After decades of military dictatorship, many people in Myanmar have stopped believing in justice.
MyJustice is one of the EU funded flagship projects partnering with local organisations to bring justice back to the most vulnerable groups in Myanmar.
Worldwide, the LGBTI community belongs among one of the most marginalised groups. Also in Myanmar, laws criminalise and restrict LGBTI people from expressing their identity. Often, they are victim of physical, psychological, mental and sexual abuse - at home and in public.
We meet with the LGBTI community in Mandalay, Myanmar, where activists and victims of gender based violence share with us what justice means to them and the ways they are striving to improve access to Justice for their fellow LGBTI community.
This is a painful story, but also a story of togetherness, healing and searching for ways forward in order to give hope to future generations of LGBTI. It’s a story of changing public opinions and laws that prevent people from being who they are.
This is a story of more than 2000 women making a change in their communities through the art of handicraft making.
In the rural areas of Myanmar, deep-rooted customs and patriarchy have pushed women in a disadvantaged, vulnerable position, both mentally and physically. On top of that climate change is hitting the dry-zone and its agriculture based communities hard.
Seven years ago, the Social Economic Development Network (SEDN) project started a training programme, focused on economic development and social protection of women and their families living in the dry-zone, which resulted in over 2000 women from 150 villages being trained in handicraft making and becoming educated on their rights to access healthcare and social services.
SEDN is a project funded by the European Union through the multi-donor Livelihood and Food Security Fund (LIFT). SEDN is implemented by ActionAid.
Five decades of military rule and armed conflict in Myanmar have impacted the country deeply. Today, many ethnic communities have little access to education and continue to live with prejudice towards other ethnic groups.
Case2learn, also known as “Conflict Areas Support for Education 2 Learn”, is a project that focuses on providing access to education for groups living in conflict and post-conflict areas. Aspiring students from around the country are brought together to follow a nine-month pre-service teacher training.
The training builds the students’ capacities as teachers in their respective communities, but also leads to building bridges of reconciliation and peace among ethnicities.
Case2Learn is an EU funded project implemented by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and its local partner RISE (Rural IndigenousSustainable Education network).