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Refugee women of the Karen community in Myanmar describe their struggle to bring about a peaceful return to their homeland and peace in their own domestic households. Produced by American Jewish World Service.
At the end of our visit to the camp for internally displaced people, we thanked the women for sharing their stories. But then they said: visitors come, we talk to them, they listen, leave. Nothing changes for us.
Despite the improved mood on the streets of Yangon since the end of military rule, the country’s girls and women are still heavily trafficked. One businesswoman is raising awareness and using her factory to offer employment.
Widespread elation met the week-ago release of Aung San Suu Kyi after her 20-year house arrest. But in the political trenches another pro-democracy woman worries about how much leadership Suu Kyi will be able to provide.
Last week’s election victory by the junta-backed party in Burma is a setback for Charm Tong’s work against military rape in the country, also known as Myanmar. Tong says that like her idol Aung San Suu Kyi, she will keep working.
As the U.S. changes strategy on Myanmar, Stephanie Guyer-Stevens wonders about what it will mean for the country’s women. Last summer, a young Burmese woman next to her on a plane was afraid to even say the name Aung San Suu Kyi.
Profiling women with good credit histories as subprime borrowers has so far attracted less notice than other forms of lending discrimination. But at least a few researchers and think tanks issued warnings during recent years.
In a Thai refugee camp Shah Paung found that writing stories was one way to resist the Myanmar military dictatorship she had fled. She continues to report news smuggled out by informants even as the world’s focus has turned from Burma.
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The dominant media has started to notice that the attack on abortion extends to contraception. But Gloria Feldt says the underlying story–about the intrinsic and generalized hostility to women–is still getting passed over.
Burmese female activists working to expose the military regime’s systematic violence against women, including rape as a tool of counter-insurgency, won an international women’s rights award last week from the Gruber foundation.