Myanmar CSO Shadow Report on Thematic Issues: Violence against Women

This CEDAW Shadow Report is written by CEDAW Action Myanmar (CAM). This working group is established in 2012 and consists of 15 local organizations. The report consists of perceptions of 309 (with 226 women and 83 men) respondents who participated in a survey; along with news from print and social media […]

Eliminating sexual violence in conflict areas

“Do you have an emergency basket at your door?”

This is a question that Ph.D. candidate Jenny Hedström soon learned to ask whenever she interviewed Kachin women about their support for and involvement with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) for her research on gender, peace and security issues in Burma […]

Question of Access to Justice for Women and Girls Facing Violence in Burma

April 27, 2016  •  By Shan Women's Action Network  •  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Sexual Violence, Shan Women's Action Network, Women  •  Read more ➤

Burma Army expansion, abuses along Kokang-China border creating scores of “ghost villages”

Burma Army expansion and ongoing abuses since last year in mountainous areas along the Kokang-China border is making it impossible for tens of thousands of Kokang refugees to return home, according to interviews carried out by SHRF in March 2016 […]

United League of Arakan/ Arakan Army Statement

April 20, 2016  •  By Arakan Army/United League of Army  •  Tags: Arakan Army, Arakan State, Human Rights Violations, Military Engagement, Sexual Violence, United League of Arakan  •  Read more ➤

ေအာင္ေဇယ်ာတပ္ခဲြတြင္ တာ၀န္ထမ္းေဆာင္ေနေသာ ဗုိလ္ၾကီးတဦးမွ အမ်ိဳးသမီးတဦး၏ ရင္ဘတ္ႏွင့္ နားထင္ကုိ ေသနတ္ျဖင့္ ေၾကိမ္းၾကိမ္ေထာက္ခါ ပစ္ခတ္ရန္ခ်ိန္းေျခာက္မႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ကူကီအမ်ိဳးသမီးစင္တာမွ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

March 31, 2016  •  By Kuki Women's Center  •  Tags: Crimes against humanity, Human Rights Violations, Kuki Women's Center, Military Dictatorship, Sexual Violence, Women  •  Read more ➤

At United Nations Human Rights Council, Outgoing Government Defiant To the Very End

Last week on 15 March 2016, the same day Burma’s Parliament elected its President, the country also underwent a review by member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council following which a resolution will be made on how to move forward with the scrutiny and accountability of the human rights situation in the country […]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar

In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to its resolution 28/23, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, examines the developments in Myanmar since her reports to the Council, in March 2015 (A/HRC/28/72) and to the General Assembly, in October 2015 (A/70/412) […]

Karen Women’s Organization International Women’s Day Pledge for Parity – A Call for Action

On this International Women’s Day 2016, KWO recognizes and pays tribute to all women around the world who dedicate their lives to fighting for women’s human rights, equality, justice and women’s participation in decision making at all levels […]

Myanmar Marks International Women’s Day With Ceremonies in Cities

Women’s organizations in Myanmar celebrated International Women’s Day on Tuesday with festivities in the commercial capital Yangon and major towns in war-ravaged states, as the country’s most prominent female politician Aung San Suu Kyi and her party prepared to submit nominations for the nation’s top office […]