Women's Rights

Seine – A Strong Woman Leader

Seine – A Strong Woman Leader When Seine Le Le Hset grew up, her father insisted that he was the ”head” of the family and therefore entitled to make all the decisions – something that created a lot of tension between her parents, and even led to domestic abuse. Today Seine leads other women to...

Htun Hlaing - A Male Feminist

Htun Hlaing – A Male Feminist Women in Myanmar face many challenges, including inequality in participation and decision making, discriminating social norms, sexual harassment and gender-based violence etc. Through a number of different programs Oxfam’s partner organization Y aung Chi Thit (Y CT )...

A young women in Kachin state, doing household chore photo by: David Hempenstall/Oxfam

WOMEN'S BUDGET PRIORITIES IN MYANMAR

Women are less able to make their views heard in public decision-making processes in Myanmar. Therefore, budget priorities can fail to reflect their specific situations and priorities. This research looks specifically at what women understand and think about government budgets. It reveals that...

Oxfam stands in solidarity with the global action on International Women’s Day

"So today, on International Women’s Day, we are saying no more murder, rape and beatings; no more being robbed of land; no more ignoring women’s role as peace-builders and –makers. We want an end to women doing most of the unpaid care work and being paid less than men for the...

Fight against poverty at risk by threats to women’s rights - Oxfam

Women across the globe are facing new threats which risk dismantling decades of hard-won rights and de-railing the effort to end extreme poverty, Oxfam warns today. Ahead of International Women’s Day next week, the international aid agency says that the renewal of the global gag rule...

Women garment workers in Hlaing Thar Yar Industrial Zon, are going back to home from work by factory's ferry. Photo by: Kaung Htet/ Oxfam

Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women's work in Asia

Rising economic inequality across Asia is threatening poverty reduction and slowing down the fight against gender inequality. Although the region has experienced economic growth, the bottom 70 percent have seen their income share fall while the share for the top 10 percent has increased rapidly...

Oxfam Staff and musicians standing together after the music concert, Photo by: Pyae Aye Nyein/Oxfam

Celebrities take women’s leadership to the stage at People’s Park concert

Oxfam and partner, Women’s Organisations Network (WON) will host a national celebrity concert on International Women’s Day, 8 March to raise awareness on discrimination against women and barriers to women’s leadership. Celebrities will perform songs by competition winners who last...

Panel at the press conference. Famous song composer Mr. Myint Moe Aung is explaining about the song composing contest. Photo by: Oxfam

Advancing opportunities for women’s leadership in Myanmar

Oxfam and partner, Women’s Organisations Network (WON) are launching an exciting new project that will bring together famous musicians to inspire the creation of music that raises awareness on women’s rights, women’s leadership and the role for women in governance and politics...

Daw Myint Myint Kyi (aka) Ma Ma is smiling inside her house. Photo by: Yee Mon Oo/Oxfam

When Women Become Leaders

Author: Yee Mon Oo, Communications and Media Coordinator, Oxfam in Myanmar Myint Myint Kyi is fifty years old and lives in a small village called Kyone Kan along a creek of the Delta river, in Pyapon Township.Ayeyawaddy region. She is known to her friends as Ma Ma. The Delta is a wide river running...

A group of women are discussing about their concern for the village development, Photo by: Pan Ei Phway Phyu Sin/Oxfam

Political Gender Quotas

Despite the increased global visibility of women in politics, including at the highest levels, there is still a yawning gap in their level of political representation, compared with men. In October 2013 only one-fifth of all seats in national legislatures around the world were occupied by women,...

The power of people against poverty