Abstract

• This paper is an attempt to develop legal measures that protect violence against child domestic workers, fixed working hours and rate wages and bans debt bondage and slavery. Child refers to all persons below the age of 18. Domestic worker means housemaid who employs to perform domestic work such as cleaning, cooking, washing and ironing, taking care of children, the elderly, sick people or people with disabilities, etc., in or for third-party household except for own family. Being poverty, parents make their child as a domestic worker. Most of them are girls, and they have to face physical, sexual, and psychological violence and exploitation. This research examined whether national laws effectively protect child domestic workers from violence or not. It considered how the problems faced by child domestic workers to solve. By analyzing the provisions of international and national laws, this paper found that Myanmar’s domestic laws can’t fully cover on child domestic workers from violence. Moreover, there is no specific legal provision for protecting them like working children in factories and shops. It suggests that the legislator should enact a particular law on child domestic workers or add the most suitable rules and regulations for the child domestic workers in Child Rights Rule.