BANGKOK, Thailand -- Myanmar's government is jeopardizing the future of an entire generation, with children being denied educational opportunities and basic health care, an international labor ...

Child labor is not a minor social blight in the country, it's a pillar of the economy — and it looks a lot like child labor in the U.S. circa the Industrial Revolution. As Myanmar opens to the ...

Min Thu, 17, a runaway boy soldier of Myanmar army, points at a tree that he used to spend days hiding fearing arrest after running away from the army, in Chaung Tha, Irawaddy, Burma, Nov. 3, 2013.

The Myanmar military’s recruitment and use of child soldiers has surged since the 2021 coup, including a significant number recruited after the junta enacted a conscription law in February 2024.

Child labor remains widespread in Myanmar as the country tries to rebuild its economy after five decades of military misrule. More than one-third of Myanmar’s children between the ages of 7 to ...

Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In the tormented nation of Myanmar, torn by a civil conflict for more than three years, there is an explosion of the phenomenon of child labor, as observed by observers from ...

The report said several factories in Myanmar had unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, paid low wages or enforced long working hours, as well as employed workers below the legal working age ...

In Myanmar, child labor is endemic in almost every sector that requires unskilled labor. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has compiled a list of jobs notoriously filled by kids.

Apax Partners, one of Europe’s largest private-equity firms, is facing questions from its investors after a company it owns, German retailer Takko Holding GmbH, was found to have used a garment ...