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Posts Tagged ‘Burmese Women’s Union’ (7 found)

ႏိုင္ငံတကာျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေန႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသည့္ တၿပိဳင္နက္တည္းတြင္ပင္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး ေတြ႔ဆံုစကားေျပာေနသည့္ ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ (KIA)၊ တအာင္း (ပေလာင္) အမ်ဳိးသားလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ (TNLA)၊ ျမန္မာအမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီမဟာမိတ္တပ္မေတာ္ (MNDAA)၊ ရွမ္းျပည္တပ္မေတာ္ေတာင္ပိုင္း (RCSS/SSA) စသည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ ေရး အဖြဲ႔မ်ားအား အစိုးရမွ တိုက္ေလယာဥ္မ်ား သံုးကာ အျပင္းအထန္ ဆက္လက္ထိုးစစ္ဆင္မႈမ်ားရွိခဲ့ၿပီး လက္ရွိတြင္လည္း ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ဆက္လက္ျဖစ္ပြားလွ်က္ရွိသည္ […]

September 21, 2015  •  By Burmese Women's Union  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Forgotten Workforce

Burma’s continuing political repression and economic deterioration, coupled with China’s rapid growth, have caused a new phenomenon over the past few years: large-scale northward migration from Burma to China […]

February 23, 2012  •  By Burmese Women's Union  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

BWU’s New Report “Forgotten Workforce” Exposes Hardship of Burmese Migrant Women in China’s Border Boom Town

A new report by local researchers exposes how increasing numbers of Burmese women are toiling to support the booming economy of China’s border town of Ruili under exploitative conditions and no legal protection […]

February 23, 2012  •  By Burmese Women's Union  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement on the 4th Anniversary of the Saffron Revolution

“We Want Real Change in Burma, Not Public Relations Games”

On the 4th anniversary of the Saffron Revolution, an alliance of Burma‐related organizations in Chiang Mai has organized this candlelight vigil and rally to call on the international community to maintain pressure on Burma’s regime until it carries out a genuine democratic transition by immediately and unconditionally releasing all political prisoners and ending impunity for human rights abusers […]

September 27, 2011  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Burma: The Current State of Women in Conflict Areas – A Shadow Report to the 22nd Session of CEDAW

CEDAW LogoThe report focuses on education, health, State-perpetrated violence against women, and poverty, particularly as these issues relate to women in Burma’s rural conflict areas.

Burma’s ruling military regime, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), in its various incarnations, has controlled the country since 1962. One of the SPDC’s chief preoccupations since it seized power has been to maintain “national unity and solidarity,” which it has attempted to accomplish through force […]

June 1, 2010  •  By Women’s Organizations of Burma Shadow Report Writing Committee (Karen Women Organization, Karenni Women’s Organization, Shan Women’s Action Network, Burmese Women’s Union and Tavoyan Women’s Union)  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤