Less than two weeks before Myanmar’s national elections, May Sabe Phyu, Director of the Gender Equality Network (GEN), describes how violence against women in Myanmar continues unabated in this latest CREID Podcast. Sexual violence including rape against women from ethnic and religious minorities goes unpunished and a culture of impunity reigns in the country’s many conflict-affected areas.
The CREID Podcast has focused on the important yet hidden issue of violence against socio-economically excluded women from religious and ethnic minorities, and this latest episode discusses the situation of women in Myanmar with May Sabe Phyu, Director of Gender Equality Network (GEN) in Myanmar.