"Voice Up"
"The newsletter focusing on current issues of empowerment, community participation, and advocacy for women and children from Burma."
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Parents struggling to pay for extra classes needed to
graduate...Mon Women?s Network to promote women?s voice
during national political dialogue...Publisher?s Message...Parents struggling to pay for extra classes needed to graduate...Group calls for greater legal training for village administrators as key to rule of law...Mon Women?s Network to promote women?s
voice during national political dialogue...Man charged with rape of 12-year old girl in Ye Township...Family of child rape victim upset after forged signature causes them to miss court date...Attempted rape of an 8-year-old in Mudon Township, Mon State...MNEC to hold conference to draft national ethnic language education policy...Villages in Thanbyuzayat Township to request use of government schools for Mon language summer classes...Activists blame police corruption for rise in drug
use among young people in Mon State...Mon National School summer programs facing a teacher and funding crisis...Sexual violence against children in Mon State up 42% in 2017...International Women?s Day 2018 Statement...12-year-old domestic worker raped repeatedly in Chaungzone Township...Second case of child rape in a month in Ye township...Mon students in need of educational support for
university study...Family learns of daughter?s rape by monk over social media...Mon Youth and Drug Forum Releases 6-Point Plan to Combat Drug Use Among Teens.
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project, Human rights Foundation of Monland
Date of publication:
2018-05-31
Date of entry/update:
2018-08-30
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Mon language pre-school
opens in Mawlamyine...Kindergarten
boy severely
beaten by
teacher...NMSP?s decision on forced marriage not accepted by perpetrator...
Fleeing Sexual Violence from Yebyu Township to the Thailand-Burma Border: Mon IDP Report
Case Study #1...
Missing Kyaikmayaw Township Teen found Trafficked and Raped...
Rape: The Burma Army?s unpunished weapon of war...
Divorced midwife embarrassed by cyber-bully...
Attempted rape of a 9-year-old girl in Thanbyuzayat Township.
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project, Human rights Foundation of Monland
Date of publication:
2016-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2018-02-11
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14-year-old girl raped
twice by her step-father
in Ye Township...Thaton District
jail cells
overflowing
with young
drug users...Attempted rape of 11-
year-old girl in Ye City...Parents concerned about high tuition fees and student schedules in Mon State...
Ye Township residents urge government to action over rising rates of drug use by young people...
Attempted Rape of 13-year-old girl in Thanbyuzayat Township, Mon State...
Family upset over light sentence given to man who raped 3-year-old grand-daughter...
Lack of women?s participation in politics raised at Mon Political Conference...New committee formed to
combat drug use in Ye
Township, Mon State...Sexual violence towards children
in Mon State continues, as 11-yearold
girl raped...Traditional weaving businesses in Mudon
Township struggling to survive...Children from poor families more likely to face abuse:
Mon Hluttaw Women and Children?s Rights Committee
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project, Human rights Foundation of Monland
Date of publication:
2017-12-31
Date of entry/update:
2018-02-11
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Moulmein International Peace Day
celebrations call for greater inclusion of women in Burma?s
peace process...Over 100 students
hospitalized by
contaminated
water...Publisher?s Message...High drug use among Moulmein
university students, says drugs task
force leader...Mon women?s participation high on
the agenda in run-up to national
elections...Mudon Township rapist ordered
to pay compensation to his 17-yearold
niece...NMSP investigate Gu Bao rape case...Overlapping authority prevents
justice in Three Pagodas Pass
rape case...Victim?s family appeal against
NMSP rape case decision...Administrative delay prevents
textbooks from reaching Mon
National Schools...No justice for handicapped girl
raped in Ye Township...Acute dropout at Lamine Mon
National School...Series of child kidnappings
terrorizes Thanbyuzayat residents...Moulmein International Peace Day celebrations
call for greater inclusion of women in Burma?s
peace process.
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project (WCRP)
Date of publication:
2015-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2016-04-19
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Mon youths make a video to promote the Elimination
of Violence against Women...Khaw Zar Residents Live in Fear Future Kidnappings by Unknown Armed Group...Border Government School Teachers Dissatisfied with their Salaries...Domestic migration becomes a big challenge for the Mon people...Abduction Victims Secretly Flee Their Native Khaw Zar...A Number of Government School Mon language Teachers Have not Received their Salaries...Four Khawzar Town Residents Remain Held Hostage by Unknown Armed Group...Three-Year-Old Girl Abused and Threatened by Step-Mother...Twelve Hnee Padaw Households Face an Uncertain Future as Fire Destroys Their Homes
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project (WCRP)
Date of publication:
2014-12-31
Date of entry/update:
2015-08-28
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Parents asked to supplement Mon
language teacher salaries in Mon
State government schools...WCRP releases ?Inaccessible and Under-Resourced: Concerns Over Education in "Rural Mon Communities”...
...Cholera outbreak in Three Pagodas Pass village
... Mon Women?s Party to compete in 2015 elections
... Koe-Mile village needs Women?s group and Women empowerment Training
...Financial woes for Mon State parents due to High School ?tuition” fees
...10th Mon Women Day celebrated on Mawlamyine
...Dropout due to poor MNEC Secondary Education coverage in Thanbyuzayat and Mudon Townships, says
education chairwoman
... Parents asked to supplement Mon language teacher salaries in Mon State government schools
...Three Pagodas Pass students face outbreaks of food poisoning and dengue fever
... Mon Youth Progressive Organization begins two-month Women?s Empowerment Training in Sangkhlaburi
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project (WCRP)
Date of publication:
2015-05-31
Date of entry/update:
2015-08-22
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Source/publisher:
Women and Child Rights Project
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-16
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FEATURE: Beyond the male: The case for a gender analysis of illicit drugs in Burma...CHILD EDUCATION: Education reform remains elusive...PUBLISHER?S MESSAGE: Mapping the intersection between women, drugs, and gender inequality...BORDER NEWS: Domestic violence stalks women and children on the border...Tier 2 Watch List mirrors real incidence of trafficking on the border ... Training in Chiang Mai covers women?s protection law in Burma... HEALTH NEWS: Dengue season ?came early? to Mon State...
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project
Date of publication:
2013-06-30
Date of entry/update:
2014-09-28
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WCRP releases ?Children for Hire? to mark Universal
Children?s Day...CHILD EDUCATION: ?Tuition?
practices continue in Mon State...Village welcomes Mon language instruction back to government school...ANALYSIS: UN Day of the Girl Child and eradicating the ?black spot? of harassment...WOMEN?S ACTIVITIES: Universal Children?s Day commemorated on Thai - Burma border...Border communities struggle as monsoon
floodwaters rise and
recede...NEWS: Brutally Attacked by Burmese Soldier, Victim?s
Future is Uncertain...NMSP and border groups discuss child
protection in armed conflict...Rise in bars and brothels in Ohn Pin Kwin...Beer, brothels, and bribery in
Myaintayar quarter...Rape of local girl at the hands of
Infantry Battalion No. 31..
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project (WCRP)
Date of publication:
2013-12-31
Date of entry/update:
2014-09-28
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Mon Women?s Conference calls for Mon Women to Participate in Burma?s Transition to Democracy...New Mon State Party attends Geneva Call workshop for prevention of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict...Another Brutal Assault at the Hands of a Burmese Soldier...Rape Victim Attempts to Flee Burma as Infantry Battalion No. 31 Incites Fear...Children of Nearly Every household in Three Pagoda Pass Suffer from Dengue Fever...Women Attacked by Soldiers Wait for Justice...AMDP Voices Concern that Children in Mon State Will Lose Their Mother Language...Women League of Burma (WLB) Holds Press Conference, Call for the Elimination of Sexual Violence...Geneva Call comes to the Border; Sexual Violence Workshop introduced Community-based Organizations to the ?Deed of Commitment?
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project (WCRP)
Date of publication:
2014-06-30
Date of entry/update:
2014-09-28
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The life of a young trafficked woman...Industrial Mahachai concludes second
child labor conference...Trafficking Brief...Trafficking, migration, and the need for cooperation...Voices from the field: Practitioners describe labor trafficking along the border...Migrant voices: Illegal abortion among women working in Thailand...Yangon hosts first Women?s Forum...Workshop promotes growing women?s leadership roles...Trafficking or Smuggling?.
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
Date of publication:
2012-10-31
Date of entry/update:
2012-11-19
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"The newsletter focusing on current issues of empowerment, community
participation, and advocacy for women and children from Burma."..... "Women narratives: the life of a refugee" - "The nine refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border are home to
people displaced by war, economic hardship, and Burmese military
assaults on ethnic areas. Many refugee women are burdened by difficulties,
but still holding on to hope..." "Reports of child trafficking and abuse prompt
educational workshop on the border"..."Support Women?s Capacity and Listen to Their Voices"..."Donor cuts nearly shut down middle school in
refugee camp"..."Parents question strenuous student schedules"..."Mon language study only allowed on weekends in
government schools"..."Women IDPs and refugees continue to face
challenges to livelihood"..."First ever Women and Peace Workshop held in
Mon State"..."Shin Saw Puu Association represents important step in
women?s leadership and civil participation" - ?This Association really encourages women to participate in leadership roles,
and they inspire many women to get involved.”..."Young women leading community development projects"..."KWAT Demonstrates Persistent Abuses and
Impunity in Kachin State"..."Child sufferers of dengue fever pack Moulmein hospital"..."
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project (WCRP)
Date of publication:
2012-07-31
Date of entry/update:
2012-08-21
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"Voice Up", Education and training of migrants and refugees from Burma, Education in Mon State
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