Migrant Worker Resource Centres: Supporting justice and fair treatment

Max Tunon, Senior Programme Officer

Max Tunon, Senior Programme Officer / Coordinator of the GMS TRIANGLE project (Tripartite Action to Protect Migrant Workers within and from the Greater Mekong Subregion from Labour Exploitation

Imagine that you had a family to feed and moving abroad was your only option to earn a decent wage — but you didn’t know where or how to find work overseas. Or imagine that your daughter works abroad but that you haven’t had any word from her for months and months.

Or ask yourself what you’d do if you were injured at work a long way from home, with a hospital bill you couldn’t afford and an employer who refused to pay you as much as you’d agreed.

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Change in the wind

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Communications

These days, they do it with a smile and wait patiently for you to finish your dinner.   Well, at least the two young officers of Myanmar’s Special Police branch in Mawlamyinegyun did. They accosted us at the modest restaurant on the banks of the Irrawaddy within an hour of our arrival in the small, dusty town.  They wanted to see our passports and write down our names, employer’s name and, most importantly, what we were doing in town. This, despite having been informed in advance of our visit to the ILO’s cyclone recovery infrastructure project.  Continue reading

A view from Yangon

Steve Marshall

By Steve Marshall, ILO’s liaison officer in Yangon, Myanmar

A view from Yangon: ILO’s liaison officer Steve Marshall talks about the changes he is witnessing in Myanmar

Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. © A.Lwin Digital

Watch and Listen: Reform process in Myanmar is irreversible, says ILO expert