Sports programs run by the organization PlayOnside offer girls and young women displaced by Myanmar’s civil war an escape from patriarchal social expectations. Myanmar refugee girls play soccer in a ...

Thanks to the efforts of several Davisites, more than 60 young girls are moving into a new dormitory at a monastic school far away from the conflict zones of their hometowns in Myanmar. The donor trip ...

In Myanmar, women only account for 35% of the workforce and are largely left out of the growing technology industry. But one young Burmese believes that learning digital skills will help close that ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's government should investigate the military's alleged killing of a 14-year-old girl whose father is being prosecuted for making "false charges" after filing a complaint ...

Dibarah Mahboob starts her day at Cox's Bazar, in her native Bangladesh, around dawn. After a run, she makes breakfast and then heads out to the nearby camps swollen with more than half a million ...

JE YANG, Myanmar (AP) — Every afternoon, dozens of teenage girls at the school for displaced children line up on the grounds, dressed in white uniforms with belts of various colors: yellow, blue, ...

Challenging gender stereotypes, an all-female start-up in Myanmar is educating women on computer technology and connecting them to entrepreneurs and innovators in the industry. In a country where only ...

A 7-year-old girl shot dead by Myanmar military forces on Tuesday became the youngest victim in the violent crackdown on protests against last month’s coup that ousted the country’s civilian ...

" Myanmar and Chinese authorities are looking away while unscrupulous traffickers are selling Kachin women and girls into captivity and unspeakable abuse," said Heather Barr, acting women's rights ...

Young girls trapped with their grandmother under the rubble of a collapsed building in the Myanmar earthquake filmed their desperate plea for help. The children, who were trapped under the wreckage of ...