ILO lifts
restrictions on Myanmar The International Labour
Organization has lifted its restrictions on the full participation of
Myanmar in its activities and decided to review the progress on the
elimination of forced labour in the country next year.
News item | 13 June 2012
GENEVA (ILO News) – The decision,
taken by the International Labour Conference during its
annual meeting in Geneva, comes a day before Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the
Chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Member of
Parliament in Myanmar, addresses the Conference’s plenary on Thursday 14
June.
Since 1999, by a decision of the Conference,
Myanmar has not received technical cooperation from the ILO except for
the purpose of combating forced labour. Myanmar has not been invited to
ILO meetings or activities on various labour matters.
The restrictions were put in place as a follow-up
to a Commission of Inquiry which concluded in 1998 that the use of
forced labour was widespread in the country. A number of recommendations
were made for changes in legislation and practice.
In 2000, the Conference found that Myanmar was not
implementing these recommendations. It then enacted a number of
measures, including a request to ILO Member States to review their
relations with Myanmar to ensure that their actions could not be used to
perpetuate the use of forced labour. Most of these measures have now
also been suspended.
The Conference requested that urgent attention be
given to technical cooperation priorities in Myanmar. Priorities already
established are the effective and full realization of freedom of
association as well as the elimination of forced labour. The Government
of Myanmar and the ILO have agreed on a joint strategy for eliminating
forced labour.
The Government acknowledges the need for immediate
action on this strategy with a view of implementing it before the
declared target date of 2015.
Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 06:30
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