‘Events’
Press Release on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
25 November 2017 Press Release ျမန္မာဘာသာ English Briefing Paper (ျမန္မာဘာသာ) | (English) Today, to coincide with the 2017 International Day to stop Violence against Women, the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) launches a [Read More]
အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ) ၏ ၁၇ ႏွစ္ျပည့္အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာခ်က္
pdf download ယူရန္ ၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ (၉) ရက္ ယေန႔ ၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ (၉) ရက္ေန႔သည္ [Read More]
အစိုးရမွ ေက်ာင္းသားသပိတ္ဆႏၵျပမႈမ်ားကို ဆက္လက္အၾကမ္းဖက္ၿဖိဳခြင္းေနသည့္အေပၚ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ)၏ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္၊ မတ္လ (၁၂)ရက္ ျဖင့္ဖတ္ရန္ အမ်ိဳးသားပညာေရးဥပေဒကို ျပင္ဆင္သည့္ [Read More]
Press Release on The Eighth Congress of Women’s League of Burma
Date: February 24, 2015 English | Burmese The Women’s League of Burma successfully held its Eighth Congress attended by delegates from member organizations, Advisory Board members, members of the Secretariat and Coordinators of the programs [Read More]
‘If they had hope, they would speak’
The ongoing use of state sponsored sexual violence in Burma’s ethnic communities (Yangon, November 24, 2014) – Burma Army soldiers continue to engage in acts of sexual violence on a widespread scale, and women and human rights defenders in ethnic communities face [Read More]
Statement on consultation organized by border-based civil society organisations with the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT)
November 24, 2014 English | Burmese On November 22-23, 2014, 42 representatives of 25 border-based civil society organisations (CSOs), working on education, health, media, migrant workers’ rights, refugees, the environment, women’s issues and human rights, held a [Read More]
Joint Statement of Karen Women’s Groups in support of the Reunification of the Kawthoolei Armed Forces (KAF)
English October 19, 2014 The Karen Women’s Organization (KWO), Karen Women’s Empowerment Group (KWEG) and Karen Women’s Union (KWU) welcome the announcement, on October 13th, 2014, of the Karen armed resistance groups coming together under the name of [Read More]
Burmese military strategies fueling Kachin drug crisis
New report by Kachin Women’s Association Thailand Date: 8 October 2014 Report: SILENT OFFENSIVE Press Release PDF: A new report exposes how anti-insurgency strategies of the Burma Army are fuelling the drug crisis in Kachin areas, particularly since the renewal of [Read More]
“Establishing the Sustainable Peace of the Union through Women’s Power”
Statement from Women’s Forum for Peace ျမန္မာဘာသာ | English September 21, 2014 Women Organizations Network (WON) and the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) held the second Women’s Forum for Peace in Rangoon on September 19th and 20th [Read More]
Same Impunity, Same Pattern: Report of Systematic Sexual Violence in Burma’s Ethnic Areas
Immediate Release English | Burmese | Executive Summary JANUARY 14, 2014 For full Report >> Please Click here >> Burmese | English Today marks the launch of an important new report documenting ongoing crimes of sexual violence—over 100 [Read More]
Taang Women’s Organisation celebrate Stop VAW Day (courtesy of DVB)
This November 25th 2013 Taang Women’s Organisation held landmark celebrations to mark The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Lashio. This was the first time this event had been marked in Lashio and was attended by around 200 people. [Read More]
Karen Women’s Organization (KWO) Message for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
25th November 2013 Women’s Organization (KWO) Message for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women On this day, 25th November 2013, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, KWO is launching a 16-Day Campaign calling for [Read More]
KNWO Press Release: Karenni Women at the Border Hold First Convention Back Home
Download KNWO Press Release June 16, 2013—Mae Hong Son, Thailand – Karenni National Women’s Organization (KNWO), the leading women’s organization along the border in Mae Hong Son, Thailand, announces the launch of its first Karenni All Women Convention, [Read More]
WLB Trip to Kayan State, Meeting with KyWO
WLB representatives traveled to Kayan State in late April to discuss the current political situation with the Kayan Women’s Organization (KyWO). At the KyWO Congress, WLB assisted by facilitating the strategic planning and designing of programs, as well as helping with [Read More]
Myanmar women’s group calls for more female MPs
Originally appeared in: Myanmar Times By Ei Ei Toe Lwin Chaing Mai-based Women’s League of Burma has called for greater women’s participation in the peace process and politics. The group’s leaders said last week they want to see 30 percent of seats in parliament [Read More]
