A Gendered Overview of the Human Rights Situation in Southeastern Burma – Issue 4, 2025 (October – December 2025)

23 December 2025

Introduction

This report is the fourth and final in a year-long series of quarterly updates and analyses, combining data collected on the ground by the Women and Children’s Rights Project of the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM). Last year, HURFOM released four quarterly versions of Voice Up. 

Before the attempted coup in Burma on 1 February 2021, HURFOM published similar content in a bulletin-style format under the title ‘Voice Up.’ The Women and Children’s Rights project is of utmost importance as it seeks to monitor the situation of women and children in Mon areas and southern Burma and how it relates to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Field staff collect and distribute information and data to our local and international networks.

The findings empower and educate women and children in the Mon community by providing information on their rights, as outlined in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and encourage them to participate in the struggle to protect and enforce their fundamental freedoms.

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