Freedom of Association (violations)

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Title: CEACR: Individual Observations concerning ILO Convention No. 87, Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948 - Myanmar (ratification: 1955)
Description: From 1989...This page presents the Comments from 1989.
Source/publisher: International Labour Office
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Title: US Department of Labor
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Myanmar military junta arrests prominent trade union leader
Topic: Global development, Rights and freedom
Sub-title: Daw Myo Aye, labour organiser and a leader of civil disobedience protests, dragged from office by army
Topic: Global development, Rights and freedom
Description: "One of Myanmar’s leading trade union leaders has been arrested as part of escalating attacks on pro-democracy figures by the military junta. Daw Myo Aye, director of Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar (STUM), one of Myanmar’s largest independent unions, is a central figure in the movement for workers’ rights. She has been one of the most prominent union leaders in the civil disobedience movement, which has been organising national strikes and protests since the military seized power from the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February. Myo Aye was dragged from her office by the army last Thursday and taken to a police station where she has been charged and detained. According to the union, she is due to be transferred to a prison in Yangon. “We lost our pillar,” said a member of staff at STUM. “But … we are going to operate with the remaining staff. We operate within the law and we provide assistance to workers in accordance with the labour law. Our organisation will not collapse because she is not here.” Thousands of people have been arrested and hundreds killed since protests against the military junta began. According to the latest figures from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), 737 people have been killed by the military, and 3,229 individuals are detained or have been sentenced. Chue Thwel, Daw Myo Aye’s daughter, said: “Since the beginning of the coup on 1 February, I thought they would come for her … I feel they arrested her to set an example.” A spokesperson for the Worker Rights Consortium, a labour rights monitoring organisation, said: “With many labour leaders already in hiding or exile, the military’s arrest of Daw Myo Aye poses a serious challenge to the vital role of the Myanmar labour movement in the struggle to restore democracy.”..."
Source/publisher: "The Guardian" (UK)
Date of publication: 2021-04-19
Date of entry/update: 2021-04-19
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Title: Forced Labour and Freedom of Association in Burma
Description: in "Amnesty International?s Concerns at the 89th International Labour Conference 5-21 June 2001, Geneva"
Source/publisher: Amnesty International
Date of publication: 2001-05-01
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English and Spanish
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Title: 1998 Report on Labor Practices in Burma (Chapter 3) Freedom of Association and the Right to Organise and Bargain Collectively
Description: Freedom of Association and the Right to Organise and Bargain Collectively. "Burma ratified Convention 87 in 1955, and is bound as an ILO member to apply the principles of freedom of association. Burmese laws in place which should protect these rights are inconsistent with international standards, and are ignored in practice. There are no independent labor unions, and there is no right to collective bargaining. Workers who try to form or join unions in Burma are liable to be arrested and jailed, and may be tortured. Burmese seafarers who contact international unions over their working conditions are harassed and punished, including by having their right to work at sea and their passports revoked. Largely because there are no independent unions in Burma, there is no collective bargaining in the country. Military and civilian authorities intervened during a recent case of labor unrest in the apparel sector, the largest source of imports to the United States from Burma..."
Source/publisher: U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of International Labor Affairs
Date of publication: 1998-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: 2000 Report on Labor Practices in Burma: Update on Freedom of Association and the Right to Bargain Collectively
Description: "For over 40 years, the ILO has criticized the lack of freedom of association and collective bargaining in Burma. The United Nations, international trade unions, and other organizations have also continued to note failure on the part of the GOB to grant the people of Burma basic worker?s rights. These failures include the continued non-recognition of independent trade unions by the Government (there are no independent trade unions operating openly in Burma), lack of legal status and protection for worker organizations, lack of collective bargaining mechanisms, and harassment and imprisonment of individuals suspected of worker?s rights activities by government and military authorities..."
Source/publisher: US Dept. of Labor
Date of publication: 2000-02-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
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Title: Burma Human Rights Yearbook 2000: Freedom of Assembly and Association
Description: "There has been a notable absence of the freedoms of assembly and association during the time of military rule in Burma, especially since the 1988 coup and formation of the SLORC. Under the SPDC these freedoms have been further restricted. The International Labor Organization (ILO) Committee of Experts has criticized the lack of freedom of association in Burma for over 40 years. This was brought to the forefront in 2000, during the time of the ILO?s investigation into the forced labor situation of Burma, when the ILO Conference Committee on the Application of Standards again denounced Burma?s violation of Convention No. 87, which deals with the freedom of association. Labor unions, student unions and private civic associations are banned. No elections are scheduled; none seem likely..."
Source/publisher: Human Rights Documentation Unit, NCGUB
Date of publication: 2001-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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