Women's Rights

Leading role model

I thought I should not avoid taking on a leadership role myself when I was asked to take responsibility. Thus, I took part in the election (in 2015) to demonstrate that responsibility and accountability,

WOMEN, LAW AND EMPOWERMENT

This research, carried out by an independent consultant in support of Oxfam’s programming and influencing efforts, seeks to consider how specific policies and laws impact female smallholder farmers, especially in remote areas. It was developed to contribute to a larger body of advocacy aimed at...

ရင်ဆိုင်တိုက်ရင်း ရှေ့ဆက်သူ

“နိုင်ငံရေးနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး အရမ်းကို အခက်အခဲတွေ ကြုံခဲ့ရတယ်။ ဒုက္ခဆင်းရဲတွေက ပိုပြီးတော့ သန်မာအောင် တွန်းအားပေးလိုက်တယ်။"

Bold with Confidence

“I have self-confidence. I have done several jobs. As I believe I need education in order to be smart with courage, I attended several training courses. I am confident that I can do anything”. Ma Kyi Pyar is a Member of Parliament, one of a totals of 18 women MPs in the Yangon region

ယုံကြည်မှုဖြင့် ရဲရင့်သူ

“အစ်မက ကိုယ့်ကိုကိုယ်တော့ ယုံကြည်မှု ထားတယ်၊ ဘဝတစ်လျှောက် အလုပ်တွေ အများကြီး လုပ်ခဲ့တယ်၊ ဘဝမှာ ရဲရဲဝံ့ဝံ့နေနိုင်ဖို့ ပညာပြည့်စုံဖို့လိုတယ်လို့ ယူဆတာကြောင့် သင်တန်းတွေ အများကြီး တက်ခဲ့တယ်၊ တစ်ခုခုဆို ငါဒါတော့ ဖြစ်အောင် လုပ်နိုင်မယ်လို့ ယုံကြည်ထားတယ်” လို့ ပြောလာသူကတော့ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးရဲ့...

Women participation in Water Governance

Every year March 14, International Day of Action for Rivers is celebrated for the Dedication to Solidarity, when diverse communities around the world come together with one voice to say that our rivers matter. The theme for this year International Day of Action for Rivers focuses on Women, Water...

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...

The power of people against poverty