Women's League of Burma (WLB)

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• PWO: Update of human right violations by the Burma Army during offensives in Palaung areas (March and April 2013)

  Statement of PWO and TSYO on Current Palaung Situation: English | Burmese Analysis on Current situation at Palaung areas: English | Burmese   The Burmese government must immediately end human rights violations, including violence against women, in Palaung areas During the past four…

• Swedish Burma Committee Report: Where are the Women?

  Download the newly-released report from the Swedish Burma Committee, created in colloboration with WLB and its member organizations.   Download PDF: http://bit.ly/13QN68b "If women are not involved in the ceasefire process, and I mean at every step, every level of the process,if women are not…

• Kayan Women's Organization: April 2013 Press Statement

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• Rape of 10 year old girl causes outrage

  HPRUSO—The rape of a 10-year-old girl in Hpruso, near Loikaw in Kayah State, has caused outrage and demonstrations in response to ongoing sexual violations in the district due to the close proximity of a military camp based nearby. Protestors have used this incident to call for severe punishment…

• WLB New Year Appeal Letter: Thein Sein Government and All Parties to Work Towards Genuine Peace

  PDF: English PDF: Burmese Women's League of Burma (WLB) wishes for the people of Burma to be free from danger and violations of their rights and their dignity, and to gain eternal peace, commencing from this Burmese New Year of 1375. Today, Burma is transitioning from a dictatorship to a…

• စစးမြနးေသာ ၿငိမး့ခ္မး့ေရ့အတျကး ေရြ့႐ႈေဆာငးရျကးၾကရနး အမ္ဳိ့သမီ့မ္ာ့အဖဲျ႕ခ္ဳပး (်မနးမာႏိုငးငဵ)၏ ႏြစးသစးကူ့ပနးၾကာ့ခ္က

  စစ္မွန္ေသာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ ေရွး႐ႈေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကရန္အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားအဖဲြ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ)၏ ႏွစ္သစ္ကူ�…

• TWU Press Release: First village ordered out for construction of Dawei Deep Sea Port

  Statement by: Tavoy Women's Union Download Press Release PDF: Burmese or English A seaside fishing village of over 15 houses was ordered to move out last week to make way for the planned Dawei Deep Sea Port. Residents of Charkhin Beach village, which has been declared an “illegal”…

• Myanmar needs to admit rape of minority women

  Originally appeared in: Bangkok Post   The Myanmar central government has consistently denied its soldiers have systematically used rape as a weapon of war against ethnic minorities. But according to numerous reports, despite recent political reforms, Myanmar's army has continued to…

• Uphold Women's Rights at 57th Commission on the Status of Women

  As the 57th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women enters its second week, the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict calls on member states to conclude negotiations with a strong statement that will prioritize action to end violence against women. Read…

• Forced to flee, women from Burma now pressured to return

  Originally appeared in: The Best Friend International Working outside Burma for positive changes inside is a fundamental and imperative aspect of effective documentation and campaigning. But now, many members of the exile community — including staff of Women’s League of Burma and other…

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