Women’s activists and lawmakers say a stigma on single mothers should be addressed and youth sex education expanded to stop a rise in abandoned newborns.
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"There is no 'rule of law' in areas controlled by armed groups in Shan State"
Sai Thiha Kyaw discusses the SNLD’s expectations for the NLD government and parliament and development plans for Shan State.
HIV-affected children shunned in education
When her father died of AIDS in 2003, Pyae Phu Khaing* was just three years old, and only two years later her mother died of the same disease.
Burmese poets turn their pens to lawmaking
Poets have long expressed the mood of Burma’s repressed people through verse. Now, 11 of them, all representing the NLD, will help write the nation’s laws.
The national election debate
On DVB Debate’s National Election Debate, senior members from across the political spectrum met at the Inya Lake Hotel in Rangoon on 4 November to champion their policies ahead of the 8 November general election.
New nationalist party surges into election race
The National Development Party (NDP) may only be a few months old, but it already an electoral force to be reckoned with.