်ခံစာသည် အာရှ နှင့် ပစိဖိတ်ဒေသရှိ ငါးဖမ်းကဏ္ဍမှ အလုပ်သမားများအပေါ် ကပ်ဘေး၏သက်ရောက်မှု၊ အထူးသဖြင့် ရွှေ့ပြောင်းငါးဖမ်းသမားများအပေါ် ကပ်ဘေး၏ သက်ရောက်မှုကို အလေးပေး ဆန်းစစ်ထားပါသည်။
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A very beautiful but heavy jacket: The experiences of migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression in South-East Asia
01 September 2022
The study reveals migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE) in South-East Asia benefit from labour migration, yet experience discrimination.
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The experiences of migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression in ASEAN
30 August 2022
This brief draws from the findings of research titled "A very beautiful but heavy jacket: The experiences of migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression in South-East Asia", which aims to fill the gap in knowledge about the experiences and motivations of migrant workers with diverse SOGIE in South-East Asia.
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World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Regional companion report for Asia and the Pacific
30 August 2022
This regional companion report is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020–22. It includes a section summarizing the status of social protection worldwide, followed by a section highlighting key social protection developments, challenges and priorities for this region from a life-cycle perspective.
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Riding out the storm: Organizational resilience of trade unions and civil society organizations following the military takeover in Myanmar
24 August 2022
This research brief assesses the impact of the military's seizure of power on trade unions and civil society organizations and makes recommendations to the international community for providing them with effective support.
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၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ပထမနှစ်ဝက်ကာလ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ အလုပ်အကိုင် အခြေအနေ - အလျင်အမြန် အကဲဖြတ်ခြင်း
03 August 2022
အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ အလုပ်သမားရေးရာအဖွဲ့ (ILO) က ထုတ်ပြန်သည့် ခန့်မှန်းချက် အသစ်များအရ၊ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော် ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့၊ စစ်တပ်က အာဏာ လွှဲပြောင်းယူပြီးနောက် ၁၈လ ကြာကာလ နှင့် ကမ္ဘာ့ကပ်ရောဂါ ဖြစ်ပွားမှု ၂ နှစ်ခွဲကြာကာလတွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် အလုပ်အကိုင် ဆုံးရှုံးမှုများနှင့် အလွန်အမင်း ကြုံတွေ့နေရလျက် ရှိပါသည်။
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ကမ္ဘာ့ကလေးအလုပ်သမားဆန့်ကျင်တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးနေ့ ၁၂ ဇွန် ၂၀၂၂ အထိမ်းအမှတ် ဆေးရောင်ခြယ်စာအုပ်
01 August 2022
ကလေးဖြစ်ရခြင်းဟူသည် အဘယ်နည်း။ ILO မြန်မာရဲ့ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် ကမ္ဘာ့ ကလေးအလုပ်သမား ဆန့်ကျင် တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးနေ့ အထိမ်းအမှတ် ဆေးရောင်ခြယ် စာအုပ်တွင် ကလေးများသည် ကလေး အလုပ်သမားဖြစ်ခြင်းမှ ကင်းကွာခြင်းအားဖြင့် ပျော်ရွှင် ကျန်းမာသော ကလေးဘဝတွေက ဘယ်လိုမျိုးလဲ ဆိုတာကို စူးစမ်း လေ့လာနိုင်ပါသည်။
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World Day Against Child Labour 12 June 2022 Commemoration coloring book
01 August 2022
What does it mean to be a child? Explore what a happy and healthy childhood can look like when children are free from child labour in the ILO Myanmar’s Coloring Book commemorating World Day against Child Labour 2022.
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Employment in Myanmar in the first half of 2022
01 August 2022
Myanmar remains deeply affected by heavy job losses 18 months after the military takeover on 1 February 2021 and two and a half years into the global pandemic, according to new estimates released by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Employment, wages and productivity in the Asian garment sector: Taking stock of recent trends
24 June 2022
The report takes stock of employment, wages and productivity in the Asian garment sector by exploring data and policy insights to highlight trends, patterns and ways forward for a better future of work. By utilising updated data insights, the report outlines persisting decent work deficits as the garment sector evolves, and the prioritised support needed to overcome such challenges.