International Labor Organization Votes to Take Action Against Myanmar Junta

The International Labor Organization (ILO) says it will take action against Myanmar’s regime for severe labor, human rights violations and forced conscription.

The civilian National Unity Government (NUG) says the junta had breached the ILO convention on freedom of association, the right to organize and prohibitions on forced labor.

The NUG said the action was the result of advocacy by labor rights activists from its workers’, employers and labour ministry delegation, who had lobbied the ILO.