Description:
" Burma (Myanmar) ratified the CEDAW to ensure the rights of women are fulfilled in tern of employment and available income. However the regime?s Women Affairs Committee is unable to improve the situation of women. Additionally, the armed faction of the regime, Burmese Army has also forced the women in the rural areas to contribute their unpaid labour for the army owned infrastructures. Poverty has forced many women including under aged girls to sell sex in cities for income. Some pieces of information that highlight the situation of rural women in southern part of Burma are as below:..."
Source/publisher:
The Plight of women and children in Burma (Issue No.3/2003, - Women and Child Rights Project (Southern Burma)
Date of Publication:
2003-10-31
Date of entry:
2004-04-06
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
- Human Rights
- Discrimination
- Race or Ethnicity: Discrimination based on
- Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations
- Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations against specific groups
- Discrimination against the Mon
- Women and Child Rights Project (WCRP)
- Women and Child Rights Project, home page, articles and reports
Language:
English
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Format:
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