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 ...

The Myanmar military fears menstrual blood. The troops believe that passing under clothing that has touched women’s private parts will sap hpoun — their spiritual energy — to destroy their luck, ...

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A study released Thursday by Johns Hopkins estimates there are over 7,400 women in forced marriages in four districts in Myanmar and one Chinese Prefecture. Research led by the Johns ...

BANGKOK — Authorities in China and Myanmar are failing to stop the brutal trafficking of young women, often teenagers, from the conflict-ridden Kachin region for sexual slavery in China, according to ...

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 ...

The implementation of the People's Military Service Law will allow the military to increase its control over women's lives and bodies. The country’s civil war has been accompanied by the growing ...

Mya Thwate Thwate Khaing died on Friday while in intensive care at a hospital in the Myanmar capital Naypyitaw, where she had been on life support for 10 days since she was shot by police cracking ...

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