Women

Shin Daewe, 50, was sentenced on terrorism charges by an Insein Prison court for allegedly having a drone in her luggage.

Pro-junta channels unleash wave of hatred against women: ‘Those bitches must be suppressed.’

Female former political prisoners told The Irrawaddy of their traumatic experiences while locked up, and of their determination to see all political inmates freed.

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners says the junta’s rape and murder of women only increases female involvement in the resistance movement.

Having narrowly escaped arrest for his anti-junta activities, May Oo sometimes misses his former life but is focused on helping the revolution achieve a better future.

The Irrawaddy profiles 10 inspirational Myanmar women whose strength, passion, courage and creativity shone through in often dark times in 2020.

A female Rakhine lawmaker stuck between rivals in the Arakan National Party has been forced to run without any party’s backing.

The owner of a Yangon restaurant was sentenced to 5 years in prison for sexually abusing a waiter under a colonial-era law used to criminalize homosexuality.

The list of attendees to the Burma Roundtable Conference on Myanmar’s partition from British India was entirely male, until a mass of women in Yangon demanded otherwise.

Photographers from Dhaka and Yangon come together to create a book of visual narratives discussing cultural, societal and identity realities on both sides of the Naf River.