Publications

2023

  1. TRIANGLE in ASEAN Quarterly Briefing Notes

    10 November 2023

    TRIANGLE in ASEAN works with labour ministries, workers' and employers' organizations, recruitment agency associations, civil society organizations in six countries in ASEAN; Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Below Quarterly Briefing Notes give an update on our work during the previous quarter.

  2. Talking to service providers about domestic work

    26 September 2023

    This guide, developed in conjunction with the ASEAN Trade Union Council, equips advocates and champions to answer the questions often heard when talking to service providers about improving their services for domestic workers. It also gives the facts to back up these arguments.

  3. Talking to trade unions/ affiliates/ members about domestic work

    26 September 2023

    This guide, developed in conjunction with the ASEAN Trade Union Council, equips advocates and champions to answer the questions often heard when talking to trade unions and trade union members about organizing more domestic workers and working alongside domestic workers’ unions. It also gives the facts to back up these arguments.

  4. 100 years of social protection: The road to universal social protection systems and floors

    15 September 2023

    Volume 2: 52 country cases

  5. SCREAM: စိုက်ပျိုးမွေးမြူရေးလုပ်ငန်းတွင် ကလေးအလုပ်သမားခိုင်းစေခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ အထူးသီးသန့်မော်ဂျူး

    12 September 2023

    ဤထုတ်ဝေမှုသည် SCREAM ပညာရေးဆိုင်ရာ ထုတ်ပိုးထားသည့် ထပ်မံဖြည့်စွက်ထားသော မော်ဂျူးတစ်ခု ဖြစ်သည်။

  6. SCREAM: ကလေးအလုပ်သမားနှင့် လက်နက်ကိုင် ပဋိပက္ခဆိုင်ရာ အထူးသီးသန့် မော်ဂျူး

    12 September 2023

    ဤ SCREAM အထူးသီးသန့်မော်ဂျူးသည် ကမ္ဘာတစ်ဝှမ်းရှိ လူငယ်များအား ကလေးအလုပ်သမားနှင့် လက်နက်ကိုင်ပဋိပက္ခများအကြောင်းဆိုင်ရာ အထူးသဖြင့် ကလေးများကို လက်နက်ကိုင်တပ်ဖွဲ့များနှင့် အခြားလက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့များတွင် အသုံးပြုခြင်းသည် ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေးများ အား ဆိုးရွားစွာချိုးဖောက်မှုတစ်ခုဖြစ်သည်ကို သိရှိခံစားစေရန် အထောက်အကူဖြစ်စေမည်ဖြစ်သည်။

  7. The ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour: A review of the implementation of Recommendations (3rd to 14th Forums)

    06 September 2023

    This report is the sixth in a series of progress review background papers, biennially prepared by the ILO’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme, that track the progress of ASEAN stakeholders in implementing recommendations adopted at previous AFMLs.

  8. Who pays the price of unemployment?: Employment termination and income security in Myanmar

    11 August 2023

    Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 military takeover and surging global commodity prices have significantly impacted the lives of the people of Myanmar. One such impact is employment; despite a slight recovery in the first half of 2022, unemployment and underemployment in Myanmar are reportedly still worse than they were before the pandemic started in 2020.

  9. Survey on employment termination and income security in Myanmar

    11 August 2023

    This Brief is the survey on employment termination and income security in Myanmar.

  10. Resumption of labour migration and regional cooperation

    27 July 2023

    Thematic background paper for the 15th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

  11. Myanmar: Labour market update 2023

    27 July 2023

    This Brief is the labour market update of the year 2023 in Myanmar.

  12. ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီးနှင့် ကရင်ပြည်နယ်ရှိ ကလေးအလုပ်သမား အခြေအနေများနှင့် ပတ်သက်၍ အကဲဖြတ် လေ့လာခြင်း - အနှစ်ချုပ်ဖော်ပြချက်

    30 June 2023

    ၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်တွင် ကျရောက်သော ကမ္ဘာ့ကလေး အလုပ်သမားဆန့်ကျင်တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးနေ့ (WDACL) အထိမ်းအမှတ်အဖြစ် ထုတ်ဝေသော ဤအကဲဖြတ်လေ့လာမှု အစီရင်ခံစာသည် ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီးနှင့် ကရင်ပြည်နယ်တို့ရှိ ကလေးအလုပ်သမား အခြေအနေများကို ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။ အဆိုပါဒေသများရှိ ထိခိုက်လွယ်သည့် လူငယ်များအတွက် လုပ်သားဈေးကွက်နှင့် သင်တန်း အခွင့်အလမ်းများအပါအဝင်၊ ကလေးသူငယ် ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်ရေးနှင့် အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကျောင်းဆိုင်ရာ သင်တန်း အခွင့်အလမ်းများကိုလည်း ကလေးအလုပ်သမား အမှုကိစ္စ လွှဲပြောင်းခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ ယန္တရား တည်ထောင်နိုင်ရန်အတွက် အခြေခံအနေဖြင့် ဖော်ထုတ်ပေးထားပါသည်။

  13. Assessment of child labour in the Yangon Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Kayin State: Executive summary

    30 June 2023

    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.

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

    30 June 2023

    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.

  15. Policy review on social security for domestic workers in Thailand

    28 April 2023

    This policy review focuses on the legal framework around domestic work and barriers, profile of domestic work in Thailand, challenges for domestic workers to access social protection and possible means to address them, and the ILO’s recommendations for immediate actions and strategic options to extend the Social Security Section 33 to domestic workers in Thailand.

  16. Protection in Practice: Challenges and perceptions of domestic workers accessing social protection in Thailand

    25 April 2023

  17. 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.

  18. 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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.