Freedom of Association (violations)
See also All Labour Rights in this section
Websites/Multiple Documents
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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Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Freedom of Association (violations), CEACR: Observations concerning Convention No. 87, Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948 - Myanmar (English)
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English
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Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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Freedom of Association (violations)
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English
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Individual Documents
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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
Category:
All Labour Rights (violations), ILO reports on forced labour in Burma, Freedom of Association (violations)
Language:
English and Spanish
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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
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Individual Documents
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Freedom of Association (violations)
Language:
English
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"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
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Individual Documents
Category:
Freedom of Association (violations)
Language:
English
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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
Category:
Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, violations of, Freedom of Association (violations)
Language:
English
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