Description:
"...The Women Exchange (WE) is a MAPFoundation project based out of Chiang Mai, Thailand, with programming that supports migrant and refugee women throughout the country. The WE projectis supported by Foundation for a Just Society (FJS), Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development (APWLD), and Asian-Pacific Resource and Research for Women (ARROW)...Since 1999, MAP Foundation has supported migrant and refugee women in coming together once a month to challenge the isolation imposed upon them as “aliens” in a foreign country, in addition to social norms that consider women second to men with limited rights. Begun in Chiang Mai, these women-only spaces became very popular and were replicated along the Thai-Myanmar border. Today, migrant and refugee women from Myanmar of different ethnicity, ages, and occupations meet monthly in the following 18 areas..."
Source/publisher:
MAP Foundation
Date of Publication:
2017-00-00
Date of entry:
2020-03-21
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar
Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar:
Shan State
Language:
English
Local URL:
Format:
PDF
Size:
1.28 MB
Resource Type:
Text
Text quality:
- Good
Remote URL:
PDF (15 pages) (1.28 MB)