Invitation for WDACL 2019 - All - Eng

Invitation for

World Day Against Child Labour 2019

We all agree that Children should not work in danger, but on dreams. Yet today, 152 million children are still in child labour. Child labour occurs in almost all sectors in our economy, 7 out of every 10 children are working in agriculture and they deprive opportunity to go to school, they deprive opportunity to make their dream come true.

This year, the World Day Against Child Labour we will look back on progress achieved over the last two decades our joint efforts to tackling child labour and indeed forced labour in Myanmar. 2019 is also marks 20 years anniversary of the adoption of the ILO’s Convention 182 on Worst Forms of Child Labour in 1999 in the International Labour Conference. Myanmar ratified this Convention in 2013; a year after the reform process started in 2012. Ever since the ratification, Myanmar has opened the door to learn new standards of practice with a view to be able to address child labour in all its forms. It has adopted the national action plan to eradicate child labour in 2018. Though the road towards the eradication will be long, we believe Myanmar marked a good start of this effort, and as such the road will not be too winding or too lonely. Together we can achieve more.

We made it to.......

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Paraquat campaign 2018

It starts with standards for good agricultural practices (GAP). These standards are significant to AFFM members and Myanmar small farmers as they cover the agricultural production process, from inputs to the farm gate. These standards mainly apply to firms that process agricultural products to produce safety foods. Apart of that, AFFM & Food Allied Workers Federation continues to achieve OSH program for it members. This program is a definite plan of action designed to prevent accidents and occupational diseases. Here, we start campaign 2018 to REDUCE ALL KINDS OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL IN AGRICULTURE! AFFM & Food Allied Workers က ျမန္မာ့စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရးက႑စံနစ္တက် ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳး တိုးတက္ေစရန္ႏွင့္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားက်န္းမာၿပီးေဘးကင္း လံုၿခံဳသည့္ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္ျဖစ္ေစေရးဆိုင္ရာ လႈပ္ရွားမႈကို အရွိန္ျမွင့္တင္ေဆာင္ရြက္လ်က္ရွိေပသည္။ တဆက္တည္း အာမခံခ်က္ရွိသည့္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးမႈျဖစ္တည္ေရး ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ပန္းတိုင္ ျဖစ္သည့္ အလုပ္သမားစံႏ�.......

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