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Following two months in detention, Nang Mo Hom reflects on the situation surrounding her arrest by the TNLA upon her release.
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The 1,300 women participants have demanded equal pay, laws against gender-based violence, education in sexual and reproductive health and equal university entrance requirements.
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Burma
The amendment to the Penal Code proposes a child rape victim age limit of 12 years old, while activists believe it should include older victims too.
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Many in Myanmar still believe that a man will lose his "hpone," or spiritual power, if his clothes are washed with a woman's sarong. Htein Lin wants them to reconsider.
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Cloth bags with ethnic patterns are becoming popular with foreign and local women
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Burma
The numbers “show that more women are becoming interested in the peace process and that women have the capacity to do so,” said Mi Kun Chan Non.
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Public reaction was fast and sharp to a suggestion from the Ministry of Home Affairs that parents urge their daughters to dress modestly to discourage rapists.
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‘Women in News’ summit also calls attention to lack of safeguards against harassment of female reporters in the field and in the newsroom
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Minister U Thein Swe said the policy will take into consideration the country’s optimum population size based on its natural resources, economy, geography, culture and military n
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Women’s rights advocates say the case draws attention to the need to make the city’s streets safer for women.
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Women
Report says increased participation of women in politics could further cement peace agreements and bolster post-conflict rehabilitation.
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Women
Cheery Zahau, a winner of the UN’s N-Peace Awards for 2017, says gender equality is not only good for women, but for the whole country.
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‘Women are the center of the family…the ones holding communities together, and they are the ones who know how to reconstruct the social fabric of the society,’ said Katherine
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After fighting media-fueled discrimination at school, now Hnin Pa Pa Soe is taking on the censors.
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Activists welcome State Counselor’s speech at Asean summit in Manila, but say actions must back up the words as patriarchal views persist.
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