Human Rights Education Institute of Burma

RANGOON—Several hundred civil society workers and community members gathered in Rangoon for the second year in a row to mark the international day to end violence against women on Friday. Some called on the government to introduce new initiatives that would help end domestic violence and support women’s education and empowerment.

A growing number of Kachin women are being trafficked over the Chinese border as criminal networks target vulnerable populations uprooted by the ongoing civil conflict, humanitarian groups have warned.

The husband of a teenage Shan girl who fell to her death from a Rangoon police station window was detained by authorities at the city’s airport on May 17.

Mizzima - The Burmese Supreme Court has delivered a verdict in the unlawful arrest lawsuit involving a Kachin woman – missing now for five months – who was last seen in the custody of Burmese soldiers on October 28, 2011.

A young woman claims she was beaten, drugged and sexually assaulted by two men wearing army fatigues while working in her vegetable garden in Karen state close to the Thai border this week, according to the Karen Women Organization (KWO).

A 17-year-old girl has filed a complaint with the International Labour Organisation in Rangoon in which she claims she was forced to become a sex worker by her aunt and uncle, who duped her parents into allowing them to care for the teenager.

A sign of changing times in Burma: a high profile public campaign to end sexual harassment on public buses by blowing a whistle.

A growing number of Burmese migrant women on the Chinese border face abuse, including workplace discrimination, violence and sexual exploitation, according to new research by the Burma Women’s Union (BWO).