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International IDEA
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Guide / Training Material
Inclusion and gender equality in post-coup Myanmar
International IDEA
This brief explores inclusion strategies for constitutional and democratic reform in the post-coup context of Myanmar. It highlights the challenges to gender equality and inclusion in Myanmar, including the role and demands of the pro-democracy...
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International IDEA
Monday, July 11, 2022
Guide / Training Material
Substantive equality and women’s representation in public institutions
International IDEA
This brief explores how constitutional advocates for women’s equality in Myanmar can advance women’s representation and meaningful participation in public decision-making and institutions. It looks at how different countries have aimed to do this...
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Myanmar’s first post-coup People’s Assembly decides on 30 per cent women’s quota Image credit: The Myanmar Photo Project Collective 
Monday, March 07, 2022
Myanmar’s first post-coup People’s Assembly decides on 30 per cent women’s quota
International IDEA
Women make up over half of Myanmar’s population, yet significant obstacles remain for women to be able to participate in political processes and to achieve equal representation in Myanmar’s state institutions. Before the military coup on 1 February...
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Myanmar women take the lead in resisting the military - AFP/Getty Images
Wednesday, February 02, 2022
Myanmar women take the lead in resisting the military
DW
The issue of gender equality in Myanmar is in the spotlight again. Women are on the frontlines of the anti-coup protests taking place since the junta ousted the civilian government a year ago. Since the Myanmar military brutally put down the mass...
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Protesters against the military coup in Myanmar are surrounded by women’s clothes which have been hung in the streets to keep soldiers and police away [Stringer/Anadolu]
Thursday, April 29, 2021
The women of Myanmar: ‘Our place is in the revolution’
Al Jazeera
Some 60 percent of protesters against the military coup are women who fear their hard-won rights hang in the balance. Every day at sunrise, Daisy* and her sisters set out to spend several hours in the heat cleaning debris from the previous day’s...
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Image credit: SHWEBO (Support Hluttaw Work for Excellence in Budget Oversight)
Friday, March 05, 2021
Myanmar’s quest for women’s empowerment in times of crisis
International IDEA
The International Women’s Day is observed worldwide on Monday 8th March. Since the first international recognition in 1977, this special day has been providing an important opportunity to celebrate women's achievements in terms of political...
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Anti-coup protesters flash the three-fingered salute during a rally in downtown Yangon, Myanmar on Feb. 19, 2021. (AP Photo)
Tuesday, March 02, 2021
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
The exclusion of women in Myanmar politics helped fuel the military coup
The Conversation
On Feb. 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power. While a dramatic event, the coup was a continuation of old power structures. Myanmar’s decade-long period of political transition, peace-building and democratic elections fell short of freeing the...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Training for increased women's political participation in Myanmar
Inernational IDEA
Creating women’s wings within political parties allows women greater influence over policymaking Nang Tin Shwe Oo is a member of the Pa’O National Organization (PNO), an ethnic political party from the Pa’O region in Myanmar’s Shan State. The PNO is...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Myanmar still fails to bring more women into politics
Irrawaddy
Women account for 51 percent of Myanmar’s population and 19 million out of 37 million eligible voters at the 2020 general election. In the previous election in 2015, 13 percent of the 6,200 candidates were female and in 2020 the rate has increased...
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Friday, August 30, 2019
Increasing female leaders in Myanmar
Borgen Magazine
Across the world, people are making efforts to increase the number of women in government in order to reduce gender disparities and help ensure that the voices and concerns of women are heard. UNDP has been working in Myanmar since 2016 after a 2015...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2018
Trailblazers of local democracy and gender equality in Rakhine
UNDP
Daw Saw Yee and Daw Ohn Shwe have many things in common, but until recently their paths had not crossed. Both in their 50s, their communities elected the two women as village tract administrators in January 2018 during the third local elections to...
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Thursday, June 21, 2018
Female representation in politics remains “strikingly low” in Myanmar
Myanmar Times
Female lawmakers, in a country where women make up 52 percent of the population, account for around 10pc of the overall MPs in both the national and regional legislatures. Forty-eight female lawmakers from the Union and regional parliaments gathered...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2018
International IDEA's International Women's Day 2018 Series: A constitutional perspective to challenges and opportunities for women in Myanmar
International IDEA
By Annamari T. Salonen Women in Myanmar are facing many challenges as a result of traditional perceptions, institutional barriers, and societal norms. These challenges range from a lack of equal job opportunities, to difficulties participating in...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
A Five Day Induction for Myanmar MPs
Based on a survey of Members of Parliament (MPs) from the Myanmar Hluttaw recognizing the need for more support and more opportunities to learn about the role and functions of the parliament, the Myanmar Hluttaw organized, with support from the...
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Aung San Suu Kyi wins majority in Myanmar elections
It is official. The decades of military-rule dictatorship are over in Myanmar. The National League for Democracy (NLD), led by the iconic Aung San Suu Kyi, has triumphed with more than the minimum two-thirds it needs to choose a president for the...
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Aung San Suu Kyi, the most well-known of Myanmar’s 28 women MPs. ©Reuters/S. Sukplang
Friday, February 13, 2015
IPU teams up with British MPs in empowering Myanmar's women politicians
  IPU will be part of a delegation led by the British Group IPU (BGIPU) to Myanmar on a project aimed at strengthening the political participation of women MPs in the Asian country and to promote a gender sensitive parliament. During training from 8...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Multimedia
Aung San Suu Kyi: Advocate for the rights of women and girls
One of the world's most renowned human rights activists, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has dedicated much of her life to bringing democracy, dignity and human rights to Myanmar's citizens. She is a founding member and current Chairperson of the National...
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Monday, February 10, 2014
Burma’s Government to Appoint a Second Woman Minister
Burma’s president is set to appoint Khin San Yi, formerly a deputy minister of planning and economic development, as the new education minister, bringing the number of woman ministers in the government to two. Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and...
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