Political Empowerment
The need for political awareness is an ever-increasing issue. Therefore, the Political Empowerment Program has adapted quickly to generate the following women’s empowerment initiatives:
- Political Forums
The Political Forums are held on a monthly basis both inside Burma and on the Burma-border. These forums are chiefly organized and facilitated by our School graduates who then pass on knowledge to grass roots communities to mobilize them for democratic change.
- Emerging Leaders Political Empowerment School
Over the last three years, WLB has trained 40 women through our six-month long Emerging Leadership Political Empowerment School, which hasgiven women from WLB member organization the knowledge and skills to be powerful agents of social change and leadership in Burma.After graduating from the school the women have developed a firm understanding of the interplay between gender and politics at the international, national, and grassroots level as it relates to Burma. Furthermore, these women have acquired the necessary training and skills to analyze current political situations in Burma using relevant theoretical frameworks. /<li>
Latest news
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 reserved for women. “We will encourage greater female…
Girls say, We want to change things in Burma
Emerging Leaders’ School 2012 opens Resplendent in their ethnic outfits, and chattering excitedly, the 16 girls from various ethnic nationalities across Burma looked like excited friends at a gathering. But the banner strung proudly across the neat temporary classroom declares they were at the opening ceremony of the Emerging Leaders’…
WLB calls for nationwide women’s convention
Originally appeared in: Peace Women The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) told a Burmese government peacemaking delegation on Thursday in Bangkok that it wanted to hold a nationwide women’s convention to discuss peace and reforms and the role of women in development. WLB General-Secretary Tin Tin Nyo said a convention was needed to explore…
Women Should be Part of Peace Process: Group
Originally appeared in: The Irrawaddy By Nyein Nyein The Women’s League of Burma (WLB), a coalition of 13 women’s organizations representing Burma’s main ethnic groups, called on Wednesday for the inclusion of women in the country’s ongoing efforts to end decades of ethnic conflict. “Women’s participation at all levels of the…
Looking Through Gender Lenses
English |Burmese The paper emphasizes the necessity of positive measures in creating a constitution for Burma that protects women's rights and promotes women's equality in…
