"New research published on Wednesday offers a heartbreaking picture of the impacts of conflict on women in Burma, revealing systemic defects that cause long-term disadvantage for survivors of violence and other forms of abuse. An 84-page report titled, ?Opening the box: Women?s Experiences of War, Peace and Impunity,” tells the stories of 29 women from Rangoon Division, Kachin and Karen states who had each suffered some degree of gender-based abuse under Burma?s former military regime. Their stories, told with staggering candor, include accounts of torture, rape, economic control, destabilized families and glaring failures in the government?s capacity for redress. The report recommended an immediate end to violence against women, implementation of constitutional reforms that would place the military under civilian control and increased efforts to support survivors of abuse...." ("The Irrawaddy" 23 September, 2015)