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Myanmar authorities are reportedly discussing the introduction of zones in Yangon and Mandalay — the country's largest cities — in which women would be banned from buying alcohol. Although 2009 World ...

They do not carry guns to fight the junta in Myanmar. Unlike women combatants in battle fatigues flaunting automatic weapons, their role in the resistance has gone by barely noticed. But they are ...

Women experience restrictions, punishments and their effects differently to men in Myanmar. The report, ‘Censored gender’ finds that for men, these restrictions and punishments tend to come from the ...

SUNY Cortland hosted two women activists from Myanmar on Thursday, Sept. 5, for a day of conversations about the collision of faith, feminism and ethnicity in their country, which is struggling with ...

Reporters in Burma's ethnic minority regions often endure extortion and harassment. Women journalists, who are heavily outnumbered by their male counterparts in rural areas, face additional challenges ...

Enticed by work in China, hundreds of poor young Myanmar women are instead being forced into marriage, and left to scramble to get back across remote borders before they are compelled into life with ...

For International Women’s Day 2020, we’re getting to know the pioneering women across East Asia Pacific who are breaking barriers and creating change for the decade ahead. At the age of 11 Naw K’nyaw ...