Women's Peace Network

📢On #HumanRightsDay and #16DaysOfActivism, we continue our struggle for a #Myanmar and a world where everyone has opportunity to live securely and thrive. Alongside fellow #WHRDs, our fight for justice, freedom and equality will never be finished until it applies to everyone.

📄STATEMENT: Urgent actions must follow the International Criminal Court Prosecutor's application of an arrest warrant against Min Aung Hlaing WPN welcomes the ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC's decision, and calls for justice and accountability for #Rohingya and all other people of #Myanmar. 🔗https://lnkd.in/disbqc5P

📌 "The key here is that building the concrete foundations of democracy and a strong institution is critical. If you don’t have strong institutions, there will be actors who come in to destroy it. The rule of law is the most important thing. Nobody should be above the law." This week, our Founder and Executive Director Wai Wai Nu spoke at Harvard Kennedy School's Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, where she called for actions for our fundamental freedoms and genuine democracy in #Burma #Myanmar and across the world. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dwKbTw2f

🗓 TODAY: Join us at The Fletcher School at Tufts University's Conference on Gender and International Affairs 2024! Wai Wai Nu will speak on #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar at "'Freedom' and Recovery: Power and Resilience in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies" from 4-5PM EST. Attend online: https://lnkd.in/dEcUY6eW

📺 At the 2024 United Nations Security Council's Annual Open Debate on Women, Peace, and Security, Wai Wai Nu, our Founder and Executive Director, called for #UNSC actions to end impunity in #Myanmar and across the world, including by holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable under international law, as as a fundamental step toward implementing #WPS agenda. WATCH 🔽 🔽

📌 Our Founder and Executive Director, Wai Wai Nu, addressed the United Nations Security Council's Annual Open Debate on Women, Peace, and Security as the civil society briefer and first #Myanmar woman on #WPS. Watch her powerful remarks at #UNSC 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d4UsPWd7

"'By murdering more people, the junta will be further emboldened to execute the remaining over 120 other detainees also charged with sham death penalties,' the Women’s Peace Network said." Al Jazeera English #Burma #Myanmar #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar #WHRD https://lnkd.in/dsddSUKs

🔴 "Chan Myae Thu is the first woman to be executed since #Myanmar's military overthrew the country's democratically-elected government in February 2021, according to a statement from the Women's Peace Network." Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) #Burma #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar https://lnkd.in/dhHhkn4E

"'By murdering more people, the junta will be further emboldened to execute the remaining over 120 other detainees also charged with sham death penalties,' the Women’s Peace Network said." Al Jazeera English #Burma #Myanmar #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar #WHRD https://lnkd.in/dsddSUKs

🔴 "Chan Myae Thu is the first woman to be executed since #Myanmar's military overthrew the country's democratically-elected government in February 2021, according to a statement from the Women's Peace Network." Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) #Burma #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar https://lnkd.in/dhHhkn4E