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Statement of First Conference of the Burmese Women Union


With the aim of improving the status of women in Burma regardless of
ethnicity, Burmese Women Union (BWU) was founded on January 7, 1995 and it
Central organizing Committee has been working and organizing to fulfill its
aim. While BWU is mainly based on female students who fled from Burma with
various aims after the 1988 people uprising, it is also organizing ethnic
women along the borders of Burma and expatriate women from Burma in abroad.
It has been implementing its functions and objective of improving the status
of women from Burma within last three years.

The First Conference of BWU was held between January 24-26, 1988 at the
liberate area. Altogether 29 representatives both from the border camps and
overseas took part in the conference. The constitution of the BWU was
successfully drown and concrete aims, objectives and working plans were
adopted during the conference.

In order to forge ahead to the developing and internationally accepted
status of women in modern world from the deteriorating status of the women
of all ethnicity in Burma, it is essential to overthrow the repressive
military dictatorship in Burma. Democracy and human can not be prevailed in
Burma until the military dictatorship is overthrown. The BWU strongly
believes that it is impossible women rights be respected while there is a
lack of democracy and fundamental human rights in Nation. With this strong
belief, the conference unanimously calls on the State Peace and Development
Council (SPDC) the following demands for the political changes in Burma. 

(1) Towards a peace in Burma, to transfer the power to the winning political
party of the 1990 election. 
(2) to allow freedom of women associations.
(3) to unconditionally release the political prisoners including the female
political prisoners.
(4) to hold the tripartite dialogue meeting for internal peace called by the
democratic forces and ethnic forces of Burma. 


First Conference of the Burmese Women Union

Date: January 26, 1998.