Resources on social protection

  1. © Chalinee Thirasupa / ILO 2024
    Domestic workers need social protection too

    15 June 2022

    What motivates someone to advocate for workers’ rights? Meet Champa, head of a network of migrant domestic workers, who lives and works in Thailand.

  2. © Fahad Abdullah Kaizer/UN Women 2024
    Asia-Pacific garment industry suffers as COVID-19 impact ripples through supply chain

    21 October 2020

    Collapsing consumer demand, government lockdown measures and disruptions to raw material imports have taken their toll on the Asia Pacific garment industry, says a new ILO report.

  3. Extension of social protection to workers in informal employment in the ASEAN region

    31 December 2019

    The report outlines recent trends in informal employment, challenges and opportunities for extending social protection, by different categories of workers and countries. It also documents relevant country experiences and lessons, and proposes recommendations to the regional and national policy debates on the extension of social protection coverage from legal, administrative and financial perspectives.

  4. Concept Note and Agenda

    19 June 2019

    Concept note and agenda for the ILO/ASEAN Seminar on The Future of Social Protection

  5. Social protection for migrant workers in ASEAN: Developments, challenges, and prospects

    18 December 2018

    This report provides an overview of the developments, challenges, and prospects of social protection for migrant workers in ASEAN.

  6. Promotion of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work as Tools for Peace in Myanmar - Final evaluation

    24 October 2017

  7. ILO/Japan Cooperation - Factsheet 2017

    13 August 2017

    Japan is a founding member State of the ILO, and a valued partner in promoting the Decent Work Agenda. Japan has ratified 49 Conventions, including 6 Fundamental, 3 Governance and 40 Technical Conventions. Japan holds one of the ten permanent government seats on the ILO Governing Body as a State of Chief Industrial Importance.

  8. Safeguarding the Rights of Asian Migrant Workers from Home to the Workplace

    22 March 2017

  9. Shan State: Peace, reconciliation and development through community empowerment

    22 June 2015

  10. Evaluation of the operations of the Social Security Board, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Myanmar

    12 June 2015

    The Social Security Board (SSB) was created in 1956 after the adoption of the Social Security Act, 1954. The SSB has 77 township offices covering 110 townships (i.e. 30% of the existing townships). It is present in all States and regions to the exception of Chin State. In 2012, the Government of the Union of Myanmar adopted a new Social Security Law, 2012. This new law provides for an extended social security system.