LabourStart - Myanmar

Shrinking civic space, rising exploitation: How global fashion brands failed Myanmar’s garment workers under military rule

Top stories


Shrinking civic space, rising exploitation: How global fashion brands failed Myanmar’s garment workers under military rule [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre] 19-12-2025


Defending democracy and teacher union rights: EI stands in solidarity [Education International] 24-11-2025


/ Asia Jakarta: Civil society and unions call for firm ASEAN action on Myanmar [BWI] 21-11-2025


Junta charges media outlet as contributor remains imprisoned [IFJ] 18-11-2025


BWI welcomes long-overdue termination of all FSC certificates in Myanmar [BWI] 30-10-2025



Other news


Garment workers face growing exploitation amid governance collapse 2025-12-21 [Textile Today]

Shrinking civic space, rising exploitation: How global fashion brands failed Myanmar’s garment workers under military rule 2025-12-19 [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

Myanmar Sindicatos instan a Bélgica a revisar las operaciones de Sioen en Myanmar 2025-12-16 [IndustriALL]

Myanmar Les syndicats prient la Belgique de se pencher sur les activités de Sioen au Myanmar 2025-12-16 [IndustriALL]

Myanmar Trade unions call on Belgium to review Sioen’s operations in Myanmar 2025-12-16 [IndustriALL]

UK Seminario web para inversores señala las crecientes problemáticas laborales en Next plc 2025-12-10 [IndustriALL]

UK Un webinaire pour les investisseurs souligne les inquiétudes croissantes concernant le travail chez Next plc 2025-12-10 [IndustriALL]

Myanmar Investor webinar highlights mounting labour concerns at Next plc 2025-12-10 [IndustriALL]

Defending democracy and teacher union rights: EI stands in solidarity 2025-11-24 [Education International]

Asia Jakarta: Civil society and unions call for firm ASEAN action on Myanmar 2025-11-21 [BWI]

Junta charges media outlet as contributor remains imprisoned 2025-11-18 [IFJ]

BWI welcomes long-overdue termination of all FSC certificates in Myanmar 2025-10-30 [BWI]

Global, regional and national unions call on ASEAN to reject sham ‘election’ 2025-10-27 [IFJ]

ASEAN must unequivocally reject Myanmar junta’s sham election during the summit 2025-10-26 [BWI]

Myanmar မြန်မာစစ်တပ်၏ အကြံအဖန်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ ၄ – စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်ကို ဖော်ဆောင်ခြင်း 2025-10-03 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

The Myanmar military's engineered elections 4: making a militocracy 2025-10-02 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

New Zealand New Zealand MPs conclude Myanmar mission, BWI stresses need to reject sham election and provide humanitarian aid 2025-09-30 [BWI]

မြန်မာစစ်တပ်၏ အကြံအဖန် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများ ၃ – (ရရှိထားပြီးသား ထိုင်ခုံများအပြင်) စစ်ဗိုလ်ချုပ်များ ပါတီဝင်ခြင်း 2025-09-29 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

The Myanmar military’s engineered elections 3: military generals join the party (in addition to guaranteed seats) 2025-09-29 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

Leaked Files Reveal China’s Role in Aiding Myanmar Junta Surveillance 2025-09-27 [HKLRM]

Rebel forces abduct journalist over civil war coverage 2025-09-25 [IFJ]

Myanmar म्यांमार की सेना द्वारा चुनाव का ढोंग 2: “विपक्षी” दलों से छेड़छाड़ For more info 2025-09-25 [IUF AP]

The Myanmar military’s engineered elections 2: manipulating 'opposition' parties 2025-09-25 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

မြန်မာစစ်တပ်၏ အကြံအဖန်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများ ၂ – “အတိုက်အခံ” ပါတီများကို ကြိုးကိုင်ခြင်း 2025-09-24 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

Myanmar In Hong Kong and Myanmar, labour resists authoritarian rule 2025-09-23 [GLC]

Myanmar म्यांमार की सेना द्वारा चुनाव का ढोंग 3: सैन्य जनरल पार्टी में शामिल हुए (गारंटीकृत सीटों के अतिरिक्त) For more info 2025-09-22 [IUF AP]

Myanmar म्यांमार की सेना द्वारा चुनाव का ढोंग 1: देश के केवल एक तिहाई हिस्से में ही होंगे चुनाव For more info 2025-09-22 [IUF AP]

The Myanmar military’s engineered elections 1: only a third of the country will hold elections 2025-09-22 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

မြန်မာစစ်တပ်၏ အကြံအဖန် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများ ၁ – တနိုင်ငံလုံး၏ ၃ ပုံ ၁ ပုံသာ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ ကျင်းပခြင်း 2025-09-19 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

Global Asia Pacific unions denounce Myanmar junta’s sham elections: Joint statement calling for boycott 2025-09-16 [UNI Global Union]

Asia Asia-Pacific Unions denounce Myanmar junta’s sham elections: Joint statement calling for boycott 2025-09-16 [BWI]

Reject Myanmar Military Junta's Sham Elections 2025-09-16 [PSI]

Global Stand with Myanmar’s people for democracy and against the military junta 2025-09-16 [IUF]

Global Unions denounce military junta elections 2025-09-16 [IFJ]

Global unions call for MNHRC’s removal from SEANF 2025-09-05 [BWI]

Global unions call for removal of junta-aligned human rights commission 2025-09-05 [IFJ]

IndustriALL reitera su llamado a las marcas a irse de Myanmar 2025-09-04 [IndustriALL]

IndustriALL renouvelle son appel aux enseignes pour qu’elles quittent le Myanmar 2025-09-04 [IndustriALL]

Thailand Independent Federation of Myanmar Seafarers Opens New Office in Bangkok 2025-08-11 [ITF]

ITUC denounces sham election planned by military junta 2025-08-06 [ITUC]

Myanmar Авторитарное братство Мьянмы и Беларуси 2025-07-23 [salidarnast.info]

Myanmar Аўтарытарнае братэрства М'янмы і Беларусі 2025-07-23 [salidarnast.info]

Myanmar The Authoritarian Brotherhood of Myanmar and Belarus 2025-07-23 [salidarnast.info]

Bergans og Active Brands fortsetter å produsere i et av verdens verste land 2025-06-28 [Fri fagbevegelse]

Un pas historique vers la justice : l'OIT adopte une résolution de l'article 33 sur le Myanmar 2025-06-09 [IndustriALL]

Un paso histórico hacia la justicia: la OIT adopta una resolución en virtud del artículo 33 sobre Myanmar 2025-06-09 [IndustriALL]

Historic step towards justice: ILO adopts Article 33 resolution on Myanmar 2025-06-09 [IndustriALL]

Global ILO Article 33 adopted, BWI calls it a victory for Myanmar 2025-06-06 [BWI]

Global Historic decision to hold junta accountable a ‘victory for justice, workers’ rights and international solidarity’ 2025-06-06 [ITUC]

[More News]

This month in labour history