19 March 2024 Online

Time: 9am (GMT)
Location: Online (Zoom)

Join the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) and IHRB for a business-focussed webinar to learn about key issues facing workers from Myanmar in Thailand, to support due diligence by companies necessary to ensure protection for those workers and respect for their rights. 

Speakers will include those working with migrant workers intending to migrate, and those already in Thailand.

 

Background

With declining opportunities in Myanmar, its population is increasingly seeking to migrate for work through both regular and irregular channels. With over a third of the population in Myanmar now in need of humanitarian support, migrant remittances are essential for economic resilience. 

Many Myanmar workers are employed in Thailand in the international supply chains, including agriculture, fisheries, food, garments, construction, and hospitality. They face both the typical human rights challenges for migrant workers but also specific challenges related to the situation in Myanmar, which employers and buyers need to understand.


Register to attend

The webinar is free to attend but pre-registration is essential.

 

Topics to be covered include:

  • Myanmar context driving outward migration, including conscription

  • Current formal and informal migration routes and their costs, including compatibility with the Employer Pays Principle

  • Working conditions and challenges faced by Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand

  • Current situation concerning identity documents and passports, work permits, remittances, taxation

  • Recommendations for how companies should conduct human rights due diligence on their supply chains which employ Myanmar migrant workers 

 

Speakers: 

  • Guna Subramaniam, Asia Regional Manager, Migrant Workers Programme, Institute for Human Rights and Business

  • Vicky Bowman, Director, Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business

  • Sein Htay, Advisor, Migrant Workers Rights Network Committee

  • Hnin Wut Yee, Director, Labour Rights Foundation

  • Ohnmar Ei Ei Chaw, Director of Programmes,  Issara Institute

 

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