Working towards change ["One of SWAN?s founding members, Khu (Teacher) Harn Noan, speaks of her life as a teacher, health worker and women?s rights activist along the Shan-Thai border..."]...Dealing with crisis ["?Without this centre, I would have no place to go in Thailand as I have no family or relatives,? said a pregnant woman who had been beaten regularly by her husband since only 4 days after marrying him. This is just one of the many cases that SWAN?s Women?s Crisis Support Centre has assisted since it was set up five years ago in northern Thailand. The centre has provided emergency support to women and children facing domestic violence, sexual abuse, trafficking, exploitation, or simply lack of access to health care..."]...SPDC?s new anti-trafficking law: a further tool of oppression...The regime?s 2006 sexual offensive in Central Shan State...Controversial Salween dam plans continue...Experiencing Christmas good-will in Denmark...News Briefs: Licence to Rape published in Hindi; SWAN delivers key-note speech at launch of Cambodian Parliamentary Caucus on Burma; SWAN joins high-level Roundtable on Burma