Gender Based Violence in Myanmar

A Canadian living in Yangon, Myanmar [formerly Burma] probes deeply into what people say, think, and do about Gender Based Violence in a country that has a mythology of equality and a reality of subordination.

Featured Guest: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, opposition leader and National League For Democracy Chairperson; Daw Myat Myat Ohn Khin, Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement; Ma Aye Aye Maw, Economics and English teache; Ko Kyaw Min San, male Taxi Driver; Daw Katha Htery, Buddhist nun; Daw Myint Myint Khin, Boarding house owner. Most of these women are involved with the group Akhaya Women.


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