Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on
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"With chubby cheeks and a nervous smile, 18-year-old Kai is preparing to attack his judo coach on stage in front of hundreds of onlookers.
Light beaming from the raised platform illuminates the crowd sitting cross-legged on the grass of the park in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, drawn to the spectacle and the colourful striped flags.
Some of them are familiar with the symbolism of the flags’ rainbow colours. They have been waiting for this, January’s fourth annual Pride festival, in a country where same-sex relations are criminalised and the LGBT community is openly mocked. “Everyone is proud. I am so proud of them,” says Kai, a University of Yangon student who only has one name. Building up the courage to get on stage, he points his little finger – painted pink to symbolise a call for legislative change – to the sky. “Raise your hand and say ‘I am gay,’” he shouts. This is a bold declaration in Myanmar, which is among Asia’s laggards in terms of LGBT rights. In 2018, India abolished a colonial-era law banning homosexuality that had similarities to Myanmar’s current legislation.
In the same year, Hong Kong began to grant visas to international dependents in same-sex partnerships. Taiwan went a step further in 2019 and legalised gay marriage..."
Source/publisher:
"South China Morning Post" (Hong Kong)
Date of publication:
2020-02-13
Date of entry/update:
2020-02-18
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"For decades, ethnic women in Myanmar have documented acts of sexual violence committed against them in the hopes that, one day, perpetrators will be held accountable for their crimes. They had reasons for hope as recently as five years ago, when the government of Myanmar endorsed the international Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict and Aung Sung Suu Kyi was elected the first woman leader of the country in a historic victory.
Today, violent conflict between military and ethnic groups remains as intense as ever, while wartime sexual and gender-based violence continues unabated and unpunished.
The direct and later indirect rule by the military since 1962 has had a long-term effect on the lives of women in Myanmar. They expected their fundamental rights to be restored under the new quasi-civilian arm of government, led by Suu Kyi. Instead, the web of military presence and business interests in ethnic areas of the country continue to devastate ethnic women.
In August, the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar released a report documenting cases of gang rape, sexual slavery, and other forms of sexual abuse in heavily-militarized areas in several states: Shan, Kachin, and Rakhine. Investigators found that sexual violence has become a regular tactic used against civilians by the Tatmadaw, the official name of the country’s armed forces..."
Source/publisher:
"Women's Media Center" (USA)
Date of publication:
2019-11-20
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-22
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Individual Documents
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Women's rights, Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Women and Politics in Burma/Myanmar, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on
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"When it comes to protecting women from violence in Myanmar, what little difference a year makes. Last year during the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the Government pledged to submit a Prevention of and Protection from Violence Against Women (PoVAW) Law to Parliament in early 2019 and give “priority and focus” to protecting women and children from violence. As we approach another 16 Days of Activism, the PoVAW law, in the drafting stage since 2013, has not yet been submitted to Parliament, making clear that protecting women from violence is far from a priority or focus for the current Government.
In a country with escalating rates of sexual violence, continued inaction puts women’s lives in jeopardy, and is a sad reminder that the gender inequality that leads to violence against women is also inhibiting the passage of a PoVAW Law which would protect them.
Statistics across Myanmar show an upward trend in reports of sexual violence, and one root cause of sexual violence is gender inequality. In August, a UN investigatory body declared that in Myanmar “[s]exual violence is an outcome of a larger problem of gender inequality and the lack of rule of law.” Myanmar is ranked 150 of 167 countries on the Georgetown Institute of Women Peace and Security’s Women Peace and Security Index and 148 of 189 on the 2018 UN Gender Inequality Index, two recent measures of women’s well-being worldwide..."
Source/publisher:
"Mizzima" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-11-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-18
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Individual Documents
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Women's rights, Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, UN (CEDAW) documents on discrimination against women, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma
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"Sexual violence carried out by Myanmar's security forces against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority was so widespread and severe that it demonstrates intent to commit genocide as well as warrants prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity, a UN report charged on Thursday (Aug 22).
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar said it found the country's soldiers "routinely and systematically employed rape, gang rape and other violent and forced sexual acts against women, girls, boys, men and transgender people in blatant violation of international human rights law."
Its report on sexual and gender-based violence in Myanmar covers the Kachin and Shan ethnic minorities in northern Myanmar as well as the Rohingya in the western state of Rakhine.
The report, released in New York, charges that the genocidal intent of Myanmar's military toward the Rohingya was demonstrated "by means of killing female members of the Rohingya community, causing Rohingya women and girls serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting on the Rohingya women and girls conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the Rohingya in whole or in part, and imposing measures that prevented births within the group."
Myanmar's government and military have consistently denied carrying out human rights violations, and said its military operations in Rakhine were justified in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents..."
Source/publisher:
"The Straits Times" (Singapore)
Date of publication:
2019-08-23
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-26
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Individual Documents
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Women's rights, Sex work, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma, Human rights issues, UN human rights bodies and mechanisms
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Traffickers are increasingly preying on the despair of women who feel they have no choice but to seek work across the border.
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"Conflict in Myanmar's northern state of Kachin is forcing more people from their homes.
A ceasefire between the government and the Kachin Independence Army ended in 2011.
Since then, instability has been putting many families at risk, including women who are being trafficked to China..."
Source/publisher:
"Al Jazeera" (Qatar)
Date of publication:
2019-07-29
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-12
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Women's rights, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Kachin State, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Trafficking: Burma-specific material
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Khawng Nu’s story
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Khawng Nu’s story
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"This story was originally published on Medium.com/@UN_Women
Across the world, millions of women and girls live in the long shadows of human trafficking. Whether ensnared by force, coercion, or deception, they live in limbo, in fear, in pain.
Because human trafficking operates in darkness, it’s difficult to get exact numbers of victims. However, the vast majority of detected trafficking victims are women and girls, and three out of four are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Wherever there is poverty, conflict and gender inequality, women’s and girls’ lives are at-risk for exploitation. Human trafficking is a heinous crime that shatters lives, families and dreams.
On World Day against Trafficking in Persons, three women survivors tell us their stories. Their words are testament to their incredible resilience and point toward the urgency for action to prosecute perpetrators and support survivors along their journeys to restored dignity, health and hope.
Karimova comes full circle.
When she was 22 years old, Luiza Karimova left her home in Uzbekistan and travelled to Osh, Kyrgyzstan with the hopes of finding work. However, without a Kyrgyz ID or university degree, Karimova struggled to find employment. When a woman offered her a waitressing job in Bishkek, the capital city in the north of Kyrgyzstan, she welcomed the opportunity..."
Source/publisher:
UN Women via Reliefweb
Date of publication:
2019-07-29
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-04
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Individual Documents
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Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Trafficking: resources, specialist organisations and guides to the mechanisms, Women's rights, Discrimination/violence against women: standards, mechanisms and commentary - international and Myanmar-specific, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on
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brothel, KTV, sex trade, Trafficking, UWSA
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brothel, KTV, sex trade, Trafficking, UWSA
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"The United Wa State Army (UWSA) on Saturday handed two women accused of human trafficking to police officers from Pegu Division who traveled to Lashio, northern Shan State, to take them into custody, according to local sources.
Nyi Rang, a spokesperson for the UWSA based in Lashio, told The Irrawaddy on Monday that the armed group arrested the two female human trafficking suspects as requested by Myanmar police.
“For us, our only duty was to arrest them,” said Nyi Rang, who referred requests for further details about the trafficking allegation to the Myanmar police.
The UWSA controls the Wa Self-Administered Division in northern Shan State. Nyi Rang said reports of human trafficking are not uncommon in the region.
Myanmar police first asked the UWSA liaison office in Lashio to arrest the two women, who were wanted for alleged involvement in human trafficking and were staying in Panghsang, the capital of the Wa region.
“We asked our police in Panghsang to arrest them,” said Nyi Rang, who posted a photo of UWSA troops handing over the two detainees to Myanmar police in Lashio on July 20.
Myanmar police sent letters to the UWSA on July 2 describing the women’s alleged trafficking of a woman from Taungoo District in Pegu Division..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2019-07-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-04
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Individual Documents
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Trafficking: Burma-specific material, Smuggling of people - Burma-Myanmar related, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on
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"1. In its report to the Human Rights Council in September 20181
(hereinafter “the 2018
Report”), the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (hereinafter
“The Mission”) concluded that “rape and other sexual violence have been a particularly
egregious and recurrent feature of the targeting of the civilian population in Rakhine,
Kachin and Shan States since 2011”.
2. The Mission found that sexual and gender-based violence was a hallmark of the
Tatmadaw’s operations in northern Myanmar and in Rakhine. These violations, for most
part perpetrated against ethnic women and girls, were used with the intent to intimidate,
terrorise and punish the civilian population and as a tactic of war. The Tatmadaw was
overwhelmingly the main perpetrator.
3. Two years after the “clearance operations” against the Rohingya population in
Rakhine, and one year since the publication of the Mission’s findings, accountability for
these egregious acts remains elusive. The Mission felt compelled to issue this thematic
report, further exposing these grave violations that the Mission considers amount to war
crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide.
4. In examining the situation of sexual and gender-based violence in Myanmar, the
Mission also reviewed the situation of gender inequality in Myanmar more broadly. It
found a direct nexus between the lack of gender equality more generally within the country
and within ethnic communities, and the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence.
Impunity for gender-based violence in Myanmar is exacerbated by underlying gender
inequality. Ethnic women and girls are doubly victimised: as women and girls and as
members of ethnic minority communities.
5. In its 2018 report, the Mission found that men and boys have also been victims of
sexual and gender-based violence by security forces. On 23 April 2019, in its resolution
2467, the Security Council recognized that sexual and gender-based violence also targets
men and boys in armed conflict and post-conflict settings, as well as in the context of
detention settings, and in the context of those associated with armed groups. Violent
conflict impacts men, women, boys, girls and those with diverse gender identities
differently. While there is an increasing awareness of the importance of gender in efforts to
build sustainable peace, much of the focus has been on women and girls. The experiences
of men and boys have not been understood well. Against this background, the Mission
conducted further investigations into the situation of sexual and gender-based violence
against men and boys in the context of Myanmar’s ethnic conflicts and found that they have
been subjected to sexual and gender-based violence, especially in the context of detention
settings. The physical and psychological consequences are severe and far-reaching,
exacerbated by the stigma attached to male rape..."
Source/publisher:
The United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/42/CRP.4)
Date of publication:
2019-08-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-23
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Individual Documents
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Statements, reports, press briefings and webcasts on Myanmar by fact-finding entities mandated by the Council, Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) - UN/Myanmar documents, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Women's rights, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
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"NEW YORK: Sexual violence committed by Myanmar troops against Rohingya women and girls in 2017 was an indication of the military's genocidal intent to destroy the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, United Nations investigators concluded in a report released on Thursday (Aug 22).
The panel of independent investigators, set up by the UN Human Rights Council in 2017, accused Myanmar's government of failing to hold anyone accountable and said it was responsible "under the Genocide Convention for its failure to investigate and punish acts of genocide."
A military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state that began in August 2017 drove more than 730,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh.
Myanmar denies widespread wrongdoing and says the military campaign across hundreds of villages in northern Rakhine was in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents.
"Hundreds of Rohingya women and girls were raped, with 80 per cent of the rapes corroborated by the Mission being gang rapes. The Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) was responsible for 82 per cent of these gang rapes," the report said..."
Source/publisher:
"CNA"
Date of publication:
2019-08-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-23
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Genocide, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh
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"မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ နှင့် ကျား/မ အခြေပြု အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများနှင့်၊ တိုင်းရင်းသား ပဋိပက္ခများက လိင်အုပ်စုတစ်စုစီကို တမျိုးစီ ကွဲပြားစွာသက်ရောက်ပုံ။ (အကျဉ်းချုပ်)...(၂၀၁၈) စက်တင်ဘာလတွင် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးကောင်စီသို့ ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သော အစီရင်ခံစာ (ယခုမစ၍ "၂၀၁၈ အစီရင်ခံစာ") အတွင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ သီးသန့်လွတ်လပ်သော နိုင်ငံတကာ အချက်အလက်ရှာဖွေရေးကော်မစ်ရှင် (ယခုမစ၍ "ကော်မစ်ရှင်က" "(၂၀၁၁) ခုနှစ်မှစ၍ ရခိုင်၊ ကချင်နှင့်ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်များရှိ အရပ်သားပြည်သူများကို ပစ်မှတ်ထားသော ကျူးလွန်မှုများတွင် မုဒိမ်းမှုနှင့်လိင်ဆိုင်ရာ အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများသည် အလွန်အကျွံဆိုးရွားပြီး၊ အဖန်တလဲလဲ ဖြစ်ပွါးနေသော လက္ခဏာတရပ်ဖြစ်သည်"ဟုကောက်ချက်ချခဲ့သည်။..."
Source/publisher:
The United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/42/CRP.4)
Date of publication:
2019-08-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-23
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Individual Documents
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Statements, reports, press briefings and webcasts on Myanmar by fact-finding entities mandated by the Council, Myanmar Documents submitted to CEDAW by civil society organisations, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Women's rights, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
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"1. In its report to the Human Rights Council in September 20181
(hereinafter “the 2018
Report”), the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (hereinafter
“The Mission”) concluded that “rape and other sexual violence have been a particularly
egregious and recurrent feature of the targeting of the civilian population in Rakhine,
Kachin and Shan States since 2011”.
2. The Mission found that sexual and gender-based violence was a hallmark of the
Tatmadaw’s operations in northern Myanmar and in Rakhine. These violations, for most
part perpetrated against ethnic women and girls, were used with the intent to intimidate,
terrorise and punish the civilian population and as a tactic of war. The Tatmadaw was
overwhelmingly the main perpetrator.
3. Two years after the “clearance operations” against the Rohingya population in
Rakhine, and one year since the publication of the Mission’s findings, accountability for
these egregious acts remains elusive. The Mission felt compelled to issue this thematic
report, further exposing these grave violations that the Mission considers amount to war
crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide.
4. In examining the situation of sexual and gender-based violence in Myanmar, the
Mission also reviewed the situation of gender inequality in Myanmar more broadly. It
found a direct nexus between the lack of gender equality more generally within the country
and within ethnic communities, and the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence.
Impunity for gender-based violence in Myanmar is exacerbated by underlying gender
inequality. Ethnic women and girls are doubly victimised: as women and girls and as
members of ethnic minority communities.
5. In its 2018 report, the Mission found that men and boys have also been victims of
sexual and gender-based violence by security forces. On 23 April 2019, in its resolution
2467, the Security Council recognized that sexual and gender-based violence also targets
men and boys in armed conflict and post-conflict settings, as well as in the context of
detention settings, and in the context of those associated with armed groups. Violent
conflict impacts men, women, boys, girls and those with diverse gender identities
differently. While there is an increasing awareness of the importance of gender in efforts to
build sustainable peace, much of the focus has been on women and girls. The experiences
of men and boys have not been understood well. Against this background, the Mission
conducted further investigations into the situation of sexual and gender-based violence
against men and boys in the context of Myanmar’s ethnic conflicts and found that they have
been subjected to sexual and gender-based violence, especially in the context of detention
settings. The physical and psychological consequences are severe and far-reaching,
exacerbated by the stigma attached to male rape......မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာနှင့် ကျား/မ အခြေပြု အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများနှင့်၊ တိုင်းရင်းသားပဋိပက္ခများက လိင်အုပ်စုတစ်စုစီကို တစ်မျိုးစီ ကွဲပြားစွာ သက်ရောက်ပုံ။..."
Source/publisher:
The United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/42/CRP.4)
Date of publication:
2019-08-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-23
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Individual Documents
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Statements, reports, press briefings and webcasts on Myanmar by fact-finding entities mandated by the Council, Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) - UN/Myanmar documents, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Women's rights
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"The U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar said the country’s military must stop using sexual and gender-based violence to terrorise and punish ethnic minorities. The Mission said the brutal tactic was still being employed in Kachin and Shan states, and was so severe in Rakhine State, during the “clearance operations” of 2017, that it was a factor indicating the Myanmar military’s genocidal intent to destroy the Rohingya population.
The Mission made its conclusions in a new report, released Thursday in New York, that soldiers routinely and systematically employed rape, gang rape and other violent and forced sexual acts against women, girls, boys, men and transgender people in blatant violation of international human rights law.
“Extreme physical violence, the openness in which it is conducted … reflects a widespread culture of tolerance towards humiliation and the deliberate infliction of severe physical and mental pain or suffering on civilians,” the report said.
Marzuki Darusman, chair of the Fact-Finding Mission, said, “The international community must hold the Myanmar military to account for the tremendous pain and suffering it has inflicted on persons of all genders across the country.”
The Mission conducted interviews with hundreds of survivors and witnesses of sexual violence in Kachin and Shan States in the north, and in Rakhine State in the west, where the military’s “clearance operations” that began on 25 August 2017 led to more than 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh. On the second anniversary of the beginning of the operations, this report is an important reminder of the continuing need for accountability...လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာနှင့် ကျားမ အခြေပြု အကြမ်းဖက်ခံရသူများအတွက် တရားမျှတမှုကို ကုလသမဂအချက်အလက်ရှာဖွေရေးမစ်ရှင် တောင်းဆိုချက်..."
Source/publisher:
The United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/42/CRP.4)
Date of publication:
2019-08-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-23
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Statements, reports, press briefings and webcasts on Myanmar by fact-finding entities mandated by the Council, Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) - UN/Myanmar documents, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Women's rights, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
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Myanmar's Penal Code, which dates back to the British colonial era, is vague and rarely used to prosecute cases of domestic violence. Its definition of rape is narrow and excludes marital rape.
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"Cradling her one-year-old daughter in a house in southern Myanmar, 22-year-old Nu Nu Aye recalled the reasons her husband gave for beating her. She hadn't looked after his rooster. She wouldn't have sex with him.
In a meeting brokered by a village elder, he said he would beat her when "necessary". "His abuse got worse after that," she said. Finally, he tried to strangle her while she was sleeping.
In Myanmar, where the US-funded Demographic and Health Survey suggested at least one-fifth of women are abused by a partner - a figure activists say is likely an underestimate because many cases are not reported - there is no specific law against domestic violence.
Women such as Nu Nu Aye, whose account Reuters could not independently verify, usually rely on intervention by local leaders to arrange settlements with partners whose abuse is largely regarded as a private affair..."
Source/publisher:
"India Today" via Reuters
Date of publication:
2019-08-16
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-18
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Individual Documents
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Women's rights, Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on
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“Women and their partners still need accurate information about contraceptive choices. In some circumstances, women cannot exercise their #rights and #choices to access to contraceptive services.”
At ICPD25, What’s Changed in Myanmar in the area of sexuality education, and what’s the Unfinished Business?..."
Source/publisher:
UNFPA MYANMAR
Date of publication:
2019-08-09
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-16
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Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Women's rights, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on
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"Seng Moon’s family fled fighting in Myanmar’s Kachin State in 2011 and wound up struggling to survive in a camp for internally displaced people. In 2014, when Seng Moon was 16 and attending fifth grade, her sister-in-law said she knew of a job as a cook in China’s neighboring Yunnan province. Seng Moon did not want to go, but the promised wage was far more than she could make living in the IDP camp, so her family decided she shouldn’t pass it up. In the car, Seng Moon’s sister-in-law gave her something she said prevented car sickness. Seng Moon fell asleep immediately. “When I woke up my hands were tied behind my back,” she said. “I cried and shouted and asked for help.” By then, Seng Moon was in China, where her sister-in-law left her with a Chinese family. After several months her sister-in-law returned and told her, “Now you have to get married to a Chinese man,” and took her to another house. Said Seng Moon: My sister-in-law left me at the home. …The family took me to a room. In that room I was tied up again. …They locked the door—for one or two months.… Each time when the Chinese man brought me meals, he raped me…After two months, they dragged me out of the room. The father of the Chinese man said, “Here is your husband. Now you are a married couple. Be nice to each other and build a happy family.”
My sister-in-law left me at the home. …The family took me to a room. In that room I was tied up again. …They locked the door—for one or two months.… Each time when the Chinese man brought me meals, he raped me…After two months, they dragged me out of the room. The father of the Chinese man said, “Here is your husband. Now you are a married couple. Be nice to each other and build a happy family.”
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Watch
Date of publication:
2019-03-21
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-11
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Human Rights Watch Reports on Burma/Myanmar, Trafficking: Burma-specific material, Women's rights, Reports about women of Burma by national, regional and international NGOs, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Kachin State, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on
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"...Homophobia and transphobia are endemic in Myanmar, and they?re particularly difficult to challenge because stigma and discrimination are written into the law; in fact, many LGBT people told me they perceive the police force as their greatest threat. Myanmar — like neighbouring India, and Malaysia and Singapore — still has a colonial era law criminalising ?unnatural sex?, usually interpreted by the authorities to mean sodomy..."
Charlotte England
Source/publisher:
Refinery 29
Date of publication:
2016-06-02
Date of entry/update:
2016-06-03
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Individual Documents
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English
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"This Field Report includes information submitted by KHRG community members describing events which occurred in Hpapun District between January and December 2013. The report describes human rights violations, including sexual harassment, violent abuses, landmine incidents, forced labour, land confiscation, gold mining, arbitrary taxation, and theft and looting. In addition, fighting between Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and Border Guard Force (BGF) soldiers resulted in injury and displacement of villagers. The report also documents villagers? concerns regarding the stability of the 2012 preliminary ceasefire and issues important to the local communities, such as access to education and healthcare.
- Between January and December 2013, villagers reported ongoing militarization and use of landmines by Tatmadaw and BGF soldiers in Bu Tho and Dwe Lo townships, resulting in fatalities and injury to villagers and livestock.
- BGF soldiers committed human rights abuses such as sexual harassment, violent abuse, and demands for forced labour from villagers in Bu Tho Township.
- Monk U Thuzana?s followers ordered villagers to perform forced labour for the monk?s bridge construction project.
- A private gold mining enterprise has been endangering villagers? health in Dwe Lo Township. Villagers expressed their opposition to gold mining projects in the area by producing placards and posting them along the road and the river..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Date of publication:
2016-03-02
Date of entry/update:
2016-04-10
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) reports, Non-ILO Reports on forced labour, including forced portering, in Karen (Kayin) State, Landmines, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Gold mining and trade
Language:
English
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pdf
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1.3 MB
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?Following military coups in 1962 and 1988, multiple military regimes have ruled over Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). Widespread human rights abuses conducted by police and military against the general public and ethnic minorities are well known and documented.
The year 2008 saw the creation and adoption of a new constitution through a controversial referendum followed by a flawed parliamentary election held in 2010. By-elections held in 2012 saw the opposition party, the National League of Democracy (NLD), enter Parliament for the first time, though with continued reports of election irregularities. Despite significant political change in Myanmar, legal reform, especially in the sectors of human rights protection and limits to police and military power, has been slow in development and implementation. Legal reform, judicial review, and military and police limitations on power and authority have yet to occur in a systematic and comprehensive way. As a result of slow reform, entrenched homophobic social attitudes, and unrestrained police authority to arbitrarily arrest and detain, members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community human rights abuses and discrimination are rampant..?
Article 377 of the Penal Code deals with "Unnatural Offences"
Source/publisher:
Colors Rainbow
Date of publication:
2016-02-23
Date of entry/update:
2016-04-05
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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pdf
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15 MB
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"The Asian Human Rights Commission has been following with concern news of the police targeting of gay and transgendered people in Burma, or Myanmar, and has recently obtained detailed information on a number of cases of alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and torture of persons on the grounds of sexual orientation. The AHRC is troubled both by the manner in which this minority group appears to have been deliberately targeted by the police, and by the implications of these police abuses not only for the rights of minorities in democratizing Burma, but also for the rights of all people living there.
According to recent news reports, police in Mandalay have been conducting an operation against gay and transgendered people who have been congregating in certain public places in the city. Although the police claim that they are simply removing from certain areas anyone found to be causing a disturbance to the public, from all accounts it is clear that they have been specifically targeting gay and transgendered people..."
Source/publisher:
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
Date of publication:
2013-07-22
Date of entry/update:
2013-07-22
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to association and assembly (commentaries), Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to the Military, Police, Fire services etc (commentary)
Language:
English
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A Karen singer?s complaint that he was blacklisted by a foundation in Burma because he was gay has triggered a debate about sexual prejudice in Burmese society...
"The barred singer, Saw Yuri, told The Irrawaddy that the Rangoon-based Klo and Kweh Foundation had informed him he couldn?t perform for the organization any more, telling him ?there are no gays in the Karen ethnic group.?..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 18, No. 6
Date of publication:
2010-06-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-08-29
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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