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Title: Forced Labour in Myanmar (Burma)
Description: "Report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed under article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)"...Full Text (about 400 pages) The central ILO report on forced labour in Burma. Appendix III contains 246 interviews, largely with people from non-Burman ethnic groups - Chin, Rohingya, Arakanese, Karen, Karenni, Shan, Pa-O, Mon. The interviews cover forced labour, but also many other violations of human rights such as killings (executions), rape, torture, looting, forced relocation (forced displacement) violence against women, violence against children, looting. ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced
Source/publisher: International Labour Office
Date of publication: 1998-07-02
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Report of the ILO Commission of Inquiry: customised version highlighting forced relocation and land confiscation.
Description: Extracts on forced relocation and confiscation of land from the report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed under article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29). Though its main focus was forced labour, the Commission of Inquiry also reported other violations of human rights. This series of customised versions of the report takes a number of these themes. The present document highlights references to forced relocation and confiscation of land. ... ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced
Source/publisher: ILO Commission of Inquiry (extracts)
Date of publication: 1998-07-02
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Report of the ILO Commission of Inquiry: customised version highlighting torture and ill-treatment
Description: Full text of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed under article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29). Sections referring to torture or ill-treatment are highlighted.
Source/publisher: International Labour Office via BPF
Date of publication: 1998-07-02
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Report of the ILO Commission of Inquiry: customised version highlighting violence against children
Description: Extracts on children from the Report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed under article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
Source/publisher: ILO Commission of Inquiry
Date of publication: 1998-07-02
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Report of the ILO Commission of Inquiry: customised version highlighting violence against the Rohingyas
Description: Extracts on the Rohingyas from the report of the ILO Commission of Inquiry into forced labour in Myanmar (Burma). ".... the situation in the northern part of Rakhine State appears to be more severe in all respects than that prevailing in most other parts of the country. Most of the witnesses questioned on this subject, who were members of the Rohingya ethnic group, and who had left the country very recently, claimed to have been subjected to systematic discrimination by the authorities..." (ILO Report, para 435). The 1998 ILO Inquiry into forced labour in Burma covers a wide range of human rights violations in addition to forced labour. The Commission of Inquiry, which is the most senior body to have examined human rights in Burma, reported that the Rohingyas suffer a higher level of discrimination than other groups in the country.
Source/publisher: ILO (customised by BPF)
Date of publication: 1998-07-02
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Report of the ILO Commission of Inquiry: customised version highlighting violence against women
Description: Extracts from the report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed under article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
Source/publisher: ILO Commission of Inquiry
Date of publication: 1998-07-02
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Trabajo forzoso en Myanmar (Birmania)
Description: "Informe de la Comisi?n de Encuesta instituida en virtud del art?culo 26 de la Constituci?n de la Organizaci?n Internacional del Trabajo para examinar la observancia por Myanmar del Convenio sobre el trabajo forzoso, 1930 (n?m. 29)" El documento principal sobre el trabajo forzoso en Birmania.
Source/publisher: Oficina Internacional del Trabajo
Date of publication: 1998-07-02
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Travail forc? au Myanmar (Birmanie)
Description: "Rapport de la commission d'enqu?te institu?e en vertu de l'article 26 de la Constitution de l'Organisation internationale du Travail pour examiner le respect par le Myanmar de la convention no 29 sur le travail forc?, 1930." Le document principal du OIT sur le travail forc? en birmanie.
Source/publisher: Bureau Internationale du Travail
Date of publication: 1998-07-02
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: Francais
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