rights
Threatened with jail, forced to flee and once branded an enemy of the state, Cheery Zahau is now one of Myanmar's top women's rights campaigners
Trouble crept into Aye’s life when she was a child, curling bitter tendrils around her in a subtle snare that pulled tighter the more she twisted
Lwin Lwin Aye has become a key advocate for victims of abuse in Dawei -- but she had to defy her family to do it
Mya Thet Mu lived as an openly gay woman in Thailand for 19 years. Back in Myanmar she faced public abuse and now works to tackle discrimination
To set up her rights group, Mu Iris Arr Paing dodged warring armies, collected beer bottles -- and even created a football tournament
When she was just a teenager May Than made a desperate dash across Inle Lake, in a bold act of rebellion against the threat of an arranged marriage