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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 briefing paper titled, “Girls Bear the Shame”. The briefing paper…
အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ) ၏ ၁၇ ႏွစ္ျပည့္အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာခ်က္
pdf download ယူရန္ ၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ (၉) ရက္ ယေန႔ ၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ (၉) ရက္ေန႔သည္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ) ကို…
အစိုးရမွ ေက်ာင္းသားသပိတ္ဆႏၵျပမႈမ်ားကို ဆက္လက္အၾကမ္းဖက္ၿဖိဳခြင္းေနသည့္အေပၚ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ)၏ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္၊ မတ္လ (၁၂)ရက္ ျဖင့္ဖတ္ရန္ အမ်ိဳးသားပညာေရးဥပေဒကို ျပင္ဆင္သည့္ ဥပေဒၾကမ္းေပၚထြက္လာေရးအတြက္ မႏၱေလးျမိဳ႕မွစတင္၍…
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 from 21 to 23 February 2015. The Secretariat reported the program…
‘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 harassment and persecution, the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) said in a new…
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 consultation meeting with the NCCT. This was the first such meeting with…
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 "Kawthoolei Armed Forces (KAF)". The alliance of 4 Karen armed forces meets the long held…
Burmese military strategies fueling Kachin drug crisis
New report by Kachin Women’s Association Thailand Date: 8 October 2014 Report: SILENT OFFENSIVE [English] [Burmese] Press Release PDF: [English] [Burmese] 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 conflict against the Kachin…
“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 under the theme of "Establishing the Sustainable Peace of the Union through Women's…
Same Impunity, Same Pattern: Report of Systematic Sexual Violence in Burma’s Ethnic Areas
Immediate Release English | Burmese | Executive Summary JANUARY 14, 2014 [RANGOON, CHIANG MAI AND NEW YORK, NY] 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 cases documented since 2010,…