Equality Myanmar News

AUNG MYO MIN: ‘TREAT US AS HUMAN BEINGS, NOT AS A PROBLEM’

U Aung Myo Min is one of Myanmar’s best-known LGBT activists. He fled to Thailand after the 1988 anti-government uprising, joining the All Burma Students Democratic Front movement, before studying human rights at Columbia University in New…

Analysis: New Lawmakers, Same Silencing of Burma’s LGBTQ Citizens?

Irrawaddy News  CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Despite last week’s sea change in the Union Parliament following the roaring victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma’s historic November election, it is unclear…

Cambodia, Singapore ratify ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons

MANILA – Cambodia and Singapore have deposited their respective instruments of ratification for the ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons (ACTIP) with ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh, it was learned. ACTIP, which was signed…

Second LGBT film festival proudly back on

The second &PROUD LGBT film festival, postponed two months because of last November’s election, will take place from January 28 to 31. The venue is the French Institute. The 32 films featured will explore homosexual, lesbian, bisexual…

Government rejects key human rights recommendations

Human rights groups at the United Nations and in Myanmar are hopeful the incoming government will radically change the country’s attitude to protecting human rights, after representatives for Nay Pyi Taw rejected a large number of proposed…

Burma: Protect, Not Target, Gay People

Condemn Official’s Anti-Gay Statements (New York, September 3, 2015) – Burma’s government should publicly condemn grossly discriminatory remarks by a regional official about gay men and transgender women, Human Rights Watch said today…

Mandalay govt vows crackdown on same-sex couples

Mandalay Division’s Border and Security Affairs minister has vowed to crackdown on LGBT couples that engage in “inappropriate” public displays of affection and pledged an increased presence at the city’s moat and western dock areas. In…

Social media drives flood donations

With collection tins and chorus chants, crowds of impromptu aid solicitors are asking for help to “#SaveMyanmar”. By street-stopping passerby across the country, these volunteers seek to raise money for victims of the severe flooding that…

UN International Mine Awareness Day

Equality Myanmar participated the 10th UN International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action held on 4th April, Yangon from 9:00 – 11:30 am. The main organizers of the event were organizations like Peace Myanmar Aid Foundation,…

The difficult conversations must have with my Myanmar friends

By Kenneth Wong Born in Yangon and living in San Francisco, Kenneth Wong sizes up the reform process as it looks from a distance, facing up to some uncomfortable truths. Under Yangon’s clear blue sky, my taxi sped along University Avenue.…