With her wavy hair tied to a top knot, Linn Linn huddles on a carpet, her eyes closed and hands supplicating in prayer. A group of followers, middle-aged men and women, kneel around her in reverence, ...

They do not carry guns to fight the junta in Myanmar. Unlike women combatants in battle fatigues flaunting automatic weapons, their role in the resistance has gone by barely noticed. But they are ...

SUNY Cortland hosted two women activists from Myanmar on Thursday, Sept. 5, for a day of conversations about the collision of faith, feminism and ethnicity in their country, which is struggling with ...

Women experience restrictions, punishments and their effects differently to men in Myanmar. The report, ‘Censored gender’ finds that for men, these restrictions and punishments tend to come from the ...

Reporters in Burma's ethnic minority regions often endure extortion and harassment. Women journalists, who are heavily outnumbered by their male counterparts in rural areas, face additional challenges ...

Mandalay University graduates hold posters with an image of Mya Thwet Thwet Khine, a young woman shot by police on Feb. 9 in Naypyidaw, during an anti-coup protest in Mandalay, Myanmar, Sunday, Feb.

A few weeks before Myanmar’s ruling military junta holds forced elections in a country still at war, Catholic bishops issued ...

March 10 (Reuters) - In early February, four members of an anti-junta group in the Myanmar city of Mandalay said they received a secret, one-page, handwritten note spirited out of a prison that ...

More than 500 people have been killed in Burma during protests against the February 1 military coup that toppled Burma’s democratically elected civilian government. At least 141 people were killed ...