‘News and events’
Statement of Karen Women Organization’ Second Central Standing Committee Meeting of the 5th Congress
30th of January, 2012 The Karen Women Organization held its second Central Standing Committee’s meeting after the 5th congress from 26th to 28th January, 2012. 40 Representatives of 7 districts of Karen state, refugee camps, and special guests participated at the [Read More]
Letter to US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton: Demand an End to Sexual Violence against Women
BURMA: Demand an End to Sexual Violence against Women November 25, 2011 The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Madam Secretary, Thank you for your ongoing support to the women of Burma [Read More]
Women’s League of Burma welcomes the meeting between two women world leaders: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Mrs. Hillary Clinton
1st December 2011 PDF: ျမန္မာဘာသာ | English Women’s League of Burma welcomes the face-to-face meeting between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, highly respected by the people of Burma and the international community alike, and US Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary [Read More]
Women’s League of Burma welcomes the meeting between two women world leaders: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Mrs. Hillary Clinton
1 December 2011 Women’s League of Burma welcomes the face-to-face meeting between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, highly respected by the people of Burma and the international community alike, and US Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary Clinton to be held on December 2 to discuss about [Read More]
White Ribbon Music Video – Let us Work Together to End Violence Against Women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNGKFyCVRIg [Read More]
Voices for Change: Domestic Violence and Gender Discrimination in the Palaung area
By: Palaung Women’s Organization Publication date: 25 November 2011 This report from documents how women in the Palaung area are affected by domestic violence and gender discrimination. English PWO exposes shocking levels of domestic violence in Burma’s northern [Read More]
Demanding the accountability of Burma’s military for war crimes and crimes against humanity
Demanding the accountability of Burma’s military for war crimes and crimes against humanity Press Release November 7, 2011 The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) is today launching a short film highlighting continued systematic and widespread rape against women and girls in [Read More]
End Militarism to Eliminate Violence Against Women
Statement on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 25 November 2011 PDF: ျမန္မာဘာသာ | English On December 17, 1999, the 83rd Session of the 54th United Nations General Assembly designated the 25th of November as the [Read More]
ကခ်င္ေဒသတြင္ လတ္တေလာျဖစ္ပြားေနေသာ အစိုးရစစ္တပ္၏ ထုိးစစ္ဆင္မႈအေပၚ WLB မွ ကန္႕ကြက္ရႈတ္ခ်
ျပည္တြင္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ တျပည္လုံးအတုိင္းအတာျဖင့္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ တုိက္တြန္း [Read More]
Burma’s Covered-Up War: Atrocities Against The Kachin People
By: Kachin Women’s Association Thailand Publication date: 7 October 2011 This report examines the crimes perpetrated against Kachin civilians between June and September 2011 and provides policy recommendations aimed at improving the human rights situation in Kachin [Read More]
Kachin women denouncing offensive by the Burmese Army and atrocities against Kachin people
We, the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), strongly denounce the Burmese military’s offensives against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and atrocities against civilians including rape, murder and abduction of young men. The Burmese military attack to a KIA [Read More]
ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္၏ ထိုးစစ္ဆင္တုိက္ခိုက္ေနမႈမ်ား၊ မုဒိမ္းျပဳက်င့္မႈ၊ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈမ်ားအေပၚ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာခ်က္
ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္၏ ထိုးစစ္ဆင္တုိက္ခိုက္ေနမႈမ်ား၊ မုဒိမ္းျပဳက်င့္ [Read More]
Statement on the 66th Birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
June 19th, 2011, is the 66th birthday of Burmese democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. This is the first birthday she will celebrate free after spending fifteen of the last twenty years under house arrest. Since her release, she has enthusiastically continued her struggle [Read More]
Statement on 66th Birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
19 June 2011 June 19th, 2011, is the 66th birthday of Burmese democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. This is the first birthday she will celebrate free after spending fifteen of the last twenty years under house arrest. Since her release, she has enthusiastically continued [Read More]
14 June 2011: Palaung Women’s Organization launched a report “Stolen Lives” Human Trafficking from Palaung area of Burma to China
Burmese | English | Thai Military repression in Burma’s northern Shan State fuelling human trafficking to China A new report released today by the Palaung Women’s Organisation reveals alarming rates of human trafficking from Burma into China, fuelled by large scale [Read More]
