MYANMAR: Economies of Child Labour
Wednesday | 18 February 2026 | 3pm UK | 9.30pm Myanmar
ONLINE only
Child labour remains a global problem, exploiting poverty for profit, mostly through informal practices of employment. But the legal identification of 'adult' can differ across the world; Myanmar is a case in point. This panel will discuss the different economies of this sector, and efforts to mitigate it through remediation and rehabilitation.
SPEAKERS: Kyawe Phyo Phyo Aye is Founding Director of ProEthics Solutions in Yangon which specialises in child labour prevention, young worker protection and social compliance audits, and was Charles Wallace Burma (Myanmar) Trust Fellow at the LSE South Asia Centre in Sep-Nov 2025 where she worked on child labour prevention & remediation in Myanmar's garment sector; Jacob Andrew Clere is Head of Branch Office, sequa gGmbH, Yangon, and has worked extensively with the garments industry in Myanmar; Dr Ashley Graham Kennedy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, and author of 'Understanding Child Labor in Myanmar' (2019); Isidro Maya Jariego (@isidromj) is Professor of Social Psychology at the Universidad de Sevilla, and author of Community Prevention of Child Labor: Evidence-based Practices to Promote the Psychological Well-being of Minors (2021).
CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).
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Please e-mail southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk to register free for this event; the livestream link will be sent to all registered attendees on the day of the event.
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Image © Shimmerx Lyan, Yangon, 2023, Unsplash.