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Two years since the Burmese military’s attempted coup, over five years since its 2017 attacks of genocide, and after its decades of atrocities against our communities, we, Women’s Peace Network, are conflicted with speechless tragedy and rage. The military remains free to brutalize the entire (...)
2022 witnessed the first anniversary of the February 2021 attempted coup in Myanmar. Despite the many exacerbating circumstances since then, Rohingya and all other people in the country continue to resist, calling for peace, justice and freedom.
Dear friends and colleagues,
Happy New Year! (...)
On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we, Women’s Peace Network, remember the victims and survivors of this heinous crime and urge the international community to pursue comprehensive and concrete actions to provide them justice.
We are devastated by the (...)
This International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, we, Women’s Peace Network, reaffirm our commitment and solidarity with all the victims and survivors of conflict-related sexual violence across Myanmar and the world, and urge the international community to pursue (...)
, by Deutsche Welle
The protests are life-threatening, as the security forces often shoot without warning, or drive their vehicles into the demonstrators. Videos posted on social media clearly show that women are always on the frontline.
Since the Myanmar military brutally put down the mass protests that began (...)
, by MAUNG Ko
Women factory workers took to the streets and catalysed a mass movement
A year before the February 2021 military coup in Myanmar, striking workers from the Tai Yi shoe factory protested in front of their workplace to demand an increase in their daily wages. To raise their spirits, the workers (...)
, by AHMAR Ludu Daw
When I arrived in Yangon this time, I went to the home of a childhood friend. It had been a long time since we’d seen each other. Although I’ve gone to Yangon before, I’ve had to return hastily. I’ve therefore never been able to visit. So, this time when we saw each other, my friend talked nonstop. (...)
, by KHAN Umayma
Some 60 percent of protesters against the military coup are women who fear their hard-won rights hang in the balance.
Every day at sunrise, Daisy* and her sisters set out to spend several hours in the heat cleaning debris from the previous day’s protests off the streets of Yangon, Myanmar’s (...)
The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD) and the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) held a press conference with Kachin, Karen and Shan women on Thursday (8 April) to call on the international community for a monitoring and intervention mission to Burma/Myanmar, a comprehensive (...)
, by Members of the global women’s rights movement
Dear President and Members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council,
Marking the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, we, Women’s Peace Network and the undersigned women’s organizations, call upon the UN Security Council to hold the Myanmar military accountable for (...)
, by Agence France-Presse
In a rare acknowledgement of wrongdoing, the military announces the verdict and sentence against the 3 rapists
After being gang-raped by soldiers, steely-eyed Thein Nu went up against Myanmar’s powerful military in a months-long fight for justice – a fight that paid off with a rare legal (...)
, by AGUILAR Macarena, MARLER Isabel
Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are playing a key role.
In the hastily-built displacement camps of Rakhine state, in the western part of Myanmar, where some 129,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya people have been interned (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We are women, sisters, movements, networks, and activists from all over Southeast Asia and across the globe, expressing our solidarity with all the women of Burma (Myanmar) and the rest of ASEAN on this 103rd International Women’s Day celebration.
This year’s International Women’s Day has a (...)
, by Aye Lae, CHO Violet
A handful of prominent female activists have made a significant mark on Burmese dissident politics, but true equality of the sexes remains elusive
THREE days after Cyclone Nargis struck southwestern Burma on May 2-3, social activist Phyu Phyu Thin bravely came out of hiding to help victims of (...)
, by Shah Paung
Burmese authorities keep a careful watch on the home of Tar Tar and monitor her daily activities when she leaves her house. Pro-junta supporters stand around on the street corners of her neighborhood.
Tar Tar, who asked not to be identified by her real name, is one of many Burmese women who (...)
, by CHENG Eva, Thet Thet Lwin
Women played an active role in Burma’s struggle for independence — from British colonial rule and Japanese occupation — and remained an organised force under the post-independence government, 1948-58. Ne Win’s seizure of power in 1958 and his military dictatorship strangled the women’s and other (...)
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