Myanmar sets out priorities for child labour eradication

03 October 2019
Myanmar sets out priorities for child labour eradication
Myanmar child labourers working at a construction site in Taunggo city, Myanmar. Photo: EPA

Myanmar has designated five priority project areas to implement child labour eradication programs, according to a decision revealed by the Working Committee for Legal Affairs of Child Labour Eradication here on Wednesday.

The five priority project areas are scattered in Yangon, Bago and Ayeyarwady regions and Kayin and Mon states.

Myanmar government has called for cooperation to eradicate child labour and implement it as a national duty, saying that the project involves everybody.