Reports about women of Burma by UN entities

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Description: The Convention, the Committee, Myanmar sessions, Myanmar Govt and CSO documents
Source/publisher: CEDAW
Date of entry/update: 2016-07-20
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Sub-title: Perspectives from Mon and Kayin States
Description: "In Myanmar, as in many other parts of the world, politics, conflict and peace negotiations are considered “male domains.” With some exceptions, women’s experiences of armed conflict and contributions to peace are largely unrecognized, undocumented and unaccounted for. But many women who have had distinct experiences of armed conflict are engaging within their communities in creative strategies to mitigate the impact of conflict, make and build enduring peace. However, these efforts are accorded little formal or other recognition by the Government, by ethnic armed organizations and society at large. Women and their priorities are consequently not adequately included in the country’s current peace processes.This publication makes the argument that women’s equal participation with men in all aspects of the peace process and the inclusion of their priorities in the peace agenda would demonstrate the Government of Myanmar’s commitment to constitutional provisions of gender equality and women’s rights, and to international human rights frameworks, that it has endorsed. It would enhance the inclusiveness and sustainability of peace processes. Such a move would also signal responsiveness to calls for inclusion by gender equality and women’s empowerment advocates in Myanmar..."
Source/publisher: UN Women
2015-06-00
Date of entry/update: 2020-05-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
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Format : PDF
Size: 5.69 MB
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Description: ''A few days after starting this job, in September 2017, I went to Diffa in Niger, on the border with Nigeria, a place to which huge numbers of people, most of them women and girls, had fled from the Boko Haram terrorists who were wreaking havoc in their homelands. I met a woman called Achaitou, and her four young children. They were living under a plastic sheet. Achaitou was terrified of violence, especially fearful that she and her daughters might be abducted by armed men roaming over the border. To protect them, she took her children into the bush every night, risking disease and snakebites. A few weeks later I was in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, listening to the stories of women who had fled the violence of the Myanmar authorities in Rakhine. Stories of being forced to watch as their husbands, sons and fathers were killed. And then being themselves subject to the most extreme forms of rape and sexual violence. A few months later, I met Monga Albertine and her children, in a camp near the shores of Lake Tanganyika in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her husband had been killed in tribal fighting, and she fled to try to save her children. She was trying to survive under a plastic sheet on a wet, slippery hillside, with not enough to eat, no school for the children and no way of making a living. And two months after that, I met a woman called Fatima in another camp in South Kordofan, in Sudan. She described the risks she took every day, gathering firewood in an area where women are frequently assaulted and raped. Most people caught up in humanitarian crises round the world are just like this. The majority are women and girls – although there are many men and boys too. Most of them are caught up in conflict. And the thing that makes it hardest to help them is how the men with guns and bombs behave in those conflicts. The world’s humanitarian agencies do a good job in saving lives and reducing suffering among people caught up in conflict. But we do not do a good enough job for women and girls. In my dozens of visits to countries caught up in crisis, the stories of women and girls have stuck with me more than any others. Stories of escape from violence and terror. Stories of barbaric acts committed against them. Stories of fear for their children and loved ones. But, stories also of resilience and hope. Women and girls defiant...''
Source/publisher: reliefweb
2019-02-22
Date of entry/update: 2019-02-24
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 190.26 KB
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