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• On 27  March 2020, a United Nations international staff member working in Myanmar tested positive with COVID-19 after coming back from Switzerland.  

• The Secretary-General strongly condemns the 20 April attack in Rakhine state, Myanmar

This World Day Against Child Labour on June 12, taking place shortly after the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, ILO Myanmar calls to accelerate multi-stakeholder efforts to prevent and eliminate child labour, with priority given to the worst forms of child labour.

• An estimated 336,000 of them are internally displaced people, 250,000 of whom are in situations of protracted displacement, including around 130,000 people in Rakhine.

GENEVA - UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today called for a moratorium on any forced returns of refugees and migrants to Myanmar, given its dire human rights crisis.

UNICEF Statement