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A Burmese woman with a child . Women living in Myanmar continue to face barriers to equality. After forty years of isolation, myths about the state of women's rights in Myanmar (Burma) were centered around the conception that Burmese women face less gender discrimination and have more rights than women in surrounding Southeast Asian nations.
The women's rights movement in Burma started with the Burmese Women's Association in 1919. In January 2008, BBC News featured Burmese Kayan Lahwi women who became tourist attractions in Thailand because of the tradition of wearing coils of brass around their necks.
The Myanmar Women's Affairs Federation has the following objectives: To enhance the role of women in the reconstruction of a peaceful, modern and developed nation. To protect the rights of women. To ensure better economy, health, education and general welfare of women and to take measures for their life security.
The Women's League of Burma (Burmese: အမျိုးသမီးများအဖွဲ့ချုပ် (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ), romanized: aamyoesameemyarraahpwalhkyaote (myanmarninengan)) is a community-based organisation working on the rights of women from Burma, with a focus on systematic sexual violence in ethnic areas, and women's involvement in political ...
The United Nations says it is “deeply concerned” by reports that civilians, including women and children, were killed and injured in a bombing at a camp for internally displaced people in Myanmar.
Between February 2021 and August 2024, 172 Myanmar journalists were detained, 28 of them women. Hundreds of my colleagues fled across the border to Thailand to escape the military’s dragnet.
Myanmar has been embroiled in a brutal conflict in multiple regions in the wake of a 2021 coup, with ethnic minority armies and a resistance movement battling to undermine military rule after a ...
Human Rights in Practice: A Guide to Assist Trafficked Women and Children; Shan women at the hands of the Burmese military regime: A story of systematic rape; Let the Salween flow; Building gender equality on the Thai–Burma Border within Burma's exiled opposition movement