Every few weeks, Thamada Cinema in Yangon displays grand new billboards to promote the latest Myanmar film on offer. Larger-than-life characters strike larger-than-life poses. There’s the young male hero, the innocent girl, the brooding matriarch and – almost without fail – the bumbling LGBT character. It’s usually an effeminate gay man or transgender woman, lost […]
Joint statement by 61 Myanmar and international human rights organizations Concerned by reports that the Myanmar authorities will retain the criminal defamation provision of Section 66(d) during a review of the Telecommunications Law, 61 national and international human rights organizations are urging the Myanmar authorities, and in particular the Ministry of Transport and Communication and […]
“We are rejected.” That’s how 21-year-old transgender woman Sue Sha Shinn Thant summed up being LGBT in Myanmar – a sentiment that many people across this country are all too familiar with. “We are verbally teased and even beaten. This scars us emotionally,” she told Weekend. Sue Sha Shinn Thant and other LGBT friends in […]
By SAN YAMIN AUNG 18 January 2017 RANGOON— During a meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma Yanghee Lee, civil society groups highlighted the continuation of human rights abuses despite the country’s recent reforms The rapporteur met with around 20 civil society organizations at the UN office in Rangoon on Tuesday and discussed […]
We would like to invite you to our International Human Rights Day event. Against the backdrop of intolerance, hatred, and separatism plaguing Myanmar and the world, we stand for building a peaceful, inclusive, and sustainable future. Therefore, our goal is to use this opportunity to encourage everyone to stand up against discrimination and safeguard the […]
YANGON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When police in Myanmar’s biggest city Yangon arrested Chew Su Khin, a young transgender woman, for the third time in a year, they removed her hair extensions and set them on fire, stripped her naked and took pictures for their amusement. “They made me remove all my clothes and perform […]
RANGOON — Burmese children’s rights advocates and appointed children’s representatives called on parliamentarians to participate in the upcoming National Children’s Forum in Naypyidaw, during which they hope that new laws and policies protecting the country’s youth emerge and existing laws are reinforced. The forum will be held at the Mingalar Thiri Hotel from Nov. 18-20, […]
By SEAN GLEESON | FRONTIER YANGON — For the first time in 25 years, the European Union has decided not to table a human rights resolution directed at Myanmar in the United Nations General Assembly, saying the government had taken “bold steps” to improve the country’s human rights record. EU High Representative Ms Federica Mogherini cited […]
Equality Myanmar (formerly HREIB) is a nongovernmental organization which facilitates a broad range of human rights education and advocacy programs.
