Read more: How Myanmar’s Protests Are Giving a Voice to LGBTQ+ People Before Myanmar, then called Burma, first fell to military dictatorship in 1962, its women enjoyed an unusual measure of ...

The women of Myanmar: ... 715 civilian protesters have been killed and more than 3,000 people have been charged, arrested or sentenced to prison for taking part in protests.

Amid Myanmar's unrelenting crisis, it is women who are quietly reshaping the nation's future. As the country reels from military violence, institutional collapse, and humanitarian catastrophe, women ...

Meanwhile, some 1.6 million people in Myanmar have lost their jobs in 2021 due to the pandemic and coup, and armed conflict has left many farmers and daily labourers unable to work.

It is more apparent than ever that Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement must adopt bottom-up approaches moving forward – and this must start with ensuring the equal participation of women. In ...

Nearly half of Myanmar’s people now live in poverty, according to the World Bank. This calamity has forced a new cadre of women in Myanmar into sex work: doctors, teachers, nurses and other ...

Myanmar’s transition from a military dictatorship to a quasi democracy has emboldened LGBT people to begin openly calling for equality. But as the trans community has become more visible, police ...

(Yangon) – The Myanmar and Chinese governments have failed to stem the trafficking of ethnic Kachin women and girls as “brides” to families in China, Human Rights Watch said in a report ...

The death toll crossed 2,700 people in Myanmar, officials said. A 63-year-old woman was pulled alive from under the rubble Tuesday about 91 hours after Myanmar was struck by a devastating, 7.7 ...

Myanmar's junta made military service mandatory for all young men and women, state media said, as it struggles to contain armed rebel forces fighting for greater autonomy in various parts of the ...

The regime's announcement has dealt yet another blow to Myanmar's young people. Many had their education disrupted by the coup, which came on top of school closures at the height of the Covid-19 ...